Legora vs Harvey Pricing, Seat Floors and Where Each Gets US Case Law
Both sell a firm-wide legal AI workspace and neither prints a price. The reported numbers, the smallest firm each will sell to, and the one difference most comparisons miss, whose case law sits behind the answers.
In short
Legora and Harvey both sell a firm-wide legal AI platform by quote only, so every price you see is reported, not published. Legora is reported at about 3,000 dollars per seat per year with a floor near 10 seats; Harvey at about 1,200 dollars per seat per month with a floor of 20 to 25. For US research the bigger difference is the source: Legora built its own US case law corpus in August 2026, while Harvey answers from LexisNexis content and Shepard's under a 2025 alliance. This is informational research, not legal advice.
How we checked this. On 8 October 2026 we requested legora.com/pricing and harvey.ai/pricing, and on each host we also requested a page that never existed. All four came back 404, which is what lets us say both vendors genuinely publish no price rather than that our request was blocked. The case law details come from Legora's own US primary law release, dated 5 August 2026, and from the LexisNexis and Harvey alliance announcement of June 2025. Reported prices come from third-party pricing write-ups and are labeled as such. Annual totals are our arithmetic.
Thirteen rows, one honest column each
Legora vs Harvey side by side
| What you are buying | Legora | Harvey |
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| Published price | None. legora.com/pricing returns 404 | None. harvey.ai/pricing returns 404 |
| Reported price per seat | About 3,000 dollars per seat per year | About 1,200 dollars per seat per month |
| Reported seat floor | About 10 seats | 20 to 25 seats |
| Cheapest entry at the floor | About 30,000 dollars a year | About 288,000 to 360,000 dollars a year |
| How you buy | Demo and quote, annual contract | Demo and quote, 12 month term |
| Free trial | No self-serve trial | No trial, no free tier |
| US case law source | Its own US primary law corpus, live since August 2026 | LexisNexis content through the June 2025 alliance |
| Citator | None named in the August 2026 release; one is reported as coming | Shepard's, through LexisNexis Protege inside Harvey |
| State trial court opinions | Only those printed in regional reporters | Whatever the Lexis content in your contract covers |
| Statutes and regulations | Licensed from Wolters Kluwer | Lexis statutes through the alliance |
| Review of your own documents | Yes, Tabular Review | Yes, Vault |
| Drafting inside Word | Yes, Word Add-in | Yes, Word integration |
| Latest funding | 550 million at 5.55 billion, March 2026 | Valued at 11 billion in March 2026 |
Reported means third-party write-ups that the vendor has not confirmed. Harvey estimates in particular vary widely, from a few hundred dollars a seat at very large firms to 2,000 or more, so the 1,200 figure is the most repeated one, not a list price. Prices are US dollars before tax. Each vendor has its own page here: Legora pricing and review and Harvey AI pricing.
ยง FIRM SIZE
What Legora and Harvey would cost a 5 to 40 lawyer firm in a year
Reported list prices, before any negotiated discount. Legora at 3,000 dollars per seat per year from 10 seats, Harvey at 1,200 dollars per seat per month from 25 seats. A research seat on Cases is shown for scale, because that is the purchase most firms below both floors end up making.
| Firm size | Legora, reported | Harvey, reported | Cases, yearly |
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| 5 lawyers | Below the floor | Below the floor | 1,440 |
| 10 lawyers | 30,000 | Below the floor | 2,880 |
| 15 lawyers | 45,000 | Below the floor | 4,320 |
| 25 lawyers | 75,000 | 360,000 | 7,200 |
| 40 lawyers | 120,000 | 576,000 | 11,520 |
4.8x
Harvey over Legora per seat at reported rates, 14,400 dollars a year against 3,000.
10 to 24
The band of firm sizes Legora is reported to sell to and Harvey usually does not.
Under 10
Below both floors. These firms are choosing a focused tool, not one of these two.
One caution on reading this table. Legora's large-firm deals are reported at 5,000 to 8,000 dollars per seat, and Harvey's per-seat figure falls at hundreds of seats, so at Am Law scale the gap narrows a great deal. The table is most reliable where most readers sit: 10 to 40 lawyers, where the floor is the whole story.
The difference most comparisons miss
Where Legora and Harvey get US case law
An AI research answer is only as good as the opinions it can read. For most of their history, neither platform had a US case law library of its own, which is why both relied on the model and on whatever documents the firm uploaded. That changed on two different paths.
Harvey licensed one. In June 2025 LexisNexis and Harvey announced an alliance that brings Lexis primary law, Protege answers and Shepard's Citations into Harvey. If your associates already trust Shepard's, that is a real advantage, and it is also a dependency on a second vendor's content.
Legora built one. Its release dated 5 August 2026 describes a US primary law corpus updated every 24 hours from the courts and official reporters, with statutes and regulations licensed from Wolters Kluwer.
Federal appellate
Legora lists the Supreme Court from 1790 and the courts of appeals from 1924, with pre-1924 Federal Reporter data in progress.
Federal trial
District courts through F. Supp. from 1932, bankruptcy from 1979 and the Tax Court from 1942, per the same release.
State appellate
Every state appellate court from 1950, Alaska from 1960. Older state material is listed as in progress.
State trial
Only opinions that appear in regional reporters. Dockets and filings are on the roadmap, not live.
Two practical consequences. First, Legora's release names no citator, so ask during the demo how it tells you a case has been reversed; a September 2026 trade report says one is coming, which is not the same as live. Second, if your work turns on state trial court rulings, neither platform is a docket tool, and a litigator who needs those usually adds something like Trellis state court search or CourtLink regardless of which platform wins.
