In short: Spellbook is a Toronto contract-drafting AI that works inside Microsoft Word and Google Docs, used by 5,000+ legal teams per its own site (20 Oct 2026). It no longer publishes a price. On our 50-point benchmark it averages 32.9/50, but scores 46/50 on contract drafting, second of 19 and one point behind HAQQ.
Key facts
- Founded in 2018 in St. John's, Newfoundland, as Rally; renamed Spellbook and now based in Toronto, with Scott Stevenson as CEO (BetaKit, 4 Mar 2026).
- Funding: $50M Series B led by Khosla Ventures at a $350M post-money valuation (Bloomberg, 9 Oct 2025); $40M of debt from RBCx to fund acquisitions (Artificial Lawyer, 4 Mar 2026).
- Revenue: "on track" to reach $100M ARR in 2026, per its CEO, with revenue tripled over the prior year (BetaKit, 4 Mar 2026). Company claim, not audited.
- Customers: 5,000+ legal teams and law firms (spellbook.com, read 20 Oct 2026), up from 4,000+ in 80 countries (BetaKit, 4 Mar 2026).
- Canadian Bar Association: exclusive AI contract drafting and review partner for two years, with discounted access for 40,000+ members (BetaKit, 4 Mar 2026).
- Price: none published. The pricing page says pricing depends on the number of team members on the licence and offers a 7-day free trial (spellbook.com/pricing, read 20 Oct 2026). The June version of this post quoted about $89 to $100 per user per month; that figure is no longer on Spellbook's site.
- Security claims: zero data retention with its model providers, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR (spellbook.com, read 20 Oct 2026).
- Benchmark: 32.9/50 average across 11 categories on HAQQ's published rubric, level with Gemini 3.1 Pro in eleventh of 19; second on contract drafting (46/50), third on NDAs (44/50), last on legal research (18/50) and law explanation (20/50) (HAQQ benchmark, 20 Oct 2026).
Who wrote this: HAQQ competes with Spellbook, and HAQQ Research built the benchmark quoted here, in which HAQQ ranks first. Weigh our scores the way you would weigh any vendor-published number. Every category score for all 19 entrants is published on haqq.ai/compare-us, and every other figure on this page names its source and date.
What is Spellbook?
Spellbook is an AI assistant for transactional lawyers. Its core is a Word add-in that drafts clauses, reviews agreements against playbooks, compares versions and answers questions about the open document. It now also runs in Google Docs, and its Associate agent, reached through a web login, works across sets of documents (updating party details and terms across a financing package, for example). It connects to iManage, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.
It stays inside contract work. Spellbook has no matter management, billing, time tracking or CRM, and we found no iOS or Android app. Firms that use it still run a separate practice management system.
How do Spellbook and HAQQ compare?
| Feature | Spellbook | HAQQ |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Contract drafting and review AI in Word and Google Docs | Legal AI chat (Justinian engine) plus eFirm practice management |
| Published price | None; per-seat quote | Free Chat tier; Chat from $30/mo; eFirm from $25/user/mo (2-seat minimum) |
| Trial | 7 days | Free tier, no time limit |
| Word add-in | Yes, its core product | In development (waitlist); drafts export to Word |
| Multi-document work | Associate agent across document sets | Multi-document review inside a matter |
| Legal research | Not a focus (18/50 on our research tasks) | Research with sources (47/50) |
| Practice management, billing | No | Yes, in eFirm |
| Interface languages | No published list; English interface | 7, with full right-to-left Arabic |
| Mobile | No app found | iOS and Android apps |
| Hosting | Cloud; zero data retention with model providers | EU, US or Middle East; private cloud or on-premise |
| Benchmark average (HAQQ rubric) | 32.9/50, 11th of 19 | 46.8/50, 1st of 19 |
| Contract drafting score | 46/50, 2nd | 47/50, 1st |
How did Spellbook score on the benchmark?
Spellbook has the widest spread of any entrant: second of 19 on contract drafting and last on research. The average hides that, so read the row for the work you do. Ties take the better place.
| Task category | Spellbook /50 | Spellbook's place of 19 | HAQQ /50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract drafting | 46 | 2nd | 47 |
| NDA drafting | 44 | 3rd | 49 |
| License agreement | 41 | 4th | 46 |
| Employment agreement | 38 | 7th | 48 |
| Consultancy agreement | 37 | 7th | 45 |
| Commercial agreement | 36 | 8th | 47 |
| Shareholder agreement | 35 | 9th | 47 |
| Generic legal evaluation | 27 | 15th | 49 |
| Law explanation | 20 | 19th | 46 |
| Professional memorandum | 20 | 18th | 44 |
| Legal research | 18 | 19th | 47 |
| Average | 32.9 | 11th | 46.8 |
What are the gaps buyers hit with Spellbook?
