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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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What 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 | ChatGPTOpenAI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest published individual price | Free plan; Solo $89 a month | Not published; demo request1 | Free; Go $8 and Plus $20 a month2 |
| Start without a card | Free plan, no card | 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 |
- 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.
General-purpose AI
A general assistant for drafting and research, among much else. Broad and capable, with no legal citation checker listed.
CaseRead vs ChatGPT
- Best for.
- One assistant for writing, analysis and research across every kind of work.
- Where CaseRead differs.
- Named legal sources, two checks on every citation, and data that isn’t used to train AI models (our AI providers’ commercial terms exclude it), where ChatGPT’s individual plans train unless you opt out. You can use CaseRead from ChatGPT too, read-only.
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