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Spellbook

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Contract drafting and redlining inside Microsoft Word

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Pricing

Pricing model
Contact sales

No public price on the pricing page: Spellbook says pricing is set by the number of team members on a license and quotes it after a demo. A 7-day free trial is open to individual lawyers, with longer trials offered to larger organisations and free access for law schools.

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Overview

About Spellbook

Spellbook drafts and redlines agreements from inside Microsoft Word, suggesting clause language and flagging terms that are missing or one-sided. It benchmarks a draft against market norms and against a firm's own precedent and playbooks. An agent product, Associate, extends the same review across a set of documents at once.

Platforms
Windows · macOS · Web
API
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Last verified
Oct 15, 2026

Verified sources

  • Pricing page shows no figures and says pricing is determined by the number of team members on a license; 7-day free trial; Spellbook Suite is the Word Add-In (Review, Draft, Ask, Benchmarks, Playbooks) plus the Associate multi-document agent (15 October 2026)spellbook.com ↗
  • Same page offers group training and dedicated support for teams over 10, a playbook build service for in-house teams, and free access for academic institutions (15 October 2026)spellbook.com ↗
  • Spellbook secured $40M USD in debt financing from RBCx in March 2026 to fund acquisitions in a consolidating legal AI market; no completed acquisition found in a search on 15 October 2026businesswire.com ↗
Fact check

Is Spellbook legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Mar 14, 2001 (25 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Amazon Registrar, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 4, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
Last checked
Oct 15, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2018The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
Spellbook, CanadaOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Spellbook

medium confidence

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

Best for

  • 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

Not for

  • Solo practitioners or anyone who needs to see a price before booking a call
  • Workflows built on Google Docs or a contract lifecycle platform instead of Word
  • Buyers needing API integration into a CLM, which is not offered

Watch out: Spellbook raised $40M in debt in March 2026 explicitly to buy competitors in a consolidating legal-AI market. If you are evaluating one of its rivals in parallel, factor in that it may be acquired and folded in.

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