How much does Harvey AI cost?

Harvey doesn't publish a price. As of October 26, 2026 its pricing page returns a 404 and every route leads to a demo request. The most repeated figure, about $1,200 per seat, was first reported by Artificial Lawyer in April 2024 as per seat per year. Many 2026 comparison sites now quote $1,200 to $2,000 or more per seat per month, with reported minimums of 20 to 25 seats on a 12-month contract. Harvey has confirmed none of these numbers, so the real price is whatever your written quote says.

Is Harvey AI $1,200 a month or $1,200 a year?

The earliest traceable report says per year: in April 2024 Artificial Lawyer wrote that some firms had been quoted about $1,200 per seat, per year. By 2026, many comparison sites quote $1,200 or more per user per month, a twelvefold difference, usually citing other roundups rather than Harvey. Harvey has called one outside estimate "wildly off" and says it can't share pricing. Ask the sales rep which unit your quote is in.

Is there a minimum number of seats for Harvey?

Harvey doesn't publish one. Third-party reports put the minimum at roughly 20 to 25 seats on a 12-month contract, and one price tracker says 25 to 50 or more lawyers. That minimum matters more than the per-seat price for a small firm: under the per-month reading, 25 seats at $1,200 is $360,000 a year before any add-ons.

Can a small law firm or solo lawyer buy Harvey?

Harvey markets to "mid-sized and small firms" on its own site, with a customer success manager and legal engineers included, but there's no self-serve plan, no monthly sign-up and no published small-firm tier. Reports of a cheaper smaller-firm tier exist but are thin. A solo lawyer will not find a way to buy Harvey online.

What is a cheaper alternative to Harvey for a small firm?

For drafting, summarizing, intake and first-pass review, a general assistant on a business plan covers most of a small firm's day. As of October 2026, Claude Team is $20 a seat a month billed annually ($25 monthly) and ChatGPT Business is the same $20 and $25, with premium seats at $100 annually on both. Neither is a legal research platform with a citator, so research still has to be checked in Westlaw, Lexis or a similar source.

Is Harvey or Legora cheaper?

Neither publishes a price. Sacra, a research firm that tracks private companies, reports Legora started at about $250 a seat a month ($3,000 a year) with a 10-seat minimum, against roughly $1,200 a seat a month for Harvey, about a fifth of the price. It also reports both now discount to win firms, with six-month terms and as few as 5 licenses. Get written quotes from both in the same month.

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By Justin McKelvey • AI for Business • 8 min read • Published Oct 26, 2026

Harvey AI Pricing (2026): What a Small Law Firm Would Actually Pay

The short answer

Harvey AI doesn't publish a price. As of October 26, 2026, harvey.ai/pricing is a 404 and every button says "Request a Demo." The number you'll see everywhere, about $1,200 per seat, was first reported in 2024 as per seat per year. Most 2026 comparison sites now quote it per seat per month, with a 20 to 25 seat minimum. Those two readings are twelve times apart. For a 10-lawyer firm that's the difference between about $12,000 a year and $144,000 a year, before anyone has asked Harvey.

Every page on page one for this question is written by a company selling a Harvey competitor. That doesn't make them wrong, but it's why I went back to where the number started instead of averaging their tables. Below: the paper trail, what a small firm would pay under each reading, the published Claude and ChatGPT seat prices beside it, and the questions to ask before you sign anything.

Where the $1,200 number came from

When	Who said it	What they said	Unit
April 2024	Artificial Lawyer, on CMS adopting Harvey	Some firms "have been quoted pricing that amounts to about '$1,200 per seat, per year for Harvey', or about £1,000 per seat." CMS's innovation director wouldn't comment on cost.	Per year
June 2025	A guest analysis in Artificial Lawyer	Estimated a starter tier at about $1,200 per seat per year, plus $400 to $600 per lawyer after the LexisNexis partnership. Harvey replied that the assumptions were "wildly off" and that it "can't share future pricing information."	Per year (an estimate)
2026	Legal-AI comparison sites (Vaquill and others)	$1,200 to $2,000 or more per user per month, with a reported 25-seat, 12-month minimum, citing other roundups rather than Harvey.	Per month

Bind Legal, which sells contract software and says so on its page, traced this same chain in May 2026. I read the 2024 Artificial Lawyer article myself today, and the quote says per year. Nobody in the chain has a Harvey invoice to show. It's possible the price simply went up a lot between 2024 and 2026; Harvey has raised at a $15.5 billion valuation since, per its own homepage, and it now bundles agents, a document vault and LexisNexis content. It's also possible a per-year figure got copied as per-month. You can't tell from the outside, and that's the point: neither number is a budget.

