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Harvey vs Clio: what lawyers say.

Short answer. Harvey has net sentiment −21 on 749 public lawyer voices and Clio has −13 on 78, as of . It is a tie on this record: the two 90% bands overlap. Net is like minus dislike as a share of voices.

Harvey

−21

net · band −26 to −15

749 voices High

vs
Clio

−13

net · band −28 to +3

78 voices Medium

A tie on this record: the two 90% bands overlap, so read the tasks and complaints below.

749 voices on Harvey and 78 on Clio, all public posts by lawyers and people who work with them, since 2023. This is how they describe using each tool, not a test of the tools. Harvey is a legal AI assistant by Harvey AI; Clio is practice management software.

Side by side

Rates and bands, not raw totals.

HarveyClio
Voices on record74978
Like · mixed · dislike204 · 101 · 35924 · 13 · 34
Net like minus dislike, % of voices−21 90% band −26 to −15−13 90% band −28 to +3
ConfidenceHighMedium
Per 100 voices: like · dislike · name hallucinations27 · 48 · 531 · 44 · 0
Latest voice

The two 90% bands overlap, so on this record the two cannot be told apart by net sentiment. Read the tasks and the complaints below instead of the headline number. Difference in net: −8 points (Harvey minus Clio).

By task

What they were doing when they posted.

TaskHarveyClio
Legal research56 voices · net −1111 voices · net +64
Drafting59 voices · net +202 voices, too few for a net
Contract review43 voices · net +120 voices
Citation checking6 voices · net −670 voices
Discovery10 voices · net +200 voices
Summarization19 voices · net +113 voices, too few for a net
General use545 voices · net −3034 voices · net −24

Net here is plain like minus dislike as a share of that task’s voices, with no band: a task needs 5+ voices on a side to show one. Tasks with fewer on both sides are left out. A voice has one task, set by our classifier.

What they complain about and value

Harvey · complaints

  • Accuracy 156
  • Price 146
  • Privacy 46

Harvey · what they value

  • Time saved 72
  • Ease of use 50
  • Accuracy 29

Clio · complaints

  • Accuracy 21
  • Price 11
  • Integration 7

Clio · what they value

  • Time saved 7
  • Ease of use 7
  • Accuracy 3

Counts are voices that name that complaint or value (top three per tool). A voice can name one of each. Not a comparison of raw totals: the bigger side has more posts of every kind.

In their own words

Each quote is a verbatim span of a counted voice, with its date and a link to the original.

On Harvey · verbatim

Hacker News
“Lawyer here: Harvey was never very good, or useful. It mostly exists so large law firms can say they do AI.”

in “Claude for Legal” · 9 voices

CriticizesPrice, valueSelf-described lawyer
Original thread Share
8 more voices in this thread
  • Hacker News · May 15, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Everyone is busy discussing how amazing is this collection of markdown files for Claude... which Claude is known to randomly ignore.”open
  • Hacker News · May 15, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“These companies have marketed their products so badly (or well, depending on your viewpoint) that lawyers think that these tools are glorified search engines. Then they get busted in court because the LLM made up citations, quotations etc.”open
  • Hacker News · May 15, 2026ClaudeValuesCautiously optimistic about Claude's agent approach for legal drudgery, but lawyers remain accountable, not Anthropic. (summary, not a quote)open
  • Hacker News · May 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I have a friend that runs a firm and uses Legora and can’t stand it.”open
  • Hacker News · May 15, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“I think we should be realistic here, this is a more advanced version of those "will kits" that spit out a PDF.”open
  • Hacker News · May 14, 2026HarveyCriticizes“There's other companies that have a much better understanding of the market and compliance issues but you don't hear about them because nobody wants to talk about legal tech.”open
  • Hacker News · May 14, 2026ClaudeMixed“As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate:”open
  • Hacker News · May 14, 2026ClaudeNeutral“It seems like they ripped out Lexis, which is probably one of the most important tools for lawyers: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal/pull/5 .”open
Hacker News
“That benchmark in the report clearly shows that there is not much added value or moat in the custom training of Harvey.”

in “AI Market Clarity”

CriticizesBenchmarkUnverified voice
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Hacker News
“I believe that [...] this startup will win by having the UX that is best focused on lawyers and addresses lawyers' compliance concerns.”

in “Most AI startups are doomed” · 2 voices

ValuesEase of useUnverified voice
Original thread Share
1 more voice in this thread
  • Hacker News · Nov 28, 2023ValuesGenerative AI can speed lawyer workflow since legal documents are mostly configurable boilerplate; fake-citation cases were careless. (summary, not a quote)open

