Harvey vs Legora: Pricing, Seat Minimums and Which One a Mid-Size Law Firm Should Buy
Neither Harvey nor Legora publishes a price. On buyer reports, Legora starts near $30,000 a year with a 10 seat minimum and Harvey near $288,000 with 20 to 25 seats. Here is the cost by firm size, the feature differences, and which one fits.
Harvey and Legora both hide their prices, but on what buyers report, Legora is far cheaper to start: about $3,000 per user per year with a minimum near 10 seats, so roughly $30,000 a year, against Harvey at about $1,200 per seat per month with a minimum of 20 to 25 seats, or roughly $288,000 a year. Neither company has confirmed those numbers. Harvey is the deeper US research and litigation platform. Legora is the stronger pick for structured contract review and cross border work, and the only one of the two a 10 to 20 lawyer firm can buy without paying for empty seats.
Most pages ranking for this comparison are written by other legal AI vendors, and a few by a vendor selling against both. So are we. CaseClerk does one narrow job, answering questions across a matter file with the source document named, at a published price. We have tried to keep the Harvey and Legora facts below to what each company says about itself, and to label everything else as reported.
Harvey vs Legora pricing
There is no price list for either product. harvey.ai offers a demo request and nothing else, and legora.com routes every visitor to a demo booking. Every dollar figure in circulation comes from buyer reports and review sites, which is why they vary so much. These are the figures repeated most often:
| Harvey | Legora | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None. Demo request only | None. Demo booking only |
| Reported seat price | About $1,200 per seat per month for the core product, higher with LexisNexis content bundled | About $3,000 per user per year, with $5,000 to $8,000 reported at large firm scale |
| Reported seat minimum | Roughly 20 to 25 seats | About 10 seats |
| Implied entry contract | About $288,000 a year at 20 seats | About $30,000 a year at 10 seats |
| Contract | Annual or longer, negotiated per organization | Annual, negotiated per organization |
| Usage billing | Not announced | Consumption based credits for Agent Pro, announced June 23, 2026. No price per credit published |
The seat minimum matters more than the seat price. A 12 lawyer firm buying Harvey at a 20 seat floor pays for 8 empty seats, which pushes the real cost per working lawyer from $14,400 a year to $24,000. The same firm clears Legora's reported 10 seat minimum and pays only for the lawyers who use it. We break down where each Harvey number comes from on our Harvey AI pricing and seat minimum page, and do the same for Legora, including the two public figures that contradict each other, in our Legora pricing breakdown.
Harvey vs Legora cost for a mid-size firm
Here is the arithmetic at four firm sizes, using the most repeated reported rates and the reported minimums. Treat it as a way to size the conversation before the demo, not as a quote. Review sites report first quotes coming down 40 to 60 percent in negotiation, which is secondhand but consistent.
| Firm size | Harvey, at the reported $1,200 per seat per month | Legora, at the reported $3,000 per user per year |
|---|---|---|
| 10 lawyers | $288,000 to $360,000 a year, because the 20 to 25 seat minimum applies | $30,000 a year |
| 20 lawyers | $288,000 to $360,000 a year | $60,000 a year |
| 40 lawyers | About $576,000 a year | $120,000 a year, or $200,000 to $320,000 at the large firm rate |
| 100 lawyers | About $1.44 million a year | $300,000 to $800,000 a year |
Two things jump out. Below about 20 lawyers, Harvey's minimum makes it several times more expensive per lawyer than Legora, whatever discount you negotiate. Above about 40 lawyers, the gap narrows sharply once Legora's large firm rate applies, and the choice becomes about the product rather than the entry ticket.
Legora also added a second bill in June 2026. Agent Pro, its most capable agent product, is sold on consumption credits, and no price per credit is public. A firm comparing the two should ask Legora for a credit estimate on a realistic month of work and a hard cap per user, because a flat seat price plus an open usage line is not a fixed cost.
