Legora alternatives: 7 legal AI tools compared

Legora alternatives at a glance

This table compares what each vendor publishes about where its tool runs, what it does for contract review in Microsoft Word, pricing and trial access.

Why lawyers look for Legora alternatives

Legora, called Leya until February 2025, is a collaborative legal AI platform that more than 2,400 law firms and in-house teams use for review, research and drafting. In October 2026 alone it announced firm-wide or global rollouts at Jones Day, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and Stoel Rives. Teams that like the product still compare alternatives for three reasons.

• Minimums. Legora doesn't publish pricing. Gavel customers who were quoted report about $3,000 per user per year with a $30,000 minimum, a large commitment for a contract team that needs three seats.
• No self-serve start. We found no free trial on Legora's website; access starts with a demo. A tool with a trial lets a lawyer run a live contract before procurement begins.
• Scope. Legora's product line includes an Agent, Tabular Review, Legal Research, Portal, Monitors, Lists and Word and Outlook add-ins. A team that mostly lives in the Word add-in may not need the rest.

1. Gavel Exec: best for Word drafting and playbooks, priced per user

Best for: contract teams at firms and in-house that mostly used Legora's Word add-in and playbooks, and want a per-user price and a trial they can start themselves.

Gavel Exec is AI contract review and drafting software that runs inside Microsoft Word as an add-in and on the web. Coming from Legora, you keep drafting, redlining and playbook review inside the document: Gavel Exec marks up the full agreement as priority-ranked tracked changes, gives the reasoning for each edit, adds margin comments and lists the terms that are missing. At MIA Contract Lawyers, Martin Algie reports that a first-cut review that took about 15 hours now takes about 5.

• Playbooks from your documents: put your positions in a checklist or spreadsheet playbook and Gavel Exec generates playbook rules from it. It can also generate rules from signed agreements (.docx, PDF or .csv).
• Shared work: Projects and Playbooks can be shared with read-only or edit access, so one lawyer maintains the positions and the team applies them.
• Web app: benchmarking marks each provision on-market, off-market or missing for your jurisdiction, industry and company size, alongside batch analysis and multi-document comparison.
• Price: $160 per user per month, or $1,740 per user per year, with 25 free queries per user and no credit card. Monthly plans bill at the start of each month with no long-term contract, and 10 or more seats get team pricing.
• Security: SOC 2 Type II, Zero Data Retention agreements with AI model providers including OpenAI, and customer data, prompts and documents kept out of model training.

Limits: Gavel Exec has no case-law research database and isn't built for litigation or e-discovery, so teams that used Legora's Legal Research need a separate research subscription. You'd also leave Legora's Outlook add-in, Monitors and Portal behind, and native iManage and NetDocuments integrations aren't available yet.

For a detailed side-by-side, see Legora vs Gavel Exec.

2. Harvey: best for replacing all of Legora with one platform

Best for: large law firms and corporate legal teams that want to replace the whole Legora platform, research included.

Harvey is the closest match to Legora's scope: a legal AI platform with agents, research, bulk document review and Word and Outlook add-ins, used by more than 3,500 legal organizations. Its Knowledge product connects queries to legal databases, with LexisNexis listed as a partner, and Vault stores up to 100,000 documents with review tables that compare data points across thousands of them.

• What you keep: drafting from precedents in Word, and playbook rules that return Acceptable, Needs review or Not acceptable and apply your preferred edit "as redlines to your document."
• A Monitors counterpart: Horizon Scanning, announced in September 2026, helps legal teams "monitor, assess, and take action" on changes from a single dashboard.
• Security: annual SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits, ISO 42001 and ISO 27701 listed on its security page, and no training of underlying models on inputs, outputs or uploaded documents.

Limits: like Legora, Harvey has no published price or self-serve trial, so you'd go through a sales process again.

See Harvey vs Gavel Exec.

3. CoCounsel: best for trading Legora's research for Westlaw

Best for: law firms and legal departments that already research in Westlaw and Practical Law.

CoCounsel Legal is Thomson Reuters' legal AI platform, with research grounded in Westlaw content, Practical Law guidance and your firm's own documents, and Tabular Analysis across up to 10,000 documents against 100 questions. CoCounsel for Microsoft Word, formerly CoCounsel Drafting, reviews contracts against custom or Practical Law pre-built playbooks, ranks issues high risk, major or minor, and can generate a playbook from an existing contract you import.

• Price: from $551.85 per month for solo and small firms. Firms with 1 to 10 attorneys can buy online; larger firms contact a sales representative.
• Trial: free trial on request.
• Security: SOC 2 and ISO 42001 certified, and Thomson Reuters says it never uses customer data to train underlying models.
• Integrations: Word, Outlook and Teams, plus iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint and Box.

Limits: the research case is strongest for firms that already subscribe to Westlaw and Practical Law, and online buying stops at 10 attorneys.

See CoCounsel vs Gavel Exec for the contract features side by side.

4. Lexis+ with Protégé: best for LexisNexis subscribers

Best for: firms and legal departments that research in LexisNexis and want drafting in the same place.

Lexis+ with Protégé, the name Lexis+ AI took in February 2026, is LexisNexis' "legal AI software for drafting, research, and analysis," working across LexisNexis content, your organization's documents and web sources. It drafts transactional agreements and litigation documents and analyzes large document sets in Vaults. In Word, Lexis Create+, a separate LexisNexis product with Protégé built in, adds clause benchmarking, compliance checks and clause-level guidance.