On Clio · verbatim

r/paralegal
“I’ve been learning and working with Clio Manage, and I’ve found it particularly useful for keeping matters, tasks, documents, contacts, and deadlines organized in one place.”

in “Clio Work” · 4 voices

ValuesEase of useUnverified voice
Original thread Share
3 more voices in this thread
  • r/paralegal · Oct 3, 2026ClioValuesLikes Clio as a law firm platform and is promoting it at work, but has not used its AI features. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioMixed“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”open
  • r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioCriticizes“I had one case where my client was injured in a not so common area but Clio ignored it.”open
r/paralegal
“I had one case where my client was injured in a not so common area but Clio ignored it.”

in “Clio Work” · 4 voices

CriticizesAccuracyUnverified voice
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3 more voices in this thread
  • r/paralegal · Oct 3, 2026ClioValuesLikes Clio as a law firm platform and is promoting it at work, but has not used its AI features. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioMixed“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”open
  • r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioValues“I’ve been learning and working with Clio Manage, and I’ve found it particularly useful for keeping matters, tasks, documents, contacts, and deadlines organized in one place.”open
r/paralegal
“Use Clio as your core CMS and Clio Work for quick admin tasks (summarizing phone notes, status drafting), but look at specialized tools for heavy medical extractions and full demand generation.”
MixedAccuracyUnverified voice
Original thread Share
3 more voices in this thread
  • r/paralegal · Oct 3, 2026ClioValuesLikes Clio as a law firm platform and is promoting it at work, but has not used its AI features. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioCriticizes“I had one case where my client was injured in a not so common area but Clio ignored it.”open
  • r/paralegal · Sep 28, 2026ClioValues“I’ve been learning and working with Clio Manage, and I’ve found it particularly useful for keeping matters, tasks, documents, contacts, and deadlines organized in one place.”open

When both come up in one thread

Voices from threads where posters name Harvey and Clio. Open the thread for the whole exchange.

r/Lawyertalk
Harvey
“For drafting legislation and working with case law, probably Harvey AI.”

in “What is the best (and most reliable) legal AI/software out there?” · 25 voices

ValuesDrafting qualityUnverified voice
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24 more voices in this thread
  • r/Lawyertalk · May 23, 2026ValuesSmokeball with its Archie AI add-in is easier than Needles, includes court forms, and the AI is very good. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Mar 30, 2026CoCounselValues“The AI search is actually useful and it's way cheaper than Westlaw.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Mar 18, 2026MixedNo single tool covers everything, so stack a practice guide, a dedicated legal AI and case law, and keep ChatGPT away from client work. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Mar 17, 2026SpellbookValues“For natural language editing you have NotebookLM, Spellbook, Harvey etc.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Feb 23, 2026ClioValues“Based on your specific use cases I would say the one solution that comes the closest is Clio.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Nov 20, 2025ClaudeValues“Now using Claude sonnet 4.5 the results are much better.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Nov 3, 2025MixedGenie AI has been much smoother than Robin AI for drafting and review in-house, while Westlaw is still unmatched for deep research. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Oct 29, 2025ValuesWestlaw and Lexis remain the gold standard for research, while AI Lawyer is solid for contracts, motions and filings and rarely hallucinates. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Oct 20, 2025ValuesAI Lawyer is the most consistent for drafting and templates, and vLex Vincent is more trustworthy than general LLMs for case law research. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Oct 20, 2025vLex VincentValues“For case law, I still use vLex (Vincent AI) and Fastcase - they’re more trustworthy than general LLMs for research.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Oct 20, 2025ValuesUses AI Lawyer for drafting and review and values that it flags missing terms and citation errors instead of hallucinating law. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Aug 20, 2025Westlaw AICriticizesCalls Westlaw's AI suite and CoCounsel worthless, saying the AI research pales next to a proper boolean search. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Jul 9, 2025MixedUses Gavel for work product including contract analysis and redlining, and uses ChatGPT only for business ops because they don't trust it with client data. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 24, 2025ChatGPTCriticizesArgues lawyers should not put confidential client matters into general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT and should use security-first legal tools instead. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 9, 2025MixedUses Iqidis as a daily driver for drafting and research, calls much legal AI hype, and finds Spellbook's suggestions inconsistent. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Mar 8, 2025ValuesChose Alexi over CaseText and ChatGPT's legal premium offering and is very happy so far. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Feb 14, 2025Westlaw AIValues“For case search and practical guides -- Westlaw Practical Law. Nothing beats that yet, not even their CoCounsel app.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Feb 2, 2025Lexis+ AIValues“I agree, after 25 years with westlaw, I switched to Lexis within the past year and it's AI/ protege program has changed my life.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Dec 22, 2024ValuesReports a good pilot experience with SmartCounsel.AI for research, drafting and document analysis, rating it as good as CoCounsel at $100 per user per month. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Sep 30, 2024CoCounselValues“I use Casetext, like it. I used to use SmartRules, totally not worth it-dumped it.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Aug 22, 2024MixedSays SwiftLaw is great for document creation, contract review and editing at $100/month, but has no legal research capability. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 18, 2024Lexis+ AIValues“Lexis has an AI that is decent at answering legal questions with citations.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 18, 2024ChatGPTCriticizes“Even for case law, it will sometimes merge the most common cases, and spit out a case that doesn’t exist.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 18, 2024CriticizesConsiders LLMs fundamentally unsuited to legal research beyond the broadest level and recommends Practical Law instead. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk
Clio
“I find it way more useful than the treatise because its sources are from *this century*.”

