Irys vs StrongSuit: all-in-one workspace or litigation platform

Irys vs StrongSuit at a glance

The table sets Irys beside StrongSuit on research, litigation work, contracts, price and trials. The last column adds Gavel Exec for comparison.

What Irys is

Irys is a product of Iqidis, Inc., and says it is "Trusted by 300+ legal teams worldwide." Its Irys One plan bundles Workbench, an AI agent that works from your email, files and primary law, with research and drafting, redline and compare, Intake, Matters, a document Library, Sign for electronic signatures and a Word add-in. The site's audience menus run from solo practitioners and small firms to large firms, in-house teams and insurance defense firms.

On the litigation side, Irys runs natural-language queries across federal and state case law, and Cite Check scans briefs and motions for any authority it cannot match to a real case. It drafts motions, briefs and memoranda with suggestions that appear as tracked changes, and it can put one set of questions to a whole document set with no fixed document cap. On the contract side, the Drafting Assistant marks up agreements as tracked changes you accept or reject one at a time, Compare turns two versions into a single redline with a change summary, and the Library stores clause libraries and negotiation playbooks.

• Price: Irys One is $299 a month for one seat, or $3,049 a year on annual billing. Irys Teams is $329 per seat per month for 2 to 25 seats and adds shared workspaces, firm-wide playbooks, role-based permissions and admin controls. Irys Lite costs $19.99 a month with a cap of 12 AI messages a day, Irys Student costs the same with 24, and a Free plan allows 3.
• Trial: 7 days of the full Irys One product, without a credit card or a call with sales. Cancellation is self-serve, and access runs to the end of the billing cycle.
• Word add-in: included with every Irys subscription and supported in Word on the web and desktop. Chat mode answers questions about the open document or the whole matter, and Work mode applies revisions as tracked changes.
• Connected apps: Workbench's app list includes Word, Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Slack, Clio, SharePoint, iManage and NetDocuments, and Irys says Workbench asks before it acts.
• Security: Irys says it is SOC 2 Type II certified, and its security page also shows ISO 27001, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) badges. AI inference is zero-retention with its model providers, and documents, prompts and outputs never train AI models.

Limits: in Word, Irys says "the Document Editor supports Accept All and Reject All for tracked changes," so accepting edits one by one happens in the Irys app. Cite Check matches citations to case records, and Irys's own Westlaw comparison says "Whether a case is still good law is the lawyer's call on either platform" and advises choosing Westlaw "when KeyCite is non-negotiable for your workflow."

What StrongSuit is

StrongSuit calls itself "The Legal AI platform for litigators." LawNext reported on November 12, 2025 that Callidus Legal AI had rebranded as StrongSuit and added automated case validation, which LawNext said verifies that cited cases "remain good law." StrongSuit's homepage says it is "Trusted by 1,000+ Legal Organizations" and that it was named "Overall Legal Research Solution of the Year" in the 2025 LegalTech Breakthrough Awards.

Its research database holds more than 10 million precedential United States cases (the platform page says 11 million), with "good law" analysis and summary notes, and every case citation links to the underlying authority. Around that research, StrongStart maps the people, facts, issues and events in the record, the AI Timelines & Facts module builds an editable chronology and statement of facts, and AI Litigation Drafting prepares first drafts of briefs, motions, complaints, memoranda and demand letters. Case Coach rehearses an oral argument from your own filings and "challenges your position with simulated questions," and deposition preparation is part of the platform. For transactional work, AI Contract Drafting builds agreements from deal instructions, a firm template or a prior contract, and Compare Contracts shows inline redlines against your reference agreement or playbook.

