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Harvey AILegal AI assistant749 voices on recordlatest Oct 20, 2026204 like · 101 mixed · 359 dislike

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−21

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749

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No. 13 of 14

90% band −26 to −15

Trendno clear move (+7 pts, 90 days)
Most valuedTime saved 72 voices
Top complaintAccuracy 156 voices

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The most named complaint is accuracy (156 of 749 voices); the most valued thing is time saved (72). The whole band sits below zero: more lawyers on record dislike it than like it. 15 voices come from Hacker News, 730 from Reddit and 4 from Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy and Stack Exchange.

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r/LawyertalkOct 20, 2026

“Now using Harvey. It is quite worrisome what it can do..”

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r/Lawyertalk · Oct 21, 2026ChatGPTCriticizesThe author reported a lawyer to the bar for filings with misleading precedents invented by ChatGPT and for feeding client data into AI. (summary, not a quote)open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 21, 2026Lexis+ AICriticizes“I’ve caught even Lexis’s AI making mistakes.”open
r/Lawyertalk · Oct 20, 2026ChatGPTCriticizes“Some of the worst lawyering I’ve ever seen has come from lawyers asking ChatGPT how to cross-examine a witness.”open

r/LawyertalkOct 18, 2026

“I think they’re amazing and have the potential to save me hundreds of hours on an assignment.”

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r/Lawyertalk · Oct 18, 2026ValuesAI is great for brainstorming at the start and refining at the end of a project, and lawyers should use it while still doing their own thinking. (summary, not a quote)open

r/legaltechOct 17, 2026

“Both Harvey and Legora are built on sales team, not product quality.”

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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/legaltechOct 17, 2026

“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”

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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, 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/biglawOct 16, 2026

“You do realize that Harvey was literally just an interface to access Claude since day 1.”

in “Harvey / Legora are awful.” · 38 voices

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r/biglaw · Oct 19, 2026CriticizesLegal SaaS platforms like Harvey and Legora are just wrappers around LLMs, and the author's firm built its own in-house platform and sees their valuations as unjustified. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“Boomer here, but I think Harvey is incredible.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“When you know what you are doing and what you want, Harvey is great IMO.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026CoCounselNeutral“CoCounsel allows you to build workflows and combine with other sources too, though.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“The US caselaw search is better because you can combine it with other sources so you can have it look through a set of litigation documents and run caselaw research to help figure out their significance at the same time.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026ClaudeValues“To be very clear, in my experience having these systems finely tuned to your individual work vs the level of tuning you can get out of harvey/cocounsel/co-pilot can represent 2-3x productivity increases.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey vault is amazing for working with discovery productions.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey also has a US Caselaw database where whichever model you pick will directly search for cases in the database.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026CriticizesSays lawyers will not use raw coding or chat tools and need a wrapper around the model to make it usable. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey can be used with Astra 6 or Fable, your firm just has to agree to API pricing.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey uses the Chat GPT and Claude models and you can actually pick which model.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026ChatGPTValues“What pisses me off is that our clients ARE using Claude and ChatGPT themselves and we’re stuck using these inferior models.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Alls I know is that I can’t keep track of all the platforms so I stick to my mans Harvey even though the other mans might be better.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey and Legora are inferior products, by magnitudes, and any firm that exclusively relies on these tools is falling behind in productivity and associate satisfaction.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“If you are using Fable and you give it enough project data, it can function like your associate on that case who has a mastery of facts and super fast turnaround.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey sucks because it's just an API built on top of open-source AI models, which are way behind the models currently available through openAI or Claude.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizesYounger lawyers who grew up with general AI tools would be disadvantaged by using Harvey, while older lawyers can be forgiven for adopting it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“This is basically a fine tuned version of the Kimi K3 model which they claim is better but is clearly worse”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey does have its own propriety model. And yes, if you select a specific model, only the output is generated by that model, not all of the intervening tasks.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“There is no “Harvey” model. Harvey just picks one of the models based on your prompt.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“I like to think of Harvey as an energetic junior, does their best, a fine starting point, but doesn’t produce a product I’d be willing to send a client without a deeeep review”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey's been killing it for me on the transaction side with the rote drafting and title work.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“I use Harvey daily and think it’s a fantastic product (as long as you use it to supplement, not replace your work product)”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Even when I add docs to a vault and ask for a review table, getting Harvey to actually “read” the docs is like pulling teeth.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude code with a syfert.com MCP (or a courtlistener MCP, or ding duff) is 500% better than Harvey and Legora.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“It’s usually right but the times it isn’t it’s REALLY wrong.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I also do not think I’m getting real Opus 5 when I select it in Harvey. And it’s hella slow.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey profits by arbitrating token costs, so they use the cheapest models they think can get away with for the bulk of response.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“They came out years later than Harvey, when firms already adopted Harvey, but yeah, firms should abandon Harveyw”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“My firm has Harvey and CoCounsel, and I just use CC bc it has access to Westlaw.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It routinely gives me genuinely “lazy” answers that fail to address what are obviously critical aspects of the issue, in a way that is not true of Fable or Astra”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The only reason firms choose Harvey is it doesn’t use our data to train its AI due to confidentiality, or else they are trash”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“All other tasks, such as the actual research, review, etc, are handled by whatever model Harvey wants, including their own shitty “proprietary” models.”open

r/biglawOct 15, 2026

“It’s usually right but the times it isn’t it’s REALLY wrong.”