• Price: firms with 1 to 3 attorneys can view costs in the LexisNexis Online Store; others get a quote, with "customized pricing tailored to individual needs."
• Trial: 2-day free trial on request.
• Security: LexisNexis states that customer data is never used to train its AI models.
• Integrations: iManage, NetDocuments and SharePoint, with experiences for Word, Teams and Outlook where available.

Limits: clause benchmarking and compliance checks in Word sit in Lexis Create+, a separate LexisNexis product, so confirm which products your quote includes.

5. Spellbook: best for transactional lawyers who negotiate in Word

Best for: transactional lawyers at firms and in-house teams who negotiate a high volume of agreements in Word.

Spellbook is a Word-based contract AI suite for transactional lawyers that calls itself "the complete contract AI suite" and says it's trusted by 5,000+ legal teams. Its add-in redlines contracts "with every suggestion tracked," drafts from scratch or saved libraries, runs playbooks and compares contracts to industry standards, and Associate handles multi-document workflows.

• Price: not published; pricing is set by the number of team members on a license. Quotes reported by Gavel customers run about $350 per user per month.
• Trial: 7 days free, with extended trials possible for larger organizations.
• Security: SOC 2 Type II, with zero data retention agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Playbook help: the In-House Teams plan includes a Playbook Build Service.

Limits: no published price, and the Playbook Build Service isn't listed on the Law Firms plan.

See Spellbook vs Gavel Exec.

6. Luminance: best for in-house teams that run contracts with the business

Best for: large companies that want legal, procurement and finance teams working from one contract platform.

Luminance is a contract intelligence platform for legal and business teams at large companies, trusted by 1,000+ enterprises worldwide. Its Negotiation product generates markups in Microsoft Word "even where formal playbook positions do not yet exist," applying approved templates, fallback positions and gold-standard clauses, and its Repository surfaces renewals, obligations and contractual risks.

• Business teams: Luminance says it lets business teams "move routine contracts forward."
• Price: not published; access starts with a demo.
• Security: an independently certified ISO 27001 information security management system and regular SOC 2 Type II examinations.

Limits: built for enterprise contract operations, and we found no case-law research or free trial on its website, so it replaces Legora only for in-house contract work.

See Luminance vs Gavel Exec.

7. GC AI: best for in-house counsel

Best for: in-house lawyers, from solo general counsel to enterprise legal departments, who want one assistant for contracts and everyday legal questions.

GC AI is a legal AI assistant for in-house counsel, trusted by 2,100+ legal teams and companies, with Word review and redlining, playbooks of standard and fallback positions, and Agent Connectors to more than 20 apps, including Gmail, Slack, Drive and HubSpot. Legora says in-house teams made up more than 40% of its new customers in the third quarter of 2026, and GC AI is built for that buyer.

• Price: $500 per month on the Individual plan; Team pricing is on request and billed yearly.
• Trial: 14 days, with access to Playbooks, GC AI for Word and Research.
• Research: case-law databases for the United States and international law are add-ons on the Individual plan; Team plans include one database of the organization's choice.
• Security: SOC 2 Type II, zero-data-retention agreements with its AI model providers "wherever feasible," and no use of your data for model training.

Limits: GC AI is built for in-house teams. At $500 per month on the Individual plan, one user costs more than a Gavel Exec seat at $160 per user per month, and Team pricing is on request.

Compare the two in GC AI vs Gavel Exec.

How to choose a Legora alternative

1. Sort what you use Legora for. If most of it happens in the Word add-in, a contract tool such as Gavel Exec or Spellbook may cover it. If your lawyers rely on Legal Research, Tabular Review or the Agent, compare the full platforms.
2. Price the seats you actually need. Of these seven, Gavel Exec, GC AI and CoCounsel (from $551.85 per month for solo and small firms) list prices publicly, and LexisNexis shows costs to firms with 1 to 3 attorneys in its Online Store. Ask the others in writing for seat minimums, contract length and included modules, and compare with the $30,000 Legora minimum Gavel customers report.
3. Rebuild one playbook first. Take a Legora playbook with its starting positions, non-negotiables and fallbacks and set it up in each tool on your shortlist. Gavel Exec can generate the rules from a checklist or spreadsheet.
4. Run the same contract through each trial this week. Gavel Exec's 25 free queries, GC AI's 14 days and Spellbook's 7 days let you test before any procurement step. Check each tool's redlines against the markup you sent the other side.
5. Plan research and storage separately. Gavel Exec has no case-law research, so teams that pick it keep research elsewhere. If your files live in iManage or NetDocuments, note that Harvey, CoCounsel and Lexis+ with Protégé connect to both, Spellbook lists iManage, and Gavel Exec doesn't connect to either yet.

Switching from Legora: what to bring with you

• A full export of your data, requested before your contract ends. Legora says it permanently deletes customer data once a contract ends.
• Your Legora playbooks, copied into a document or spreadsheet with starting positions, non-negotiables and fallbacks.
• The saved prompts and Word actions your team runs most, so you can rebuild them before you switch.
• Two or three agreements per contract type that your team has already negotiated, to compare each new tool's redlines with your own.

More comparisons: Harvey alternatives, CoCounsel alternatives, Spellbook alternatives, the best AI contract review tools for lawyers and all Gavel comparisons.