What is the difference between Legora and Harvey?

Both are legal AI platforms sold to law firms and in-house teams by demo, and their product lists overlap closely: each has agents or workflows, bulk document review, legal research, Word and Outlook add-ins and a way to work with clients. The differences are emphasis and price. Legora calls itself an agentic operating system with a client Portal and Monitors, and grew from Sweden under GDPR; Harvey is the larger, more expensive brand, with a dedicated mid-size firm offering, Command Center analytics, a new Intake product and a connector library. As of October 2026 both also connect into Claude.

Is Legora cheaper than Harvey?

Neither publishes a price, so nobody can say for certain. Sacra, a research firm that tracks private companies, reports Legora started at about $250 a seat a month with a 10-seat minimum, against roughly $1,200 a seat a month for Harvey. On those reports, Legora's entry contract is about $30,000 a year and a 25-seat Harvey contract about $360,000. Sacra also reports both now discount to win firms, with six-month terms and as few as 5 licenses.

Does Legora or Harvey work with Claude?

Both do, as of October 28, 2026. Anthropic's legal artifacts announcement lists Legora among more than 60 legal connectors for Claude, and Harvey built an Intake artifact that lets business users send legal questions from inside Claude, with routine ones answered from the legal team's guidance in Harvey. Anthropic's legal page also lists a Harvey for Claude connector.

Which is better for a small law firm, Legora or Harvey?

For a firm under about 10 lawyers, usually neither yet. Legora's reported 10-seat minimum and Harvey's reported 20 to 25 seat minimum mean paying for empty seats, and a $20 business seat on Claude or ChatGPT covers drafting, summaries and intake. Between the two, Legora's reported smaller minimum and lower seat price make it the likelier first test for a firm of 10 to 30, ideally on a short pilot with a few licenses.

Do I need Legora or Harvey if my firm already uses Claude?

Only if you do high-volume legal work that needs a legal platform's research content, bulk review at scale and the vendor's legal engineers. As of October 28, 2026 Claude Enterprise ships its own legal artifacts, including tabular review across contracts, a regulatory horizon scan and a cite check, which overlap named products from both vendors. Claude is not a legal research database with a citator, so research platforms still matter.

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By Justin McKelvey • AI for Business • 5 min read • Published Oct 29, 2026

Legora vs Harvey (2026): Which Legal AI Fits Your Firm, and Do You Need Either Now That Both Plug Into Claude?

The short answer

Legora and Harvey sell nearly the same product list to the same buyers, both by demo only, with no published price. The real differences are size and cost: Harvey is the bigger, pricier brand with a dedicated mid-size firm program; Legora is reported at about a fifth of Harvey's seat price with a smaller minimum. And as of October 28, 2026, both plug into Claude, so the real question for most firms is which layer to add on top of the AI seat they already pay for.

Every comparison on page one for this search is written by a third legal-AI vendor, and none of them has the newest fact: on October 28 Anthropic shipped legal tools for Claude that overlap named products from both companies, and listed both companies as partners. So this comparison has a third column. Everything below comes from each vendor's own site, read today, except the prices, which nobody publishes and which I label as reports.

Legora vs Harvey at a glance

	Legora	Harvey
How they describe it	"Collaborative AI for exceptional lawyers"; the Legora aOS, "the agentic operating system for legal work"	"Professional Class AI"; one platform of connected products
Latest funding (their sites)	$550M Series E	$550M at a $15.5B valuation
Who it's sold to	Law firms and in-house; M&A, litigation, banking, tax, insurance	Law firms, a separate mid-size firm program, in-house; litigation, transactional
Security (their sites)	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, no AI training on your data	Annual SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits; never trains on customer data by default
Price	Not published. Reported ~$250/seat/month, 10-seat minimum	Not published. Reported ~$1,200/seat/month, 20 to 25 seat minimum
How to buy	"Book a demo"	"Request a Demo"
Works with Claude	Yes, a Claude connector (Anthropic, October 28)	Yes, a Claude connector and a Harvey Intake artifact inside Claude

The full price story, including why the most-quoted Harvey number changed from per year to per month on its way around the internet, is on Harvey AI pricing. I won't repeat it here.

Product by product, with the third column

Here are both product menus lined up by job, beside the closest thing Claude now ships. The vendor names are their own. The Claude column is Anthropic's October 28 legal artifacts gallery, which Anthropic files under Claude Enterprise.

The job	Legora	Harvey	Claude (Oct 28 gallery)
Multi-step legal work run by AI	Workflows, on the aOS	Agents	Plugins and artifacts you adapt
Pull the same terms out of a stack of contracts	Tabular Review	Vault (bulk analysis), Contract Intelligence	Tabular review
Legal research	Legal Research	Knowledge	No citator; a jurisdiction survey matrix with links to the law
Check a brief against its sources	Not named on the menu	Not named on the menu	Cite check
Track coming regulation	Monitors	Horizon Scanning	Regulatory horizon scan
Take legal requests from the business	Not named on the menu	Intake (new)	Harvey's own Intake artifact runs inside Claude
Work in Word and Outlook	Word and Outlook add-ins, Editor	Works in Word and Outlook	Claude for Word and Outlook
Share work with clients	Portal	Spaces	Shared artifacts with ethical-wall settings
See who uses it and what it's worth	In-house ROI report	Command Center, ROI calculators	Enterprise smart reports
Plug in your other tools	Data & integrations layer	Connector Library, custom MCP	60+ legal connectors, Legora among them

Read across the rows and the pattern is plain: the two vendors match each other almost row for row, and Claude now has a tool in most rows too. What Claude doesn't have is the legal research content and citator a research platform brings, the vendor's legal engineers who build your first workflows, or years of tuning on legal work. That's what the legal platforms' price is paying for.