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r/biglaw · Oct 19, 2026CriticizesLegal SaaS platforms like Harvey and Legora are just wrappers around LLMs, and the author's firm built its own in-house platform and sees their valuations as unjustified. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“Boomer here, but I think Harvey is incredible.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 18, 2026HarveyValues“When you know what you are doing and what you want, Harvey is great IMO.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026CoCounselNeutral“CoCounsel allows you to build workflows and combine with other sources too, though.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“The US caselaw search is better because you can combine it with other sources so you can have it look through a set of litigation documents and run caselaw research to help figure out their significance at the same time.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026ClaudeValues“To be very clear, in my experience having these systems finely tuned to your individual work vs the level of tuning you can get out of harvey/cocounsel/co-pilot can represent 2-3x productivity increases.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 17, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey vault is amazing for working with discovery productions.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey also has a US Caselaw database where whichever model you pick will directly search for cases in the database.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026CriticizesSays lawyers will not use raw coding or chat tools and need a wrapper around the model to make it usable. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey can be used with Astra 6 or Fable, your firm just has to agree to API pricing.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey uses the Chat GPT and Claude models and you can actually pick which model.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026ChatGPTValues“What pisses me off is that our clients ARE using Claude and ChatGPT themselves and we’re stuck using these inferior models.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“Alls I know is that I can’t keep track of all the platforms so I stick to my mans Harvey even though the other mans might be better.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 16, 2026HarveyNeutral“You do realize that Harvey was literally just an interface to access Claude since day 1.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey and Legora are inferior products, by magnitudes, and any firm that exclusively relies on these tools is falling behind in productivity and associate satisfaction.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“If you are using Fable and you give it enough project data, it can function like your associate on that case who has a mastery of facts and super fast turnaround.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey sucks because it's just an API built on top of open-source AI models, which are way behind the models currently available through openAI or Claude.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizesYounger lawyers who grew up with general AI tools would be disadvantaged by using Harvey, while older lawyers can be forgiven for adopting it. (summary, not a quote)open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“This is basically a fine tuned version of the Kimi K3 model which they claim is better but is clearly worse”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“Harvey does have its own propriety model. And yes, if you select a specific model, only the output is generated by that model, not all of the intervening tasks.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyNeutral“There is no “Harvey” model. Harvey just picks one of the models based on your prompt.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyMixed“I like to think of Harvey as an energetic junior, does their best, a fine starting point, but doesn’t produce a product I’d be willing to send a client without a deeeep review”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“Harvey's been killing it for me on the transaction side with the rote drafting and title work.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I’ve been really impressed and don’t see how a tool could be much better”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyValues“I use Harvey daily and think it’s a fantastic product (as long as you use it to supplement, not replace your work product)”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026Westlaw AIValues“I use co counsel for litigation and i find it is much more accurate for litigation research than claude, chatgpt, or gemini.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Even when I add docs to a vault and ask for a review table, getting Harvey to actually “read” the docs is like pulling teeth.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026ClaudeValues“Claude code with a syfert.com MCP (or a courtlistener MCP, or ding duff) is 500% better than Harvey and Legora.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“I also do not think I’m getting real Opus 5 when I select it in Harvey. And it’s hella slow.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“Harvey profits by arbitrating token costs, so they use the cheapest models they think can get away with for the bulk of response.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“They came out years later than Harvey, when firms already adopted Harvey, but yeah, firms should abandon Harveyw”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026CoCounselValues“My firm has Harvey and CoCounsel, and I just use CC bc it has access to Westlaw.”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“It routinely gives me genuinely “lazy” answers that fail to address what are obviously critical aspects of the issue, in a way that is not true of Fable or Astra”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“The only reason firms choose Harvey is it doesn’t use our data to train its AI due to confidentiality, or else they are trash”open
r/biglaw · Oct 15, 2026HarveyCriticizes“All other tasks, such as the actual research, review, etc, are handled by whatever model Harvey wants, including their own shitty “proprietary” models.”open

r/biglawAug 21, 2026

“When I asked Harvey and Legora the same research question they were basically the same answers.”

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r/biglaw · Aug 21, 2026HarveyMixed“Harvey missed the ask one time when I was trying to get it to revise/add a little to a paragraph and it gave me 3 very long paragraphs.”open
r/biglaw · Aug 21, 2026LegoraValues“I think it makes me 30% more efficient generally, but if I am writing briefs or summaries of documents it's much higher”open

Hacker NewsMay 15, 2026

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

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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 NewsJul 22, 2025

“That benchmark in the report clearly shows that there is not much added value or moat in the custom training of Harvey.”

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Hacker NewsNov 28, 2023

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

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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

