Short answer. Harvey has net sentiment −21 on 749 public lawyer voices and Legora has −3 on 90, as of . It is a tie on this record: the two 90% bands overlap. Net is like minus dislike as a share of voices.
A tie on this record: the two 90% bands overlap, so read the tasks and complaints below.
749 voices on Harvey and 90 on Legora, 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; Legora is a legal AI assistant.
Per 100 voices: like · dislike · name hallucinations
27 · 48 · 5
37 · 40 · 3
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: −18 points (Harvey minus Legora).
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
Legora · complaints
Accuracy 19
Price 11
Trust, liability 7
Legora · what they value
Time saved 8
Accuracy 5
Drafting quality 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.”
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.”
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 Legora · verbatim
r/legaltech
“Despite my bitching about Legora, it is still a very good tool and at present I can pass on the whole cost to my clients.”
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is the cryptocurrency of legal tech, it survived on belief, marketing, and FOMO when in essence it’s an LLM wrapper now with a post-trained open source model to make better margins for their insane valuation and funding rounds”open
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Both Harvey and Legora are built on sales team, not product quality.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraCriticizes“At least where I reside, Legora cannot be trusted to do good/accurate research.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraValues“Whilst Legora has its issues, nothing good prompting cannot fix.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey's benchmark standing does not match the experience in practice, and financial losses may lead it to cut corners. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyValues“When you look at the benchmarks, none of the labs most advanced models are close to Harvey for what it does.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeValues“It runs on our existing gpt or claude subscriptions we already pay for so it has been alot cheaper than Harvey or Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026LegoraMixed“I use Legora and the tool is both helpful, and a useless piece of shit that will get you into trouble and waste far more time than it will save.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both ChatGPT and Claude are better than Legora and Harvey.”open
Hacker News
“Switching from ChatGPT Enterprise to Legora at my firm was a godsend.”
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ClaudeValuesRecommends cross-checking legal documents across multiple models (Claude review, GPT drafting, Gemini, Copilot) and still having a real lawyer verify. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Since this is a thread about using ChatGPT for law, I should note that this is actually one of the most important reasons you'd rather hire a lawyer than ChatGPT to represent you.”open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026LegoraCriticizes“We also tried Legora's tabular review, there were also numerous halucinated provisions in our due diligence exercise.”open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ValuesHaving several AI models critique each other's work has raised output from a high-school intern to a second-year lawyer in a year, though it still does not match experts, and AI will increase litigation volume rather than replace lawyers. (summary, not a quote)open
Hacker News · Sep 18, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I find that when I feed contracts to ChatGPT (which I do all the time) it will try to find 50 things wrong with it.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeValues“The work still must be reviewed by an attorney - Claude is nowhere near making the kinds of judgments a lawyer would make about this content - but it has increased their throughput from 2-3 documents an hour to 8-10 documents an hour by killing the busy work.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ChatGPTValues“If both parties use ChatGPT to find the relevant laws or read contracts, they could come to an agreement without expensive legal fees.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed“It's good for research and data organization, but terrible for drafting.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026ClaudeMixed“In other cases/situations, I’ve tried just giving a model access to all the docs and saying “write a brief arguing X,” but it’s always terrible at this.”open
Hacker News · Sep 17, 2026NeutralNotes that Astra for Law scores slightly below Claude and Muse on a legal research benchmark, without praising or criticizing it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech
“I feel like not only is Legora slower in comparison to other models, but also worse at tasks all around.”
in “Legora not as great as ChatGPT in terms of reasoning?” · 10 voices
r/legaltech · Jul 17, 2026LegoraCriticizes“They do not have their own models and just resell other models with a markup to try and address the need for profit and overhead coverage.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 17, 2026ClaudeValues“Almost all of the lawyers I know who have experience with both Claude and Legora prefer Claude.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 16, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Legora doesn’t use its own models in the first place… they use ChatGPT.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Legora and Harvey helped with that problem. But, that's no longer a problem, so they have no moat.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“They barely even changed the system prompt”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026LegoraValues“In the sense that I am allowed by my firm’s policies to use Legora, I quite prefer it.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026LegoraCriticizes“That's no longer the case, so having a third party between the user and the frontier model is no longer useful.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026LegoraMixed“Legora is going to be a bit behind, in exchange for more integrations.”open
r/legaltech · Jul 14, 2026LegoraMixed“Legora is timid and very lawyery. Really depends on the prompt.”open
When both come up in one thread
Voices from threads where posters name Harvey and Legora. Open the thread for the whole exchange.
