Legora AI Pricing: Legora vs Harvey, Real Cost and Honest Review
Legora has no pricing page and no trial. Here is what it actually costs according to the people who have bought it, what the reported seat minimum means for a US firm, and who is priced out before the demo starts.
How courts have ruled
Sample results, illustrative only. Informational research, not legal advice. Verify every citation.
In short
Legora is a Swedish legal AI platform, formerly called Leya, that sells an agentic operating system for legal work to large law firms and in-house teams. It publishes no price: as of September 2026 legora.com has no pricing page at all, /pricing and /plans both return 404, and the only route into the product is booking a demo. Third parties report roughly 3,000 dollars per user per year with a ten seat minimum, which puts the practical entry point near 30,000 dollars a year, and 5,000 to 8,000 dollars per seat at large firms. Legora confirms none of it. The number that decides most buying questions is not the seat price but the seat floor: below about ten lawyers, Legora is not expensive, it is unavailable. If your actual job is finding the on-point US case, Cases does that for a published 29 dollars per month with no sales call. This is informational research, not legal advice, and you should always read the case before citing it.
Last updated September 2026
How we checked this. Every Legora fact on this page was read from legora.com on 2 September 2026, with the homepage rendered in a real browser rather than fetched as raw HTML, because the site builds most of its content client side. We also requested a URL that has never existed, which returned a clean 404, so the 404s on /pricing and /plans are genuine evidence of absence rather than a bot block. Anything we could not read on a Legora page is labeled Reported and attributed.
The question nobody asks first
Ask how few seats they will sell you, not what a seat costs
Almost every article about legal AI pricing chases the per seat number. For most firms that is the second question. The first is whether the vendor will sell to a firm your size at all, because this market sorts buyers by headcount long before it sorts them by budget. Line the vendors up by their minimum purchase and the shape of the market becomes obvious.
| Vendor | Minimum purchase | How you buy | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | 1 seat | Self-serve checkout, 29 dollars per month | Month to month. A solo can start and stop without talking to anyone. |
| midpage | 1 seat | Self-serve, 30 dollars per month | Two week trial on all plans. Genuine price parity with us. |
| Paxton AI | 1 seat | Self-serve, 2,999 dollars per user per year | Published rate and a published 7 day trial, which is rare in this market. |
| Westlaw Advantage | 1 seat, firms up to 10 attorneys | Online checkout, sales above 10 attorneys | Thomson Reuters calls the online path "No Negotiation Needed" and caps it by firm size. |
| Legora | 10 seats reported | Book a demo only | No signup, no trial, no pricing page. Below ten lawyers you are not in the market. |
| Harvey | 25 seats reported | Contact sales only | The highest reported floor of the group and no published rate of any kind. |
Read down that column and you can locate your own firm without asking anyone for a quote. One to nine lawyers: Legora and Harvey are closed to you regardless of budget, and the live options are the ones with self-serve checkout. Ten to twenty five: Legora opens up, Harvey probably does not, and you are now committing something in the region of thirty thousand dollars a year on a product with no published rate and no trial. Above twenty five: the whole field is open and the real work is negotiation, not selection.
The seat floor also explains the trial policy, which otherwise looks arbitrary. Vendors that will sell a single seat publish a trial, because a trial is how a single seat gets sold. Vendors with a double digit floor replace the trial with a demo and a scoped pilot, because nobody signs a thirty thousand dollar contract off a seven day self-serve trial anyway. We worked through the whole trial landscape, vendor by vendor, on our legal research free trial comparison.
Published, reported, and guessed
What you can actually verify about Legora pricing
Here is the field sorted by whether a vendor page will confirm the figure. We never merge those two columns, because the difference between a number you can read on a vendor site and a number somebody blogged is the difference between a rate and a rumor.