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Date	Source	Stance	Task	Summary
Oct 20, 2026	r/Lawyertalk	Values	General use	After a year on premium ChatGPT, which was good but imperfect, the author now uses Harvey and finds its capability striking enough to threaten junior attorneys and paralegals.	open
Oct 18, 2026	r/Lawyertalk	Values	Legal research	New associate finds Harvey and Lexis tools amazing, saving hundreds of hours, but verifies everything and worries about skill development.	open
Oct 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	Harvey works well when the user builds a vault, uploads good precedent and gives clear instructions as they would to an associate.	open
Oct 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	Harvey is imperfect but incredible, and a short session with it on a drafted brief adds the most value of any time spent on that brief.	open
Oct 17, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Discovery	Harvey's vault is excellent for working with discovery productions, but the author always switches away from the default model to ChatGPT or Claude.	open
Oct 17, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	Harvey's US caselaw search is better because it can be combined with litigation documents in workflows to assess the significance of cases.	open
Oct 17, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Both Harvey and Legora are driven by sales effort rather than product quality.	open
Oct 17, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is an LLM wrapper sustained by marketing and hype, with a valuation out of line with its product.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Argues Harvey was only an interface to Claude and would not exist without it.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author sticks with Harvey because they cannot keep track of multiple platforms, even though another one might be better.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey runs on ChatGPT and Claude models and lets the user choose which one to use.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey can be used with newer models if the firm agrees to API pricing.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	Legal research	Explains that Lexis offers a CoCounsel competitor called Protege, that Harvey queries it as a source, and that Harvey also has its own US caselaw database.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	On benchmarks, no general lab model is close to Harvey for legal work yet.	open
Oct 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's benchmark standing does not match the experience in practice, and financial losses may lead it to cut corners.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Says Harvey lets users choose only the model for final output while its own models handle research and review, which the author finds misleading and poor.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Believes firms choose Harvey only because it does not train on client data for confidentiality reasons, and otherwise considers it poor.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey often gives lazy answers that miss critical issues, which the author suspects comes from built-in instructions to save processing cost.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Notes that Harvey was adopted by firms before competitors appeared, in a remark whose view on abandoning Harvey is unclear.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey profits by routing most requests to the cheapest models it can, so users do not get the premium models they select.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author doubts that selecting a premium model in Harvey actually delivers that model, and finds it very slow.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	General use	Harvey is good at certain tasks, about the level of a good second-year associate or paralegal, and usually right, but when it is wrong it is badly wrong.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Summarization	Even with documents in a vault, getting Harvey to actually read them for a review table is very difficult because it is lazy and complains about long tasks.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Uses Harvey daily and considers it a fantastic product as long as it supplements rather than replaces the lawyer's own work.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	Harvey works very well for transactional rote drafting and title work, getting the lawyer about 80% of the way there before final review.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Drafting	Harvey is like an energetic junior who gives a fine starting point, but its work needs deep review before going to a client.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Says Harvey has no model of its own and that poor results come from not selecting a better model, blaming user training.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey has its own proprietary model, and a selected model only generates the final output, so blaming the user for poor results is unfair.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey moved to its own proprietary model after losing money on third-party model costs, and the author finds it clearly worse despite Harvey's claims.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Younger lawyers who grew up with general AI tools would be disadvantaged by using Harvey, while older lawyers can be forgiven for adopting it.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is weak because it runs on models that lag behind OpenAI and Claude, and a lawyer who prompts those directly will outperform a Harvey user.	open
Oct 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and Legora are inferior by magnitudes to Astra 6 or Claude; firms relying on them fall behind in productivity.	open
Oct 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author thinks Harvey's features can be replicated and configured more flexibly with your own LLM, and says the Harvey browser becomes slow and glitchy after about a hundred prompts.	open
Oct 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author says Harvey cannot replace the latest Claude and suspects Harvey limits the model's reasoning effort, which bothers them.	open
Oct 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author describes that their firm's Harvey lets users pick the underlying model, and they choose Claude Fable for complex queries even though it is slower.	open
Oct 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Other	Harvey proofreads briefs better than a careful human review, but it needs repeated prompting and flags items that are not real issues.	open
Oct 10, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	The author likes Claude personally but doubts it could replace Harvey's vaults, playbooks and review tables, which they see as big time savers.	open
Oct 10, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author argues that Harvey is a middleman between users and frontier models and that large firms will go direct once the auditable layer can be replaced.	open
Oct 10, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author says Harvey is terrible and that it somehow degrades a frontier model.	open
Oct 10, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Hears his firm may leave Harvey for frontier labs, calling Harvey a low-effort Kimi wrapper, and asks how that works in practice.	open
Oct 9, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Drafting	Harvey drafts bloated, over-aggressive documents with unnecessary provisions, so human lawyers must restrain it and the cost savings are doubtful.	open
Oct 9, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey is the safest choice for big law because firms are less exposed on confidentiality and disclosure to the court, and its custom agents and workflows make switching costly.	open
Oct 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Harvey and Legora benefit from trust by association because lawyers feel safer choosing platforms that large firms have already adopted.	open
Oct 2, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Legal research	Harvey should never be used for legal research; use Westlaw or Lexis AI instead.	open
Oct 2, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Legal research	Harvey and Westlaw's AI are the most useful legal research options and better than general chatbots, but they are not good and work best when given a starting point and narrowed step by step.	open
Oct 1, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	General use	Harvey completes roughly the first 20% of a task but is often wrong at first, so it suits junior lawyers poorly because they cannot tell what to follow up on.	open
Sep 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Legal AI vendors like Harvey depend on third-party models and are unprofitable, so firms relying on them may face large price increases or vendor closure.	open
Sep 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Firms building their own tools would need technologists, lawyer time and model licences, likely costing more than a Legora or Harvey subscription.	open
Sep 19, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey response times range from instant to about 10 minutes on document-heavy tasks, but the notify-me email lets users run many tasks at once and works well.	open
Sep 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey or Legora subscriptions cost more per lawyer than all other firm software combined for an unspecified efficiency gain.	open
Sep 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Drafting	Harvey does far more than a marginal efficiency gain, at least for corporate transactional work.	open
Sep 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey is useful but costs more than all the other technology a lawyer needed before it, so it must be really good.	open
Sep 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Says benchmarks for the Thomson Reuters and Harvey proprietary LLMs are rigged against GPT models and that those custom models mainly cut vendor costs rather than serve lawyers.	open
Sep 17, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and Protege reportedly give very similar outputs, and the author doubts their value at the likely cost when firms can build similar tools with Copilot and MCPs.	open
Sep 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	A first-year associate says their firm's Harvey can search the document management system from a plain-language request, which has greatly improved how efficiently they find precedent documents.	open
Sep 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Considers Harvey and Legora to be thin wrappers around GPT and a sign of an AI bubble.	open
Sep 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Sees Harvey as a comfortable but basic wrapper for mid-tier users, regrets losing the Westlaw integration built into the firm's processes, and says staff like Copilot, Gemini and Grammarly for routine drafting.	open
Sep 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Their firm provides Harvey, which they use for document analysis, pitches, bids, BD and rephrasing case descriptions.	open
Sep 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	A veteran legal IT leader says Harvey's demos won over lawyers by going straight to common, lengthy tasks, while rival tools seemed to talk past lawyers and had inflexible pricing.	open
Sep 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	Contract review	Harvey has no foundational model of its own and mainly primes ChatGPT for expected tasks such as contract redlines, so it is not original but is marketed well.	open
Sep 12, 2026	Bluesky · bsky.app	Values	Legal research	Reports that partners at a law firm say Harvey lets them do case research themselves, while noting the claim is debatable.	open
