Paxton AI vs CoCounsel vs Harvey vs LexisNexis Protégé
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Paxton AI
Legal research and drafting AI with a no-hallucination guarantee
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CoCounsel
AI legal assistant from Thomson Reuters
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Harvey
AI legal assistant for law firms — trained on legal data, used by the...
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LN LexisNexis Protégé Agentic legal AI grounded in Lexis content and Shepard's Visit | |
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Free tier | — | — | — | No public free tier — sales quote required |
| Paid from | — | — | Enterprise custom pricing (no public rates; est. ~$1,000-$2,000 per seat/month with seat minimums) | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | 100,000+ lawyers on platform; 25,000+ custom agents; majority of AmLaw 100 | — |
| Founded | — | 2013 | 2022 | 1993 |
| Maker | — | — | Winston Weinberg, Gabriel Pereyra | RELX Group |
| Verdict | Paxton's pitch is citation accuracy: it claims a 94% non-hallucination rate on the Stanford Legal Hallucination Benchmark and backs claims with sourced case law across all 50 states plus federal regulations. That's the r... |
CoCounsel, originally Casetext and now Thomson Reuters' flagship AI legal assistant, is a category leader for AI-assisted legal research, document review, deposition prep and drafting, grounded in Westlaw authority and P... |
Harvey is the enterprise legal-AI leader by revenue and adoption — $300M ARR by mid-2026, an $11B valuation, and most of the AmLaw 100 on the customer list. For large firms and in-house teams it delivers genuinely better... |
Protégé is LexisNexis's bet that firms already paying for Lexis+ would rather add AI in place than switch to a startup like Harvey. Its edge is grounding: research, drafting, and citation checks run against LexisNexis's... |
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