Midpage vs Harvey AI Pricing: 100 a Month or an Enterprise Seat

Midpage publishes its price and Harvey does not, and that one fact settles the comparison for most firms. Midpage Professional is 100 dollars a month, or 80 dollars a month billed annually, for one seat you can buy tonight. Harvey has no pricing page and is reported at roughly 1,000 to 2,000 dollars per seat per month with a floor of 20 to 25 seats, which puts the entry ticket somewhere around 240,000 dollars a year or more. A firm under twenty lawyers is not really choosing between the two. It is choosing whether Midpage, or something cheaper, covers the research it actually does.

We read both vendor sites on 16 September 2026. midpage.ai/pricing returns a real page, and an invented path on the same host returns a proper 404, so the price on it is the published price. harvey.ai/pricing returns a 404, but so does a path that never existed, so the site tells us nothing either way beyond the fact that no rate is published anywhere on it. Every figure below is labeled as published, reported or our own arithmetic, and the three are never merged. This is informational buying guidance, not legal advice.

Midpage vs Harvey AI pricing, side by side

The 25-lawyer row is the only one where a real comparison exists, and even there the gap is at least twelve times on the reported figures. Harvey's number is soft. The sources that circulate it disagree with each other, and a large firm's negotiated rate is private. But the shape is not soft: a vendor with no pricing page, no trial and a reported seat floor is telling you which buyers it wants before anyone picks up a phone. We walk through where the Harvey estimates come from in how much Harvey AI costs.

Is Midpage cheaper than Harvey?

Yes, by an order of magnitude at every seat count where both can be bought. One Midpage seat on the annual plan is 960 dollars a year, and Harvey is reported at 12,000 to 24,000 dollars per seat per year before any floor applies. The more useful question is whether they do the same job, because a cheaper tool that solves a different problem is not a saving.

What each one is actually built for

Midpage is a research product first. Its homepage lists every federal court including unpublished opinions, every state appellate court, trial court data from select states, statutes, regulations and agency guidance, and an AI citator that grades later treatment as negative, caution or neutral with the quoted reasoning. The Professional plan adds agentic PACER access, so it can fetch a docket and pull the briefing. It also sells plugins that put its case law inside Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity, which matters if your lawyers already work in one of those.

Harvey is a firm-wide platform. The work it is known for is document-heavy: reviewing large sets, extracting fields, summarizing, working through transcripts and contracts across a big team, with governance and security built for procurement departments. Research is part of it, but it is not the thing the price is built around.

The independent evidence lines up with that split in a way that is easy to miss. The first Vals Legal AI Report, published in February 2025 with Legaltech Hub, evaluated Harvey on document tasks, and Harvey did very well on them. Legal research was held back from that report and became its own study in October 2025, which evaluated Alexi, Counsel Stack, Midpage and ChatGPT. Midpage scored 75 there, against a lawyer baseline of 69. Harvey was not in it. So the two products have public scores, but never on the same test, and each scored on the job it is built for. We break down the February rows in Vincent AI vs Harvey AI pricing.

Which one should a small law firm buy?

For a firm under twenty lawyers, Harvey is not on the menu on its reported terms, so the real decision is whether Midpage fits. It fits well if your research is mostly federal or appellate, if you want drafting and cite-checking agents in the same place, and if a published monthly price matters to you. It fits less well if your practice lives in state trial courts outside the states Midpage covers, or if a citator judgment will decide a motion, where an editorial citator such as KeyCite is still the safer check.

If the Westlaw row is the one you are weighing, we price it against Midpage seat for seat, including the three-year discount and a real checkout figure, in Midpage vs Westlaw pricing.

Is Harvey AI worth it for a small firm?

Usually not, and usually the question does not arise, because the reported 20 to 25 seat floor rules a small firm out before value is discussed. Where a small firm has a genuinely document-heavy practice, such as a boutique handling large due diligence sets, it is worth asking Harvey whether a smaller package exists. Ask for it in writing, with the term and the per-seat rate, and compare it against what the same work costs with the tools you already have.

Is Midpage worth 100 dollars a month?

For a lawyer who researches most days, it usually is, and the annual plan brings it to 80. The test is simple: count the hours a month you spend finding and reading authority, and ask whether a tool that covers your courts and flags later treatment would cut them by more than an hour or two. If you research a few times a week, it probably will not, and a cheaper search-only tool is the better buy. If you are replacing a Westlaw seat, the saving is three to five thousand dollars a year, as long as your courts are covered.

The costs neither price includes

Both products are research and document tools. Neither one does the other half of preparing a contested matter, which is finding out who you are dealing with. Before a deposition or a settlement call, many litigators run a public-records sweep on the opposing party, covering corporate filings, prior suits and online footprint, and that is a separate job with separate software whichever research seat you choose. Budget for it the same way.

The other cost is verification time. Damien Charlotin's public database held 2,041 court decisions involving AI hallucinations as of 14 September 2026, and the federal sanctions decisions from early 2026 did not punish lawyers for choosing a tool; they punished citations nobody had opened. A grounded research product makes a fabricated case much less likely. It does not make reading the case optional, at 80 dollars a month or at 2,000. Our case citation checker page covers the routine.

Where Cases fits

Cases does one of the jobs in this comparison. You ask a legal question in plain English and get US federal and state decisions back, each with a summary, the holding and a citation you can open. Starter is 29 dollars a month, and Pro at 59 adds a good-law check that flags cases to re-verify. We do not draft, pull dockets or replace an editorial citator, so if you research all day and want agents, Midpage is the better buy at its price. If you mostly need the right case quickly, start with the search box at the top of this page. You can also see how we compare with Midpage directly on our midpage alternative page.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Harvey AI cost per month?

Harvey publishes no price. Third-party write-ups put it at roughly 1,000 to 2,000 dollars per seat per month for mid-sized firms, with a reported minimum of 20 to 25 seats on a twelve-month term. Harvey confirms none of those figures, and harvey.ai/pricing returned a 404 on 16 September 2026. Treat any single confident number as an estimate for someone else's firm.

How much does Midpage cost?

Midpage Professional is 100 dollars a month billed monthly or 80 dollars a month billed annually, which is 960 dollars a year for one seat before tax. It includes unlimited AI research usage, the AI citator and agentic PACER access. A law student plan costs 25 dollars a month, and a two-week trial needs no card. We read these on midpage.ai on 16 September 2026.

Does Harvey have a minimum number of seats?

Harvey does not publish one, but it is widely reported at 20 seats in some sources and 25 in others, sold on a twelve-month term. In practice that means a firm with fewer than twenty lawyers cannot buy Harvey on standard terms. If you are close to the floor, ask the sales team in writing whether a smaller package exists and at what rate.

Is Midpage good for legal research?

Midpage scored 75 in the October 2025 Vals legal research benchmark, above the lawyer baseline of 69, and every answer links to the opinion behind it. It covers all federal courts and all state appellate courts, with trial court data from select states. Check your own jurisdictions during the trial, and open every case before it goes into a filing.