Harvey vs Legora vs CoCounsel: One 50-Point Rubric

We scored Harvey, Legora, and CoCounsel on one published 50-point rubric: Harvey 38, CoCounsel 37, Legora 35. Closer to each other than to the top.

Most Harvey vs Legora vs CoCounsel comparisons are feature checklists copied off three pricing pages. Nobody runs the same prompts through all three and scores them the same way, because two of them are unbuyable without a sales call and the third is locked behind Westlaw.

We did. We test Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, and 16 other models and platforms across 11 legal task categories on a public 50-point rubric, and the full table is on our compare page for anyone to check.

Full disclosure up front: HAQQ is a competitor. We build legal AI MENA-first, with native Arabic, for consumers and small firms as well as professionals. We are not neutral. So this comparison keeps opinions cheap and numbers expensive: every figure is either from our published benchmark or from a named external source you can click.

Harvey vs Legora vs CoCounsel: the short answer

• Harvey is the traction leader: $11B valuation, $190M ARR, 700 clients in 63 countries (CNBC, 2026), and the highest average benchmark score of the three at 38.2/50. Enterprise-only, English-first, common-law-first.
• CoCounsel is the research incumbent: built on Casetext, acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650M in 2023, now 1 million users in 107 countries (Thomson Reuters, Feb 2026), bundled with Westlaw. Average 36.2/50. The content moat is the product.
• Legora is the collaborative challenger: $5.6B valuation, $100M+ ARR, 800 firms in 16 countries (TechCrunch, 2026), European-rooted, now building Arabic with Al Tamimi. Average 34.5/50, the lowest of the three on our rubric but the fastest-growing.
• All three trail the top of the table by roughly 9 to 13 points. The fight between them is about distribution and jurisdiction, not raw answer quality.

How the three are positioned

Harvey: the enterprise category leader

Harvey sells an AI platform for law firms and in-house teams: research, drafting, multi-document analysis, and agentic workflows under enterprise contracts. Founded in 2022 by Winston Weinberg and Gabriel Pereyra, it was one of the OpenAI Startup Fund's first investments, and reached an $11B valuation in March 2026 co-led by GIC and Sequoia, with $190M ARR and 700 clients across 63 countries including a majority of the top 10 US firms (CNBC, 2026). By revenue, valuation, and logo wall it is the category leader, and a comparison that pretends otherwise is an ad. We covered it in depth in our Harvey AI review.

CoCounsel: the research incumbent inside Thomson Reuters

CoCounsel launched in March 2023 as the first GPT-4 legal assistant, built by Casetext. Thomson Reuters acquired Casetext for $650 million in cash four months later (Legal Dive, 2023). That is the whole strategy in one sentence: CoCounsel is the AI layer on top of Westlaw and Practical Law, the two content moats US litigators already pay for. Thomson Reuters reported CoCounsel reached 1 million professional users across 107 countries in February 2026, and CoCounsel Legal won the American Association of Law Libraries 2026 New Product Award (LawSites, 2026). You do not buy CoCounsel for a novel interface. You buy it because your research already lives in Westlaw.

Legora: the collaborative European challenger

Legora, founded in Stockholm, positions itself as the collaborative platform: a shared workspace where law firms and in-house teams work the same matter, plus a Workflows orchestration layer. It crossed $100M ARR and raised a $550M Series D, extended to $600M, at a $5.6B valuation, with 800 firms across 16 countries (TechCrunch and Tech.eu, 2026). Its multi-jurisdiction European roots are the pitch for firms working across civil-law systems. And on June 9, 2026, Al Tamimi & Company partnered with Legora to build an Arabic-language interface (GlobeNewswire, 2026), which puts Legora directly into MENA. We compared it head-to-head in Legora vs HAQQ.

Harvey vs Legora vs CoCounsel: benchmark scores side by side

The independent benchmark we publish on our compare page scores 19 models and platforms on a 50-point rubric. The generic evaluation covers Sharia, statute, forum, clause, risk, hallucination, formatting, brevity, partner-readiness, and source linking. Ten further categories score specific deliverables, from NDAs to shareholder agreements. Here are all three platforms across all 11 categories, with HAQQ as the reference line:

What the table actually says:

