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Harvey 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

Best fit
Harvey: AmLaw-scale firms rolling out one platform firmwide with EU or Australian data residency · Spellbook: Small and mid-size firms and in-house teams doing high contract volume in Word
Platforms
Harvey: Web · Spellbook: Windows, macOS, Web
Trust score
About even — Harvey 90, Spellbook 90
Status
Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 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

HarveyLegal work platform for firms and in-house teamsSpellbookContract drafting and redlining inside Microsoft Word

Side by side

FactHarveySpellbook
CategoryLegal ResearchContract Analysis & Review
Pricing modelContactContact
Trust score90 / 10090 / 100
PlatformsWebWindows, macOS, Web
CompanyHarvey AI CorporationSpellbook
Launched—2018
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Harvey

Harvey is the enterprise choice for large firms and legal departments that want one vendor to cover research, review, drafting and now intake and regulatory tracking, with the security paperwork and regional hosting those buyers require. It is not something a solo practitioner or a small firm can sign up for, and the lack of any public price means the comparison with CoCounsel or Legora happens in a sales cycle, not on a pricing page.

Pros

  • Covers the whole legal workflow, from intake to agents to document vaults, rather than one point task
  • Regional instances for the US, EU and Australia address data-residency objections up front
  • Cited answers tied back to source documents and legal content, which is the minimum for legal use
  • Well capitalised: $550M raised at a $15.5B valuation in September 2026, so vendor risk is low

Cons

  • No public pricing, trial or self-serve sign-up; every evaluation runs through sales
  • Built for enterprise procurement, so mid-size and small firms pay for scale they do not use
  • No public API or developer surface found, so it does not slot into a custom stack
  • Rapid module expansion means parts of the platform are months old and lightly proven

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 Harvey if you need

  • AmLaw-scale firms rolling out one platform firmwide with EU or Australian data residency
  • In-house legal teams that want intake, contract review and horizon scanning in the same system
  • Legal organisations already standardised on Microsoft tooling, given the vendor's expanding collaboration there

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

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