Alexi and Midpage finished one point apart in the only independent test of AI legal research, 74 and 75 against a lawyer baseline of 69, so the choice between them comes down to price and firm size, not quality. Midpage publishes its price: 100 dollars a month per lawyer, or 80 billed annually, with a two-week trial and no sales call. Alexi publishes nothing and sells by quote to firms of roughly 11 lawyers and up. For a solo or a firm under ten, only one of the two is actually for sale.
That is the short version. The rest of this page is what each vendor lists today, what a 5, 15 and 30 lawyer firm would really spend, where each tool is stronger, and the questions to settle before you sign either. We read both vendors' own pages on 25 September 2026 and say where a figure is published, where it is only historical, and where nobody knows.
Alexi vs Midpage pricing at a glance
| Alexi | Midpage | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None. "Pricing is based on firm size and deployment mode" | Professional 100 dollars a month, or 80 a month billed annually (960 a year) |
| How you buy | Consultation, then a guided trial | Self-serve, card at signup |
| Trial | Guided, after the sales call | Two weeks, no card, limited AI usage |
| Who it is built for | Core tier at 11 to 25 lawyers, Advanced (private environment) at 25 or more | Individual attorneys and their teams, from one seat |
| Vals legal research score (Oct 2025) | 74 | 75 |
| Citator | None described on its site | Yes, an AI citator (negative, caution, neutral) |
| Dockets | Not described | Agentic PACER access on Professional |
| Coverage | United States and Canada, per its FAQ | All federal courts including unpublished opinions, all state appellate courts, trial courts in select states |
| Students | No published plan | Law Student 25 dollars a month |
How much does Alexi cost?
Alexi does not publish a price. When we requested alexi.com/pricing on 25 September 2026 it redirected to the homepage, while a path we made up on the same site returned a normal 404, so the redirect is a deliberate choice rather than a broken page. The FAQ answers the question in one line: "Pricing is based on firm size and deployment mode. Speak to our Sales team for more information."
It has not always been that way. Alexi published four different price lists between 2023 and 2025, and the history is the best evidence of where a quote is likely to land.
- October 2023: Starter 499 dollars a month for five research memos, Pro 949 for ten, after a free 14 day pilot.
- July 2024: Starter 299 dollars a month, Pro 499, built around instant memos.
- February to April 2025: a Solo seat at 99 dollars a month, then Solo and Growth merged at 99 dollars per user per month.
- Late 2025 onward: the pricing page is gone and every route leads to a consultation.
So the 99 dollar seat that many small-firm lawyers remember was real, and it lasted a few months. Do not budget from it. Alexi now describes a firm platform with a shared SaaS tier and a single-tenant private tier, and a platform sold that way is priced like one. Our Alexi pricing history keeps every archived plan with the date it disappeared.
How much does Midpage cost?
Midpage publishes everything a buyer needs to budget. Professional is 100 dollars a month billed monthly, or 80 a month on an annual plan, which is 960 a year per lawyer. The pricing page says "No sales call required, and your first two weeks are on us," and the trial needs no card, with AI usage limited until you pay. A Law Student plan runs 25 dollars a month.
Professional lists full coverage, manual and agentic research tools, the AI citator, plugins for assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity, agentic PACER access and unlimited AI research, subject to a fair-use asterisk. Team billing and SSO are listed for firms. API access is not included on Professional or the student plan. Midpage raised its monthly entry price this year, from 30 dollars to 100, while the annual rate stayed at 80, so if you read an older review quoting 30, that plan no longer exists. Our Midpage AI review covers what the seat is like to use.
What a 5, 15 and 30 lawyer firm would pay
Only one column can be filled in with a real number. We show the other honestly.
| Firm size | Midpage, annual billing | Midpage, monthly billing | Alexi |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 lawyers | 4,800 dollars a year | 6,000 dollars a year | Below the size Alexi says it builds for; no published offer |
| 15 lawyers | 14,400 dollars a year | 18,000 dollars a year | Core tier territory, quote only |
| 30 lawyers | 28,800 dollars a year | 36,000 dollars a year | Advanced tier territory, quote only |
The practical use of the Midpage column is as an anchor. If you are a 15 lawyer firm taking an Alexi walkthrough, you already know a published seat with a citator costs about 14,400 dollars a year for the whole firm. An Alexi quote well above that has to be justified by what Midpage does not do: the private environment, firm workflows, integrations with iManage, OneDrive and Outlook, and drafting beyond research. Sometimes it will be. Ask for the per-seat price, the seat minimum and the contract term in writing before the trial starts.