What a small firm would pay under each reading

Same 10-lawyer firm, three ways. The Harvey rows use the reported figures as reported, not as fact. The Claude and ChatGPT rows are the vendors' own published prices, read today.

Option	Per seat	10 lawyers, per year	With a 25-seat minimum
Harvey, 2024 report (per year)	~$1,200 a year	~$12,000	~$30,000
Harvey, 2026 sites (per month)	~$1,200 a month	~$144,000	~$360,000
Claude Team, standard seat	$20 a month (annual)	$2,400	2-seat minimum
Claude Team, premium seat	$100 a month (annual)	$12,000	2-seat minimum
ChatGPT Business, standard seat	$20 a month (annual)	$2,400	2-seat minimum
ChatGPT Business, premium seat	$100 a month (annual)	$12,000	2-seat minimum

Two things jump out. First, the seat minimum hurts a small firm more than the seat price does: a 10-lawyer firm paying for 25 seats is paying for 15 empty chairs. Second, if the 2024 per-year figure were still true, Harvey would cost the same as putting every lawyer on a premium Claude or ChatGPT seat. If the 2026 per-month figure is true, it costs about 12 times that. Your quote will tell you which world you're in within the first five minutes, so ask it straight. The seat math for the general assistants, including when a premium seat is worth it, is on the Claude Team plan and ChatGPT Business pricing.

How many hours a seat has to save

Harvey sells time back, so price it in hours. Assume a blended value of $300 for an hour of lawyer time (my assumption; use your own number):

At ~$1,200 a seat per year, a seat pays for itself if it saves each lawyer about 4 hours a year. Easy.
At ~$1,200 a seat per month ($14,400 a year), it needs about 48 hours a year, roughly an hour a week, from every lawyer you pay for, including the empty seats a minimum adds.
A $20 general-assistant seat needs under an hour a year.

The per-month case can still be a good deal. A litigation team running first-pass review across thousands of documents, or a transactional team doing data-room diligence every week, can save far more than an hour a week each. A five-lawyer estate planning practice that mostly drafts letters and summarizes intake calls usually can't.

What you're paying for beyond the software

Harvey's page for mid-sized and small firms is explicit that the seat comes with people: a customer success manager who owns the rollout, legal engineers who "have practiced law themselves" to build your first workflow, and on-demand training in Harvey Academy. The product side is agents that run multi-step legal work, Vault for bulk document analysis, Knowledge for research, Spaces for working with clients, and Word and Outlook add-ins. That's a real difference from a $20 seat, where nobody shows up to set it up for you. The two can also sit together: Anthropic's legal page lists a Harvey for Claude connector, which brings Harvey into Claude for firms that pay for both. It's not a way to get Harvey through a Claude subscription.

It also means part of the quote is services, and services are where the number moves. One price tracker that collects buyer reports lists renewal increases of 10% to 25% a year; that's its claim, not Harvey's, and the right response is to ask for a renewal cap in writing either way.

Harvey vs Legora: which costs more?

Legora, Harvey's closest rival, doesn't publish a price either: legora.com/pricing is a 404 today, and every button says "Book a demo." The best outside read is from Sacra, a research firm that tracks private companies. It reports that Legora started at about $250 a seat a month ($3,000 a year) with a 10-seat minimum, against Harvey at about $1,200 a seat a month, roughly a fifth of the price. It also reports that both companies now discount hard to win firms, down to six-month terms and as few as 5 licenses.

Reported (Sacra)	Per seat	Reported minimum	Entry contract, per year
Legora	~$250 a month	10 seats	~$30,000
Harvey	~$1,200 a month	20 to 25 seats (other reports)	~$288,000 to $360,000

The useful detail for a smaller firm is in the same report: firms are signing with both and moving licenses between lawyers by matter, so a seat is only paid for while someone is using it on real work. If a vendor will sell you 5 seats for six months, you can test it on two live matters before committing the whole firm. Ask both for that structure.

Is Harvey worth it for a small law firm?

Use this as the test, in order:

Do you do high-volume document work every week? Review, diligence, chronologies across big document sets. If no, start with a general assistant and come back in six months.
Can you fill the minimum? If Harvey quotes 20 seats and you have 8 lawyers, you're buying 12 seats for nobody. Ask whether paralegals count, and whether the minimum is negotiable for a firm your size.
Have you used a general assistant properly first? Most small firms that think they need Harvey haven't yet set up Claude or ChatGPT on a business plan with the right data settings. The setup, the never-paste list and the bar-rule checklist are in AI for law firms, and the Claude-specific version, including what Anthropic now ships for legal teams, is in Claude for lawyers.

If all three are yes, get the Harvey quote and a quote from at least one other legal-AI vendor in the same month. Vendors quote differently when they know they're being compared.

