Legal, risk and compliance · Legal AI and contracts
Harvey
Legal AI platform for research, drafting, review and agentic workflows at law firms and in-house teams.
Our pick for legal ai and contracts- Vendor
- Harvey
- Pricing model
- Per-seat enterprise contracts with seat minimums; quote only.
- Runs on
- Harvey cloud
- Agentic OS layer
- Agents
- Industries
- Services and property, Financial services
- Last reviewed
- November 2026
Our verdict
The leading legal AI platform for large firms and legal departments, with deep workflows and a document vault. It is priced as a labour substitute, so small teams rarely justify it.
What it is
Harvey provides legal research, drafting, document review, due diligence and agentic workflows, with Vault for analysing large document sets and integrations with legal content providers. It is used by more than 140,000 legal professionals, including half of the Am Law 100.
Firms can build custom workflows and, at the top end, work with Harvey on firm-specific models.
Best for
Law firms, legal departments, and finance and professional-services teams with high volumes of complex legal work.
Not the right fit
Small firms and in-house teams with modest volume and budgets.
Key capabilities
Assistant and research
Research and drafting with citations.
Vault
Analyse thousands of documents at once.
Workflows and agents
Multi-step legal processes such as diligence.
Content integrations
Connections to legal research providers.
Strengths
- Depth across legal workflows
- Strong adoption at top firms
- Handles large document sets well
Watch-outs
- Premium pricing with seat minimums
- No public pricing or trial
- Long rollouts for large deployments
Pricing
Harvey does not publish prices. Market estimates put mid-market seats around $1,200 to $1,500 per user per month with minimums of about 20 seats, and much lower per-seat rates for very large deployments. Bundles with legal content providers cost more. Treat these as reported, not official.
Checked November 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm current pricing with Harvey before you budget.
Security and governance
Enterprise security controls, data isolation, no training on customer data, and SSO.
How we would roll it out
- Pick three practice workflowsDiligence, contract review and research memos are common starts.
- Load precedents into VaultFirm knowledge improves output.
- Keep partner reviewAI drafts; lawyers sign off.
Compare with
Other tools in Legal, risk and compliance, closest match first.
Ironclad
Legal AI and contracts
Contract lifecycle management with AI agents grounded in your own contract history.
Best for Legal, procurement and sales teams running many contracts.
OneTrust
Compliance and AI governance
Privacy, consent, third-party risk and AI governance on one platform, with agent detection and policy enforcement.
Best for Enterprises that need privacy and AI governance in one system.
Vanta
Compliance and AI governance
Compliance automation for SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and 35+ frameworks, with an AI agent and trust centre.
Best for Companies that must prove security and AI controls to customers.
More in Legal, risk and compliance · How we govern agents · How an engagement runs
Choosing between Harvey and the alternatives?
Book a call. We look at your systems, data and governance together and tell you which platform fits, and what to build on it first.