Legal AI prices have moved fast enough that a number you read in the spring can be wrong by the fall. Alexi went through four price lists in two years and Midpage tripled its monthly entry rate in one. If you are weighing several vendors over a budget cycle, a tool that tracks competitor price changes automatically saves you rereading pricing pages every month, and your renewal conversations go better when you know what the market did in between.
Is Alexi better than Midpage?
On the only independent evidence, no, and Midpage is not meaningfully better than Alexi either. The Vals legal research report of October 2025 tested four AI products on 200 US legal research questions. On the weighted score Vals prints, which combines accuracy, authoritativeness and appropriateness, Counsel Stack scored 78, ChatGPT 77, Midpage 75 and Alexi 74, against 69 for the lawyer baseline.
A one-point gap on a single study is not a ranking you should pay for. What the study does settle is that both tools out-researched the average lawyer in the sample and that neither is a gamble on quality. The differences that should decide your purchase are elsewhere: how you buy, what else the seat includes, and whether the vendor sells to a firm your size. Counsel Stack, the top scorer, no longer sells lawyer seats at all; Counsel Stack pricing explains what it sells instead.
Which one checks whether a case is still good law?
Midpage does, in its own way. Its AI citator labels later treatment as negative, caution or neutral and quotes the reasoning, which is useful for a first pass. Alexi's site talks about grounding its answers in retrieved sources, which is a different job: making sure the answer comes from real documents, not telling you whether one of those documents was overruled last year.
Neither is KeyCite or Shepard's. If your courts, clients or malpractice carrier expect incumbent citator treatment, keep a seat that has it. Our Midpage vs Westlaw pricing comparison prices that trade-off at the other end of the market, where Westlaw Advantage publishes 256.75 to 399.75 dollars per user per month for small firms.
Which should you buy?
A solo or a firm under ten lawyers: Midpage, or something cheaper. Alexi does not describe an offer for you, and a walkthrough will cost you an hour to learn that. If the two weeks show you mostly use Midpage to find and read cases rather than run agentic research or pull PACER dockets, you may be paying for more than you use.
A litigation firm of 10 to 25 lawyers: price both. Midpage gives you a published number and a citator today; Alexi's Core tier gives you firm workflows and a shared environment. Run the same three real questions from live matters through each trial, questions where you already know the right answer, and compare the result and the quote together.
A firm of 25 or more that wants a private environment: Alexi's Advanced tier is built for you, and so are Harvey and CoCounsel. At that size you are buying a platform, and Midpage is the benchmark for what research alone costs, not the competitor.
There is a fourth kind of buyer who ends up on this comparison by accident: the lawyer whose actual job is typing a legal question and reading the US cases that answer it. For that job neither platform is the cheapest option. Cases does plain-English US case law search from 29 dollars a month, or 24 billed yearly, with a real citation on every result. It has no full citator and no PACER, and we say so plainly. If you need those, Midpage at 80 to 100 is the published choice.
What to settle before you sign either
- With Alexi: the per-seat price, seat minimum and term, in writing; which tier you are being quoted; where its US case law comes from, a fair question while Fastcase and Alexi are in litigation that began in December 2025; and what happens to your workflows if you leave.
- With Midpage: whether the fair-use asterisk on unlimited AI research has ever limited a firm like yours; whether trial court coverage includes your state, since it covers select states only; and whether you need API access, which Professional does not include.
- With both: run questions from your own matters, not the demo questions, and open every case the tool cites before you rely on it.
If you are still deciding between these two because Alexi turned out to be quote only, the Alexi AI review explains why its public reviews describe a 2023 product, and the Midpage alternative page lines up the other published seats.
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