Harvey AI Competitors and Alternatives With Published Prices and Seat Floors
Harvey has no pricing page and a reported floor of about 25 seats. Nine competitors, what each one charges, the smallest firm each will sell to, and the job each does better or worse than Harvey.
In short
Harvey's main competitors are Legora, CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters, Lexis+ AI with Protege, Vincent AI from vLex, Spellbook, Paxton AI, Alexi, Midpage and Cases. Four of them publish a price: Westlaw Advantage, which CoCounsel Legal builds on, at 256.75 to 399.75 dollars per user per month, Paxton AI at 499, Midpage at 100 and Cases at 49. Harvey, Legora, Lexis+ AI, Alexi and Spellbook are quote only. Harvey is reported near 1,200 dollars a seat with a 25 seat floor, so a firm under 20 lawyers is usually choosing among the alternatives, not between them and Harvey. This is informational research, not legal advice.
How we checked this. Every price marked published was read on the vendor's own pricing page on 6 October 2026, and on each site we also requested a page that never existed, so a missing pricing page means a real absence rather than a blocked request. Harvey's and Legora's pricing URLs return 404, the same as our invented path. Reported figures come from third-party write-ups and are labelled as such. Annual totals are our arithmetic on list prices.
Nine vendors, one honest column each
What each Harvey AI competitor charges
Thomson Reuters
PublishedCoCounsel Legal and Westlaw Advantage
256.75 to 399.75 per user per month
Smallest buyer: Online for firms up to 10 attorneys
Firms that want Westlaw content, KeyCite and agentic research in one contract
LexisNexis
No priceLexis+ AI with Protege
Quote only
Smallest buyer: Not published
Firms already on Lexis that want Shepard's inside the AI answers
Legora
No priceLegora
Quote only
Smallest buyer: About 10 seats, reported
Mid-sized and large firms wanting a Harvey-style platform with a lower seat floor
vLex, part of Clio
ReportedVincent AI
About 199 per user per month inside Clio Work, reported
Smallest buyer: Not published
Firms needing multi-jurisdiction and international research
Paxton
PublishedPaxton AI
499 per user per month, or 2,999 a year
Smallest buyer: 1 seat
Personal injury firms that live on medical chronologies
Midpage
PublishedMidpage
100 per user per month
Smallest buyer: 1 seat
Solo litigators wanting AI research with a citator, no sales call
Alexi
No priceAlexi
Quote only
Smallest buyer: Sold from about 11 lawyers up
Litigation firms wanting research memos delivered for them
Spellbook
No priceSpellbook
Quote only, priced by team size
Smallest buyer: Individuals to large teams
Transactional lawyers drafting and redlining in Word
Cases
PublishedCases
49 per user per month, or 24 billed yearly
Smallest buyer: 1 seat
Finding US case law in plain English with citations you open and check
Published means the figure is on the vendor's own site. Reported means third-party write-ups, not confirmed by the vendor. Prices are US dollars per user per month before tax unless stated. Harvey itself publishes nothing; our Harvey AI pricing page separates what it states from what is repeated about it.
ยง FIRM SIZE
What a 5, 15 and 30 lawyer firm would pay in a year
List prices only, before any negotiated discount. Harvey uses the commonly reported 1,200 dollars per seat and 25 seat floor, so a 30 lawyer firm pays for 30 seats and smaller firms are not sold to at all. Westlaw Advantage stops publishing prices above 10 attorneys.
| Tool | 5 lawyers | 15 lawyers | 30 lawyers | 30 lawyers, to scale |
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| Harvey, reported | Not sold | Not sold | 432,000 | |
| Westlaw Advantage, all states | 23,985 | Quote above 10 | Quote | |
| Paxton AI, yearly | 14,995 | 44,985 | 89,970 | |
| Midpage | 6,000 | 18,000 | 36,000 | |
| Cases Starter, yearly | 1,440 | 4,320 | 8,640 |
The gap is not a rounding error. At reported rates, Harvey for 30 lawyers costs about five times Paxton, twelve times Midpage and fifty times a research seat on Cases. That does not make Harvey overpriced: it sells a different, broader product, with firm knowledge, bulk document review and an enterprise security file. It does mean that before you request a Harvey demo you should know which of those extra capabilities your firm would use every week.
