Two credible platforms. Two very different ways to buy legal AI.

Harvey does not publish standard pricing. As of August 3, 2026, no standard per-seat price appears on Harvey's official pages. The buying process is sales-led: you request a demo, scope the deployment, and receive a quote. Harvey discloses that excessive use may result in temporary throttling, but it does not publish a usage schedule. When you get a quote, ask what is included, what usage terms apply, and what happens at renewal.

Irys publishes its pricing. Irys One is $299 per month for one attorney. Irys Teams is $329 per seat per month for teams of 2 to 50 attorneys. Irys One includes unlimited AI queries, which means no per-token or per-query overage on the advertised plan. You can start a seven-day trial without a credit card and without talking to sales.

Enterprise governance is Harvey's strongest publicly documented territory. Shared Spaces support collaboration across firms, clients, business teams, and outside counsel, with resource-level controls, ethical walls, guest accounts, and audit trails. That depth matters for large organizations with strict information-barrier requirements.

Harvey's document infrastructure is built for scale. A Vault, per Harvey's public materials, is a large document repository: it can hold up to 100,000 files, emails, and queries, synchronize with iManage, SharePoint, and Google Drive, and carry that content across Assistant, Workflows, and its Word and Outlook add-ins. Harvey also integrates with legal publishers, including Ask LexisNexis, which brings Shepard's-backed research inside Harvey where the customer has access.

If your priority is a deeply managed rollout across hundreds of users, with IT-administered DMS connections and publisher-grounded research, Harvey's enterprise posture is a genuine strength, not a weakness dressed up as one.

Irys is built so legal AI does not require a procurement cycle. The price is published, the trial is self-service, and the platform is designed to be useful starting with a single attorney. You can evaluate it on a real matter this week without a sales call.

The product is matter-centric, and a matter is more than a document library. An Irys matter is a working model of the case: the documents plus the facts, people, dates, authorities, drafts, and decisions, kept structured and reusable from one task to the next. Matters carry no fixed document cap on the advertised plan, output is source-linked so you can check the passage behind a statement, and there is no need to rebuild the matter context in every new prompt.

Irys also aims at finished work product rather than chat text. A Word add-in brings research, drafting, and cite checking into the document you are already writing. Workbench, currently in beta, can take actions in connected applications such as Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Calendar, and Slack, and it requires your approval before taking actions rather than acting autonomously. E-signature is built in, so a document can go from draft to signed without leaving the platform.

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.

Do not decide from marketing pages, including this one. Run the same real matter through both products and ask each vendor the same questions.

Can it locate the exact source behind a factual statement?

Can it confirm whether a cited authority is still good law?

Can it carry context from research into a later drafting or review task?

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

Can it produce a usable file rather than only chat text?

Can teammates and clients work in the same governed matter?

What happens when the matter contains hundreds or thousands of documents?

What is excluded from the quoted price, and are there document, query, API, storage, or integration charges?

What happens to the price at renewal?

Can you run a real matter before signing a long-term agreement?

Choose Irys when you want published pricing, a self-service evaluation, broad matter-centric legal workflows, and a platform that can begin with one lawyer and grow to a team. Consider Harvey when your priority is a deeply governed enterprise rollout across a large firm or legal department, with clients and outside counsel working inside the same controlled environment.

Both products change quickly. Except where a statement is expressly labeled as Irys internal testing, the observations on this page reflect publicly available information reviewed August 3, 2026. Confirm current capabilities, pricing, and contract terms with each vendor before you buy.