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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.
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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. 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.
- Summary
Spellbook is an AI legal assistant that works inside Microsoft Word, where contracts actually get drafted and negotiated. It reviews agreements with risk flagging and one-click redlines, drafts new contracts from a firm's templates or from scratch, and answers questions over documents with citations.
Playbooks encode a team's negotiation standards for consistent review, Spellbook Associate extends it into agentic multi-document work, and Compare to Market benchmarks deal terms against similar agreements. Security fits legal material: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA and PIPEDA compliance, and Zero Data Retention agreements available.
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It is a paid product with a short trial, aimed at legal teams, firms and founders with steady contract flow. The assistant accelerates the work; a qualified lawyer still owns every contract before signature.
- 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
- Multi-document transactional work through Spellbook Associate
- Legal teams and founders who negotiate contracts weekly
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| By job | ||
| Legal & compliance | Legora puts documents as rows and questions as columns, so the same question is asked of every agreement in a pile consistently and the drafting sounds like the firm rather than like a model | Spellbook is contract-shaped: litigation, regulatory analysis and general legal research sit outside the loop, and a team whose work rarely reaches a Word document will not feed it enough to justify the seat |
| By task | ||
| Writing & research | Legora drafts a clause from the firm's own precedent bank and summarises a document set for the partner who has to read it | Spellbook buys depth at the price of range: the writing it handles is contracts, and anything beyond agreements belongs to a general assistant |
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