Sep 12, 2026	r/LawFirm	Criticizes	General use	Claims nobody really uses Harvey in earnest and that big firms adopt it to look forward-thinking, and says Claude cowork is far cheaper.	open
Sep 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Legal research	Paying for Harvey is being duped, since a self-built agent with a zero-data-retention provider and Westlaw credentials does the same job.	open
Sep 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Other	Harvey has less functionality than ChatGPT or Claude, for example it cannot create a PowerPoint that Claude produces easily.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	After a two-week firm trial, found Harvey hallucinated less and handled nuance better than ChatGPT on research issues, like a young associate versus a law student.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Says Harvey can keep work privileged and not train on uploaded case documents, though they notice little difference between AI models.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	Harvey and Legora's curated databases of public legal sources beat general web search, give precise cited answers, and are easy for everyone at the firm to use.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey adds no real value because the product is easy to replicate, so its high valuation is puzzling.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey runs ChatGPT and Claude underneath, so it is somewhat derivative of them.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey is just a wrapper around other models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.	open
Sep 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey wraps ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and lets the user choose which model to use.	open
Sep 9, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Thinks it is ironic that firms use Harvey to protect client information when the data still goes to Anthropic and OpenAI, which may train on law firm documents.	open
Sep 5, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Views Harvey as a poor LLM wrapper that was first to market but doubts it will last.	open
Sep 2, 2026	Hacker News	Neutral	General use	Harvey said one user query cost the firm $26k while many firms pay nothing, a gap subsidized by VC money.	open
Sep 2, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Legal research	The author argues that legal AI research tools are less accurate than vendors claim, citing Stanford findings on hallucination rates, the lack of independent benchmarks for Harvey and CoCounsel, and high costs.	open
Sep 1, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Vendors like Harvey and Legora can change the underlying model without notice, so a firm's evaluation is only a snapshot; contracts should require notice of model changes and a penalty-free exit.	open
Aug 31, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Expects Harvey 2.0 to be a major step forward but is waiting to see how it performs.	open
Aug 31, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	A vendor like Harvey or Legora has solved many problems and carries accountability, whereas a firm that builds its own tool owns every problem and the liability.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and similar legal tech often do not add enough value over frontier model APIs and custom in-house apps, which are getting faster and cheaper to build.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey keeps innovating and improving, so judging it from a brief trial is unfair.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's premium and multi-year contract are hard to justify as frontier models improve and building bespoke tools gets easier.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's premium and multi-year contract are hard to justify as frontier models improve and building bespoke tools gets easier.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author thinks Harvey, Legora and similar products are finished and that Thomson Reuters wasted money training its own AI.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is little more than a wrapper around general models whose early edge was zero-data-retention terms, and all LLM citations still need human checking.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Citation checking	After double-checking citations the author was pleasantly surprised, and likes Harvey's document vault, though ChatGPT connected to a drive can do something similar.	open
Aug 30, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey-type tools are justified mainly by matter context, permissions and vendor terms rather than writing quality, so a $30k cost is hard to defend without those, and consumer accounts carry different data terms and all citations need checking.	open
Aug 29, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is just a wrapper around features one can build oneself, and only its Lexis connection gives it a real business case.	open
Aug 29, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey was good in a trial but only good, and committing to payments risks being stuck with a tool that will look dated within a couple of years.	open
Aug 28, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey loses projects after about a week and deletes content mid-prompt, forcing the author to export threads and documents every day.	open
Aug 27, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	The author says the harness behind Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark is much simpler than the one in Harvey's real product, so the scores do not reflect actual performance.	open
Aug 27, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	The author welcomes Harvey open-sourcing its legal benchmark but found the results hard to reproduce and the scoring unreliable, so would not rely on the scores.	open
Aug 27, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	Other	Co-founder of a competitor dissects how Harvey's legal AI benchmark works and whether scores translate to useful legal work.	open
Aug 21, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Drafting	Harvey and Legora both impress for drafting, but Harvey once missed the instruction and returned three long paragraphs instead of a small revision.	open
Aug 21, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	Prefers Harvey over Legora, same research answers but clearer review table categories; both better than Copilot.	open
Aug 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is mostly hype and marketing, with announcements that lack real usage and mainly let firms claim they use AI.	open
Aug 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Contract review	Harvey was good for multi-document review, due diligence and speeding up issues lists, and the author is weighing whether a cheaper tool like Copilot would suffice in-house.	open
Aug 19, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey has no future if it has to pay Anthropic and OpenAI full API costs.	open
Aug 19, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	A heavy Harvey user who sees little value in its new model, likes the Harvey II idea but thinks a separate vendor would do it better, and uses Harvey only because the firm allows nothing else.	open
Aug 19, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is just a wrapper for Claude, and the same thing can be done with Claude on a shared drive.	open
Aug 19, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	As a user, the author finds Harvey's output better than Claude Cowork with the legal plugin.	open
Aug 19, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's benchmarks include few active-litigation and court-submission tasks, so they say little about accuracy where sanctions risk matters.	open
Aug 19, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's benchmark appears to measure cost rather than accuracy, and its judge never sees the source materials, so it cannot show grounded answers.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Prefers the firm's enterprise Claude and is glad to avoid Harvey, which they see as just a wrapper around ChatGPT or Claude rather than a real AI lab.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's business model rests on the gap between token costs and firm fees, and its model selector is useless because Harvey assigns most tasks to models chosen mainly for its own cost.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey never gave unlimited free Claude; it routed work to a cheap model and only used the selected model for final output, which the author calls a scam.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and similar wrappers are scams because Claude alone does everything better and cleaner at half the cost.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's model selection feature only affects the final output, not the underlying analysis, so it does less than users assume.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and Legora charge steep per-seat fees and still need heavy customization, so a firm-built MCP server in its own cloud is the better option.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's earlier attempt to fine-tune its own model failed to keep pace with leading models, so an open-source base model is unlikely to do better.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's approach of automating fixed lawyer tasks is flawed, general models will outperform specialized ones, and regulated firms relying on Chinese open models face serious risk.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Harvey earlier tried post-training a legal model, but new OpenAI base models kept surpassing it and open-source models were too far behind.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Model selection in Harvey has little real effect because Harvey avoids paying for tokens.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The 'ChatGPT wrapper' criticism of Harvey still holds, since it now wraps Kimi K3 as well as ChatGPT.	open
Aug 18, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	If Harvey's in-house model is much cheaper than paying Anthropic or OpenAI, it would be a real benefit to law firms.	open
Aug 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Says Harvey's claims, such as a legal-specific model, are unsupported by evidence and aimed at unsophisticated lawyers, and that its integration features are basic.	open
Aug 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Concedes Harvey and Legora are imperfect and must work to keep users, but says a front end is easy to build while optimizing the whole stack and pleasing lawyers is hard.	open
Aug 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Argues firms pay Harvey and Legora for privacy, matter-level permissions, verification, auditability and trust, which a raw frontier model does not provide.	open
Aug 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Using Harvey daily has been transformative because its library of editable lawyer workflows helps, though workflows and human review points must be mapped out first.	open
Aug 15, 2026	r/paralegal	Criticizes	Drafting	Attorneys over-rely on Harvey, which lacks nuance and misses case facts such as a pre-existing condition, even though it sometimes produces good work.	open
Aug 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author calls Harvey horrible and adds that Claude is not very useful for legal work either.	open
Aug 14, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey and Legora are preferable to Claude alone because they can switch between AI models without disrupting users, avoiding lock-in to one provider.	open
Aug 14, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Argues Harvey is just a wrapper with no demonstrated advantage over Claude or ChatGPT, and that big law legaltech purchasing is driven by brand and hype.	open