| Product | Figure | Status | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legora, any tier | No figure shown anywhere | Quote only | legora.com has no pricing page at all: /pricing and /plans both return 404, and there is no Pricing item in the navigation |
| Legora, per seat | About 3,000 dollars per user per year | Reported | Multiple third party pricing write-ups. No Legora page confirms it |
| Legora, seat minimum | 10 seats, so about 30,000 dollars a year to start | Reported | Third party write-ups. This is the figure that decides whether you can buy at all |
| Legora, large firm tier | 5,000 to 8,000 dollars per seat per year | Reported | Aggregator estimates, treat as somebody else's negotiated deal |
| Harvey | 1,200 to 2,000 dollars or more per user per month | Reported | Third party benchmarks. Harvey publishes no rate on its own site either |
| Lexis+ with Protégé | No figure shown | Quote only | LexisNexis states pricing varies by organization size and content scope |
| Westlaw Advantage, all states plus federal | 492.00 dollars per user per month at list, 399.75 on a three year term | Published | Thomson Reuters live checkout, read 1 September 2026. Online purchase is capped at firms of up to 10 attorneys |
| Paxton AI, Individual | 2,999 dollars per user per year | Published | Paxton AI pricing page, re-read 1 September 2026 |
| midpage, Starter | 30 dollars per month | Published | midpage pricing page, re-read 1 September 2026 |
| Cases | 29 dollars per month | Published | Our own pricing page, self-serve, month to month, no sales call |
Notice which rows carry a Published label. Of the products a US firm is likely to shortlist, the ones that publish a rate are the ones that will sell you a single seat. That is not a coincidence, it is the same fact seen from a different angle. Our legal research pricing comparison keeps the full running list, and the Harvey AI breakdown covers the one vendor here with an even higher floor.
One caveat on the Westlaw row, because it is the figure most often quoted wrongly, including by us until recently. The widely repeated 399.75 dollars per month is the three year commitment price with an 18 percent discount already applied. The undiscounted rate for the identical plan, on the same checkout screen, is 492.00 dollars per month. We corrected that on our Westlaw Advantage page after reading the live checkout on 1 September 2026.
What Legora puts in writing
What Legora actually is, in its own words
Legora describes itself as "the collaborative AI powering lawyers to review and research faster, draft smarter, and advise with precision," and brands the platform Legora aOS, an agentic operating system for legal work. Stripped of the framing, here is the surface area, all of it named by Legora on its own pages.
| Capability | What it does | What is published |
|---|---|---|
| Legora aOS | Legora brands the whole product an agentic operating system for legal work, layered as large language models, an agentic harness, data and integrations, context and knowledge, legal capabilities, products and interfaces, and security and governance. | Named and diagrammed on the homepage |
| Agent | End to end execution of multi step legal work rather than a single answer to a single prompt. This is the piece Legora leads with, and it is aimed at matter level work, not lookup. | Named, scope not published |
| Tabular Review | Runs the same set of questions across a document population and returns the answers as a grid. It is the feature most often cited by the firms Legora quotes, and it is a diligence and discovery tool. | Named, document limits not published |
| Legal Research | One module inside a much larger suite. Legora does not publish which primary law libraries it licenses per jurisdiction, which matters a great deal to a US buyer comparing it with Westlaw or Lexis. | Named, US coverage not published |
| Monitors | Tracks regulatory change and surfaces what moved. Useful for compliance heavy practices, and irrelevant to a firm whose problem is finding the on point case. | Named, sources not published |
| Word and Outlook add-ins, Editor, mobile app, Portal, Lists, Workflows | The surface area that makes this a platform rather than a tool. Every one of these is a place the product wants to live inside your firm, which is also why it is sold to firms rather than to people. | Named on the homepage |
The pattern in the right hand column is worth sitting with. Legora names a great deal and quantifies almost none of it. For a US buyer the most consequential silence is on legal research coverage: Legora sells a Legal Research module but does not publish which primary law libraries it licenses for which jurisdictions. If you are a US litigator, that is the first question of the demo, not the last, and you want the answer written into the order form.
Read the logo wall
Who Legora is really built for
The trust strip on Legora's homepage, rendered and read on 2 September 2026, carries Bird & Bird, Cleary Gottlieb, White & Case, Linklaters, Deloitte, Palo Alto Networks, Goodwin and Allen & Overy. Its customer page adds Dentons, Mannheimer Swartling, Gorrissen Federspiel, Pérez-Llorca, Wardyński & Partners, Borenius, Lindahl and Schoenherr. That is a Magic Circle and Nordic elite roster, and it tells you more about fit than any feature list will.
Legora's own customers page claims more than 1,500 law firms and in-house legal teams globally. Independent estimates from Sacra put it closer to 1,000 customers across 50 markets as of April 2026, alongside an estimated 100 million dollars in annual recurring revenue, up from roughly 50 million at the end of 2025. Those two counts do not agree, and we are quoting both rather than picking the flattering one: Legora says 1,500 plus, Sacra says about 1,000.
The funding history explains the sales motion. Legora, founded in Stockholm and previously known as Leya, is reported to have raised a 550 million dollar Series D led by Accel at a 5.55 billion dollar valuation in March 2026, later extended toward 600 million with Atlassian and Nvidia's venture arm participating, for roughly 800 million dollars raised in total. A company at that valuation is not optimizing for solo practitioners, and the absence of a pricing page is a deliberate expression of that, not an oversight.
