Harvey

Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional services teams. It helps users research legal, regulatory, and tax questions, and research access includes more than 500 regional knowledge sources. Its assistant answers questions, analyzes documents, drafts and edits content, and links responses to sources. Agents can plan and carry out complex legal work, and teams can run existing workflows or create their own. Vault organizes legal documents and supports bulk analysis across thousands of documents. Harvey lists integrations and access through Microsoft Word, Outlook, iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, Google Drive, Aderant, Ironclad, email, and APIs. Native iOS and Android apps support queries, document scanning, call transcription, and Vault access with synced history. Listed security controls include SAML single sign-on, audit logs, IP allow-listing, data lifecycle management, and 24/7 monitoring. Harvey says customer materials are not used to train underlying models by default and offers data residency in the EU or Switzerland, the US, or Australia. Pricing is on request.

Harvey combines legal research, document work, workflows, and a document repository in one platform. Teams considering it will need to request pricing.

Harvey is aimed at law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal and professional services organizations. It may suit teams that need document analysis, legal research, drafting, and workflow support.

Overview

Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services work, built for organizations that need more than a standalone research assistant. It is best suited to firms and in-house legal teams handling varied, document-heavy matters. Its breadth is compelling, but custom pricing makes it a poor fit for buyers who need to compare costs before engaging.

Key features

Harvey’s Assistant answers questions, analyzes documents, and drafts or edits content, with links to the sources behind its answers. That traceability helps lawyers check the basis for an output; it does not remove the need for professional review. Research covers legal, regulatory, and tax questions and draws on more than 500 regional knowledge sources.

Agents can plan and perform complex legal work, while teams can run pre-built workflows or create their own. This flexibility suits organizations with recurring processes that can benefit from automation, but is less persuasive for occasional users who need only a narrow task-specific tool. Vault organizes documents and supports bulk analysis across thousands of files, making it especially relevant to large matters and substantial repositories.

Harvey also includes matter workspaces, legal source access, document analysis, citations, and drafting tools. Integrations span Microsoft Word, Outlook, iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, Google Drive, Aderant, Ironclad, email, and APIs, which can help teams work alongside established systems. Native iOS and Android apps support queries, document scanning, call transcription, and access to Vault and synced history.

For organizations weighing sensitive legal work, Harvey says customer inputs, outputs, and uploaded documents are not used to train underlying models by default. It lists SAML single sign-on, audit logs, IP allow-listing, data lifecycle management, and round-the-clock security monitoring. Customers can keep data in-region in the EU or Switzerland, the US, or Australia. Its security page lists SOC 2 II, CCPA, GDPR, AIUC-1, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and ISO 42001. Support includes setup and admin guides, product help, integration articles, and ticket submission.

Pricing

Harvey is paid, with custom pricing available on request; the Harvey plan requires a demo request. That leaves organizations without a published figure to use for initial budget comparisons, so it is better suited to buyers prepared to discuss their requirements directly than to individuals seeking an immediately priced subscription. No cheaper tier, free plan, trial, seat allowance, or usage quota is stated.

Platforms

Harvey supports Android, iOS, web, APIs, and extensions. The mobile apps add document scanning and call transcription as well as access to queries, Vault, and synced history, while the API and extension options give teams additional ways to connect with their work.

Who it's for

Harvey is aimed at law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal and professional-services organizations. It is a strong candidate when research, drafting, document review, and repeatable workflows need to sit within one platform, particularly for teams working with large document collections. A small practice or individual buyer with a limited task and a firm price ceiling may find its custom-priced, broad platform harder to justify.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Source-linked answers give lawyers a way to inspect the basis of Assistant responses.
• Pros: Vault supports bulk analysis across thousands of documents, addressing a substantial document workload.
• Pros: Pre-built and custom workflows, broad integrations, and mobile apps cover varied team contexts.
• Pros: Regional data residency options and a substantial set of listed security controls and compliance standards may suit organizations with formal governance requirements.
• Cons: Custom pricing requires a demo request, limiting upfront cost comparison.
• Cons: Its broad feature set is less suitable when a buyer needs only a narrow legal task or does not have recurring workflows to support.

Alternatives

LegalFly is another paid option with Android, iOS, web, extension, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted platforms; its Enterprise plan uses custom pricing discussed in a demo.

Manupatra AI Search is worth considering for a focused judgments use case: its High Court Judgments AI Summary plan costs ₹5,000 a year (billed ₹5,000/year excluding GST) for unlimited High Court judgment summaries.

Lexis+ may suit buyers seeking a paid legal research subscription with a free trial; its price varies by organization, content, tools, practice areas, jurisdictions, and number of users.

Vincent by Clio is another paid option available on Android, iOS, and web.

Clearbrief is an alternative for law students, who can use its free plan, or for buyers seeking a web and Windows option with a free trial.

Zuva offers an API Free plan with daily limits of 25 files, classifications, language requests, and extractions, making it a fit for buyers who want to try document-processing API capabilities within those caps.

Robin AI is another paid option with a free plan and free trial, available through web and extension platforms.

LegitQuest is a freemium alternative with a free plan and trial, and a Plus (SMEs) plan priced at ₹40,000 a year.

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Verdict

Harvey is best for law firms and in-house legal teams that want research, source-linked assistance, drafting, document analysis, and workflow automation in one platform. The combination is its clearest reason to choose it; the lack of a published price is the main reason to look elsewhere if predictable, self-serve budgeting matters more.