Aug 14, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Argues Harvey and Legora do far more than wrap a model, handling authentication, data management, integrations and lawyer preferences that a single document dropped into Claude does not.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Drafting	Says Harvey hallucinated a board action with a wrong DGCL citation on their deal team and that simple tasks should start from the firm's precedent library.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey loses prior work after about a week or after a mid-thread refresh, and the firm mainly cares that no confidential client information goes in without client permission.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	In-house, can ask the vendor rep to pull Harvey prompts and is prepared to pull Claude and Copilot logs for litigation holds, so assumes all is saved.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Firm administrators can see all Harvey prompts and documents, but the tool has no useful monitoring beyond manual checks and the firm mostly reviews general usage statistics.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Reports that during their firm's Harvey trial, the firm identified which attorneys made the most queries.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey lets firm administrators see exact prompts, prompt quality and usage reports, so the firm likely knows what users ask.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Firm administrators with access can see everything users do in Harvey, and the firm even has an AI tool to review it.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Firms can retrieve chats from the firm AI tool for a retention period, but rarely review them unless there is a problem or a litigation hold, so use free public tools for interview preparation.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey offers a convenient interface and ready-made review workflows, but Claude with connectors gives nearly identical reasoning and Harvey's seat fees are high.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Says Harvey and Legora give real value when used correctly, mainly through prebuilt interfaces that help adoption, though other tools can sometimes do more.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Says Claude and ChatGPT suit technically capable firms willing to build custom tools, while Harvey and Legora fit professionals who will not go beyond a chat interface.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Notes Harvey and Legora integrate with iManage and may be refined for legal needs like ethical walls, while the cost of general tools' iManage access remains uncertain.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Drafting	Chose Harvey because its drafting quality, Word add-in, Lexis integration, bulk document table tool and all-inclusive price make it easy for attorneys to pick up.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	A lawyer at an international firm trialing both finds Harvey and Legora basically wrappers with useful features, prefers Harvey for its interface and stability, but sees little difference and notes inconsistent results when the platform picks the model.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Discovery	Strongly favors Harvey, saying it has improved with newer models and cuts discovery requests and responses from about 6 hours to 1-2 hours.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Argues that legal tech is mostly hype over substance and that many claims in the thread about Harvey are technically wrong.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Warns that mandatory data collection in the newest frontier model, which wrapper vendors cannot turn off, may be a problem for attorney-client confidentiality.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Explains that Harvey's file handling and context depend on its own orchestration and prompts, so it cannot be assumed to match Claude Enterprise.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Their team chose Harvey because they wanted a turnkey product and lacked confidence in using Claude.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey and Legora justify their premium price through plug-and-play tools, firm-wide usability, admin-controlled security and dedicated support, which general AI tools like Claude don't match without extra effort.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Loved Harvey in the trial and found it very useful with proper directions, was disappointed by CoCounsel's clunky interface and missing features, yet their firm chose CoCounsel for its data privacy advantage.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Says Harvey and Legora offer real privacy controls, a legal-specific interface and working integrations that general chat tools lack, but considers them overpriced.	open
Aug 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Firm trialed Harvey but usefulness did not justify cost; expects little from Legora, prefers Claude Enterprise.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey lets users pick the model but not the effort level, and deep analysis hides which model and effort are used, unlike using Claude directly.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author learned that Harvey can use a different model for Deep Analysis than the one they selected, and found that useful to know.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author doubts Harvey's claim that its growth came purely from the product, and points to the engineers writing prompts for each client.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey often loses context mid-conversation and its user experience is much worse than plain Claude.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Wrappers like Harvey may route work to cheaper, weaker models, producing poor output, and the underlying models like Claude may undercut them.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	Harvey works well for repeatable template drafting reviewed by an attorney, producing documents in seconds and supporting flat-fee arrangements.	open
Aug 12, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Legal research	A junior associate says Harvey saves unbillable time, such as finding an old email in the vault, though clients may not see lower costs.	open
Aug 11, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	Legal research	In the author's experience Harvey and Legora do not help much, and the idea that lawyers no longer need to research or draft is unrealistic.	open
Aug 8, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Lawyers using consumer AI is unwise, while reputable firms use Harvey, which runs on Claude; the real issue is the terms of service and BAA, not the model.	open
Aug 8, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey does not allow the data sharing that consumer Claude does, so reputable firms ban consumer AI tools for personnel because of privacy and privilege risks.	open
Aug 7, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Use a zero data retention system built for legal work such as Harvey or CoCounsel and obtain client consent before using AI on their matters.	open
Aug 7, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Harvey is not zero data retention itself, since it only requires that from model providers and its document repository adds another custodian, though it can still be a reasonable choice.	open
Aug 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Legal AI tools like Harvey run on underlying LLMs, and without proof that client information reached another person or became public, the client has no claim.	open
Aug 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Lack of zero data retention for small enterprise accounts is a deal breaker for many legal uses, and a vendor like Harvey is useful because it has more leverage to obtain it.	open
Aug 4, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	The wrapper criticism is fair for simple workflow tools, but paying for legal AI buys citation verification, permissions, audit logs, research database access and a vendor who is accountable.	open
Aug 1, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Harvey running on the latest GPT model performs very strongly, but associates must master it because it raises rather than lowers expectations for work product.	open
Jul 31, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey and Legora offer trusted, secure environments, and building legal AI yourself carries risk because judges are sanctioning wrong AI content and the exposure falls on the builder.	open
Jul 28, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey is not a better AI than Claude, but it comes with legal databases, document review workflows, citations and firm integrations already set up.	open
Jul 24, 2026	r/Lawyertalk	Mixed	Legal research	General models like ChatGPT hallucinate citations and miss jurisdiction-specific nuances, so purpose-built legal tools such as Harvey are better though expensive.	open
Jul 24, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey's value is its turnkey integration with firm document systems, prebuilt legal workflows and compliance, while a small firm can replicate many tasks in Claude more cheaply.	open
Jul 23, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author says Harvey's proprietary layer understands legal requests worse than the underlying models, which their firm's own testing supports.	open
Jul 23, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	The author explains that Westlaw bills through because searches are metered by matter, while flat per-seat AI tools lack a per-matter record, and suggests routing AI use through one logged channel that requires a matter number.	open
Jul 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Summarization	Partners tell associates to have Harvey do the work, then are surprised when it produces an unwieldy 100-page memo.	open
Jul 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Summarization	Uses Harvey regularly, not for primary research, but finds it very good at checking facts against a record, adjusting tone, summarizing briefs and assessing arguments.	open
Jul 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Legal research	Harvey's value lies in trusted legal sources, citation checking, security and law-firm workflows, not just the underlying AI.	open
Jul 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	No convincing case has been made for Harvey or other big legal AI vendors, and they may not survive if the underlying model providers expand into legal work.	open
Jul 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is nothing special, since any foundation model can achieve the same result.	open
Jul 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Claims Harvey gets early access to newer OpenAI models than the public, without describing any use in legal work.	open
Jul 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Says MikeOS is just a Claude wrapper and defends Harvey based on actual use, saying much online criticism comes from people who have not used it.	open
Jul 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Predicts general models will catch up so legal AI tools lose their value, while firms remain locked into heavy token bills.	open
Jul 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Admits not using Claude for Enterprise but holds that replicating Harvey would cost too much effort and expense, so buying Harvey makes sense.	open
