Harvey vs Orbital
A side-by-side comparison of Harvey and Orbital, two Legal tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
| Attribute | Harvey | Orbital |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Pricing | PAID | PAID |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web | Web |
| Model support | Multi-model | Multi-model |
| Vendor (differs) | Harvey AI | Orbital Witness |
| Capabilities (differs) |
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The honest brief
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
Orbital
Purpose-built for real estate law rather than general legal AI — covers title, leases, and surveys, and powers 200K+ property transactions a year.
- Reviews title reports, leases, surveys
- Extracts provisions and flags risks
- Drafting across the full transaction
- Backed by JLL Spark, RELX (REV), Grosvenor
- Enterprise sales, no public pricing
- Narrow to real estate legal work
- UK-rooted, US expansion still underway
When to pick which
Both cover Contract review and Contract drafting.
Pick Harvey if you need Chat with documents and Legal research.
- Chat with documents (secondary capability)
- Legal research (primary capability)
Pick Orbital if you need Document parsing (structured) and Report generation.
- Document parsing (structured) (primary capability)
- Report generation (secondary capability)
Orbital leans on Contract review and Contract drafting as a headline capability; Harvey treats them as secondary.
- Contract review (primary capability)
- Contract drafting (primary capability)