Buy for the job, not the logo
Which Harvey alternative does which job
Harvey is a platform: research, drafting, contract review, bulk document analysis through Vault, and agentic workflows, all under one enterprise contract. Most of its competitors are narrower, and that is the point. A five lawyer litigation shop rarely needs all six jobs below. It needs two of them, done well, at a price it can see before the call.
So start from the work. Write down the three tasks that ate the most unbilled hours last month. If they are research, the cheapest strong answer is a focused research tool. If they are contracts, it is a drafting tool that lives in Word. Only if the list spans every row does a platform like Harvey or Legora start to make sense.
| Job | Harvey | Competitors that do it |
|---|---|---|
| Case law research with citations | Yes, inside a broad platform | Cases, Midpage, Westlaw Advantage, Lexis+ AI, Vincent AI |
| Is this case still good law | No citator of its own | Westlaw (KeyCite), Lexis (Shepard's), Midpage AI citator |
| Contract drafting and redlining in Word | Yes | Spellbook, Legora |
| Bulk review of a matter's own documents | Yes, through Vault | Legora, CoCounsel Legal |
| Medical chronologies and demand letters | Possible, not its focus | Paxton AI |
| Firm-wide rollout with enterprise security review | Its core market | Legora, CoCounsel Legal, Lexis+ AI |
Same shape as Harvey
Legora, CoCounsel Legal and Lexis+ AI as Harvey competitors
Legora
The nearest like-for-like rival: a collaborative legal AI workspace for research, review and drafting, sold to firms and legal departments through sales. Its pricing URL returns a 404, and the floor most often reported is about 10 seats, which opens a band of 10 to 25 lawyer firms that Harvey does not sell to. Our Legora pricing and review page covers the quote process.
CoCounsel Legal
Thomson Reuters' answer to Harvey reasons over Westlaw and Practical Law and checks authority with KeyCite. It is the only platform-class rival with a visible price floor: Westlaw Advantage, which it contains, is 256.75 dollars per user per month for one circuit and 399.75 for all states and federal, online for firms up to 10 attorneys. Detail on our CoCounsel Legal page.
Lexis+ AI with Protege
LexisNexis grounds its assistant in Lexis content and Shepard's, which matters if your associates already trust that citator. It publishes no price for Protege, so a quote has nothing visible beneath it. If the firm already pays for Lexis+, the add-on question is usually cheaper to answer than a new platform. See Lexis+ AI Protege pricing.
The independent evidence is uneven. In the February 2025 Vals Legal AI Report, Harvey entered six tasks and was the strongest product in that study, scoring 94.8 on document Q&A against a lawyer baseline of 70.1. But Harvey never entered the October 2025 Vals legal research benchmark, which tested Counsel Stack, ChatGPT, Midpage and Alexi on 200 US research questions; all four beat the lawyer baseline of 69. So on drafting and document work Harvey has the scores, and on case law research some much cheaper tools have them instead. Our Harvey AI vs CoCounsel comparison and the Vincent AI vs Harvey AI pricing breakdown walk through what that absence means for a buyer.
Where none of these replaces Harvey
When Harvey is still the right purchase
Firm knowledge
Harvey's Vault and Knowledge work over your own matter files and precedent bank. If the hours you lose are spent finding what the firm already wrote, a case law tool like ours does not help at all.
Security file
Harvey publishes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001, zero data retention from model providers and data residency options. A firm with a real security review will find that file hard to match among smaller vendors.
Scale
Harvey states that more than 70 Am Law 100 firms use it. At hundreds of seats the reported per-seat price falls, and one platform across practice groups is simpler to govern than six point tools.
If none of those three is your problem, you are probably paying for capability you will not use. Most small and mid-sized firms that look at Harvey are really asking how to find the right authority faster and cite it without risk, which is a research purchase. Our legal research pricing comparison covers that market on the same published versus reported basis.