• Price: Individual costs $249 per attorney each month, and its plan card lists the case database of more than 10 million precedential cases and the Word add-in. StrongSuit says "Module access and usage depend on your plan." The Firm plan is quoted and adds "Access to all StrongSuit features," a scaled document review solution, live onboarding with StrongSuit attorneys, a dedicated success manager, user access management and a team collaboration suite.
• Trial: 5 days, according to StrongSuit's help center. Another help article says the trial requires a valid card on file to confirm the account, and that the authorization is released if you cancel before the trial expires.
• Word add-in: included on the Individual plan "for drafting, review and citation checks." Its Litigate tools cover Case Search, Case Lookup, Relevant Cases, a Table of Authorities and Check Citations. Its Negotiate tool reviews a contract alongside a playbook you upload, rates each recommended change as high, medium or low severity, and displays "the suggested modifications and corresponding track changes" for it; Apply Suggestion to Document then inserts the change "directly into the Word document."
• Connected apps: the help center describes a one-way Clio import of matters and documents on the Firm plan, an Outlook add-in that drafts replies from a matter's documents and emails, and Dropbox folder sync that also saves StrongSuit work product to Dropbox.
• Security: SOC 2 Type II certified, hosted on a Microsoft Azure private tenant with storage in the United States only, and StrongSuit says "No customer data is ever used to train any model."

Limits: the discovery document review module is reserved for Enterprise customers, though StrongSuit offers beta access on request for limited document volumes, and the Clio import isn't available on Individual plans. The trial needs a card on file, and Firm pricing isn't published.

Irys vs StrongSuit: the differences that matter

Case research and citation checks

StrongSuit is stronger here. It researches against its own database of more than 10 million precedential United States cases, applies "good law" analysis, and in Word its Check Citations tool confirms that each cited case references the correct reporter. Irys searches federal and state case law with Agentic Search, which links results to their sources, and its Cite Check flags any authority it can't match to a real case. Irys's Westlaw comparison says Irys "does not replicate" Westlaw's editorial history and leaves the question of whether a case is still good law to the lawyer.

Litigation preparation

StrongSuit is stronger for getting a case ready. It builds chronologies in which every event links back to its source document, drafts complaints, motions and demand letters, supports deposition preparation, and lets you rehearse an argument with Case Coach before the hearing. StrongSuit's pricing page puts these modules on neither plan card by name, says module access depends on the plan and gives the Firm plan access to all features, so confirm which ones the $249 Individual plan includes. Irys is stronger for large document sets at a published price: it asks the same questions across a whole document set with no fixed document cap and extracts facts, dates and witness references with citations to the source text. StrongSuit's discovery module, which takes up to about 1 million pages, is reserved for Enterprise customers.

Contracts and Microsoft Word

Irys covers more of the contract workflow. Its Word add-in applies revisions as tracked changes, its Drafting Assistant lets you accept or reject each change in the app, Compare produces one redline from two versions, the Library holds clause libraries and negotiation playbooks, and Irys Teams adds firm-wide playbooks. Final agreements go out for signature through Sign from the matter where you negotiated them. StrongSuit covers contract review in Word too. Negotiate measures an agreement against your uploaded playbook, grades what it recommends by severity, and pairs each recommendation with its "corresponding track changes" before you apply it to the document. Compare Contracts flags missing provisions and deviations from your reference agreement with inline redlines.

Matters, intake and connected apps

Irys does more as a practice workspace. Each matter keeps documents, research, drafts and conversations together, Intake logs every email, attachment and upload as one row in one register, and Workbench connects to Clio, iManage, NetDocuments, Gmail, Outlook, Slack and other apps. StrongSuit organizes work by matter too, and its help center covers Outlook and Dropbox sync and a Clio import, though the Clio import is limited to the Firm plan and runs one way, from Clio into StrongSuit.

Price, trials and seats

StrongSuit costs less for one lawyer: $249 a month per attorney on its Individual plan against $299 for Irys One. The plans package features differently, though. Irys says every plan, Free included, gets the whole product, while StrongSuit's Individual plan lists the case database and Word add-in and StrongSuit says module access depends on the plan. Irys is easier to try and to price for a team. Its 7-day trial needs no credit card, Irys Teams publishes $329 per seat per month for 2 to 25 seats, and Irys Lite, at $19.99 a month with daily message caps, lets you keep evaluating it on real work before you commit. StrongSuit's 5-day trial needs a card on file, and its Firm plan, which adds team features and the scaled document review solution, is priced by quote.

Which should you choose?