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is the cryptocurrency of legal tech, it survived on belief, marketing, and FOMO when in essence it’s an LLM wrapper now with a post-trained open source model to make better margins for their insane valuation and funding rounds”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraCriticizes“At least where I reside, Legora cannot be trusted to do good/accurate research.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraValues“Whilst Legora has its issues, nothing good prompting cannot fix.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey's benchmark standing does not match the experience in practice, and financial losses may lead it to cut corners. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraValues“Despite my bitching about Legora, it is still a very good tool and at present I can pass on the whole cost to my clients.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyValues“When you look at the benchmarks, none of the labs most advanced models are close to Harvey for what it does.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeValues“It runs on our existing gpt or claude subscriptions we already pay for so it has been alot cheaper than Harvey or Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026LegoraMixed“I use Legora and the tool is both helpful, and a useless piece of shit that will get you into trouble and waste far more time than it will save.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both ChatGPT and Claude are better than Legora and Harvey.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey is the cryptocurrency of legal tech, it survived on belief, marketing, and FOMO when in essence it’s an LLM wrapper now with a post-trained open source model to make better margins for their insane valuation and funding rounds”open
r/legaltech · Oct 17, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Both Harvey and Legora are built on sales team, not product quality.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraCriticizes“At least where I reside, Legora cannot be trusted to do good/accurate research.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026LegoraValues“Whilst Legora has its issues, nothing good prompting cannot fix.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyCriticizesHarvey's benchmark standing does not match the experience in practice, and financial losses may lead it to cut corners. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026HarveyValues“When you look at the benchmarks, none of the labs most advanced models are close to Harvey for what it does.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 16, 2026ClaudeValues“It runs on our existing gpt or claude subscriptions we already pay for so it has been alot cheaper than Harvey or Legora.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026LegoraMixed“I use Legora and the tool is both helpful, and a useless piece of shit that will get you into trouble and waste far more time than it will save.”open
r/legaltech · Oct 15, 2026ChatGPTValues“Both ChatGPT and Claude are better than Legora and Harvey.”open
“Harvey probably has even more of a moat because of confidentiality issues with most AI products, you might need to disclose to opposing counsel or the court which tool you are using, and Harvey is the one least likely to cause a problem because most of biglaw uses it.”
in “I think Legora may be strategically screwed” · 12 voices
r/legaltech · Oct 10, 2026ValuesThe author's own command-line code on the same foundation LLM matches or beats Harvey and Legora prompts for general contract review, so output quality, ease of use and price are not the barrier. (summary, not a quote)open
r/legaltech · Sep 21, 2026ClaudeMixed“Claude has degraded to the point where it is actually useless. It cannot follow instructions, it cannot see the big picture, and it is a terrible writer.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 17, 2026LegoraCriticizes“I can't stand the card-based Word Add In interface.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“I doubt it's blatant but they'll be using something- your prompts, telemetry, an AI summary of your usage- all technically not your data.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Based on all of our conversations, they don't have a meaningful edge on any of those.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026CoCounselValues“CoCounsel 1.0 and 2.0 sucked. CoCounsel 3.0 is much much better.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyMixed“Midtier AI comfortable users found Harvey interesting and potentially useful and I am considering getting them subscriptions to use what is basically a wrapper.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026Lexis+ AIValues“Lexis has proprietary content, Shepard, and decades of embedded distribution. That’s an actual moat independent of WL.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I personally think legora and Harvey prove that we are in a bubble. Literally gpt wrappers.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026LegoraValues“As a question of motive yes, possibly, but Harvey and Legora are using the frontier models under the hood anyway and if you pay the frontier labs for a contract they will agree not to train on your data.”open
r/legaltech · Sep 14, 2026ChatGPTValues“The enterprise/business plan of a frontier model, particularly Claude or ChatGPT, is much better.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026ClaudeValues“If you use Claude, running Opus 5.5 or Fable on Extra Effort, it genuinely could replace a lot of attorneys.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026CoCounselMixed“Westlaw CoCounsel is really good when there’s a clear answer to a question.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026HarveyMixed“Harvey and WestLaw’s AI (and parallel search) are the most useful imo but like I said that doesn’t mean they are good.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 2, 2026LegoraCriticizes“Legora is great if you want to feel really confident about something (but get it wrong anyways).”open
r/biglaw · Oct 1, 2026HarveyMixed“I say Harvey gets the first 20% of the work done.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 1, 2026Westlaw AIValues“Stuff I would give a 1-3 year associate and expect them to spend 6-8 hours on, I give to westlaw and it gives me a better work product than an associate would in 10 minutes.”open
Short answers
From the same record as the tables above.
Harvey vs Legora for lawyers: what do lawyers say?
Harvey has net sentiment −21 on 749 public lawyer voices and Legora has −3 on 90, 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 Legora?
We count 749 public voices on Harvey and 90 on Legora, 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 Legora?
Net sentiment (like minus dislike, as a share of voices) is −21 for Harvey, 90% band −26 to −15, and −3 for Legora, 90% band −18 to +11. 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 Legora for?
The task named most often on Harvey is general use (545 of 749 voices); on Legora it is general use (63 of 90 voices). A voice has one task, set by our classifier.
Where this answer continues
This page is how people who used each one describe it. How the two differ on home market, jurisdictions covered and enterprise adoption, from what each vendor publishes, is in Legora vs Harvey on aivortex.io.
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