Jul 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	The author at a large firm says firms buy tools like Harvey partly because competitors do and to meet client expectations, and that a license fee is easily justified by lawyer time saved if adoption is there.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Believes legal-specific AI tools like Harvey and Legora have no advantage over general frontier models and are doomed.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey's review tables look very impressive, and the author wonders whether Harvey offers unrestricted access to the stronger model.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Thinks Harvey's business model, earning on the spread between fees and AI token costs, is unsustainable and will lose money.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	The newer model is available in Harvey only as opt-in because of its different data retention policy, and an account admin must request it.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Drafting	Has Harvey access and says real use changed their mind: strong document editing with redlines, very large context handling, agentic workflows and review tables that cannot reasonably be rebuilt.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Claims Harvey adds nothing over Claude and that firm decision makers buy it without using it, relying on middle managers for reports.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	Legal research	Harvey steered users away from using it for legal research in its own training, likely because hallucination risk cannot be fully eliminated.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	Legal research	Harvey offers little over Claude as a model, but its access to LexisNexis content is a critical difference for case law citations that Claude plugins cannot match.	open
Jul 20, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey can process over 10,000 documents in a grid and offers workflow builders, reporting, firm-tool integrations and stronger governance controls for large firms.	open
Jul 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author, who works at an AI-native law firm, says Harvey does not solve their real problems and that its output is something that still has to be reviewed.	open
Jul 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	Harvey works like a very good first-year associate, giving on-point research and faster agreement review and mark-up, though its output must be reviewed.	open
Jul 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	The author recommends legal-specific tools such as GC.ai, Harvey and Legora for providing a useful working environment for in-house counsel.	open
Jul 12, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Drafting	They have never received a worthwhile draft from Harvey, ChatGPT or Claude; Harvey's memo repeated facts and omitted half the analysis.	open
Jul 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	The firm encourages Harvey, which has good uses that improve advice and work product, so asking for Claude is not a red flag.	open
Jul 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	A junior associate leans on Harvey and proofreads it, but often cannot tell when its output is irrelevant.	open
Jul 10, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Dislikes using Harvey and Westlaw AI, which the firm effectively mandates, because they get too much wrong.	open
Jul 10, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Contract review	Harvey slows substantive work by raising issues that must be researched, but helps catch points and builds understanding of why terms are used.	open
Jul 8, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Enterprise direct and wrapped accounts are equivalent on security, but a bespoke product like Harvey is an easier, safer rollout for a large firm and worth its premium price.	open
Jul 8, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	Discovery	Privilege and confidentiality cannot be preserved when using tools like Harvey or Claude, and the author would seek discovery of chats and prompts in litigation.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Says Harvey's pricing varies wildly by firm size and that its reputation is inflated by big-firm adoption, not real value.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey sends client data through its own infrastructure and to multiple model providers and stores it long term, so it cannot offer zero data retention, which is worse for confidentiality than going direct.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey once advertised training on client data and changed course only when it became an ethical breach, while CoCounsel's terms have the strongest protections the author has seen.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey and commercial-grade Claude and ChatGPT align closely on emerging confidentiality standards, and Harvey uses Anthropic and OpenAI as sub-processors.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey's custom model training could reduce sub-processor dependence and improve confidentiality control, but firms need the right to opt out and assurance their practice know-how is not reused for other firms.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is mostly marketing, and other legal AI companies are better, though the author declines to name them.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	General use	Harvey's published terms do not say nobody can monitor data, since it can access data for service and support, and review by confidentiality-bound personnel resembles email spam scanning, which is not treated as waiver.	open
Jul 6, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's confidentiality provisions appear to add little or nothing beyond what the model provider already offers.	open
Jul 4, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Harvey is impressive after a month of testing, but its output needs guidance and lawyer analysis before it can be used for clients.	open
Jul 3, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author, a legal engineer, considers Harvey and Legora to be mere LLM wrappers, unlike the products their own company builds.	open
Jul 2, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Legal research	Harvey is far better than Westlaw's AI for case analysis, especially when fed a set of relevant decisions, while Westlaw's AI is considered unusable.	open
Jul 1, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Relaying what practicing lawyers report, the author says Harvey mainly speeds up review, drafting and summarizing through ready-made workflows, and the gap with ChatGPT or Claude narrows if a firm builds its own setup.	open
Jul 1, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Contract review	Purchased tools like Harvey beat internal LLM agents for redlining because they provide structured places for playbooks and clauses and Word add-ins.	open
Jul 1, 2026	r/legaltech	Neutral	Other	Finds Harvey's aim to be the law firm's central system interesting but wants more done with billing and time data such as Aderant without manual exports or custom APIs.	open
Jun 28, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Harvey is a great tool that the firm pays a lot for, so heavy use should be fine.	open
Jun 28, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author believes Harvey's flat fee leads it to route queries to minimal use of the stronger model, which lowers output quality.	open
Jun 28, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Doubts Harvey will last as a wrapper company because the frontier model makers are now entering legal work themselves.	open
Jun 27, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author uses Harvey very heavily and asks whether that level of use could get them flagged.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	General use	Harvey improved the author's litigation work product, editing and transcript review in much less time, but its legal analysis is often wrong so it is not used for research.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Legal research	As a junior lawyer, the author finds Harvey much faster at locating cases on narrow points, though the cases still must be read.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Those who dismiss Harvey and other legal AI tools as useless seem not to have tried them.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Using Harvey is a skill like Boolean searching and frees up time for case strategy, though the author does not yet use it for case law.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	Harvey is solid for discrete drafting and proofreading tasks on purchase agreements, such as moving provisions between agreements and flipping representations, as long as the lawyer keeps reviewing the work.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author says they have become very dependent on Harvey and worry they have lost the ability to think critically, though they conclude they are fine.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Contract review	As in-house transactional counsel, the author finds Harvey excellent for drafting, flipping clauses, proofreading, checking counterparty paper against playbooks and inserting redlines through the Word plugin.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	After evaluating Harvey, the author was unimpressed and suggests the money would be better spent on a full end-to-end solution.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Most lawyers do not want to build their own solution, so Harvey's convenience, support and ongoing development make it a great product.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author thinks local open-source models are the direction for in-house legal work and calls Harvey a successful but fragile business.	open
Jun 25, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is very expensive, so the author's firm plans to hire someone to build open-source alternatives.	open
Jun 23, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Custom Harvey agents for due diligence, drafting and housekeeping save time at scale and allowed the firm to move to fixed fees, provided the tool is used correctly.	open
Jun 23, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey, Legora and Westlaw AI have no real value because an attorney can build a better custom tool on frontier models for a fraction of the subscription cost.	open
Jun 23, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	The author says Harvey has no usage limits and lets them use a top model all day without trouble.	open
Jun 23, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey and Legora are just wrappers around frontier models with pointless add-ons, and survive mainly because of their client-data security model.	open
Jun 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's custom model announcement is marketing language for a standard orchestration setup, and law firms pay very large sums for it.	open
Jun 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's new offering is just a legal wrapper around a ChatGPT API that will be priced very high.	open
Jun 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author sees no clear advantage in using Harvey over a general frontier model for legal work.	open
Jun 22, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Calls Harvey's custom-model announcement mostly marketing and not novel, but says orchestration tools add real value on complex, multi-step research and document review.	open
Jun 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Giving Harvey access to the document management system is a serious risk to confidential client documents.	open
Jun 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author says Harvey costs far more than Claude at roughly $2k per seat and expects its prices to fall as its value drops.	open
Jun 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Based on former colleagues' experience, the author thinks Harvey has no real competitive advantage and expects Claude to displace it at a fraction of the cost.	open
Jun 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	General use	The firm found real value in Harvey but its tech team can now replace it with Gemini and the firm's Box setup, so Harvey is no longer needed.	open
Jun 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author's firm uses a version of Harvey that lets users choose among several ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini models.	open
