LexDraft vs Harvey
Quick Answer
Harvey is the better choice if you're a large law firm or in-house team at a Fortune 500 with a six-figure annual budget and need deep legal research, due-diligence, and litigation workflows alongside drafting. Harvey raised over $500M from OpenAI Startup Fund, Sequoia, and others, and has been adopted by a majority of the AmLaw 100. LexDraft is the better choice if you're a solo, small firm, or in-house counsel who works mostly in Microsoft Word and wants a self-serve free tier — without the procurement cycle, training program, or six-figure floor that comes with Harvey.
Last updated: June 2026
A focused Word add-in vs an enterprise legal AI platform
Honest Feature Comparison
Both products are AI for lawyers, but they sit at opposite ends of the market. Use the table below to see where each one wins.
| Dimension | LexDraft | Harvey |
|---|---|---|
| Target market | Solo, small firm, in-house counsel (1–50 lawyers) | AmLaw 100/200 firms, Fortune 500 in-house teams |
| Free tier | ✓ Yes — 2,000 words/month, no card | ✗ No — sales-led only |
| Published pricing | $0 / $99 / $199 per month | Not publicly disclosed — typically six-figure annual contracts |
| Primary surface | Microsoft Word add-in (AppSource) | Standalone web platform + Word and Outlook integrations |
| Contract drafting & review | ✓ Core focus | ✓ Yes — one workflow among many |
| Surgical edits (word-level diffs) | ✓ Yes — preserves your formatting and defined terms | ○ Paragraph-level rewrites in the Vault/Draft surface |
| Attorney-authored playbooks | ✓ 4 free: NDA, SaaS MSA, DPA, Services | ✓ Yes — firm-specific, configured by Harvey's success team |
| Legal research (case law, statutes) | ✗ No (citation verification only) | ✓ Deep — partnership with LexisNexis on case law |
| Due-diligence / data-room analysis | ✗ No | ✓ Yes — "Vault" handles 10,000+ docs per matter |
| Citation verification (CourtListener) | ✓ Yes — ✓/⚠ badges on every citation | ✓ Yes — verified against Harvey's research corpus |
| SOC 2 Type II | ✗ Not yet (TLS encryption + zero retention) | ✓ Yes (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001) |
| Custom model fine-tuning on firm data | ✗ No | ✓ Yes (enterprise tier) |
| Procurement & onboarding | Install in 2 minutes from AppSource | 3–6 month sales cycle, security review, dedicated CSM |
When Harvey is the right answer
We'd genuinely recommend Harvey over LexDraft in these scenarios:
You run M&A or large litigation matters
Harvey's Vault product is purpose-built for sifting through thousands of documents in a data room — diligence checklists, contract abstraction, redaction at scale. That's not a workflow LexDraft tries to address.
You need deep legal research baked in
Harvey's partnership with LexisNexis gives you AI-assisted case-law and statutory research in the same product as drafting. LexDraft verifies citations against CourtListener but does not do primary research.
Your procurement team requires SOC 2 + a signed BAA
Harvey holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 today. LexDraft uses TLS encryption and a zero-retention policy with OpenAI, but does not yet hold SOC 2 certification — if that's a hard procurement gate, Harvey clears it and we don't.
When LexDraft is the right answer
You draft in Word and want to stay there
LexDraft is a native Word add-in. Your contract stays a .docx file, Track Changes still works, your firm's styles are preserved. Harvey has Word and Outlook integrations but its primary surface is a separate web app.
You want to try the tool tonight, on your own
Install from AppSource and run your first NDA review in under five minutes. No demo call, no procurement review, no minimum seat count. The free tier handles 3–5 short contracts per month.
Your budget is four figures, not six
A 5-lawyer firm pays $495–$995/month on LexDraft Pro. The equivalent Harvey deployment would typically be at least $50K–$100K per year, often more — Harvey's economics are built around the AmLaw 100, not a 5-lawyer boutique.
You want surgical edits, not paragraph rewrites
LexDraft identifies the specific 3–12 word span that should change and applies a tracked change to just that span. Useful when you've spent an hour negotiating a definition you don't want the AI to "improve."
Pricing comparison
LexDraft (public pricing)
Free
$0 / month
2,000 words / month — ~3–5 short contracts
Pro
$99 / month per user
100K words/month, all playbooks, surgical edits · $990/year (15% off)
Enterprise
$199 / month per user
Unlimited words, priority support ·
$199 / month per user
Unlimited words, priority support,990/year (15% off)
Harvey (sales-led)
All tiers
Contact sales
Pricing not publicly disclosed. Industry reporting and reseller channel discussion suggest Harvey contracts typically start in the high five-figures annually for small firms and scale into seven figures for AmLaw 100 deployments.
Note: Harvey does not publish a pricing page. Any specific dollar figures you see online are estimates from third parties, not official numbers.
How to switch from Harvey to LexDraft (if it fits)
This is a partial migration — LexDraft replaces Harvey's drafting surface, not its research or Vault workflows. If those are core to your practice, keep Harvey and use LexDraft alongside it.
Install LexDraft from AppSource
Search "LexDraft" in Microsoft AppSource or install directly from Word's Insert → Add-ins menu. Free tier works immediately.
Run a side-by-side on one NDA
Take a real NDA you negotiated last month. Run it through Harvey's review, then through LexDraft. Compare the comments on the same five clauses — non-compete scope, IP assignment, liability cap, term, governing law.
Decide: full switch, or coexist
If LexDraft covers your drafting workload, you can downgrade Harvey to research-only seats. Many firms keep both and route drafting through LexDraft to free up Harvey usage for research and Vault.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, and many firms do exactly that. A common pattern: Harvey for research, due diligence, and complex litigation workflows; LexDraft inside Word for everyday drafting and clause-level review where partners want to stay in the document. They don't conflict — different surfaces, different jobs.
No. LexDraft does not search case law or statutes the way Harvey does. What LexDraft does is verify any citation the AI produces against the CourtListener database (4.2M US opinions) and flag it ✓ verified or ⚠ unverified, so you don't ship a fabricated citation. If you need primary legal research, keep your Westlaw, Lexis, or Harvey subscription.
LexDraft Pro for 20 seats works out to $23,760/year at list price ($99 × 20 × 12). Harvey doesn't publish pricing, but reporting from legal-tech outlets and industry conversations consistently suggests Harvey contracts for a 20-lawyer firm sit well into the six figures annually. If you only need drafting, the gap is real. If you need Vault + research + drafting, Harvey's bundled pricing is more rational than buying each separately.
Honest answer: Harvey holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. LexDraft does not currently hold SOC 2. What LexDraft does have: TLS 1.2+ encryption in transit, encryption at rest, a zero-retention agreement with our model provider (your document content is not used to train models), and the option to delete your data at any time. If SOC 2 is a hard procurement requirement, Harvey clears that bar and we don't yet — we'd rather you know upfront than discover it in a security questionnaire.
Harvey runs on a stack that includes fine-tuned OpenAI models plus internal Harvey-trained models — they've published research on legal-domain LLMs. LexDraft uses frontier foundation models (currently Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT-class models) without fine-tuning, with a zero-retention agreement and prompts engineered specifically for clause-level legal review. Different approaches; both are defensible.
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Install from Microsoft AppSource →Further reading
- Harvey's official site — for the most current product scope and security claims.
- ABA Law Technology Today — ongoing coverage of AI adoption in legal practice, including responsible-use guidance.
- CourtListener (Free Law Project) — the open case-law database LexDraft uses to verify citations.