• Harvey wins 10 of the 11 head-to-heads among the three. Its drafting band sits at 38 to 40 in almost every category. Within this peer group, Harvey's output quality is the standard.
• CoCounsel's one win is professional memorandum, 39 to Harvey's 38. That is the Westlaw research DNA showing through: memo-writing is exactly the research-to-drafting task Casetext was built for. CoCounsel also matched or stayed within a point of Harvey on most other categories.
• Legora is the lowest scorer of the three on our rubric, 34.5 average, and it is last among them in 9 of 11 categories. That is a real finding, but read it next to the other real finding: Legora is the fastest-growing of the three by valuation and the only one actively building native Arabic. A per-task rubric does not score growth or roadmap.
• All three are close to each other and far from the top. The spread among Harvey, CoCounsel, and Legora is 3.7 points on average. The spread from Harvey to HAQQ is 9.3. The interesting gap is not between the three incumbents.
• Law explanation is the shared weak spot. Harvey 32, CoCounsel 31, Legora 29. Plain ChatGPT scored 42 on the same task. None of these enterprise platforms is built to explain the law in plain language, because none of them is built for the person who needs that.

Pricing and access: the real decider

For most buyers, the benchmark is the second question. The first is: can I even buy this, and what does it cost? Here the three diverge sharply.

Harvey publishes no pricing and has no self-serve signup. Third-party legal-tech analyses in 2026 cluster its cost around $1,000 to $1,200 per seat per month with reported minimums of 25 or more seats on annual terms, which makes a minimum deployment a six-figure annual commitment. Legora also publishes no pricing and runs the same enterprise sales motion.

CoCounsel is the only one of the three with public plan pages, but the price comes with a catch: it is bundled with Westlaw, not sold standalone. Thomson Reuters lists a Westlaw Advantage with CoCounsel Essentials plan for a solo attorney with all-states-and-federal coverage at $639.20 per user per month on a one-year term (Thomson Reuters, 2026). Independent 2026 trackers put the all-in CoCounsel-plus-Westlaw cost in the $300 to $600+ per user per month range depending on plan and content. So CoCounsel is technically accessible to a solo, but only by also buying Westlaw.

Two of the three you cannot buy without a procurement team. The third you cannot buy without Westlaw. The pricing model is the positioning.

Who each one is actually for

Choose Harvey if

• You are an AmLaw-scale or Magic Circle firm, or a large in-house team at an enterprise.
• Your work is primarily English-language, common-law work.
• You want the platform with the largest deployed footprint and the best in-peer-group output scores.
• You have a six-figure budget and value vendor maturity over unit economics.

Choose CoCounsel if

• Your research already lives in Westlaw and Practical Law, and you want AI layered on the content you trust.
• Your practice is US research-heavy: litigation, memo-writing, deposition prep.
• You want the platform AALL law librarians named 2026 New Product of the Year, with a 1-million-user track record.
• You are willing to pay for the Thomson Reuters content moat, not just the model.

Choose Legora if

• You are a European or multi-jurisdiction firm that needs collaborative review across civil-law systems.
• You want the fastest-growing platform and are betting on roadmap, not just current scores.
• You work across borders and want one workspace shared between firm and in-house teams.
• You are in MENA and want an enterprise option now building native Arabic with Al Tamimi.

Where HAQQ slots in

The obvious caveat: this is us, so weigh it accordingly. But there is a clean structural reason HAQQ is not really competing for the same buyer as these three. Harvey, Legora, and CoCounsel are all aimed at the enterprise, English-first, common-law top of the market. Two of them you cannot buy without a sales team, the third you cannot buy without Westlaw, and all three are weakest exactly where the rubric measures plain-language law explanation, 29 to 32 out of 50.

HAQQ is built for the part of the market those three filter out. It is MENA-first with native Arabic and RTL, covers 80+ countries, and serves consumers and small firms as well as professionals, with a free tier and paid plans from $33 to $100 per month. It scored 49/50 generic and ranked first in all 11 categories, and unlike most of the field we disclose our engine, Justinian. A solo lawyer in Dubai, a three-person firm in Cairo, a founder who needs one shareholder agreement reviewed: none of them are in Harvey's or Legora's market, and CoCounsel would ask them to buy Westlaw first. You can test HAQQ free in minutes.

If you want the broader picture, our 300-task frontier benchmark shows why raw answer quality is necessary but not sufficient: 24% of all frontier-model answers cited or applied law that did not back the claim. The wrapper around the answer, governance, jurisdiction control, citation verification, is the actual product. That is what every platform in this comparison is really selling.

FAQ

Is Harvey, Legora, or CoCounsel the best legal AI?