Jun 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Lawyers use Harvey mainly when it is the only tool their firm permits; where Claude or ChatGPT is available, they choose those instead.	open
Jun 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Says partners and innovation leads with personal financial interests push Harvey and Legora, citing a firm-wide licence sitting unused, and calls legal tech a scam.	open
Jun 13, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Says legal wrappers never carried a real premium and doubts Harvey ever reasoned better on legal issues than OpenAI or Anthropic models.	open
Jun 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	A summer associate avoids Harvey because heavy use dulled their thinking, and sees AI in law as a crutch compared with doing the work manually.	open
Jun 11, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	Drafting	The author uses Harvey to help respond to emails from a small number of difficult, argumentative clients.	open
Jun 9, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	Drafting	A senior lawyer says a junior quoted Harvey output in work product, and fixing AI-generated work with invented content is harder than fixing weak junior work.	open
Jun 9, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	A partner uses Harvey to revise longer emails, finds it a big time saver, and suggests simply calling the associate to assess their skills.	open
Jun 9, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Sees Harvey and Legora following the classic play of locking customers in and then raising prices, with their firm not discussing vendor lock-in or cost increases.	open
Jun 9, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Expects Harvey and Legora to raise per-seat prices considerably, leaving big law firms tied to vendors facing pricing shock.	open
Jun 7, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	Legal research	Harvey's value is in integrations and grounded citations, though reviews of its consistency are mixed; base Claude suffices for summarizing and drafting but not for citable research.	open
Jun 7, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Harvey is good at document review, first-pass research and case summaries, but it is often wrong on nuanced or jurisdiction-specific points, so human review is essential.	open
Jun 5, 2026	r/LawFirm	Neutral	Drafting	Their large firm uses Harvey and Copilot for drafting, with client consent needed for Harvey uploads, and they see physical office access as a likelier confidentiality risk than the AI tools.	open
Jun 4, 2026	r/paralegal	Values	Legal research	Used Harvey in graduate classes and found it very good as an efficient legal search tool for quickly finding sources.	open
Jun 4, 2026	r/paralegal	Mixed	Contract review	Likes Harvey's prompt-improvement button and its useful second-look and devil's-advocate answers, but dislikes inconsistent redline handling and loss of context in long conversations.	open
May 29, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author says Harvey's functionality can be rebuilt in a day and that law firms' internal teams, not Harvey, handle change management.	open
May 29, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	The author considers Harvey and Legora to be weak wrappers and expects large firms working directly with model makers to displace them.	open
May 28, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Because Harvey runs on Claude, it cannot promise more on confidentiality than an enterprise Claude subscription can.	open
May 28, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey has no real advantage over Claude, and a solo attorney can build better workflows, with only Westlaw and Lexis keeping an edge through their data.	open
May 28, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey and Legora are very good tools, and buying from a vendor that handles onboarding and can be held accountable is safer for busy in-house teams than building.	open
May 27, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey is not easily replaced by open-source tools built on frontier models, and much of its value is helping slow-moving legal organizations adopt it.	open
May 25, 2026	r/Lawyertalk	Values	Drafting	Harvey is probably the best choice for drafting legislation and working with case law.	open
May 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	The author thinks legal AI is moving past gimmicky tools and that Harvey is one of the few that has actually gotten partners' attention.	open
May 25, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is a useless wrapper whose maker spent heavily on covert promotion of the product.	open
May 24, 2026	Hacker News	Criticizes	General use	Says legal AI pipelines like Claude for Legal, Harvey and Legora can be blind to font-based tricks that fool LLMs.	open
May 23, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Firms will pay more for Harvey because one app combines several models with their workflows and document repositories.	open
May 23, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	At the author's firm, colleagues rarely use Harvey because other tools give better functionality and output.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Author expects flat-rate vendors like Harvey to raise prices later, leaving firms locked in and forced to choose between the AI and staff.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is an overpriced wrapper and firms should buy enterprise licenses directly from the model providers.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	If Harvey sharply raised prices, it would be the first tool a firm cuts.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is an expense to cut first because AI is not yet good enough to replace attorneys who generate the firm's revenue.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is an overpriced middleman, and lawyers report better results from the underlying model directly.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Harvey's current flat pricing is cheaper than going direct to the model providers, but that advantage lasts only until Harvey raises prices.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's wrapper business model becomes unworkable once it must raise prices, and it is a dead end without its own model.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	Contract review	Token costs are low enough that Harvey's seat pricing leaves wide margins even if prices rise.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey is not very good, so a firm gains little by having staff rely on it heavily.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	Harvey can be run on top of OpenAI, Claude or Gemini models, so it is not tied to one underlying model.	open
May 22, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	Harvey will soon be obsolete because the firm is piloting a Claude setup that does the same work without the vendor markup.	open
May 21, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and Legora are no better than Claude or Gemini, their wrappers make output rigid, and many lawyers use Claude instead at far lower cost.	open
May 19, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	Legal research	Finds AI useful for clause drafting that gets reviewed anyway, but says Harvey's fine-tuning does not solve hallucination, so risk stays high beyond first drafts without verifiable cited sources.	open
May 18, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	After six months with Harvey, the author says the return on cost only works at scale under a flat rate and that the firm's risk committee wants to diversify tools.	open
May 16, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	The author considers Harvey a good deal compared with Legora and with using ChatGPT or Claude directly for large document reviews, but expects token-based pricing to come.	open
May 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	Contract review	Harvey's added testing and suggestions help with a form check for capital markets work, though it resembles a downloadable Claude skill.	open
May 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	The only difference between skills and Harvey workflows is the interface, which Harvey designed to ease adoption.	open
May 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey and Legora have no lasting advantage over general models like Claude Enterprise, apart from easy model switching that a router app could replicate.	open
May 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Harvey's workflow builder is basic and essentially a long prompt over an LLM, and the vendor oversells it.	open
May 16, 2026	r/legaltech	Values	General use	Harvey contracts are fixed-term and firms adopt slowly, so cancellations are unlikely soon, and a seat pays for itself quickly for many big-firm users.	open
May 15, 2026	Hacker News	Criticizes	General use	Lawyer says Harvey was never very good or useful, exists so big firms claim AI, and costs 50-100k.	open
May 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Neutral	General use	The author describes heavy use of Harvey at a law firm, running several models on the same prompt for verification, and estimates monthly usage costs at about 15k.	open
May 15, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Discovery	Harvey reviewed a year of social media posts for threatening content in about 30 minutes instead of days, and an associate then verified the flagged posts.	open
May 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Base models are catching up, so Harvey's higher price is hard to justify unless it offers proprietary data or workflows that save real hours.	open
May 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Mixed	General use	Raw reasoning gap versus Claude and GPT is small; Harvey's value lies in legal retrieval, integrations, auditability and enterprise controls.	open
May 15, 2026	r/legaltech	Criticizes	General use	Smaller firms want the workflow gains of tools like Harvey or Legora but cannot justify enterprise pricing, so differentiation will come from workflow, retrieval quality and trust.	open
May 14, 2026	Hacker News	Criticizes	General use	Harvey was always an upstart, and other legal tech companies understand the market and compliance issues better but get little attention.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	General use	Harvey is good, but it is so broad that it handles practice-specific work poorly.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	The Word plugin in Harvey and Legora makes them more than wrappers, though Anthropic's tailored legal product may eventually displace them.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Mixed	General use	Harvey and Legora are good and useful for non-technical lawyers, but the author thinks they are overpriced, create lock-in risk and cost the firm its own IP.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Harvey offers law-firm-grade security, multiple models, internal documents and LexisNexis access in one easy app, which justifies it as more than a wrapper.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	A wrapper like Harvey is needed to use the latest GPT, Claude and Gemini models together, so calling it a wrapper is not a fair criticism.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	Drafting	The author uses Harvey for first drafts, comparing filings and analysing disclosures in IP litigation and considers it well worth the cost, noting its closed environment protects client data.	open
May 14, 2026	r/biglaw	Criticizes	General use	The author asks whether Harvey learns from firms' workflows and considers its closed-environment feature standard for enterprise users rather than a differentiator.	open
May 13, 2026	r/biglaw	Values	General use	Says Harvey is the leading legal-specific tool and that big law firms have ample money to spend on AI tools.	open

