How we compare · Australia

Six products, the same sixteen questions.

Every competitor cell comes from that vendor’s own public pages, read on 15 September 2026. Products change. Tell us if something is wrong and we will fix it.
Question	Barrister AIBuilt by barristers · Australian	HabeasAustralian legal AI	HarveyInternational legal AI	LegoraInternational legal AI	Westlaw AUThomson Reuters · + CoCounsel	Lexis+ AULexisNexis · + Protégé
What it costs, and who may buy itMost legal AI is sold to firms, by the seat, on a yearly contract, at a price you have to ask for.
What it costsFor one practitioner, from the vendor’s own site. Where none is published, the figure is what buyer guides report.	A$33a monthPublishedCounsel, incl. GST: A$15 of research included, then pay per use. Silk plans with usage included from A$55 a month. Reading cases is free. No contract	A$125a monthPublishedSole practitioner plan, 500 queries a month, 14-day trial. A$200 buys 1,000	US$1,200a seat a monthReportedNo published price. About 20 seats on a yearly contract, about US$288,000 to start	US$3,000a seat a yearReportedNo published price. About 10 seats, quote after a demo; its top tier is metered at an unpublished rate	A$133a month, no AIPart publishedWestlaw AU for one practitioner, 12-month term, buy online. CoCounsel and the AI tiers are quote only	A$160a month, no AIPart publishedLexis+ Lite, buy online. Lexis+ with Protégé is quote only; its 2026 small-firm offer excluded barristers
One barrister can sign up todayNo firm, no seat minimum, no yearly contract, no procurement.	YesSign up yourself. No card on the free plan	YesSole practitioner plan, with a 14-day trial	NoDemo and sales only. No individual plan	NoDemo only. Guides report a 10-seat minimum	PartlyWestlaw AU online. CoCounsel by quote only	PartlyLexis+ Lite online. A$138 Protégé plan online, without Lexis legal content
Pay only for the research you runA quiet month should cost less than a busy one. Seat licences do not work that way.	YesCounsel pays per use past its included A$15. Silk plans include usage	NoMonthly plan with a query allowance	NoPer seat, on a yearly contract	PartlyAgent Pro, its top tier, is metered	NoSubscription, on a 12-month term	NoSubscription, on a 12-month term
Australian law, first-handWhether the product holds Australian law itself, or only works on what you give it.
Holds Australian law itselfIts own indexed set of Australian judgments and legislation — not just the files you upload.	YesJudgments and legislation, indexed and linked	YesIts own set of Australian judgments and legislation	PartlyFederal and NSW sources, searched from official sites	NoHosts US and European law. Nothing Australian	YesLong-standing Australian case law and legislation	YesLong-standing Australian case law and legislation
New decisions daily, summarisedJudgments handed down yesterday, read and summarised before you start work. Not a keyword alert.	YesDaily digest across 20+ courts, every case in it summarised	NoSearch recent decisions yourself. No daily feed	NoUS court docket alerts only. Nothing Australian	PartlyTracks regulation. Judgments not mentioned	PartlyAlerts and editorial digests. Not AI summaries	PartlyDaily judgment emails. Summaries on request
The law as it stood on a past dateFor a claim that arose in 2011, what the section said in 2011 — and only the cases that existed then.	PartlyPoint-in-time legislation. Not yet cases as at a date	NoNo point-in-time feature on its site	NoNo point-in-time feature described	NoItalian point-in-time only. Nothing Australian	PartlySold separately as TimeBase	PartlyHistorical versions of Acts, via LawNow
Where it runsAt the bar table, on the train, and inside Word.
iPhone and iPad appRead a judgment, check a case and search away from your desk.	YesFree on the Australian App Store	NoWeb app only. Nothing in the app stores	YesiPhone and iPad app, with a firm login	PartlyiPhone and Android apps. No iPad build	NoIts app is for Westlaw Edge, the US product. ProView reads eBooks	NoNo Lexis+ app in Australia. Lexis Red reads eBooks
