Spellbook

• June 25, 2026: AiPedia rechecked Spellbook’s pricing and product pages. Public pricing remains custom and quote-based, the 7-day trial remains visible, and primary security copy still emphasizes Zero Data Retention, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA. Secondary legal-tech comparisons published in June 2026 still report quote opacity, but AiPedia does not use those estimates as pricing facts.
• June 9, 2026: AiPedia rechecked Spellbook’s live pricing page. The public page still uses custom pricing based on license-team size, keeps a 7-day free trial, includes Word Add-In plus Associate in the suite, and foregrounds security/private-data claims including Zero Data Retention agreements, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA.
• May 12, 2026: Anthropic launched Claude for Legal with 12 practice-area plugins, 20-plus MCP connectors (Harvey, Relativity, Everlaw, Thomson Reuters CoCounsel, DocuSign, Box), and a Microsoft 365 integration that embeds Claude across Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. Freshfields, Quinn Emanuel, Holland & Knight, and Crosby joined as launch customers. The Claude inside Word surface is the first frontier-lab product that directly contests Spellbook’s positioning, although Anthropic is sitting under partners like Harvey rather than replacing the vertical product layer. Spellbook buyers should ask how the team plans to coexist with or differentiate against Claude for Legal on the Word add-in, playbook codification, and contract market data.

Pricing is custom and quote-based. Spellbook says pricing is structured around the number of team members on the license, and lawyers can try Spellbook free for 7 days. Security coverage is strong for the segment: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA controls, GDPR/CCPA/PIPEDA privacy coverage, zero-data-retention agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, and an independent low-risk EU AI Act classification opinion.

Pick Spellbook if you are a solo attorney, small firm, or in-house legal team doing transactional contract work in Microsoft Word. The product’s positioning is the moat: most competitors ship as a separate web app or a firm-wide platform. Spellbook lives inside the document lawyers already edit, while Associate handles multi-document workflows with lawyer oversight.

Skip it when public price certainty matters. Spellbook no longer publishes a fixed entry price, and third-party trackers conflict. Skip it for litigation research. Spellbook is tuned for commercial drafting and review, not case law, pleadings, or discovery. Skip it if your team works outside Microsoft Word. Associate helps with multi-document matters, but the core drafting loop remains Word-centered.

Who pays which tier: Start with the 7-day trial for hands-on contract review. Request a quote before buying for a team, because official pricing depends on license size and support needs. Larger in-house teams should explicitly ask whether Playbook Build Service, dedicated support, security documents, and training are included.

• Opaque pricing. No fixed per-seat number is public. Teams doing comparative budgeting have to request a quote, which slows procurement for small firms.
• Word-only. Teams on Google Docs or iWork cannot use the core product. There is no cross-platform editor integration.
• Not a case research tool. Spellbook is tuned for transactional drafting and review, not case law search or pleadings. Litigators should look elsewhere.
• Model-routing opacity. Public pages mention GPT5, legacy GPT-4o copy, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Buyers should ask which models are active, where data is processed, and whether the quoted plan includes the same model access.
• Harvey ceiling at enterprise scale. Spellbook now sells to larger firms and enterprises, but Harvey remains the clearer default for broad firmwide legal AI that spans research, litigation, and workflow automation.
• New Claude for Legal competition inside Word. Anthropic’s May 12, 2026 Claude for Legal launch puts a frontier-lab assistant directly in Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint with 12 practice-area plugins and 20-plus legal-tech connectors. Spellbook’s playbooks, contract market data, and Associate workflow remain differentiators, but the Word add-in surface is no longer uncontested.
• Playbook build services may depend on quote. Codifying team-specific playbooks is listed for in-house teams, but buyers should confirm whether it is included in their package.
• 7-day trial is short. Legal procurement cycles rarely fit inside a week. Real evaluation often requires a direct pilot agreement beyond the public trial.
• Canadian data residency. HQ in Newfoundland means some US federal or state procurement policies require extra review before adoption.

This page was produced by the aipedia.wiki editorial pipeline, an automated system that ingests vendor documentation, verifies pricing and model details against primary sources, and generates the editorial analysis you are reading. No individual human wrote this review. Scoring follows the four-dimension rubric at /about/scoring/ (Utility x Value x Moat x Longevity, unweighted average). Last verified 2026-06-25 against Spellbook pricing, security, Associate help, legal AI in Word, State of Contracts, and Series B pages, with cross-reference to the May 12, 2026 Anthropic Claude for Legal launch.

Is Spellbook free? No. Spellbook runs a 7-day free trial, then moves to custom paid pricing based on the number of team members on the license.

What LLMs does Spellbook use? Spellbook’s current public pages say the Word product uses GPT5, while the security page says Spellbook has zero-data-retention agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic. Ask Spellbook to confirm the live model stack and routing before procurement.

Does Spellbook work outside Microsoft Word? Partly. The core drafting and single-document review product is a Word add-in. Associate is a web/desktop app for multi-document workflows, but teams on Google Docs, iWork, or browser-only drafting workflows cannot use Spellbook’s Word drafting pane.

How is Spellbook different from Harvey? Spellbook is a Word-embedded contract copilot with Associate for multi-document contract workflows. Harvey is a firmwide web platform sold to BigLaw and mid-to-large firms for broader legal AI work. Different surface, different buyer, different budget.

Is Spellbook compliant with legal industry requirements? Spellbook says it is SOC 2 Type II compliant, has HIPAA controls, complies with GDPR/CCPA/PIPEDA, has zero-data-retention agreements with OpenAI and Anthropic, and has an independent legal opinion classifying it as low-risk under the EU AI Act.

Who owns Spellbook? Spellbook Legal, a private company headquartered in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Founded as Rally in 2018, renamed Spellbook in 2023. Last major round: $50M Series B led by Khosla Ventures in October 2025.

• Category: AI Writing · AI Research
• Alternatives: Harvey · Claude · ChatGPT

• Spellbook pricing: custom pricing, 7-day trial, Word Add-In, Associate, 4,400 legal teams, security/private-data claims
• Spellbook security: SOC 2 Type II, privacy, zero-data-retention, compliance materials
• Spellbook Series B: company history, funding, adoption context