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Harvey vs Legora
A plain-English comparison to help you choose between them.
The enterprise-legal head-to-head, and a decision some firms now run as a structured bake-off. Harvey is the platform suite, its Assistant chat and drafting interface alongside Vault as the document engine for bulk analysis, Knowledge, Agents and Contract Intelligence, sold firm-wide through procurement; Legora, from Stockholm's Legora AB, is the collaborative workspace whose signature is tabular review, documents down the rows, questions across the columns, with research that cites and drafting from the firm's own precedents. Pick Harvey when Vault-scale document operations and the broader suite match your matters; pick Legora when tabular review fits how your teams actually work through documents, and let a pilot on real matters decide.
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- Summary
Harvey is an enterprise generative-AI platform for legal and professional-services work. It handles research, drafting, summarisation and document review through a suite of Assistant, Vault, Knowledge, Agents and Contract Intelligence. Vault is the document engine: it stores, organises and bulk-analyses large sets and queries across up to 100,000 documents in a single vault, which suits discovery, due diligence and any matter that turns on reading a great deal at once.
Harvey publishes no pricing and has no self-serve path. Every deployment is a negotiated enterprise agreement priced on seat count, firm size, integrations and deployment scope, quoted through sales. Third-party reports and buyer accounts place annual contracts in the low-to-mid six figures, with reported per-seat rates differing by an order of magnitude between sources; Harvey confirms none of these figures publicly. The practical implication is that evaluating Harvey is a procurement exercise with a sales cycle and a negotiated commitment, not a tool you trial on a card.
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Its edge over a general assistant is specialism and grounding: it is built for legal and professional-services material, and through Vault it works from a matter's own documents rather than open-web recall. That makes it a platform for teams producing legal work product at volume, not for the occasional legal question.
- Best for
- Enterprise legal research, drafting, summarisation and document review
- Vault: bulk-analysing up to 100,000 documents per set
- Firm-wide deployments bought through an enterprise agreement
- A suite spanning Assistant, Vault, Knowledge, Agents and Contract Intelligence
- Querying across large legal document sets in one place
- Cost
- Enterprise
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Harvey holds confidential matter material at scale, so the data questions belong inside procurement rather than after it: agree vault access, retention and what may leave the firm with your risk and compliance owners as part of the agreement, and treat rollout as an access-control decision as much as a purchase.
- Summary
Legora is collaborative AI for lawyers, built by the Swedish company Legora AB of Stockholm: document review at scale, legal research with citations, and drafting that works from a firm's own precedents, delivered as a workspace the firm adopts rather than a chat window beside the work. Its tabular review is the signature surface, many documents down the rows, questions across the columns, answers grounded in the underlying text.
The commercial shape is enterprise throughout: no public pricing, procurement through a sales process, and deployment questions, confidentiality, data handling, matter isolation, answered in contracts rather than settings pages.
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It competes at the top of the legal AI market, where the evaluation is a bake-off on the firm's own matters rather than a feature list.
- Best for
- Tabular review of many documents against consistent questions
- Legal research with citations to the underlying sources
- Drafting from a firm's own precedents and playbooks
- Firm-wide adoption with matter-level confidentiality
- Enterprise legal teams running structured evaluations
- Cost
- Enterprise
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Matter material sits with a legal-specific vendor, Legora AB of Stockholm, under enterprise agreements; confidentiality, matter isolation and retention belong in the procurement conversation, which is where legal buyers want them anyway.
Pricing
- Harvey
- No published price
- Legora
- No published price
By area
Where each one pulls ahead, area by area.
| Area | Harvey | Legora |
|---|---|---|
| By job | ||
| Legal & compliance | the confidential matter material Harvey ingests makes rollout a data-confidentiality decision as much as a procurement one, which is a different conversation from choosing a feature set | Legora brings tabular review and precedent-grounded drafting to the same firm-level brief |
| By task | ||
| Search & knowledge retrieval | standing retrieval up in Harvey is a firm-level procurement decision rather than a setup: enterprise-only adoption, no self-serve path and minimum seat commitments | Legora is built to ask one question across an entire document set, finding which agreements carry a clause and surfacing the inconsistencies between related ones |
| Writing & research | Harvey's drafting and research assume legal and professional-services material with a matter behind it, so general-purpose writing is simply not the ground | Legora treats legal drafting as writing under constraint: the words track the firm's precedents, the positions stay defensible and the research cites, and general business writing neither needs nor justifies any of it |
Common questions
How do firms actually evaluate these two?
Side by side on their own matters, sometimes as a structured bake-off. Both vendors demonstrate well; the discriminating evidence is your documents, your precedents and your associates' working patterns. Define the evaluation matters, the tasks and the quality bar before either vendor's team shapes them for you.
What is genuinely different about the products?
The organising surface. Harvey's Vault centres on storing and bulk-analysing large document sets inside a suite of assistants and agents. Legora's tabular review turns a document set into a grid of consistent questions and grounded answers, a shape review teams recognise immediately. Both draft from firm precedent.
Neither publishes pricing, so how does budgeting work?
Through procurement on both sides: firm size, seats, matters and deployment scope set the number. Neither offers self-serve. The comparable figure is the pilot's cost in partner and associate time, which is real, and worth spending once rather than repeating after a wrong platform choice.
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Tool facts last checked August 2026