What we sell, and what we do not
A Harvey alternative for the research part only
Cases is not a platform. It does one job: you ask a legal question in plain English and read the US federal and state decisions that answer it, each with a citation you can open. Starter is 49 dollars per user per month, or 24 billed yearly, and there is no seat floor, no demo and no annual commitment on the monthly plan.
We do not draft contracts, we do not review your document set and we do not replace KeyCite or Shepard's, so verify every citation before you file. For a solo or a small litigation team whose real bottleneck is finding authority, that narrow scope is the reason it costs what it does. Solo attorneys comparing all their options can start with our guide to the best legal research for solo practitioners.
How a search works
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Ask the question
Type it the way you would ask a colleague, no boolean strings.
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Read the decisions
Federal and state opinions come back with the holding and a citation you can open.
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Verify and cite
Check the citation in your citator of choice before it goes into a filing.
Questions buyers ask
Harvey AI competitors and alternatives questions
Who are Harvey AI's competitors?
Harvey's closest competitor is Legora, which sells a similar firm-wide legal AI platform. The two big research publishers compete through CoCounsel Legal with Westlaw Advantage and Lexis+ AI with Protege. Vincent AI from vLex, now part of Clio, competes on research, Spellbook on contract drafting, Paxton AI on personal injury work, and Midpage, Alexi and Cases on focused case law research.
What is the best alternative to Harvey AI?
It depends on the job you actually bought Harvey for. For a firm-wide platform with a lower seat floor, Legora is the closest match. For research on trusted content, CoCounsel Legal or Lexis+ AI. For contracts, Spellbook. For a solo or small firm that mainly needs case law with real citations, a published per-seat tool such as Midpage at 100 dollars or Cases at 49 does the job without a sales cycle.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Harvey AI?
Yes. Harvey publishes no price, and third-party reports put it near 1,200 dollars per seat per month with a floor of about 25 seats. Every tool with a published price is cheaper per seat: Westlaw Advantage lists 256.75 to 399.75, Paxton AI 499, Midpage 100 and Cases 49 per user per month, and none of those four require a seat minimum below ten attorneys.
Can a small law firm buy Harvey AI?
In practice, no. Harvey has no self-serve signup, no free trial and no pricing page, and reports consistently describe a floor of 20 to 25 seats on a 12 month term. A five lawyer firm cannot clear that floor. Small firms looking for the same kind of help usually buy one focused tool per job instead, starting with research.
Is Legora better than Harvey?
Neither is better across the board, because they sell nearly the same thing: a firm-wide legal AI workspace for research, review and drafting. The practical differences buyers report are seat floor and footprint. Legora is reported to start around 10 seats against Harvey's 20 to 25, and it is often described as stronger in Europe. Neither publishes a price, so compare written quotes.
Is CoCounsel a competitor to Harvey?
Yes. CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters competes directly with Harvey for research, drafting and document review, with the difference that it reasons over Westlaw and Practical Law content and checks citations with KeyCite. Thomson Reuters also publishes a price floor underneath it: Westlaw Advantage at 256.75 to 399.75 per user per month for firms up to 10 attorneys.
Does Harvey AI have a free trial?
No. Harvey offers no free trial and no free tier, and its site has no self-serve signup, so the only way in is a demo request through sales. Several alternatives do offer trials: Paxton AI and Spellbook offer seven days, and Midpage offers two weeks with no sales call. Cases lets you run a real search before you pay.
How much does Harvey AI cost per seat?
Harvey does not publish a per-seat price. As of 6 October 2026 harvey.ai/pricing returns a 404. Third-party write-ups commonly report about 1,200 dollars per seat per month for mid-sized firms, with lower figures at very large scale, plus a 20 to 25 seat floor and a 12 month term. Treat every figure as an estimate until you hold a written quote.
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Related legal AI pricing pages
Case law research without a 25 seat contract.
Ask your legal question in plain English and read the US federal and state opinions it returns, with citations you can open. 49 dollars a month, month to month, no sales call.