Rating certificate · AW/26-09/39726 Sept 2026
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Harvey
Harvey (Counsel AI Corporation) · Business & sales agents
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Register entry · Business & sales agents · updated 26 Sept 2026
Harvey
Harvey is a legal AI platform used by large law firms and corporate legal departments for research, drafting, contract and document review, and multi-step agent workflows. It runs frontier models from several providers and integrates with Word, Outlook, SharePoint and legal content providers. Harvey II (August 2026) added Memory, Spaces and matter-aware agents. The company raised $550M at a $15.5B valuation in September 2026; pricing is not published.
What reviewers and users praise
- Microsoft 365 integrations and document grounding (Reddit in-house user; Lawyerist)
- Fast pace of agent features (Artificial Lawyer on Harvey II)
What they criticise
- High price relative to general-purpose LLMs (Reddit r/legaltech; Claude for Lawyers)
- Several practitioners report output quality that still needs heavy review (Reddit r/biglaw, HN)
Experts vs the crowdcrowd cooler by 17
Experts58
Crowd41
| Price | Custom |
|---|---|
| Use it via | Web app, Desktop app, Mobile app, API |
| Runs on | web, windows, macos |
| Licence | proprietary |
| Updated | Evidence collected 26 Sept 2026 |
How the rating was worked out
Weights for Business & sales agents: adoption 25%, experts 40%, crowd 35%. Pillars without enough evidence are left out and the others re-weighted. The method.
| Adoption & momentumweight 25% | 43 | Reported users 100k → 27 · 11 releases in 90 days → 80reach × 0.7 + momentum × 0.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Expertsindependent reviews · weight 40% | 58 | 3 independent reviews (1 positive · 2 mixed · 0 negative), averaged toward 50 for small samples. |
| Crowdcommunity sample · weight 35% | 41 | 11 dated posts from reddit, hackernews: 3 positive · 2 mixed · 6 negative (positive + ½ mixed) ÷ n, averaged toward 50 for small samples |
| Rating | 48 | medium confidence (3 of 3 pillars, 11 community posts). |
Evidence checks. 1 post over the three-per-thread limit not counted. How evidence is checked.
Trust & safety
Seven dimensions graded A–D from documented facts. Overall: A.
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Permission model
No documentation found on approval modes or sandboxing for agent actions.
A
Data access scope
Syncs and enforces firm ethical-wall policies, role-based access controls and logical workspace separation; customers choose what data to upload. source
B
Data storage
Cloud-hosted on Microsoft Azure with EU/Switzerland, US or Australia processing; customers can delete data at any time. No self-hosting. source
A
Data retention & training
No training on inputs, outputs or uploaded documents; requires Zero Data Retention from model providers; customers set retention periods. source
A
Incident history (24 months)
No security incidents or CVEs found in a web search (Sep 2026).
A
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 (renewed), plus ISO 27701 and ISO 42001 listed; reports available in trust center. source
B
Transparency
Closed source; monthly public product roundups ('The Brief') and frequent dated product posts; public help centre. source
The experts
3 named independent reviews found; dated reviews from the last 12 months are scored.
- positive
Overall a strategy that makes a lot of sense.
Richard Tromans, Artificial Lawyer · 18 Aug 2026 · artificiallawyer.com - mixed
LAB is the most ambitious public attempt yet to measure what legal AI agents can actually do on the kind of work law firms actually delegate.
Bob Ambrogi, LawSites · 19 May 2026 · lawnext.com - mixed
Harvey is a genuinely impressive enterprise legal AI platform — fast, secure, and trusted by a huge share of the world's largest firms.
Claude for Lawyers · 9 Sept 2026 · claudeforlawyers.com
The crowd
11 coded posts from reddit, hackernews.
3 positive2 mixed6 negative
- negative
Harvey appears to be a heavily overpriced (a) pretty UI; (b) prompt library; and (d) RAG tool
r/legaltech · 18 Nov 2025 · reddit.com - positive
We use it in our in-house legal department (3 attorneys, 2 paralegals, risk manager, legal ops manager) and really like it.
r/legaltech · 18 Nov 2025 · reddit.com - negative
Because it's a phantom product pretending to be something it's it not.
r/legaltech · 18 Nov 2025 · reddit.com - mixed
It's the best of the big ai law tools. It's worse than non ai law tools in most instances.
r/legaltech · 31 Jan 2026 · reddit.com - mixed
I think it saves me 3-5 hours a week - obviously varies from week to week. And I think any substantial time saving is worth paying for.
r/legaltech · 31 Jan 2026 · reddit.com - positive
it seems like it can do a pretty good job at transactional matters and faster too.
r/biglaw · 13 Mar 2026 · reddit.com - negative
I’ve been trying to incorporate Harvey as a litigator for the last year and am unimpressed most times I ask it to do anything of substance.
r/biglaw · 13 Mar 2026 · reddit.com - negative
As an associate: HARVEY IS SHIT.
r/biglaw · 13 Mar 2026 · reddit.com
Pricing
As published, checked 26 Sept 2026.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | Custom | No public pricing. Harvey's COO described seat-based pricing with a consumption option (Legal IT Insider, Sep 2026). A Reddit user cited about $1,000/seat/month as a single-licence rack rate (unverified). |
Recent changes
- 23 Sept 2026
Custom Harvey agents can run directly in Microsoft Word. source
- 9 Sept 2026
Raised $550M at a $15.5B valuation. source
- 18 Aug 2026
Launched Harvey II with Memory, Spaces and matter-aware agents. source
- 6 May 2026
Released LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark), an open-source benchmark of legal agent tasks. source
- 25 Mar 2026
Raised $200M at an $11B valuation; reported 100,000+ lawyers and 1,300+ customers. source
Ranked alongside
Other ranked entries in Business & sales agents.
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Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these, observed up to 26 Sept 2026.