CoCounsel vs Harvey
A side-by-side comparison of CoCounsel and Harvey, two Legal tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
Compared from listings verified as of
At a glance
| Attribute | CoCounsel | Harvey |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Pricing | PAID | PAID |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web | Web |
| Model support | Multi-model | Multi-model |
| Vendor (differs) | Thomson Reuters | Harvey AI |
| Capabilities (differs) |
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The honest brief
CoCounsel
Grounds answers in licensed Westlaw and Practical Law content, so cites are verifiable rather than open-web guesses.
- Research, contract analysis, and drafting
- Integrates into Microsoft 365 workflows
- Prompts not used to train models
- Expensive enterprise pricing
- Not a standalone product
- US-centric legal coverage
Harvey
The default general-purpose legal AI at scale: Vault analyzes up to ~100K-doc collections, used across AmLaw 100 firms.
- Adopted by most AmLaw 100 firms
- Bulk doc analysis via Vault
- Grounds answers in firm's own materials
- Operates across 60 countries
- No public pricing, sales-only
- ~$1,000+/lawyer/mo, 20-seat minimum
- Tuned to big-firm billable workflows
- Heavy enterprise onboarding
When to pick which
CoCounsel leans on Contract drafting as a headline capability; Harvey treats it as secondary.
- Contract drafting (primary capability)
Their capability lists differ in recorded depth — compare the full lists above before deciding.