Harvey vs Legora features
On capability the two are closer than their prices. Both do research, drafting, review of large document sets and agents. The differences are in emphasis:
| Harvey | Legora | |
|---|---|---|
| Legal research | Research on primary sources, with LexisNexis content through its alliance | Legal Research with jurisdiction aware citations |
| Large document sets | Vault, reported to handle up to 100,000 documents | Tabular Review, which turns a stack of documents into a grid of answers |
| Drafting | Assistant and a Word add-in | Word add-in, Outlook add-in and an editor |
| Agents | Agents and Workflows, including a builder | Agent, plus Agent Pro billed on credits |
| Security listed on its site | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001 | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, and "zero AI training on your data" |
| Footprint it claims | 2,400+ legal organizations | Reported at 800+ firms and legal teams in 50+ markets |
| Home market | United States | Sweden, with strong European coverage |
Security and footprint claims come from each company's own site, except Legora's customer count, which is reported by a third party because Legora's homepage does not state one. Harvey's Vault capacity is also reported rather than taken from Harvey. On valuation, Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation in September 2026, as reported by Artificial Lawyer, and Legora's Series D earlier in 2026 was reported at about $5.55 billion. Neither number tells you which product your associates will use, but both tell you these vendors are not going away mid contract.
Which is better, Harvey or Legora?
Harvey is better for US litigation and research heavy work at firms large enough to fill its seat minimum, especially where LexisNexis content matters. Legora is better for contract heavy practices that want tabular review across a deal set, for firms with European or cross border matters, and for any firm under about 20 lawyers, because its minimum fits. Neither is better in the abstract. The right one is the one whose strongest feature matches your largest block of billable hours.
A useful test before either demo: list the five tasks your lawyers repeat most in a month and mark each as research, drafting or reading. If reading dominates, meaning pulling facts, dates, parties and clauses out of documents already in the file, you may be about to buy a platform for a job a narrower tool does at a fraction of the cost.
Harvey vs Legora vs Claude
More firms now add a third option to this comparison: a general assistant on a business plan. Claude Team lists at $25 per seat per month, or $20 billed yearly, with a 2 seat minimum, and Anthropic's free Claude for Legal plugins add practice area workflows on top. It does not come with Harvey's research content or Legora's review grid, and your firm assembles and governs it. We set out the plan by plan costs and the privilege questions in our guide to Claude for lawyers and law firms.
Is Harvey or Legora better for small law firms?
For a firm of 1 to 9 lawyers, neither is a comfortable fit. Both minimums exceed the headcount, so you pay for seats nobody uses on an annual contract. Legora's floor is the lower of the two, at about $30,000 a year. If a small firm's real need is getting through case files, contracts and productions faster, look at tools with a posted price and no seat minimum. Our list of Harvey AI alternatives a small firm can actually buy compares nine of them.
That is the job CaseClerk does. You upload the documents for one matter, up to 1,000 of them in 18 formats, ask questions in plain English, and every answer names the document it came from. It costs $99, $249 or $499 a month for the account, not per user, and a year costs six months. It does no legal research and no drafting, so it replaces neither Harvey nor Legora for firms that need those. It replaces the part of the quote you were paying for so an associate would stop reading 900 pages by hand.
What to ask on the Harvey and Legora demos
- The seat floor, in writing. Ask for the minimum and the price per seat above it, and whether unused seats can be reassigned mid term.
- What is in the number. Onboarding, training, document management integrations and research content are reported as separate lines for both vendors.
- Usage caps. For Legora Agent Pro, the price per credit, a monthly estimate for your workload, and a hard limit per user or matter. Ask Harvey whether any usage based billing is planned during your term.
- Agent permissions. Both sell agents that act across documents and connected systems. Ask how each handles instructions hidden inside a document from the other side, and if your firm builds its own agents on top, add prompt injection protection for AI agents before they touch client systems.
- Data terms. Training, retention period, where data is stored, and whether your outside counsel guidelines can be written into the contract.
- Exit. The notice period, renewal escalators, and how you get your matters and outputs back if you leave.
Is Legora cheaper than Harvey?
On every reported figure, yes. Legora's reported seat is about $3,000 per user per year against Harvey's reported $1,200 per seat per month, and Legora's reported minimum of about 10 seats is half of Harvey's. The entry contract is roughly $30,000 a year for Legora against roughly $288,000 for Harvey. Both are quotes, so the only numbers that count are the ones on your own proposals.
If the task you most want AI for is reading a matter file, try it before either demo. Upload one real case to CaseClerk, 25 pages and up to 5 documents with no card, and see where each answer came from. You will walk into the Harvey and Legora calls knowing which part of their pitch you actually need.