Harvey wins in the US. Legora wins in Europe. That's the verdict.

Harvey wins in the US. Legora wins in Europe. That's the verdict. Harvey's $11B valuation and deep integration with Am Law 200 firms makes it the default for American practices. But if your firm operates across European jurisdictions, Legora's coverage of 16 countries and native multilingual processing isn't a nice-to-have — it's the only option that actually works.

This isn't a quality gap. It's a geography gap. Harvey built for BigLaw in New York and London. Legora built for firms navigating EU regulations, GDPR-adjacent compliance, and civil law systems that Harvey doesn't understand yet. Pick the one that matches where your clients are.

Harvey AI: The $11B US-Dominant Platform

Harvey raised massive funding and locked in partnerships with Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman), PwC, and dozens of Am Law 200 firms. Their strength is English-language legal research, contract analysis, and litigation support trained on US and UK common law. The platform handles complex multi-step legal reasoning and integrates with existing BigLaw workflows. At $1,200+/user/year, it's priced for firms where a single saved associate hour pays for itself. Harvey's weakness? Limited coverage of civil law jurisdictions, no native support for most European languages beyond English, and a US-centric training corpus that misses nuances in continental European law.

Legora: The European Legal AI Built for Civil Law

Legora covers 16 European countries with jurisdiction-specific models that understand civil law systems, local procedural rules, and multilingual document analysis. For firms doing cross-border M&A in the EU, navigating GDPR enforcement across member states, or handling commercial disputes under German or French law, Legora delivers what Harvey can't — accurate legal reasoning in the local legal framework. Their $5.55B valuation reflects serious traction in a market that US-built tools consistently underserve. The platform processes documents in native languages without translation artifacts that plague general-purpose AI tools.

Head-to-Head: Where Each Platform Dominates

US litigation and BigLaw research: Harvey wins decisively. The training data, firm partnerships, and workflow integrations are purpose-built for American practice.

European cross-border work: Legora wins decisively. 16 jurisdictions, native language processing, civil law reasoning.

UK firms: Split decision. Harvey has deeper UK common law training. Legora covers UK plus EU jurisdictions for firms doing post-Brexit cross-border work.

International firms with US + EU operations: You probably need both. No single platform covers the full geographic spread with the depth managing partners expect.

Pricing and ROI Comparison

Harvey runs $1,200+/user/year for enterprise licenses, with custom pricing for larger deployments. Legora's pricing is similarly enterprise-tier but structured around jurisdiction access — you pay for the countries you need. For a US-only firm, Harvey's ROI is straightforward: faster research, faster drafting, fewer associate hours. For a European firm, Legora's ROI comes from eliminating the translation and jurisdiction-checking bottleneck that eats hours on cross-border matters. The real cost isn't the subscription — it's using the wrong tool and getting jurisdiction-specific analysis wrong.

The Geographic Decision Framework

Choose Harvey if: 80%+ of your work is US or UK common law, you're Am Law 200 or aspire to be, your tech stack is already Microsoft-centric, and your associates are English-primary.

Choose Legora if: You operate across multiple EU jurisdictions, your work involves civil law systems, you need native-language document analysis, or you're advising on EU regulatory compliance.

Choose both if: You're a global firm with significant practice in both US and EU markets. The overlap is minimal enough that you're not paying double for the same capability.

The Bottom Line: Harvey for America. Legora for Europe. The tools aren't competing — they're solving different geographic problems. If you picked Harvey for your Paris office, you made a mistake. If you picked Legora for your New York litigation team, same thing.