Legora vs Harvey for Small Law Firms: Legora Pricing, Harvey AI Pricing and the Seat Minimums That Decide It

Short answer. Neither Legora nor Harvey publishes a price, and for a firm under ten lawyers the seat minimum settles the question before the seat price does. Legora is reported at roughly $3,000 per seat per year on a 10-seat minimum, about $300 to $800 per seat per month, with a smallest realistic contract near $30,000. Harvey is reported at $1,200 to $2,000 or more per user per month with a minimum around 20 seats, which puts entry contracts in the low hundreds of thousands. Legora is the cheaper of the two and the more collaborative. Harvey is the deeper agentic platform for large firms. If your firm has fewer than ten lawyers, the honest answer is that you are not the buyer either one is priced for.

Both are excellent products. Both are sold the same way: a demo, a scoping call, a pilot, and an annual contract you cannot benchmark because no public number exists. Here is what buyers report, what each vendor actually publishes, and how the arithmetic lands on a small firm.

Legora vs Harvey at a glance

Every dollar figure in that table is reported by a third party or derived from one, not published by the vendor. We keep the full sourcing, with dates and a confidence rating for each number, on the Legora pricing page and the Harvey AI pricing page.

The seat minimum decides this, not the seat price

Firms compare the per-seat numbers because that is the column vendors put in front of them. For a small firm it is the wrong column. A 10-seat minimum and a 20-seat minimum are not two versions of the same constraint. They are two different doors, and most small firms are on the wrong side of both.

Take a six-attorney litigation boutique. Legora at a reported 10-seat minimum means licensing four seats nobody sits in, so a $30,000 contract works out near $5,000 per working attorney per year. Harvey at a reported 20-seat minimum means licensing fourteen empty seats. At the low end of the reported band that is roughly $288,000 a year, which is more than most six-lawyer firms spend on everything that is not payroll and rent.

This is not a criticism of either vendor. Both built platforms for firms that will put ten to a thousand lawyers on them daily, and both price accordingly. It is a criticism of how these comparisons usually get written, because a page that says Legora is cheaper without saying that both have a floor sends small firms into sales calls that were never going to end in a signature.

What a six-attorney firm would actually pay

Guides also report that initial Legora quotes fall 40 to 60 percent under negotiation, so the list figures above are a ceiling rather than a price. That range is worth the negotiation time at 25 seats. At six lawyers it just discounts a contract shaped wrong for you.

What each platform is built to do

The price gap follows a real product gap. Legora describes itself as collaborative AI and an agentic operating system for legal work. Its published capabilities are Tabular Review for running the same questions across a whole data room, agentic legal research, drafting in a Word add-in, an Outlook add-in, regulatory Monitors, and prebuilt workflows for M and A, litigation, banking, tax and insurance. Its center of gravity is a team working the same matter together, and its roots are European, which matters if you need coverage of US state courts written into the contract.

Harvey is the deeper automation play. It is built to run complex legal work end to end rather than answer one question at a time, with enterprise procurement answered in detail: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and ISO 42001, SAML single sign-on, audit logs and IP allow-listing. If your bottleneck is a client security questionnaire rather than a budget, Harvey has the most complete answer of the two.

Both do far more than most small firms will use. That is the part worth sitting with before a demo, because the demo will be good and the platform will be impressive and neither fact changes the seat minimum.

Is Legora cheaper than Harvey?

Yes, on every reported figure. Legora seats are reported at $300 to $800 per user per month against $1,200 to $2,000 or more for Harvey, and Legora's reported 10-seat minimum is half Harvey's reported 20. Entry contracts land near $30,000 for Legora and in the low hundreds of thousands for Harvey. Neither vendor confirms these numbers publicly, so treat the gap as directionally right and the specific figures as estimates.

Is Legora better than Harvey?

Neither is better in the abstract. Legora is stronger for teams that review documents together and work across jurisdictions, and its Tabular Review is the feature diligence teams name when they explain why they bought it. Harvey is stronger for firms that want agents running whole matters and for in-house teams with heavy procurement requirements. The better tool is the one whose signature workflow matches the work you bill for most weeks.

Does Legora or Harvey offer a free trial?

Neither offers a self-serve free trial. Both sell through a demo, a scoping conversation and a pilot negotiated as part of the contract. There is no signup button on either site and no way to test the product on your own documents on a Tuesday afternoon. Budget weeks for evaluation and ask in writing what the pilot costs and what happens if you stop after it.

Can a small law firm afford Harvey or Legora?

A firm of ten or more lawyers who will use the platform daily can make Legora work, and the negotiation range reported by buying guides helps. Harvey becomes reasonable somewhere above twenty lawyers with real diligence or research volume. Below ten lawyers, both contracts charge you for colleagues you do not have. That is the plain arithmetic, and no amount of negotiating changes a minimum.

What small firms buy instead

The useful question for a small firm is not which platform to buy. It is which single job you want an AI to do well. For most small firms that job is reading a document carefully: what is in this contract, what is missing, which clauses will cost the client money, and where on the page each one sits. That is a narrower need than either platform is priced for.

Firms usually end up assembling three or four focused tools instead of one platform. Research gets handled by a dedicated research product rather than a bundled research library. Institutional memory, the "we argued this two years ago and I cannot find the brief" problem, is really an internal search problem and gets solved better by a tool that searches everything the firm has already written than by a legal AI license. And document review gets handled by a review tool with a price you can read on a page.

That is what LegalSoul does and nothing else. Upload a contract, brief, lease or exhibit and you get the issues, risky clauses, missing terms and page cites back in under a minute. Plans are $99, $299 and $1,749 a month, published, with no seat minimum and monthly plans that cancel any time. The first review needs no account, which is the opposite of how both platforms in this comparison are sold. We do not do legal research, we have no Word add-in, and we hold no SOC 2 report or SAML SSO, so if any of those is a requirement, buy the platform that has it.

Questions to ask both vendors

1. What is the seat minimum, in writing? This is the number that decides whether the rest of the conversation matters.
2. What is the all-in annual figure, not the seat figure? Implementation, training, extra jurisdictions, agentic tiers and integrations are all reported as separate lines.
3. Is there a metered or credit plan? Legora is reported to sell pay-as-you-go credits. Ask for it by name rather than waiting to be offered it.
4. What happens when we add lawyers mid-term? Fix the per-seat rate for the full term so growth does not reprice you.
5. Which jurisdictions does research cover for our practice? Get the list in the contract, not in the demo.
6. What does the pilot cost and what happens if we walk? With no free trial, pilot terms are negotiable and worth negotiating.
7. Can we see the DPA and the subprocessor list now? Both are slow to produce and both can stall a close in week six.

The bottom line

Legora is the cheaper and more collaborative of the two, with a reported 10-seat floor near $30,000 a year. Harvey is the deeper agentic platform with the strongest procurement answer and a reported 20-seat floor that pushes entry contracts into six figures. Firms with ten or more lawyers should take both demos with the questions above written down. Firms under ten should skip both and buy the specific job they need done, at a price they can read before the call. You can compare what we charge on the LegalSoul pricing page, or read the Harvey AI alternative page for small law firms if the Harvey minimum is what stopped you.