The six questions to ask in the Harvey quote

Is the price per seat per month or per year? Get the unit in writing. This page exists because people skip it.
What is the seat minimum, and who counts as a seat? Lawyers only, or paralegals and staff too?
How long is the term, and what's the renewal cap? Ask for the year-two price in the contract.
What's included? Agents, Vault, Knowledge, the Word and Outlook add-ins, and whether LexisNexis content costs extra.
What does implementation cost, separately from the license? Legal engineer time, training, any setup fee.
What happens to your documents if you leave? Export format, deletion timing, and whether your data is used to train anything.

Who can help a law firm decide?

I don't sell or set up Harvey, and I'm not a lawyer, so the ethics calls stay with your firm. What I do is the part before the Harvey demo: work out which of your firm's jobs a $20 seat already covers, what's left that only a legal platform can do, and what that's worth in hours. It starts with a free strategy call. If you want it written down, the AI Readiness Assessment is a flat $2,500 over two weeks and ends with a roadmap you can take to any vendor. The details are on AI consulting for law firms.

Today's micro-action: before any demo, write down the three tasks that eat the most lawyer hours in your firm each week, and how many hours each. Bring that list to the Harvey call. If the rep can't tie the quote to those hours, you have your answer.

Sources

Harvey, harvey.ai (homepage, and harvey.ai/pricing, which returned a 404) and harvey.ai/solutions/mid-sized-firms; Artificial Lawyer, "John Craske on CMS's Agile GenAI Strategy After the Harvey Deal" (April 16, 2024); Bind Legal, "Harvey AI Pricing 2026" (May 22, 2026, which traces the June 2025 Artificial Lawyer estimate and Harvey's response); CostBench, Harvey AI pricing profile (last verified July 1, 2026); Sacra, "$100M/year: Harvey for the rest of the world" (Legora research note) and legora.com (legora.com/pricing returned a 404); Anthropic, claude.com/pricing and claude.com/solutions/legal; OpenAI Help Center, "What is ChatGPT Business?" (article 8792828) and chatgpt.com/pricing. All read October 26, 2026. Harvey figures are third-party reports, not Harvey prices. Per-firm totals and payback hours are my arithmetic on those figures; the $300 hourly value is an assumption.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Harvey AI cost?: Harvey doesn't publish a price. As of October 26, 2026 its pricing page returns a 404 and every route leads to a demo request. The most repeated figure, about $1,200 per seat, was first reported by Artificial Lawyer in April 2024 as per seat per year. Many 2026 comparison sites now quote $1,200 to $2,000 or more per seat per month, with reported minimums of 20 to 25 seats on a 12-month contract. Harvey has confirmed none of these numbers, so the real price is whatever your written quote says.
Is Harvey AI $1,200 a month or $1,200 a year?: The earliest traceable report says per year: in April 2024 Artificial Lawyer wrote that some firms had been quoted about $1,200 per seat, per year. By 2026, many comparison sites quote $1,200 or more per user per month, a twelvefold difference, usually citing other roundups rather than Harvey. Harvey has called one outside estimate "wildly off" and says it can't share pricing. Ask the sales rep which unit your quote is in.
Is there a minimum number of seats for Harvey?: Harvey doesn't publish one. Third-party reports put the minimum at roughly 20 to 25 seats on a 12-month contract, and one price tracker says 25 to 50 or more lawyers. That minimum matters more than the per-seat price for a small firm: under the per-month reading, 25 seats at $1,200 is $360,000 a year before any add-ons.
Can a small law firm or solo lawyer buy Harvey?: Harvey markets to "mid-sized and small firms" on its own site, with a customer success manager and legal engineers included, but there's no self-serve plan, no monthly sign-up and no published small-firm tier. Reports of a cheaper smaller-firm tier exist but are thin. A solo lawyer will not find a way to buy Harvey online.
What is a cheaper alternative to Harvey for a small firm?: For drafting, summarizing, intake and first-pass review, a general assistant on a business plan covers most of a small firm's day. As of October 2026, Claude Team is $20 a seat a month billed annually ($25 monthly) and ChatGPT Business is the same $20 and $25, with premium seats at $100 annually on both. Neither is a legal research platform with a citator, so research still has to be checked in Westlaw, Lexis or a similar source.
Is Harvey or Legora cheaper?: Neither publishes a price. Sacra, a research firm that tracks private companies, reports Legora started at about $250 a seat a month ($3,000 a year) with a 10-seat minimum, against roughly $1,200 a seat a month for Harvey, about a fifth of the price. It also reports both now discount to win firms, with six-month terms and as few as 5 licenses. Get written quotes from both in the same month.

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