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Legora vs Spellbook
A plain-English comparison to help you choose between them.
A firm-wide workspace against an assistant inside Word. Legora is adopted as a platform: tabular review across document sets, cited research, drafting from the firm's precedent bank, procurement-scoped with confidentiality and matter isolation contracted up front. Spellbook lives where contracts are actually drafted and negotiated, Microsoft Word, reviewing with risk flags and one-click redlines, drafting from templates, encoding negotiation positions in playbooks. Pick Legora when a legal team is adopting an AI workspace across matters and document-set work is the daily shape; pick Spellbook when contract review and drafting inside Word is the job and a smaller team wants value without a platform procurement.
Side by side
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Summary
Spellbook is an AI legal assistant that works inside Microsoft Word, where contracts actually get drafted and negotiated.
- Best for
- Contract review with risk flags and one-click redlines inside Word
- Drafting agreements from firm templates or from scratch
- Encoding negotiation standards as playbooks for consistent review
- Cost
- Paid only
- Ease
- Openness
- Hosted service
- Data
- Spellbook's security posture is stated plainly. It is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR, CCPA and PIPEDA compliant, and Zero Data Retention agreements are available so customer contracts are not used for model training. Contracts are among the most sensitive documents a business holds, so confirm the retention and training posture in writing before uploading privileged or client material. And the boundary the tool cannot move stands: it is not a lawyer, its output is not legal advice, and a qualified lawyer owns every contract before signature.
Pricing
- Legora
- No published price
- Spellbook
- No published price
By area
Where each one pulls ahead, area by area.
| Area | Legora | Spellbook |
|---|---|---|
| Writing & research | Legora is the firm-wide workspace adopted across matters | a smaller team wants contract work done inside Word rather than a platform |
Common questions
Are these really competitors if one lives in Word?
They compete for the same budget line more than the same surface. A firm adopting Legora platform-wide may still find transactional lawyers happiest in Word with Spellbook; a contracts-focused team may need nothing more. The honest question is whether your work is document sets or documents.
Which suits a small firm or an in-house team?
Spellbook, in most cases: it installs into the Word workflow the team already has, prices per team seat rather than as a firm-wide procurement, and pays back on the first negotiation cycle. Legora's procurement-led, matter-isolated shape is built for firms buying infrastructure, not individuals buying help.
Can playbooks and precedents move between them?
Not portably: each encodes firm knowledge in its own shape, Spellbook as negotiation playbooks in Word, Legora as precedent libraries and review question sets in its workspace. Whichever you choose, the encoded knowledge becomes a switching cost worth weighing alongside the subscription itself.
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Tool facts last checked August 2026