Irys vs GC AI: two transparently priced legal AI platforms, built for different work

Both companies publish individual pricing, something most of the major legal AI platforms reviewed for these pages do not do. Based on public pricing pages reviewed August 3, 2026, GC AI lists its Individual plan at $500 per month with unlimited chats, skills, and Easy Prompt use, and offers a 14-day trial. Two details are worth noting: US Case Law is an add-on at the Individual level, though it is included in Team and Enterprise, and API usage is billed separately in pooled credits.

GC AI's Team plan is annual and priced on request.

Irys One is publicly priced at $299 per month, with no per-token or per-query overage on the advertised plan, and a 7-day trial that requires no credit card. Irys Teams is $329 per seat per month for teams of 2 to 50 attorneys, a published number with no sales call required.

Actual pricing and contract terms can vary. Confirm current terms with each vendor before you buy.

If your team is a classic in-house legal department, fielding contract review, internal questions, and business-team requests, GC AI's defaults will likely fit your workflow with less configuration. Its skills and playbooks are designed around how a legal department serves internal clients, in the company's own voice and positions.

Its connector list is broad and business-facing. More than 20 documented connectors, including systems like HubSpot, reflect a product designed to sit inside a company's operational stack, not just a lawyer's document folder.

Exact Quote is a genuinely useful verification feature: it points to the precise underlying passage, not just the document. And GC AI's 14-day trial is twice as long as the Irys trial.

Irys is organized around the matter, not the chat. Research, drafting, documents, facts, and context live in the matter, so you do not rebuild the file in every new prompt. Later tasks pick up where earlier ones left off.

Legal research and drafting are part of the core product on the advertised Irys One plan, with source-linked output so you can check where a statement came from. On GC AI's published Individual plan, US Case Law is an add-on.

Irys works where the documents get finished. There is a Word add-in for drafting and review, and built-in e-signature for getting documents executed without a separate subscription. Workbench, currently in beta, adds connected application actions across tools like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Outlook, OneDrive, and Slack, and actions require user approval rather than running autonomously.

And Irys is built for legal work across law firms, individual practitioners, and legal departments, with published individual and team pricing on both sides of that spectrum. If your legal team runs disputes, investigations, and regulatory matters like an internal law firm, the matter-based structure is the point.

The infrastructure around the models is Irys's own. Irys runs its own agentic orchestration, structured matter intelligence, and evaluation infrastructure around the models it uses, built to plan and carry multi-step legal work. In Irys's internal evaluations on published legal benchmark tasks, including Harvey's published BigLaw Bench task set (Irys internal testing, July 2026), the Irys system scored above leading frontier-model baselines on legal work. Methodology available on request.

The practical test for any of these platforms is whether the system can carry a matter end to end: plan the work, keep the context, verify the sources, and hand back a finished file. That is the job Irys is built for.

Comparison pages, including this one, are a starting point. Both vendors offer trials. The only evaluation that matters is running the same real matter through both products and asking these questions.

Can it locate the exact source behind a factual statement, at the passage level rather than just the document level?

Can it check whether cited authority is still good law, and what does that capability cost on your plan?

Can it carry the matter's context into a later drafting or review task without you reassembling it?

Can it work across email, files, research, and Word without manual copying?

Can it produce a usable file, a draft, a redline, a signed document, rather than only chat text?

What is excluded from the quoted price? Ask specifically about case law access, API credits, and document volume.

What happens to the price at renewal, and do any introductory terms expire?

Can you run a real matter during the trial before committing to an annual agreement?

Choose GC AI if you run a classic in-house legal department and want a tool whose skills, playbooks, and connectors are tuned to that job from day one.

Choose Irys if your work is matter-based, if you want legal research and drafting included in a published price, and if you want a system built to carry multi-step legal work from plan to finished file.

Both companies publish their individual pricing, and neither asks you to guess. Take advantage of that: run the same matter through both trials and let the work decide.