On our published 50-point benchmark, Harvey scored highest of the three with a 38.2 average across 11 categories, CoCounsel second at 36.2, and Legora third at 34.5. But the three are within roughly four points of each other, so the real decider is access and content moat, not score. Harvey for enterprise English common-law work, CoCounsel for Westlaw-based US research, Legora for collaborative European and multi-jurisdiction practice. HAQQ outscored all three at 47.5 average.

How much do Harvey, Legora, and CoCounsel cost?

Harvey and Legora publish no pricing and sell enterprise-only; third-party 2026 estimates put Harvey around $1,000 to $1,200 per seat per month with 25+ seat minimums. CoCounsel is bundled with Westlaw rather than sold standalone; Thomson Reuters listed a solo Westlaw Advantage with CoCounsel Essentials plan at $639.20 per user per month on a one-year term, and independent trackers put the all-in cost in the $300 to $600+ range.

What is the difference between Harvey and CoCounsel?

Harvey is a standalone enterprise platform with the largest deployed footprint in legal AI, sold direct to firms and in-house teams. CoCounsel is Thomson Reuters' AI assistant built on the Casetext acquisition and bundled with Westlaw and Practical Law, so its strength is research grounded in licensed content. Harvey scored higher on our drafting categories; CoCounsel edged Harvey only on professional memorandum, 39 to 38, reflecting its research DNA.

Is Legora better than Harvey?

On our benchmark, no: Legora averaged 34.5 to Harvey's 38.2 and trailed Harvey in 9 of 11 categories. But Legora is growing faster by valuation ($5.6B vs the round that took Harvey to $11B), is positioned for collaborative multi-jurisdiction European work, and is the only one of the two actively building a native Arabic interface, via its June 2026 Al Tamimi partnership. A current-state rubric and a roadmap bet can point different directions.

Which legal AI supports Arabic?

Of the three, Legora is furthest along on Arabic after its June 9, 2026 partnership with Al Tamimi & Company to build an Arabic-language interface. Harvey is investing in Arabic capability through its own Al Tamimi enterprise partnership but ships no consumer-accessible Arabic product. CoCounsel is English-first and tied to US-centric content. HAQQ ships native Arabic with RTL across 80+ countries today.

Can a solo lawyer or small firm use any of these?

Practically, only CoCounsel, and only by also subscribing to Westlaw, which pushes the all-in cost to several hundred dollars per user per month. Harvey and Legora are enterprise-only with no self-serve tier; Harvey's reported 25+ seat minimum rules out solos entirely. Self-serve alternatives built for that segment include HAQQ, which has a free tier and plans from $33 to $100 per month.

How were these benchmark scores produced?

The scores come from HAQQ's independent 50-point legal AI benchmark, published in full on our compare page. It scores 19 models and platforms on a generic legal rubric plus 10 deliverable-specific categories, covering criteria like statute, forum, clause, risk, hallucination, formatting, and source linking. HAQQ publishes it and ranks first in it, so treat it as a vendor benchmark with disclosed methodology, the same standard you should apply to Harvey's or CoCounsel's own published numbers.

Key takeaways

• Harvey leads the three on our rubric: 38.2 average across 11 categories, winning 10 of 11 head-to-heads, with the largest enterprise footprint in legal AI.
• CoCounsel is the research play: 36.2 average, its one category win is professional memorandum, and its moat is Westlaw content, not a novel model.
• Legora is the growth and roadmap bet: 34.5 average, lowest of the three today, but fastest-growing and the furthest along on native Arabic via Al Tamimi.
• The three are close to each other and far from the top: 3.7 points apart on average among themselves, 9+ points behind HAQQ's 47.5.
• Access decides more than score: two are unbuyable without procurement, one is unbuyable without Westlaw, and all three filter out solos, SMBs, consumers, and most non-English civil-law work, which is exactly the gap HAQQ fills.

• HAQQ vs the field: full 50-point benchmark table
• Try HAQQ Legal AI free
• Best AI for legal work: 300-task frontier benchmark
• Harvey AI review and alternatives
• Legora vs HAQQ: comparative analysis
• CoCounsel review and alternatives
• Harvey raises $200M at $11B valuation (CNBC, Mar 2026)
• Legora hits $5.6B valuation (TechCrunch, Apr 2026)
• Al Tamimi partners with Legora on Arabic legal AI (GlobeNewswire, Jun 2026)
• Thomson Reuters acquires Casetext for $650M (Legal Dive, 2023)
• CoCounsel reaches 1 million users in 107 countries (LawSites, Feb 2026)
• Westlaw Advantage with CoCounsel Essentials pricing (Thomson Reuters)