The numbers

−21

like minus dislike, as a share of 749 voices

90% band −26 to −15

Confidence: High based on 749 voices; the 90% band is 11 points wide.

No. 13 of 14 tools with 10+ voices, ranked by the floor of the band; ahead of Clio in 20% of resamples.

13.1% of all voices on named tools (band 12.4–13.9%). Per 100 voices: 27 like, 48 dislike, 5 name hallucinations.

App Store rating of Harvey: 4.74/5 from 23 ratings (read Oct 26, 2026). Listing · All ratings

Last 90 days

No clear move

+7 pts band −5 to +19

Month by month

What they value

Time saved72
Ease of use50
Accuracy29
Drafting quality28
Data coverage23

What they complain about

Accuracy156
Price146
Privacy46
Trust, liability41
Hallucination36

Where they said it

r/legaltech412

r/biglaw278

r/Lawyertalk23

Hacker News15

r/LawFirm11

r/paralegal5

Bluesky · bsky.app4

r/law1

Price

Not shown until we verify it on the vendor’s own page.

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Head to head

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Public benchmarks that name Harvey: Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR), first edition. Other publishers’ figures, with their dates.

Task reports with this tool: Contract review report · Legal research report · Drafting report · Summarization report

Quarter by quarter

Last 8 quarters. All tools, with the events around each change →

Quarter	Voices	Share of voice	Net 90% band
2025 Q1	4	2%	n<5
2025 Q2	36	7%	−36 −56 to −10
2025 Q3	93	15%	−46 −58 to −32
2025 Q4	62	13%	−15 −29 to +2
2026 Q1	136	18%	−12 −24 to 0
2026 Q2	168	21%	−25 −36 to −14
2026 Q3	165	21%	−12 −22 to 0
2026 Q4	46	24%	−20 −38 to 0

Which model the tool says it uses

Only what the vendor or the model provider says on its own pages, read on Oct 22, 2026. “Not disclosed” means we found no official statement.

Tool	Model	Status	Period	What the official page says
Harvey	Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1	Offers	as of 2026-09-01	Harvey announced Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 is available in Harvey. Source Fable 5.1, Now Live in Harvey, Sep 1, 2026
Harvey	Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2, Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3 Flash (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google)	Uses	as of 2026-03-10	Harvey describes a multi-model setup with foundation models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI, naming Opus 4.6, GPT-5.2, Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3 Flash. Source Why Harvey is Multi-Model by Design, Mar 10, 2026
Harvey	Anthropic and Google models added alongside OpenAI	Uses	since 2025-05	Harvey announced adding Anthropic and Google models, via AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex, to supplement its existing OpenAI models. Source Expanding Harvey's Model Offerings, May 13, 2025
Harvey	OpenAI o1	Used	2024-09	Harvey said it would build legal agents and workflows with OpenAI's o1 reasoning series. Source Harvey is building legal agents and workflows with OpenAI o1, Sep 12, 2024

What lawyers asked Harvey to add, and what shipped

All 7 asks with dates and official sources →

Short-term trial and flexible licensing without 12-month minimum No official shipment found · first asked May 24, 2025, 2 voices
Westlaw search integrated under the firm's existing plan No official shipment found · first asked May 14, 2026, 2 voices
Case-specific usage billing that can be passed through to clients No official shipment found · first asked Sep 22, 2025, 1 voice
Agentic Word editor for editing documents Shipped after the ask · first asked Oct 16, 2025, 1 voice
Playbook-based redlining of complex contracts with exhibits Partly shipped after the ask · first asked Feb 14, 2026, 1 voice
Integration with government registry websites (e.g. MCA) No official shipment found · first asked Mar 3, 2026, 1 voice

7 distinct asks from 9 voices; 2 followed by an official release note we could verify. An ask with no match means we found no official page, not that nothing shipped. Official pages re-read: Oct 22, 2026.

Where this answer continues

The voices above are what lawyers post after using Harvey. What it does, who it is built for and how it is sold, read from Harvey’s own announcements, is in the Harvey AI review on aivortex.io.

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