Para vs Harvey
Harvey is the best-known legal AI platform for large law firms and corporate legal departments, sold through enterprise agreements. Para by CaseMark is an AI colleague for legal work: hand it the matter and it reviews records, researches with citations, and prepares drafts, working in your email, Slack, Teams, Word, and browser. Plans start at $20 a month, with usage included.
A fair comparison
Harvey serves large law firms and corporate legal departments. Its platform spans an Assistant for drafting and analysis, Vault for bulk document review, Knowledge for research across 100+ integrated legal sources, and custom workflow agents, with integrations into Microsoft Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and iManage. It is sold through a request-a-demo enterprise process; Harvey does not publish pricing and does not offer a self-serve plan or public free trial.
Para by CaseMark is built for legal teams that want to start working with their matters today. Hand it the files, depositions, records, and email; it reviews and compares them, researches with citations you can check, prepares drafts, and applies the instructions you save. It works in the tools your team already uses and can run any of CaseMark’s 651 legal workflows. It starts with a self-serve monthly plan and the same Para works for the rest of your organization. Where Harvey is stronger, this comparison says so. The question is which operating and commercial model fits your practice.
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“I was glad to find the same expansive legal AI capabilities in CaseMark, without the long commitments or monthly minimum payment thresholds designed for large firms.”
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Feature by feature
Public product information changes. Harvey capabilities below are drawn from Harvey's published materials; Harvey pricing and contract terms are third-party reported and are labeled as such. Para details come from CaseMark's product documentation. Sources are listed at the end of this page.
| Capability | Para | Harvey |
|---|---|---|
| How you get started | Self-serve: create an account, choose a plan, and run a first assignment. Plans start at $20 a month, and each seat fee is credited to your usage wallet. | Request a demo. No public self-serve signup or free trial; paid pilots reported for qualifying firms. Publicly reported; reviewed September 7, 2026. Confirm current terms directly with Harvey. |
| Pricing transparency | Seat-based plans, with the services Para uses billed at cost from a prepaid usage balance and no markup. Enterprise is by agreement. | No published pricing. Publicly reported figures range from roughly $1,200 per seat per month to $2,400 or more with the LexisNexis bundle. Publicly reported; reviewed September 7, 2026. Confirm current terms directly with Harvey. Lower-priced arrangements are also reported; this is not a universal price range. |
| Minimum team size | One person. Mix Standard and Pro seats across a team. | Seat minimums of 20 to 50 are widely reported. Harvey has disputed this framing. Publicly reported; reviewed September 7, 2026. Confirm current terms directly with Harvey. |
| Contract term | Monthly billing on Standard and Pro, with annual billing available on Pro. Enterprise is one annual agreement. | Twelve-month commitments reported as standard, with multi-year terms offered for better rates. Publicly reported; reviewed September 7, 2026. Confirm current terms directly with Harvey. |
| Where you work | Email (Gmail and Outlook), Slack, Teams, Word, the web app, mobile, and Claude or ChatGPT through MCP. Microsoft Copilot is in preview. | Assistant in the browser, plus Microsoft Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Box, and iManage integrations and a mobile app. iManage is not in Para’s connection list. |
| Documents and matters | Desk and Personal for every Para, plus named and shared projects with the case.dev plugin, shared by access group. Connect Google Drive and Microsoft 365 (OneDrive and SharePoint). | Assistant chat grounded in your documents, plus Vault for bulk review. |
| Cited legal research | Cited legal research with sources you can check. | Knowledge research across 100+ integrated national sources, with LexisNexis primary law and Shepard's Citations through a strategic alliance. |
| Reviewing records | Review a set of records, compare submissions, and prepare a timeline, report, or memo with entries linked to their sources. | Vault reviews thousands of documents at once with configurable review tables, purpose-built for M&A diligence. Stronger for high-volume review. |
| Revising drafts | Select a passage to ask a question or request an edit. Revised documents are saved alongside the original. | Draft editor in Assistant and the Word add-in, with citations. |
| Reusable firm workflows | Save an approach as a personal skill and promote it to a team playbook. Start from CaseMark’s library of 651 legal workflows. | Custom workflow agents built with Harvey. |
| Recurring work | Schedule recurring assignments, such as a weekly status update, and choose where the result arrives. | Not established in reviewed materials |
| Team access and administration | Roles, access groups for shared projects, per-person and organization spending limits, and an administrator audit log. | Enterprise workspace administration and permissions. |
| Reasoning for complex work | Standard handles everyday work. Pro adds Para's most capable reasoning for your hardest work. Enterprise can bring its own AI provider keys. | Not established in reviewed materials |
| Company sign-in | Company SSO on Enterprise with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, and other OIDC providers. SAML and SCIM are not supported. | Not established in reviewed materials |
| Usage and spend controls | A prepaid usage balance billed at cost, automatic top-up, a monthly spending limit, and per-person limits. | Negotiated enterprise agreement; renewal uplifts of 5 to 25 percent reported. Publicly reported; reviewed September 7, 2026. Confirm current terms directly with Harvey. |
| Security and BAA | A BAA is available with annual Pro or an Enterprise agreement, and is required before protected health information. It is not available on Standard seats. CaseMark’s security practices and Trust Center | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 published, with additional certifications listed in Harvey's Trust Center; hosted on Microsoft Azure. |
Pricing
Harvey information reviewed September 7, 2026; Para details as of October 15, 2026
Para is priced by seat, and each seat fee is credited to a usage wallet. The services it uses to carry out work are billed at cost from that wallet, with no markup.
