Harvey vs Legora: pricing, features and which to choose

Harvey is an enterprise legal software company founded in 2022 by Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, according to TechCrunch’s account of its origin. Its March 2026 announcement said more than 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organizations used Harvey, while the homepage later reported 3,500-plus legal organizations, 200,000-plus professionals, and use in more than 85 countries. In September 2026, Harvey announced $550 million in funding at a $15.5 billion valuation. The company’s March announcement said it had raised more than $1 billion in total funding. Harvey remains an active legal software company. Harvey targets law firms and corporate legal departments through an enterprise sales process. Its products combine legal assistance with shared document workspaces, rather than offering a consumer-facing legal-advice subscription.

Harvey organizes work across agents, Spaces, Vault, contract intelligence, research, and Command Center. A typical engagement starts with a user uploading documents or working in a connected workspace, then asking Harvey to analyze, compare, summarize, draft, or extract information. Vault is designed for querying large document collections, while agents route tasks across complex legal work. Shared Spaces bring firms, clients, and co-counsel into one workspace with governance and ethical-wall controls. Command Center gives administrators visibility into usage across teams, practice groups, and offices. Teams can keep reference documents in Vault and use workflows to repeat a structured task. The platform also offers a Word add-in, reducing the need to move contract drafting entirely into a separate interface.

The company's security page says customer data is not used to train models. Buyers still need to review retention, access controls, and deployment terms against their own confidentiality obligations before putting client documents into production. Harvey’s clearest advantages are its breadth of legal workspaces, model selection, custom agents, document collections, and administrative controls. Its main tradeoffs are opaque pricing, enterprise deployment requirements, reliance on external model providers, and the need for lawyers to check generated work. Clio Duo, Spellbook, LexisNexis Protégé, CoCounsel, Luminance, and Ironclad AI overlap with parts of Harvey’s legal-assistance category, although their product scopes differ. Harvey is the stronger fit for larger firms and in-house departments that need shared legal workspaces, custom agents, regional processing, and governance. Smaller teams should first confirm pricing, implementation effort, and required controls.

Legora is the legal AI company formerly called Leya, founded in Stockholm in 2023 and launched as a platform in October 2024. Its latest financing is a $550 million Series E announced on October 21, 2026, at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation, replacing the October 2025 Series C as the latest round. The company reports more than 1,000 employees across 18 offices and use by over 140,000 legal professionals at more than 2,400 law firms and in-house teams across over 80 markets. It previously reported smaller 2025 figures, including more than 400 firms and legal teams in over 40 markets. Those figures are company reports, not independent usage audits.

Legora supports research, drafting, document review, and large-scale extraction. Lawyers can work through the browser, desktop app, Word and Outlook add-ins, or connected document systems. Tabular Review places documents in rows and requested facts, clauses, dates, or risks in columns, supporting diligence and portfolio review. Editor supports drafting, while Legal Research returns answers with structured citations. Workflows and Agent handle multi-step research, analysis, and drafting. The aOS connects interfaces, data sources, legal capabilities, context, and governance. Buyers should test citation quality, source coverage, jurisdictional fit, and the amount of lawyer review required on representative matters before expanding access.

Legora’s main weakness is procurement friction: pricing is private, there is no public trial, and consumption billing can complicate forecasting. Harvey is the closest broad competitor, also serving law firms and in-house teams with research, drafting, review, and workflow automation. Spellbook is narrower and centers on Microsoft Word contract work, while Luminance focuses more heavily on contract intelligence, analysis, and negotiation. Thomson Reuters CoCounsel combines legal research and drafting with Thomson Reuters content and professional tools. Legora suits teams handling multilingual, high-volume review and complex matters that can support enterprise procurement. Smaller teams seeking transparent monthly pricing should compare self-serve products first. Security certifications and data-use claims still require contractual review.