Which firm fits which

This is the part that decides it for most buyers. The contract figures are arithmetic on the reported prices, not quotes.

Your firm	What usually fits	Why
Under 10 lawyers	A business AI seat first; neither platform yet	Ten people on Claude Team is $2,400 a year. Legora's reported minimum alone is about $30,000.
10 to 30 lawyers, regular document-heavy work	Pilot Legora first, then compare	The reported 10-seat minimum fits; ask for the reported short-term, few-license deal and run two live matters.
30 to 100 lawyers, or a mid-size firm wanting hands-on rollout	Quote both in the same month	Harvey has a mid-size firm program with a customer success manager and legal engineers; Legora competes on price. Vendors quote differently when they know they're compared.
Large firm or in-house team with heavy diligence and review	Often both	Sacra reports firms contracting with both and moving licenses between lawyers by matter.

One baseline holds at every size: get everyone on a proper business AI plan first. Most firms that think they need a $1,200 seat haven't yet set up the $20 one well. What the Claude seat covers, and the data settings that matter for client material, are on Claude Team plan and, for law specifically, Claude for lawyers.

Do you need Legora or Harvey if you already use Claude?

Ask three questions:

Do you need a legal research database? If your lawyers live in case law and need a citator, a general assistant isn't that, and a legal platform with research content is worth pricing.
Is the document volume real? Weekly review or diligence across thousands of documents is where both platforms earn their seat. Letters, intake summaries and first drafts are not.
Do you want the vendor to build it for you? Both sell people as well as software. If nobody at your firm will set up and maintain workflows, that service is part of the value.

Three no's means your money goes further on the AI plan you have, set up properly. One or more yes means get both quotes. Either way, the install order, the never-paste list and the bar-rule checklist are in AI for law firms.

Who can help a firm choose between Legora, Harvey and Claude?

I don't resell or install either platform, and I'm not a lawyer, so ethics calls stay with your firm. Where I help is before the demos: sorting your firm's weekly work into what a business AI seat already does and what only a legal platform can, and putting hours on each so the quotes have something to be measured against. That starts with a free strategy call, and if you want it in writing, the AI Readiness Assessment is a flat $2,500 and ends with a roadmap you can hand to either vendor. More on AI consulting for law firms.

Today's micro-action: email both vendors the same three lines before the demo: your lawyer count, your three most time-consuming document tasks, and "please quote per seat per month, with the minimum and the term." The one that answers in writing first tells you something too.

Sources

Legora, legora.com (homepage product menu, security section and in-house ROI study; read October 29, 2026); Harvey, harvey.ai (homepage platform menu) and harvey.ai/security (read October 29, 2026); Anthropic, "Introducing artifacts for legal work," claude.com/resources/articles/introducing-artifacts-for-legal-work (October 28, 2026, read October 29, 2026); Anthropic, claude.com/solutions/legal (read September 4, 2026) and claude.com/pricing (read October 29, 2026); Sacra, "Harvey for the rest of the world" research note on Legora (reported seat prices and minimums, read October 26, 2026).

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Legora and Harvey?: Both are legal AI platforms sold to law firms and in-house teams by demo, and their product lists overlap closely: each has agents or workflows, bulk document review, legal research, Word and Outlook add-ins and a way to work with clients. The differences are emphasis and price. Legora calls itself an agentic operating system with a client Portal and Monitors, and grew from Sweden under GDPR; Harvey is the larger, more expensive brand, with a dedicated mid-size firm offering, Command Center analytics, a new Intake product and a connector library. As of October 2026 both also connect into Claude.
Is Legora cheaper than Harvey?: Neither publishes a price, so nobody can say for certain. Sacra, a research firm that tracks private companies, reports Legora started at about $250 a seat a month with a 10-seat minimum, against roughly $1,200 a seat a month for Harvey. On those reports, Legora's entry contract is about $30,000 a year and a 25-seat Harvey contract about $360,000. Sacra also reports both now discount to win firms, with six-month terms and as few as 5 licenses.
Does Legora or Harvey work with Claude?: Both do, as of October 28, 2026. Anthropic's legal artifacts announcement lists Legora among more than 60 legal connectors for Claude, and Harvey built an Intake artifact that lets business users send legal questions from inside Claude, with routine ones answered from the legal team's guidance in Harvey. Anthropic's legal page also lists a Harvey for Claude connector.
Which is better for a small law firm, Legora or Harvey?: For a firm under about 10 lawyers, usually neither yet. Legora's reported 10-seat minimum and Harvey's reported 20 to 25 seat minimum mean paying for empty seats, and a $20 business seat on Claude or ChatGPT covers drafting, summaries and intake. Between the two, Legora's reported smaller minimum and lower seat price make it the likelier first test for a firm of 10 to 30, ideally on a short pilot with a few licenses.
Do I need Legora or Harvey if my firm already uses Claude?: Only if you do high-volume legal work that needs a legal platform's research content, bulk review at scale and the vendor's legal engineers. As of October 28, 2026 Claude Enterprise ships its own legal artifacts, including tabular review across contracts, a regulatory horizon scan and a cite check, which overlap named products from both vendors. Claude is not a legal research database with a citator, so research platforms still matter.

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