Irys vs Legora: what each platform does well, and how to choose

Legora does not publish standard pricing, and its usage rules are not publicly detailed. Buying starts with a demo. That is common for platforms selling into firms and legal departments, and it is not a criticism, but it does mean you will not know the total cost, the included usage, or the contract structure until you are in a sales conversation.

Irys publishes its pricing. Irys One is $299 per month for a single attorney, with no per-token or per-query overage on the advertised plan. Irys Teams is $329 per seat per month for teams of 2 to 50 attorneys. A 7-day trial is available with no credit card required.

Whenever pricing is not published, ask each vendor the same questions: what is included in the quoted price, whether content, documents, agents, or integrations carry separate charges, and whether any introductory discounts expire at renewal.

Legora's real-time collaborative Editor is a genuine strength. Public materials describe it preserving citations and context as analysis moves into a document, so a team can draft together without losing the sourcing behind the work.

The client Portal is another. Firms and clients get a shared, branded workspace with files, databases, workflows, and grounded answers, and public materials state that client guests do not need their own licenses. For firms that deliver work through a client-facing surface, that is a meaningful capability.

Legora's Agent, Workflows, Tabular Review, and Monitors also give larger teams structured ways to run repeatable, multi-step work at volume. If those patterns match how your firm operates, weigh them seriously.

Irys starts where most lawyers actually start: one attorney, one matter, published pricing, and a self-service trial. It was founded by US BigLaw attorneys and built around US practice: US case law coverage, US citation conventions, and the workflows of US firms and legal departments.

The platform is matter-centric. Research, drafting, and document analysis live inside the matter, so the next task can use the facts, documents, and authorities already established instead of forcing you to rebuild context in every new prompt. Output is source-linked, so you can check where material statements came from.

Workbench, currently in beta, connects Irys to the applications where legal work happens, including Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Outlook, OneDrive, and Slack. It can prepare documents and email drafts, and it requires your approval before taking action rather than sending communications autonomously.

Irys also includes collaborative editing, a Word add-in, and built-in e-signature, so a drafting task can end in a finished, signable document rather than a draft that leaves the platform. A client collaboration surface, Irys Connect, is planned to launch soon.

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.

Marketing pages, including this one, are a starting point, not evidence. The only reliable comparison is running both platforms on the same real matter. These are the questions worth answering.

Can it locate the exact source behind a factual statement in its output?

Can it confirm whether cited authority is still good law?

Can it carry the matter's context into a later drafting or review task without re-uploading and re-explaining?

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

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

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

Legora is a capable, broad platform. Choose it if your priority is collaborative agentic tooling with a strong client portal, and you are comfortable with a demo-led purchase and pricing that is not publicly listed.

Choose Irys if you want published pricing, a self-service start, matter-centric research and drafting with source-linked output, connected application actions, and built-in e-signature, beginning with a single attorney.

Except where a statement is expressly labeled as Irys internal testing, this comparison reflects publicly available information reviewed on August 3, 2026. Products in this category change quickly. Confirm current features, pricing, and terms with each vendor before you commit.