Connects to Word and other appsSend what you have highlighted to the product, or draft inside the document itself. Most of this table does the second.	YesWord add-in, answers in a pane inside Word. Right-click Ask Junior in Pages, Mail and PDF readers	NoNo Word add-in described	YesWord and Outlook add-ins	YesWord and Outlook add-ins	YesCoCounsel for Word, available in Australia	YesLexis Create+ Word add-in, priced separately
Reads the brief you give itGive it the material and ask questions of it. Everyone here does a version of this.	YesBriefs, checked against the same Australian law	YesDocument upload and analysis, capped by plan	YesDocument review and analysis	YesDocument review and analysis	YesCoCounsel reviews, compares and summarises uploads	YesUpload to Protégé, or to a Vault
Where your work goesWhat leaves your computer, where it is held, and how long anyone keeps it.
Never trains AI on your workYour documents and your questions are not used to build anyone’s model.	YesNever, on every plan and every tier	YesClient data not used for training	YesDoes not train on customer data	YesWill not train or fine-tune on your data	YesNot used to train CoCounsel or any LLM	YesNever uses customer data to train AI models
Hosted in AustraliaWhere the servers holding your work actually sit.	YesSydney: servers and database. AI model calls go offshore	YesDatabases in Australia. AI calls may go offshore	PartlyAustralian workspace available, on request	PartlyAustralian region offered. AI providers listed in EU and US	YesPrompts, content and output stored in Australia	PartlyLegal AI onshore. Its General AI mode is offshore
Documents stay on your computerWhether the file itself is uploaded, or read where it already sits.	YesWith Junior, our desktop app. Not saved on our servers; the file stays on your computer	NoBrowser product. Documents are uploaded	NoDocuments are uploaded to Harvey	NoDocuments are uploaded to Legora	NoDocuments are uploaded to CoCounsel	NoDocuments are uploaded to Protégé or a Vault
Answers without keeping anythingWhether anything is still stored after your answer comes back.	YesAlways for briefs; a switch for research	PartlyDelete any time. No retention period published	PartlyZero at model providers. Harvey keeps its own	PartlyModels keep nothing. Legora stores your files	PartlyZero at providers. The firm sets the rest	PartlyUploads outside a Vault deleted each session
Evidence you can checkMost of this table publishes a benchmark. The question is what it is a benchmark of.
Publishes a benchmark of its ownMost of this table does. Ours is not unusual in existing — only in what it is run on.	YesEvery per-case score printed, losses included	NoCites others’ numbers. None of its own	YesBigLaw Bench, with sample tasks public	YesBAR. Cases private, no jurisdiction named	YesCoCoBench, and the Vals study. US tasks	PartlyVendor claims only. Sat out the Vals studies
That benchmark is on Australian lawA score on US contract review tells an Australian barrister very little about a High Court appeal.	YesAustralian High Court appeals, hidden until judgment	NoNo benchmark to be on	NoNo jurisdiction named. Nothing Australian	NoNo jurisdiction named. Nothing Australian	NoNo Australian benchmark published	NoNo Australian benchmark published
Publishes its citation checksA citation you have to verify yourself is work you have to redo. We counted ours and had a machine check them.	Yes30.6 pinpoints a memo. 271 of 306 machine-checked, all matched	NoNo figure on its site	PartlyScores a “source score”. No count published	NoModel scores only. No product figure	NoTracked as a metric. No figure published	NoClaims linked citations. No measured figure

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Partly, or with conditions
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On the price row, “Published” means the vendor prints the price on its own site. “Reported” means it does not, and the figure comes from an independent buyer guide — an estimate, in the guide’s own currency, not the vendor’s number. Every guide is linked under Sources.

Sources — where every cell came from (51)

Each cell says what that vendor publishes about itself, or what we found when we checked. Reported prices come from the buyer guides named here. We are not reporting anyone's private pricing.