in “How the hell do you get straight answers about Lexis/Westlaw/Harvey pricing? Solo lawyer.” · 15 voices

MixedAccuracyUnverified voice
Original thread Share
14 more voices in this thread
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 26, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Just being able to ask the question to get on the right path instead of clunky search rules saves me so much time.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026ClaudeValues“I think my office pays around $650 a month for Westlaw edge and we were quoted around $900 for Lexis + which isn't nearly as good as a $20 Claude subscription.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Couldn’t even read PDFs we uploaded. We’re talking like 10 pages.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“CoCounsel, as far as I can tell, is just a set of practice guides and some federal court cases with a worse LLM stapled to them. Outputs are 9/10 useless or wrong.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“In my jurisdictions, the non-legal LLMs have given me better research and more accurate legal statements, even though a legal data base like Lexis/WL should be better.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AIMixedLexis AI can be used for pointed questions such as locating where a treatise discusses a particular case, though the opening remark is critical of it. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026ValuesThe author uses Strongsuit for AI research and templates at a clear price and without data training, but still needs Lexis for pincites. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral“I have federal and my state through Lexis for $175 a month as a solo with only one login.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Lexis & West Law are inaccurate 23-25% of the time.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“They had us do a zoom demo of the AI and it got multiple things wildly incorrect during the demo.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Lexis AI chat and search blows. I find it unreliable and sometimes just wrong.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026ClaudeValues“IMO, I'd invest more in secure AI tools outside of all three of the major legal providers.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026CoCounselValues“I haven’t used casetext since westlaw bought it, but its AI search ran circles around Lexis protege.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed“Decided to add that, so now my subscription will be around $720/month. It’s pricy, but I do use it every day.”open
r/legaltech
Harvey
“The real moat right now is Harvey's security architecture — it was built specifically for law firms handling sensitive client matters from day one, not retrofitted onto a general-purpose AI tool.”

in “Lawyer here - how are Legora and Harvey differentiated from Claude now with this word add-in they’ve released?” · 30 voices

ValuesGeneral useUnverified voice
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29 more voices in this thread
  • r/legaltech · Apr 22, 2026CriticizesGeneral AI models are unlikely to match the breadth of legal data held by Thomson Reuters and Lexis. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 22, 2026ClaudeValues“When I use Claude - I just pay up for the best model.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 16, 2026LegoraCriticizes“About legora - they are fucked unless they use this shitpile of money the grabbed to purchase legal knowledge sources.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Besides what it can do I think Claude in Word is a great entry point for many firms and will bring a lot of people to Claude.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 14, 2026ClaudeValues“The $11B doesn't survive if enterprise legal figures out they can hire three lawyers and a Claude subscription and get 80% of Harvey's output with better audit trails.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 13, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude Co-Work all day, everyday. Just better, more customizable, less expensive.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The Harvey marketing does not hold up to robust testing.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 13, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The workflow layer in Harvey and Legora has no real value.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 13, 2026ClaudeMixed“On the face of it, looks like neat integration by Claude - as expected. However, most of the capabilities are table stakes in legaltech and contract redlining tools have matured way beyond this (not to say Claude or clients can't do it themselves).”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 13, 2026CoCounselNeutral“CoCounsel has a conversation history along the left panel that you can expand and go back to previous chats.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The problem is that Harvey and Legora largely sold you a chat wrapper with legal corpora sprinkled on top — they didn't actually encode your firm's workflows as governed artifacts.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“The word add in of claude is terrible and the reason is not claude itself its Word.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026HarveyMixed“Harvey has first movers advantage. But their close model approach /I believe, they choose to be defensive/ is their drawback.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClioCriticizes“Section 2.15 says you grant a license to your content. It also specifically allows Clio to “modify” your content.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClioCriticizes“Section 2.15 says you grant a license to your content. It also specifically allows Clio to “modify” your content.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeValues“Honestly I would just wait for the new Claude plug in - it’s going to crush all of these legal tech companies IMHO”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeMixed“I think one of the biggest issues with using Claude (or any other L1 LLM) directly is the prompt engineering.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I think there’s a real opportunity for law firms to build their own thing rather than paying millions to Legora/Harvey.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude doesn’t come with legal research connectors.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Opus has 200k token limit on the claude app. Once he hits it,he couldn’t continue the chat with a 1mn token model.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeCriticizes“Claude gives you basic functionality, but unless you’ve got an enterprise agreement, you would be crazy to put confidential client data into it.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026CopilotValues“Microsoft CoPilot also uses Claude and has very good integration if you are on M365 and SharePoint. The Agent works very well.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026HarveyMixed“At least when I tried it, it did a good job providing up to date and accurate legal information, whereas Claude, including Cowork, is still making basic mistakes with statutes, regulations and procedural rules.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026ClaudeValues“Anthropic is going to eat everyone’s potential earnings.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 12, 2026MixedPackaged legal AI tools are wrappers around Claude or ChatGPT that a good prompt can replace, and lawyers' confidentiality worries about AI are overstated compared with email and practice-management terms. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 11, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is negative value compared to what claude can do in terms of computer use.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 11, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude app without any setup is more powerful/flexible than harvey”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 11, 2026ClaudeMixed“I helped a lawyer friend to setup everything on Claude - all his tools integrations, workflows etc.! But he eventually outgrew it - hitting limits on chats and very high token usage.”open
  • r/legaltech · Apr 11, 2026ClaudeValues“I doubt Harvey ever really shined in document summary or drafting use-cases since using a raw Claude model has been the better solution.”open
r/Lawyertalk
Harvey
“Couldn’t even read PDFs we uploaded. We’re talking like 10 pages.”