Harvey does not publish pricing. These figures are third-party reports, not official Harvey terms, and may not reflect any specific customer’s agreement. Lower-priced arrangements are also reported.
These figures change and vary by customer. Confirm a current quote directly with Harvey.
Third-party pricing reportingWhy teams choose Para
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Create an account, choose a plan, and give Para a matter's records. Plans start at $20 a month, with usage included. When you are ready to roll Para out more widely, talk to our team about Enterprise.
02
Email Para from Gmail or Outlook, message it in Slack or Teams, work with it in Word, on the web, or on mobile, or connect Claude or ChatGPT through MCP. Your saved instructions go with it, so the way your firm likes work done follows Para into every channel.
03
Para researches legal questions with citations you can check against the sources, reviews a set of records, and prepares a timeline, report, or memo with entries linked back to the record. Select a passage in the draft to ask a question or request an edit; revised documents are saved alongside the original. Outputs are starting points for professional review.
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Turn a contract-review checklist or a demand-letter structure into a skill, refine it with real documents, and promote it to a team playbook. Start from CaseMark's library of 651 legal workflows, and schedule recurring assignments such as a weekly matter update.
05
Share projects with access groups, set per-person and organization spending limits, and review an administrator audit log. Usage is billed at cost from a prepaid balance with no markup. Enterprise adds company SSO and your own AI provider keys.
Switching from Harvey
Para can sit alongside an existing deployment. Start with one matter, see the work it returns, and decide how far to take it.
Create an account, choose a plan, and run a first assignment on a matter's records.
Save your review checklists and drafting instructions as skills, or start from a workflow in CaseMark's library.
Assign roles, share projects with access groups, and set spending limits before you widen the rollout.
Security
Start your security review with CaseMark’s Trust Center. Explore our security practices and available documentation, then talk with our team about your firm’s requirements.
A BAA is available with annual Pro or an Enterprise agreement. Talk to sales about a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for your firm.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Para starts with self-serve monthly seats from $20, with no seat minimum and no enterprise agreement. It reviews records, researches with citations, prepares drafts, and runs reusable skills. Harvey is sold through enterprise agreements and is oriented toward large firms and corporate legal departments.
Para is priced by seat, with the services it uses billed at cost from a prepaid usage balance and no markup. Harvey does not publish pricing; third-party reports place it at roughly $1,200 to $2,400 per seat per month with annual commitments and seat minimums. Publicly reported; reviewed September 7, 2026. Confirm current terms directly with Harvey. Lower-priced arrangements are also reported; confirm the scope and quote for your firm.
No contract. Choose a monthly plan from $20 a seat and start working; each seat fee is credited to your usage wallet. Enterprise agreements are available when you want company SSO and a signed agreement.
No. Seats are per person, and you can mix Standard and Pro seats across a team. Enterprise is handled on one annual agreement.
Harvey's Vault is purpose-built for reviewing thousands of documents at once, its Knowledge research draws on more than 100 integrated sources including LexisNexis content, and it integrates with Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Box, and iManage. If those capabilities are central to your practice and your firm is sized for an enterprise agreement, Harvey may be the better fit.
Para works over email (Gmail and Outlook), Slack, Teams, Word, the web, and mobile, and connects to Claude and ChatGPT through MCP. Microsoft Copilot is in preview and text-only.
Yes. Para does cited legal research, and you can check each answer against its sources. Treat outputs as starting points for professional review.
On Enterprise, yes. You can use your own supported AI provider and credentials, and Para stops a request rather than silently switching to a managed model if your provider fails.
Yes. A BAA is available with annual Pro or an Enterprise agreement, and it is required before you use Para for protected health information. Trial organizations and Standard seats are not eligible. Talk to sales about a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for your firm.
Your seat subscription pays for Para itself. The services Para uses to carry out work are billed at cost from a prepaid balance shared by your organization, and larger assignments use more. Administrators can set automatic top-up and monthly spending limits.
Research
Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. Harvey is a trademark of its owner. This comparison is based on publicly available information about Harvey reviewed September 7, 2026, and CaseMark product documentation about Para as of October 15, 2026, and is not sponsored by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Harvey. Harvey pricing and contract terms shown here are third-party reported, not published by Harvey, and may not reflect current or customer-specific terms. “Not established in reviewed materials” means a capability was not confirmed; it does not mean the capability is absent.
Plans from $20 a month, with usage included. Or talk to our team about rolling Para out to your firm.