Legora

What it is

Legora is the Word-native legal AI platform built for work product that never leaves the document. Founded in Stockholm in 2023, it reached a $5.6B valuation in 2026 after a $600M Series D — a $550M round led by Accel plus a $50M extension backed by Atlassian and NVIDIA’s NVentures — and crossed $100M ARR roughly 18 months after its first $1M. That trajectory put it directly opposite Harvey as the challenger in-house teams and firms shortlist when they want drafting and review inside Word rather than in a separate chat window.

Three surfaces do the work: the Legora Assistant for research, summarization, and document Q&A; a Word add-in that runs playbook-based redlining where the lawyer already edits; and Tabular Review, which extracts structured clause data across thousands of documents at once.

Why it shows up in Legal Ops stacks

• Drafting and review happen in Word. The add-in embeds clause analysis, suggestions, and redlining in the live document. For transactional and in-house teams whose day is spent in Word, that removes the context switch Harvey’s separate interface imposes.
• Tabular Review scales due diligence. Point it at a deal-room corpus and it pulls the same clause across hundreds or thousands of agreements into a reviewable grid — the load-bearing capability for M&A diligence and portfolio-wide contract audits.
• Enterprise governance is already in place. ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications, GDPR posture, and a Sweden-based technical team with EU- and US-region storage options. For UK and DACH firms, the EU data-residency story clears one of the harder procurement questions Harvey’s US hosting raises.
• DMS integrations match how firms file. Native connections to iManage and NetDocuments — plus Microsoft Word, Outlook, and SharePoint — keep documents in the system of record.

Named users include Bird & Bird, Cleary Gottlieb, White & Case, Linklaters, Deloitte, Dentons, and Goodwin — over 1,000 customers across 50+ markets.

Pricing

• Sales-led, not published. List runs about $3,000 per user per year on a 10-seat minimum — a roughly $30K/year floor. Larger deployments negotiate up from there.
• Context against Harvey. Harvey starts near $1,200/seat/month ($14.4K/seat/year) on a 20-seat minimum, putting its floor around $288K/year before discount. Legora lands roughly 5x cheaper per seat at the entry tier — the reason it clears a CFO review that Harvey’s number does not.
• Below a 10-seat / $30K commitment, neither fits; a solo or 5-lawyer team is better served by Claude plus legal-specific Skills, or a single point tool.

Best for

• In-house legal teams and transactional groups (roughly 10–200 seats) whose work product lives in Word and who need drafting, review, and high-volume diligence in one place.
• UK/EU and DACH firms where EU data residency is a procurement gate.
• Teams that want Harvey-class review without the AmLaw-tier price.

Alternatives

• Harvey — pick it when you need the agent layer (M&A diligence playbooks, litigation prep, citation-enforced jurisdictional research) or AmLaw-grade procurement signatures, and budget is not the gate. Full head-to-head: Harvey vs Legora.
• Thomson Reuters CoCounsel — pick it when Westlaw-grounded research fidelity matters more than in-document drafting.
• Spellbook — pick it for contract drafting and redlining on a smaller team at $99–249/user/month, when you don’t need Tabular Review or an enterprise rollout.

Watch-outs

• The agent layer is shallower than Harvey’s. Legora’s automations cover drafting and review well, but multi-step, firm-bespoke procedures are thinner. Guard: if your evaluation hinges on custom diligence or litigation agents, run that exact workflow in a paid pilot before signing — not the drafting demo.
• Pricing is opaque and floor-gated. The 10-seat minimum means there’s no cheap on-ramp, and quotes climb fast at enterprise scale. Guard: get the per-seat number and the renewal-year uplift in writing during procurement, and benchmark against Harvey and Spellbook quotes for the same seat count.
• It’s a young vendor in a fast-moving category. Founded 2023; the $5.6B valuation prices in growth that has to keep landing. Guard: confirm export and data-portability terms so a future switch isn’t gated by lock-in, and keep the contract term short on the first cycle.