in “How the hell do you get straight answers about Lexis/Westlaw/Harvey pricing? Solo lawyer.” · 15 voices

CriticizesAccuracyUnverified voice
Original thread Share
14 more voices in this thread
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 26, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Just being able to ask the question to get on the right path instead of clunky search rules saves me so much time.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 22, 2026ClioMixed“I find it way more useful than the treatise because its sources are from *this century*.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026ClaudeValues“I think my office pays around $650 a month for Westlaw edge and we were quoted around $900 for Lexis + which isn't nearly as good as a $20 Claude subscription.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026CoCounselCriticizes“CoCounsel, as far as I can tell, is just a set of practice guides and some federal court cases with a worse LLM stapled to them. Outputs are 9/10 useless or wrong.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“In my jurisdictions, the non-legal LLMs have given me better research and more accurate legal statements, even though a legal data base like Lexis/WL should be better.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AIMixedLexis AI can be used for pointed questions such as locating where a treatise discusses a particular case, though the opening remark is critical of it. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026ValuesThe author uses Strongsuit for AI research and templates at a clear price and without data training, but still needs Lexis for pincites. (summary, not a quote)open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AINeutral“I have federal and my state through Lexis for $175 a month as a solo with only one login.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Lexis & West Law are inaccurate 23-25% of the time.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“They had us do a zoom demo of the AI and it got multiple things wildly incorrect during the demo.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“Lexis AI chat and search blows. I find it unreliable and sometimes just wrong.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026ClaudeValues“IMO, I'd invest more in secure AI tools outside of all three of the major legal providers.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026CoCounselValues“I haven’t used casetext since westlaw bought it, but its AI search ran circles around Lexis protege.”open
  • r/Lawyertalk · Apr 21, 2026Lexis+ AIMixed“Decided to add that, so now my subscription will be around $720/month. It’s pricy, but I do use it every day.”open

Short answers

From the same record as the tables above.

Harvey vs Clio for lawyers: what do lawyers say?

Harvey has net sentiment −21 on 749 public lawyer voices and Clio has −13 on 78, as of . It is a tie on this record: the two 90% bands overlap. Net is like minus dislike as a share of voices.

How many lawyers have posted about Harvey and Clio?

We count 749 public voices on Harvey and 78 on Clio, posted since 2023 by lawyers and people who work with them, as of . Each voice is one post or comment that names the tool.

Do lawyers feel better about Harvey or Clio?

Net sentiment (like minus dislike, as a share of voices) is −21 for Harvey, 90% band −26 to −15, and −13 for Clio, 90% band −28 to +3. The two 90% bands overlap, so on this record the two cannot be told apart by net sentiment. Read the tasks and the complaints below instead of the headline number.

What do lawyers use Harvey and Clio for?

The task named most often on Harvey is general use (545 of 749 voices); on Clio it is general use (34 of 78 voices). A voice has one task, set by our classifier.

Task reports with both: Legal research report