Harvey vs Legora vs Scriptum: which suits a mid-sized UK firm?
Choose Harvey or Legora if your firm needs a broad legal AI platform covering research, large-scale document review and disputes as well as drafting. Choose Scriptum if your firm is mainly transactional and wants a tool built only for drafting, reviewing and negotiating documents, with published pricing and a clause library your firm owns. For most mid-sized UK corporate and commercial practices, Scriptum is the closer fit.
When we first wrote this article in August 2026, Harvey and Legora were mainly seen as tools for the largest firms. That has changed. Harvey now markets a dedicated offer to firms of roughly 15 to 150 lawyers, and Legora pitches to boutique and mid-size firms. So the useful comparison is no longer about firm size. It is about what each tool is built to do.
Harvey, Legora and Scriptum at a glance
| Factor | Scriptum | Harvey | Legora |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Transactional work only | Broad legal work | Broad legal work |
| Headquarters | Northern Ireland | United States | Sweden |
| Mid-sized firm offer | Core market | Yes, roughly 15 to 150 lawyers | Yes, boutique and mid-size |
| Published pricing | Yes, from £79 per user per month | No | No |
| Microsoft Word | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Legal research | No | Yes | Regulatory monitoring |
| Large-scale document review | No | Yes, Vault | Yes, Tabular Review |
| Negotiation inside partner-set limits | Yes (Pro) | Not a listed core use case | Not a listed core use case |
| Firm-owned clause library with negotiation history | Yes, on every plan | Vault and Memory | Playbooks in review |
Competitor details are from each vendor's website and published reporting as of November 2026.
When should a mid-sized firm choose Harvey?
Harvey suits a full-service firm that wants one platform across research, disputes, regulatory and transactional work, and is comfortable negotiating a custom contract. Its breadth is the reason to buy it. See our full Harvey comparison.
When should a mid-sized firm choose Legora?
Legora suits firms that review large volumes of documents, value its collaboration features, and need certified security credentials today. See our full Legora comparison.
When should a mid-sized firm choose Scriptum?
Scriptum suits firms whose fee income comes mainly from drafting and negotiating documents: M&A, private equity and venture capital, commercial contracts, commercial property and employment. It is built around how a deal actually runs.
- The drafting agent turns your template, the term sheet and the email chain into a first draft, flagging every place the sources disagree.
- The review agent reads the other side's markup against your playbook and builds a review plan for partner sign-off.
- On Pro, the negotiation agent answers each round inside the limits your partner has set, and escalates anything outside them.
- Everything your lawyers agree goes into a clause library, with its negotiation history, that the firm owns.
The price is published, so a managing partner can see the cost before the first call: £79 per user per month for Starter and £119 for Pro, excluding VAT.
The fairest test is a live document. Book a 30-minute demo and bring a deal type your team works on.
The thing most comparisons leave out
Most legal AI helps you produce a document and stops there. For a mid-sized firm, where know-how is concentrated in a few people, the bigger risk is losing what the firm has learned when one of them leaves. A tool that captures your agreed positions, fallbacks and counterparty behaviour as your team works builds an asset the firm owns. That is the gap Scriptum was built to fill.
Sources
- Harvey: Legal AI for mid-sized and boutique law firms
- Legora: solutions for small and mid-sized firms
- Legal Business: Legora raises $550m at $8.8bn valuation (21 October 2026)
Common questions
What is the difference between Harvey and Legora?
Both are broad legal AI platforms that now sell to firms of every size. Harvey is US-based and emphasises research, agents and its Vault for document sets. Legora is Swedish and emphasises its Agent, Tabular Review and collaboration. Neither publishes prices.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Harvey and Legora for UK firms?
Scriptum publishes its prices, from £79 per user per month, so you can compare costs directly. It covers transactional drafting, review and negotiation rather than the full breadth of Harvey or Legora.
Which legal AI is best for a mid-sized UK corporate firm?
For a mid-sized firm whose work is mainly corporate and commercial documents, Scriptum is the closest fit because it is built only for that work and keeps a clause library the firm owns. Firms that also need research and disputes support should look at Harvey or Legora.
Do Harvey and Legora work in Microsoft Word?
Yes. Harvey works inside Word and Outlook, and Legora has a Word add-in. Scriptum also runs as a Word add-in.