CreateDraft vs Spellbook

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan: CreateDraft is free to use; Spellbook prices on request
Higher Trust score: Spellbook — 90 vs 69 for CreateDraft
Best fit: CreateDraft: First drafts of routine agreements before legal review · Spellbook: Small and mid-size firms and in-house teams doing high contract volume in Word
Platforms: CreateDraft: Web · Spellbook: Windows, macOS, Web
Status: Both up at our last check — CreateDraft Oct 16, 2026, Spellbook Oct 15, 2026

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

CreateDraftLegal drafting assistant with 373 document templates, 200+ jurisdictions and a choice of OpenAI models.

SpellbookContract drafting and redlining inside Microsoft Word

Side by side

Fact	CreateDraft	Spellbook
Category	Legal & LegalTech	Contract Analysis & Review
Pricing model	Free	Contact
Trust score	69 / 100	90 / 100
Platforms	Web	Windows, macOS, Web
Company	—	Spellbook
Launched	—	2018
Last verified	Oct 16, 2026	Oct 15, 2026

What our research says

CreateDraft

As a template picker wrapped around OpenAI models, CreateDraft is a faster start than a blank page, and 373 templates against 200-plus jurisdictions is a wide net. The problem is everything around it: no named company, an About page that says coming soon, and no published price for a tool that drafts binding documents. Treat the output as a first draft for a lawyer to mark up.

Pros

373 named templates spanning commercial, employment, property, family and IP documents
Jurisdiction and language pickers covering 200-plus countries and roughly 55 languages
Draft length is selectable from about 500 to 2,000-plus words
Guests get 5,000 words a day with no account and no card

Cons

No company, address or jurisdiction of the vendor is published anywhere
The About page is literally a coming soon placeholder
There is no pricing page, so what unlimited credits costs after signup is unknown
Model choice is exposed but there is no clause library, citation or legal source behind the output

Spellbook

Spellbook wins on the thing that decides legal-tech adoption: it lives in Word, where the lawyers already are, instead of asking them to move. The cost of that is a sales process and a price you cannot check before you engage.

Pros

Native Word add-in means near-zero behaviour change for the people who have to use it
Benchmarks against both market norms and the firm's own precedent, not just generic templates
Well capitalised: $50M Series B led by Khosla in October 2025 plus $40M debt in March 2026
7-day free trial is available without going through procurement

Cons

No published pricing at any tier, so budgeting requires a sales conversation
No API, which blocks integration into an existing contract lifecycle system
Priced per seat, so cost scales with headcount rather than contract volume
The vendor is now actively acquiring competitors, so the product surface may shift

Which one fits

Choose CreateDraft if you need

First drafts of routine agreements before legal review
Getting a jurisdiction-specific starting structure quickly
Producing the same document in another language

Choose Spellbook if you need

Small and mid-size firms and in-house teams doing high contract volume in Word
Practices with an existing precedent bank worth benchmarking drafts against
Teams that want redlining suggestions in the document rather than in a separate portal