- It lives in desktop document editors. Word, Google Docs and a web workspace for Associate; no phone app. That suits a lawyer at a desk in a firm. It is a poor fit where a lawyer's main device is a phone, which is common across the Gulf, Egypt and North Africa.
- There is no price to compare. Spellbook used to be one of the few legal AI vendors with a public per-seat figure. As of 20 Oct 2026 the pricing page asks you to book a demo. A solo lawyer paying personally cannot budget it without a sales call.
- It is built for English. Spellbook publishes no list of supported languages and no Arabic interface, and its playbooks and examples are written for common-law agreements. A lawyer drafting bilingual Arabic and English agreements, or working under the UAE Civil Transactions Law (Federal Law No. 5 of 1985) or Egypt's Civil Code (Law No. 131 of 1948), will spend time correcting structure and terminology.
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What are the alternatives to Spellbook?
Pick by the shape of your practice. Prices below were checked on each vendor's pricing page on 20 Oct 2026.
| Tool | Form factor | Price published? | Languages | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spellbook | Word and Google Docs add-in, web agent | No; 7-day trial | English | Transactional teams who draft in Word |
| Juro | Browser contract platform with Word integration | No; quote based on volume | Not checked | Scale-up and in-house legal ops |
| LinkSquares | Web contract management | No; personalised quote | English | Mid-market in-house teams |
| Ironclad | Web CLM with AI assistant | No; custom quote | English | Enterprise contract workflows |
| Leah (ContractPodAi) | Web, enterprise | No public pricing page found | Not checked | Large enterprise legal and procurement |
| Legora | Web, Word and Outlook add-ins, mobile | No | Multiple, including Arabic (June 2026) | Large firms that want collaborative review |
| HAQQ | Web, iOS and Android | Yes; free tier, Chat from $30/mo | 7 interface languages, right-to-left Arabic | Solo to mid-sized firms, MENA, civil-law work |
- You draft English agreements in Word all day: Spellbook is still a strong pick, and on our contract drafting tasks it scored within a point of the leader.
- You run contract operations for a company: Juro, LinkSquares or Ironclad, depending on size.
- You are a large firm that wants shared review across a deal team: Legora; see Legora vs HAQQ.
- You work in Arabic or French, under civil law, or from your phone: HAQQ, which you can test on the free tier with our contract review tools.
How should you test Spellbook against HAQQ?
- Take two agreements you negotiated recently, one in English and, if you work in the region, one bilingual or Arabic.
- Ask each tool for a first draft from the same term sheet and a review against the same three-position playbook.
- Count clauses you rewrote, governing-law and forum errors, and citations you had to check.
- Add a research question from the same matter. That is where the gap between the two tools is widest on our scores.
For the drafting method itself, see our AI contract drafting guide.
What changed in this update?
- 20 October 2026: Replaced the numbered strengths and limitations sections with a feature table and Spellbook's per-category benchmark scores. Folded in our separate Spellbook alternatives article (alternatives by form factor, price and language, and the three gaps), re-checked against vendor pages on 20 Oct 2026. Corrected two points the older text got wrong: Spellbook no longer publishes a per-seat price, and it now runs in Google Docs and a web agent as well as Word. Added funding, revenue claim, customer count and the Canadian Bar Association partnership with dates. Dropped the unverified claim about which language models Spellbook uses.
- 25 June 2026: Spellbook alternatives published as a separate article (now merged here).
- 20 May 2026: First publication.
Sources
- Spellbook pricing (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Spellbook home page, customer count and security claims (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Spellbook on track for $100M ARR, partners with the Canadian Bar Association (BetaKit, 4 Mar 2026)
- Spellbook gets $40m debt for legal AI M&A (Artificial Lawyer, 4 Mar 2026)
- Keith Rabois bets on legal AI startup Spellbook (Bloomberg, 9 Oct 2025)
- Juro pricing (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Ironclad pricing (read 20 Oct 2026)
- LinkSquares pricing (read 20 Oct 2026)
- Best AI for legal work: the frontier-model benchmark
