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What each tool publishes, before anyone gets you on a call.
Price, legal sources and citation checking, taken from each company’s own pages and dated. Where a rival is stronger, we say so.
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Using ChatGPT for legal work?
See what a general assistant leaves to you, starting with a check on every legal citation.
CaseRead vs ChatGPTChecking citations before you file?
The Hallucination Shield checks up to 50 citations per run: does the source exist, and does it support the claim.
See the Hallucination ShieldWant the price first?
Pro is $149 a month, or $119 a month billed yearly. Lite is $15 a month.
See pricingSince Mata v. Avianca in 2023, courts have fined lawyers, suspended them, referred them for discipline and removed them from cases over fabricated and misdescribed citations. Whichever tool you choose, the citations in your brief are yours.
See the running list of sanctions casesGuides for attorneys
Comparing the tools solo and small firms weigh
CoCounsel vs CaseRead
Price, research content, citation checking and contract terms, side by side, from each company’s own pages.
Read the comparisonWestlaw vs Lexis vs CaseRead pricing for solo attorneys
What one attorney pays for each, on what term, and what the price buys.
See the pricesWestlaw alternatives for small firms
The free library your bar may already give you, the paid options, and when to keep Westlaw.
Read the guideLexisNexis alternatives
What Lexis costs a small firm, what replaces it, and the honest case for keeping Shepard’s.
Read the guideCitation checker for briefs
What the free check does with your draft, what it does not do, and where it fits in your cite-check.
How the check worksAI ethics rules in Utah, California and Nevada
The rules, opinions and court guidance that govern AI use in each state, linked to the source.
Read the rulesWhat each tool publishes.
Rows a buyer can check without a sales call. Each Harvey and ChatGPT cell comes from that company’s own pages, read September 14, 2026.
| What matters | CaseRead | Harvey | ChatGPT OpenAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest published individual price | Lite $15 a month; Pro $149 a month | Not published; demo request1 | Free; Go $8 and Plus $20 a month2 |
| Start without a card | No: every plan takes a card. The demo needs no account. | No self-serve sign-up or trial found1 | Free plan2 |
| Checks the citations in a draft | Two checks: does the source exist, and does it support the claim? | No draft cite-check listed on its platform pages5 | None listed2 |
| Your own documents | Project files and the public law, in one conversation | Vaults of up to 100,000 documents3 | File uploads and Projects2 |
| Word | CaseRead for Word, in a side panel | Harvey for Word4 | Word not listed; Excel, PowerPoint and Sheets extensions are2 |
| Term | Month to month, or yearly | Not published1 | Monthly; Business can bill yearly2 |
General-purpose AI
A general assistant, beside a legal one
A general assistant for drafting and research, among much else. Broad and capable, with no legal citation checker listed.
Sources
- Harvey, homepage (“Request a Demo”) and harvey.ai/pricing (“404 Page Not Found”). Read September 14, 2026. harvey.ai and harvey.ai/pricing
- OpenAI, “ChatGPT pricing.” Read September 14, 2026. chatgpt.com/pricing
- Harvey, “Vault.” Read September 14, 2026. harvey.ai/platform/vault
- Harvey, “Ecosystem.” Read September 14, 2026. harvey.ai/platform/ecosystem
- Harvey, platform pages (Agents, Vault, Knowledge, Spaces, Ecosystem). Read September 14, 2026. harvey.ai/platform
Every source was read on September 14, 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm current terms with each company. Product names are trademarks of their owners; naming them implies no affiliation or endorsement.
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Plans start at $15/mo. Pro is $149 a month.