Start from the firm, not the brand
Which one fits your firm
25 lawyers and up, already on Lexis
Harvey is the easier case
You clear the reported floor, your people already read Shepard's, and Harvey's security file (SOC 2 Type II and several ISO certifications) is built for a formal vendor review. Price it against what the Lexis renewal already costs you.
10 to 24 lawyers
Legora is the one that will sell to you
At a reported floor near 10 seats, Legora is the realistic platform for a mid-sized firm. Test its new US corpus on your own state's questions before you rely on it, and budget a citator separately until one ships.
Under 10 lawyers
Probably neither
Both floors sit above you. Buy one focused tool per job, starting with research. Our list of Harvey AI alternatives with published prices covers the options a small firm can actually check out alone.
On the independent evidence, Harvey has the stronger public record: it entered six tasks in the February 2025 Vals Legal AI Report and led that study on document work. Neither vendor entered the October 2025 Vals legal research benchmark, so there is no neutral score for either on finding US case law. Vendor-run rubrics exist, but the ones we found were published by competitors, so we do not cite them as evidence. Our Vincent AI vs Legora pricing and Harvey AI vs CoCounsel comparisons cover the other two platforms in the same buying decision.
Ask both sales teams the same six things
Six questions to put to Legora and Harvey before you sign
What is the seat floor, in writing?
The floor decides the bill more than the per-seat rate. Reports put Legora near 10 and Harvey at 20 to 25, but both are negotiated, so get the number on the order form.
What does year two cost?
Write-ups on Harvey report renewal uplifts of 10 to 25 percent. Ask both vendors for a capped renewal rate before you sign the first year.
Is Lexis content in the Harvey price?
The alliance puts LexisNexis case law and Shepard's inside Harvey. Ask whether that is included in your quote or assumes a separate Lexis subscription you already pay for.
Which courts does Legora cover for my state?
Legora's own release lists state appellate courts from 1950 and only those trial court opinions printed in regional reporters. Run three of your recent research questions against it during the demo.
How do I check that a case is still good law?
Harvey routes that through Shepard's. Legora named no citator in its August release. If the answer is your existing Westlaw or Lexis seat, add that seat to the comparison.
Can we exit, and what happens to our data?
Ask for the retention period after termination, whether model providers keep anything, and whether matter workspaces export. A 12 month term is easy to sign and slow to leave.
Run the same three real research questions from last month through both demos and write down what each returns, with citations. Vendor demos use questions chosen to flatter the product, and the fastest way past that is your own matters. Our legal research pricing comparison keeps every vendor's published and reported figures in separate columns if you want a third quote for scale.
What we sell, and what we do not
Case law search without a platform contract
Cases is not a Legora or Harvey replacement. We do not review your document set, draft in Word or hold your firm's knowledge. We do 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, with no seat floor, no demo and no annual commitment on the monthly plan. Some firms use it while a platform evaluation runs, so the research work does not wait on procurement; others find research was the only job they needed. We have no citator, so verify every case before you file.
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
Legora vs Harvey questions
Is Legora better than Harvey?
Neither wins outright, because they sell nearly the same product: a firm-wide legal AI workspace for research, review and drafting. The practical differences are the seat floor, reported near 10 for Legora against 20 to 25 for Harvey, and the case law behind the answers, which Legora now builds itself and Harvey licenses from LexisNexis. Compare written quotes on the same three matters.
How much does Legora cost?
Legora publishes no price, and on 8 October 2026 legora.com/pricing returned a 404, the same response as a page that never existed. Third-party write-ups report about 3,000 dollars per seat per year with a floor of about 10 seats, so roughly 30,000 dollars a year to start, and 5,000 to 8,000 per seat at large firms. Treat these as estimates until you hold a quote.
How much does Harvey AI cost?
Harvey publishes no price; harvey.ai/pricing returns a 404. Third-party reports put it near 1,200 dollars per seat per month on a 12 month term with a 20 to 25 seat floor, which is roughly 288,000 to 360,000 dollars a year before anyone logs in. Lower per-seat figures are reported at very large firms, and a cheaper small-firm tier is reported only thinly.
What is the difference between Harvey and Legora?
Harvey is the larger company, valued at 11 billion dollars in March 2026, and draws its US case law and citator from LexisNexis under a June 2025 alliance. Legora, founded in Stockholm and valued at 5.55 billion after a March 2026 round, built its own US primary law corpus in August 2026 and is reported to sell to smaller firms, from about 10 seats.
Does Harvey use LexisNexis?
Yes. LexisNexis and Harvey announced a strategic alliance in June 2025 that brings LexisNexis primary law, Protege answers and Shepard's Citations into the Harvey platform, along with co-developed drafting workflows for motions. Ask during the quote whether that content is included in your Harvey price or assumes a Lexis subscription the firm already holds.
Does Legora have a free trial?
No. Legora has no self-serve signup or free trial, and access starts with a demo and a quote, the same as Harvey. If you want to test AI case law search before a sales call, tools with a published price let you start alone, and Cases lets you run a real search on this page before you pay anything.
Who are Legora's competitors?
Harvey is Legora's closest competitor. Both also compete with CoCounsel Legal from Thomson Reuters and Lexis+ AI with Protege, which sit on top of Westlaw and Lexis content, and with narrower tools such as Vincent AI from vLex, Spellbook for contracts, and focused case law search tools for small firms that will never reach either seat floor.
Can a small law firm buy Legora or Harvey?
A firm under 10 lawyers usually cannot buy either on standard terms. Legora is reported to start near 10 seats and Harvey near 25, both on annual contracts after a sales process. A small firm that mainly needs to find and cite case law is usually better served by a focused research tool with a published monthly price.
Find the authority today, whichever platform wins the quote.
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.