• Choose Irys if your practice mixes litigation and transactional work and you want research, drafting, contract review, a clause Library, matters, intake and e-signature under one Irys One subscription at $299 a month, or your firm wants published team pricing (Irys Teams, $329 per seat per month for 2 to 25 seats) and connections to Clio, iManage or NetDocuments. It's also the easier one to try, with 7 days of Irys One and no credit card.
• Choose StrongSuit if most of your work is litigation and you want research across more than 10 million precedential cases with good-law analysis and citation checks in Word; the $249 Individual plan lists the case database and the Word add-in. For chronologies, deposition preparation and oral argument practice, confirm your plan with StrongSuit, which says module access depends on the plan and gives its quoted Firm plan access to all features.
• Consider Gavel Exec if most of your hours go to reviewing, negotiating and drafting contracts in Word, and you want priority-ranked tracked changes, playbooks generated from checklists and deals you've signed, and market benchmarks for $160 per user per month. Keep a research tool if you also write briefs, because Gavel Exec doesn't research case law.

A third option: Gavel Exec

Gavel Exec is AI contract review and drafting software that runs inside Microsoft Word as an add-in and on the web. For a solo or small-firm lawyer weighing Irys and StrongSuit, it handles the contract review and drafting part of what both products do, for less than Irys One or StrongSuit's Individual plan, and leaves case research and litigation to other tools. It returns a whole agreement with priority-ranked tracked changes, explains each edit, and leaves margin comments plus a list of missing terms.

• Playbooks: start from defaults that practicing attorneys wrote, or generate rules from a negotiation checklist, a playbook spreadsheet or past signed agreements in .docx, PDF or .csv format. Colleagues can get read-only or edit rights.
• Benchmarking: compare provisions with market terms in the web app, which labels each one on-market, off-market or missing, with filters for jurisdiction, industry and company size.
• Drafting: precedent-based drafting in Word, with Quick Actions to rewrite a clause.
• Security: SOC 2 Type II certification; Zero Data Retention agreements covering OpenAI and Gavel's other AI model providers; no AI training on customer data, prompts or documents; and hosting in the United States unless you choose the European Union, Canada or Australia.
• Price: $160 per user per month, or $1,740 per user per year, with 25 free queries per user and no credit card. The monthly plan is billed month to month, with no long-term contract.

Martin Algie of MIA Contract Lawyers says first-cut review of a contract fell from about 15 hours to about 5 with Gavel Exec.

Limits: there's no case-law research database in Gavel Exec, and it isn't built for litigation or e-discovery, so it doesn't replace Irys's research or StrongSuit's litigation tools. Redlining a specific document and creating playbooks need the Word add-in, and Gavel Exec doesn't yet connect natively to iManage or NetDocuments. For the two-way comparison, see Irys vs Gavel Exec, or read about Gavel Exec for transactional attorneys.

How to test Irys and StrongSuit side by side

1. Stagger the start dates so both trials end together. Start Irys's 7-day trial first and StrongSuit's 5-day trial two days later. StrongSuit asks for a card on file and releases the authorization if you cancel before the trial expires, so put the end date on your calendar.
2. Run a brief you've already filed through both citation checks. Use Irys's Cite Check and StrongSuit's case validation and Check Citations tool on the same brief, ideally one that cites a case later reversed or limited, and note which tool tells you.
3. Load one closed matter into each. Upload the same pleadings and document production, ask StrongSuit for a chronology and statement of facts (check that the timelines module is on your trial plan), and put the same date and witness questions to Irys's document-set review. Check both against what you know happened.
4. Negotiate one agreement in Word with your playbook. Run a contract through Irys's Work mode and StrongSuit's Negotiate tool with the same playbook, apply StrongSuit's suggestions with Apply Suggestion to Document, then check in Word whether each tool's edits arrive as tracked changes you can accept one at a time. If contracts fill most of your week, open the same agreement in Gavel Exec too.

More comparisons: Irys alternatives, Irys vs Gavel Exec, Spellbook vs StrongSuit and AI tools for solo lawyers. Readers focused on contracts can start with the best AI contract review tools for lawyers guide, and every head-to-head we publish is listed under all Gavel comparisons.