There is a practical consequence for US buyers that the logo wall makes plain. Legora's deepest references are European. If you are a US firm, you are not buying the same maturity that Mannheimer Swartling bought, and you should ask for US references in your own practice area during the demo. That is a normal request and a vendor confident in its US coverage will meet it easily.
The comparison buyers actually run
Legora vs Harvey, honestly
This is the shortlist at the top of the market, and on capability the two have converged enough that a feature grid will not decide it. Both are agentic platforms rather than search tools. Both do document population work, drafting, and multi step execution. Both refuse to publish a price. Both want to be the place legal work happens rather than a tab you open occasionally.
Three things do separate them for a US buyer. The first is reach: Legora's reported ten seat floor against Harvey's reported twenty five means there is a band of mid-sized firms that Legora will sell to and Harvey will not. The second is governance transparency, where Legora is genuinely ahead. It publishes ISO 42001 certification for AI governance alongside ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2, and states without hedging that it will not use your data to train or fine tune any models. The third runs the other way: Harvey's center of gravity is American, Legora's is European, and for a US litigation practice that difference shows up in references and in primary law coverage.
What neither is, and neither claims to be, is a citator. Nothing in either product replaces the step where you confirm a case is still good law before you file. That gap is the reason US courts have kept sanctioning lawyers over AI produced citations. Our running record of AI hallucination cases tracks the decisions, and the pattern in them is consistent: the sanctions land on filings nobody read, not on the use of AI itself.
Where Legora is strongest
Security and data handling, verified
This is the part of Legora's site that publishes real detail, and credit where it is due: it is more forthcoming than most of the market. Read on 2 September 2026.
ISO 42001
Certified. Legora describes this as its AI governance framework. It is still uncommon enough in legal tech to be a genuine differentiator rather than table stakes.
ISO 27001
Certified for information security management.
SOC 2 Type 2
Legora states it meets SOC 2 requirements across all its systems.
Model training
Legora states plainly: "Legora will not use your data to train or fine tune any AI models." That is the sentence to hold a legal AI vendor to, and it is good that it is unambiguous.
Data deletion
Legora states that once your contract ends, all of your data and any dedicated storage tied to your account is permanently deleted. Retention periods are configurable before that.
Foundation models
Not disclosed. The security page names no model provider, and the aOS diagram simply shows a large language models layer underneath Legora's own agentic harness. Compare LexisNexis, which does name OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
Jurisdiction
The technical team is based in Sweden and Legora leads with GDPR. It offers EU based and US based support. A US firm with state bar confidentiality questions should ask where its matter data is processed, not just where support sits.
If you are working through ABA Formal Opinion 512 obligations, the training and deletion commitments above are the two that map most directly onto Rule 1.6. Opinion 512 is explicit that generic engagement letter language is not adequate informed consent for putting client information into a generative AI tool, so a vendor certification does not discharge the duty. It just makes the conversation with the client an easier one to have.
Match the spend to the practice
Who should buy Legora, and who is priced out
Large firms with a knowledge management function
This is the clear yes. Legora is designed to be administered, and the value shows up when somebody owns the workflows, the monitors, and the firm knowledge that feeds the agent. If nobody in your firm has that job, most of what you are buying stays switched off.
Teams whose bottleneck is document populations
Tabular Review, running one question set across hundreds of documents, is the feature Legora customers talk about most. If diligence or discovery review is a real share of your hours, that is genuine leverage rather than a demo trick.
Mid-sized firms that Harvey will not sell to
The reported ten seat floor against Harvey's twenty five is a real opening. If you are a fifteen lawyer firm that wants an agentic platform, Legora is one of the few at this tier that will take the call. Budget around thirty thousand dollars a year as the starting point.
US litigation practices
Proceed, but interrogate coverage first. Legora does not publish which US primary law libraries it licenses, and its reference customers are mostly European. Ask for US references in your practice area and get the coverage commitment in the order form.
Solos and firms under ten lawyers
You are not the customer, and no amount of budget changes that while the seat minimum stands. This is worth knowing before you spend an hour on a demo call. Focused case law search plus your bar association library plus a citator will cost a fraction of the floor and do the job you actually have.
Unbundle the jobs
If what you need is the research half
An agentic platform bundles a lot of jobs: drafting, review across document sets, regulatory monitoring, workflow automation, and somewhere inside all of it, finding the law. If the last one is the job you actually have, you are paying for a platform to reach a search box.
