Paxton AI vs CoCounsel Legal vs Harvey vs Lexis+ with Protégé (LexisNexis)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Paxton AI
Matter-grounded legal research and drafting for US litigation teams
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CoCounsel Legal
Thomson Reuters' legal AI grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law
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Harvey
Agent platform for law firms and in-house legal teams, now with its ow...
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LN Lexis+ with Protégé (LexisNexis) LexisNexis's legal AI assistant for research, drafting and citation ch... Visit | |
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Subscription | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | 7-day free trial; no lasting free plan | No lasting free plan. Free trial of CoCounsel Essentials and free demo of CoCounsel Legal on request | — | No free plan; 2-day free trial on request; pricing quoted by LexisNexis by firm size and content scope |
| Paid from | $499 per user/month, or $2,999 per user/year (Individual) | From $292.50/month for CoCounsel Essentials, per ABA GPSolo review (Feb 2026) | Quoted on request (no published prices; harvey.ai/pricing returns a 404) | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | 100,000+ lawyers on platform; 25,000+ custom agents; majority of AmLaw 100 | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | 2022 | 2024 |
| Maker | — | Thomson Reuters | Winston Weinberg, Gabriel Pereyra | RELX PLC |
| Verdict | Paxton's strength is keeping research, case files and drafts in one matter record, so motions and memos cite both the law and the record. Medical chronologies make it especially practical for personal-injury firms, and p... |
CoCounsel Legal is Thomson Reuters' AI layer over Westlaw and Practical Law: it plans multi-step research, reviews large document sets and drafts in Word, with linked citations to check. An earlier version posted the hig... |
Harvey is the default shortlist entry for large firms and legal departments: agents that work inside a matter with its documents and permissions, Vault for bulk document review, contract intelligence, and the security ce... |
Lexis+ with Protégé is one of the two dominant legal AI platforms, and its strength is grounding in LexisNexis's authoritative content with Shepard's citation checking, now with agentic drafting and secure document vault... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.