Harvey vs Spellbook (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Spellbook grades higher than Harvey: 2.0 against 1.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Spellbook grades higher on the free plan and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Which one is for you
Pick Harvey if
- Fits if you work at a law firm that runs client matters at volume
- Makes sense if you are an in-house legal team reviewing many contracts
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a price before a sales call, as none is published
- Not for you if you want to try it first, because there is no free plan or self-serve trial
- Skip it if you are not in legal or professional services, as the site is built for those teams
- Watch out: no integrations or API are listed, so ask what it connects to
Pick Spellbook if
- Fits if you review or draft contracts in Word every day
- Makes sense if your firm has its own standard positions to turn into playbooks
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your contracts are not handled in Word, since the core is a Word add-in
- Not for you if you want a price before a demo, as none is published
- Watch out: autonomous contract management is early access and has to be requested
- Tight if you want a long trial: it is 7 days, and card terms are not stated
How we grade them
| 1.6GPAHarveyWeak | 2.0GPASpellbookFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo price is published and the site has no pricing page, so there is nothing to place against this category's $21 middle. | CNo price is published. It is set by how many people are on the licence and quoted after a demo, so it sits at the ordinary grade. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing is free. The only call to action on the site is a demo request. | DA 7-day free trial, longer for bigger organizations. Whether it needs a card is not stated. |
| Features | CAgents, a document Vault, legal research, contract review and usage analytics are listed. The listing shows a product for legal work only, and its own page shows no integrations. | CReview and redlining, drafting, playbooks and an associate agent. The contract-management part is early access and has to be requested. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record, and a firm has to be onboarded and set up before anyone uses it. | CNo store rating on record, and playbooks and a Word add-in need setting up before you get value from it. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, with no integrations or API listed on the pages read. | BWeb plus a Word add-in, with six integrations listed. No phone app is shown. |
| Best for | law firms and legal teams that buy through sales | contract review inside Microsoft Word |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Harvey and Spellbook. How we grade
Where they differ
- Harvey also covers chat assistant and research.
- Spellbook also covers templates.
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At a glance
| Harvey | Spellbook | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 7-day free trial; extended trials may be available for larger organizations. |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Harvey AI Corporation | Spellbook |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Harvey
- No prices are published and the pricing page does not exist; the only call to action is Request a Demo.
- No free plan or self-serve trial is shown.
- The site is built for legal and professional services teams.
Spellbook
- No prices are published; pricing depends on the number of team members on a license and is quoted after a demo.
- The core suite is a Word add-in, so it assumes contracts are handled in Microsoft Word.
- ACM is early access and has to be requested.
- Free access is offered to academic institutions through its partnership program.
Key features
Harvey
- Agents for legal work
- Agents take on complex legal tasks, with work routed automatically to the right agent.
- Vault
- Stores and organizes large sets of documents so a team can pull out information with a single query.
- Knowledge
- Legal, regulatory and tax research.
- Spaces
- Shared workspaces for firms, clients and co-counsel, with the ethical walls sensitive legal work requires.
- Contract Intelligence
- Contract review and negotiation support, plus insights across a portfolio of contracts.
- Command Center
- Usage analytics by team, practice group and office, with benchmarks against comparable organizations.
Spellbook
- Contract review and redlining
- Review marks up contracts with tracked suggestions, from your side of the negotiation, and flags non-standard terms.
- Drafting
- Draft clauses, full agreements and revisions from AI prompts or from your saved precedents and libraries.
- Playbooks
- A team's standards are saved as checklists that are applied each time a document is reviewed.
- Associate agent
- Associate works through multi-document legal matters with the lawyer's oversight.
- Autonomous Contract Management
- ACM, in early access, pulls contracts in from email and Slack, runs a first-pass review, and stores signed contracts for renewal monitoring.
Plans
Harvey
Pricing could not be confirmed. See harvey.ai.
Spellbook
Pricing could not be confirmed. See spellbook.com.
Ways to pay less
Harvey
No public discounts listed.
Spellbook
- Education
Free access for academic institutions
Spellbook says it offers free access to academic institutions so students and educators can use its legal AI tools; interested schools inquire through the academic partnerships page.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Harvey or Spellbook?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Harvey has no price we could confirm, and Spellbook has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Harvey or Spellbook?
As of Nov 13, 2026, neither Harvey nor Spellbook has a free plan. Spellbook has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.