Cases takes a legal question in plain English and returns on-point US federal and state precedents as headnote cards, each with the holding surfaced and a real citation you can check. Pricing is published at 29 dollars per month, month to month, one seat, no quote and no sales call. Against a reported thirty thousand dollar Legora floor, that is roughly one thousandth of the entry ticket, which is only a fair comparison if the research half is genuinely all you need.
So here is the honest boundary. We do not draft your motions, we do not review a document population, we have no regulatory monitors, and we are not a citator. Legora does things we do not do, and for a firm with those problems it may well be worth every dollar of the floor. What we do is the finding half, at a price you can read right now. For the validating half, our citator comparison lays out every option including the Authority Check that many US state bars already include in dues you pay, and the case citation checker walks through confirming a case is real before you file it.
Questions buyers ask
Legora, answered
How much does Legora cost?
Legora publishes no price. We checked on 2 September 2026: legora.com/pricing and legora.com/plans both return 404, there is no Pricing link in the site navigation, and the only call to action anywhere on the homepage is "Book a demo." Third party write-ups report roughly 3,000 dollars per user per year with a ten seat minimum, which puts the entry ticket near 30,000 dollars annually, and 5,000 to 8,000 dollars per seat at larger firms. Legora has confirmed none of those figures. Treat every Legora number you find online, including the ones on this page, as somebody else's deal rather than a rate card.
Is Legora free?
No. There is no free tier, no free trial, and no self-serve signup. The only route into the product is booking a demo with the sales team, which is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight: Legora sells to firms, not to individual lawyers. If you want to test legal AI this week without a sales conversation, the products with published prices and open signup are the only realistic options, and we list them in the seat floor table above.
Is Legora better than Harvey?
For an elite firm the honest answer is that they are close, and the choice usually turns on procurement rather than features. Both are agentic platforms sold to large firms with no published price. Legora is reported at a ten seat floor against Harvey at roughly twenty five, so Legora is reachable for a mid-sized firm that Harvey will not sell to. Legora also publishes more about its security posture, including ISO 42001 certification for AI governance. Harvey has the larger US brand presence. Neither is a sensible purchase for a firm whose real problem is finding the on-point case.
Is Legora a wrapper?
That framing does not survive contact with the product, though the underlying suspicion is fair. Legora does run on third party foundation models, which it does not name, and any legal AI product that claims otherwise is stretching. What sits on top is substantial: an agentic execution layer, Tabular Review across document populations, Word and Outlook add-ins, regulatory monitors, and an ISO 42001 governance framework. The real question for a buyer is not whether there is a model underneath, because there always is. It is whether the layer on top does work you would otherwise pay people to do.
Is Legora based on Claude?
Legora does not say. Its security page names no model provider, and the aOS diagram on its homepage shows only a generic large language models layer beneath its own agentic harness. That is a meaningful gap when you are comparing vendors, because LexisNexis does name its providers, listing OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. If your firm has a policy about which foundation models may touch client data, put the question in writing during the demo and get the answer in the contract rather than accepting a verbal assurance.
Does Legora have a free trial?
No. We found no trial of any length published anywhere on legora.com as of September 2026, and no signup path. Evaluation happens through a demo and then a pilot negotiated with sales. For comparison, midpage publishes a two week trial, Westlaw Advantage and Westlaw Edge each publish seven days with no credit card, and Paxton AI publishes seven days. Our own answer is different again: we run no trial, we publish 29 dollars a month, and you can cancel after one month, so evaluating costs a month rather than a signature.
Legora vs CoCounsel: which should a US firm pick?
For most US firms CoCounsel is the more natural fit, for an unglamorous reason: it sits on Westlaw primary law and KeyCite, which is the content your associates already know. Legora is a Swedish company whose reference customers are heavily European and Magic Circle, and it does not publish which US primary law libraries it licenses. If you are a US litigation practice, ask that question first, before any feature discussion. Legora is stronger on document population work like Tabular Review and on published AI governance. CoCounsel is stronger on the thing US litigators do every day, which is verifying that a case is still good law.
Is Legora good for solo practitioners and small firms?
No, and that is a structural answer rather than a criticism. With a reported ten seat minimum, a firm of one to nine lawyers cannot buy Legora at any price. Legora is built for firms with a knowledge management function and a document review problem measured in thousands of pages. A solo whose actual daily task is finding the on-point authority and checking it is still good law should look at focused case law search, a bar association library, and a citator, which together cost a rounding error against a 30,000 dollar floor.
Keep researching
No demo, no floor, no quote
Ask your question in plain English and get on-point US precedents with a real citation. One seat, published at 29 dollars per month. Informational research, not legal advice, always verify the citation.