Business, Finance & Professional Work · verified 4 September 2026

Best AI for Contract Review

6 tools 5 with a free plan 3 built for this Prices verified 4 September 2026

The 6 that fit

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. The general option most used for professional work — strategy memos, contract reading, financial reasoning over documents you upload.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%

Watch out: It is not a lawyer or an accountant and will state wrong things confidently. Verify anything that carries liability.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with daily caps
Pro$20/mo · $17/mo yearly
Max$100/mo
Team standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Team premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly
Enterprise$20/mo
Open Claude Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

ChatGPT

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Built for this. Broad professional coverage with strong spreadsheet and chart handling. Good default for analysis you would otherwise do by hand.

Free plan
Yes
Ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Month to month
$8/mo
Go
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Same caution on liability. Check the numbers rather than trusting the presentation.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Go$8/mo
Plus$20/moadvanced models, higher quality image creation, Work agent, Codex, 20GB of storage
Pro$100/mo
Business standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Business premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly5x the usage and no five-hour limit
Open ChatGPT Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gemini Notebook

By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories

Built for this. You upload the sources and it answers only from them, linking every sentence to the passage it came from. The strongest verification pattern here.

Free plan
Yes
Free, and the core product is not gated: what a paid plan buys is headroom — a bigger notebook
Month to month
$4.99/mo
Google AI Plus
Billed yearly
$4.17/mo
$49.99 a year, Google AI Plus plan −16%

Watch out: Deliberately limited — it will not answer what your documents do not cover, and cannot tell you whether they are any good. Paid headroom comes from a Google AI subscription rather than a plan of its own.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, and the core product is not gated: what a paid plan buys is headroom — a bigger notebook, more sources per notebook and higher limits on Audio and Video Overviews and Slides
Google AI Plus$4.99/mothe cheapest step that raises its limits, with more Gemini access, increased feature limits and a bigger notebook. Introductory offers were showing: $1.29/month for 3 months, or $44.99 for the first year
Google AI Pro$19.99/moexpanded Gemini access for complex research, expanded feature limits and a large notebook size. Introductory offers were showing: $4.99/month for 3 months, or $179.99 for the first year
Google AI Ultra$99.99/mothe highest Gemini access and the largest source limits, for working across several big notebooks
Open Gemini Notebook Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Humata

By HumataAustin, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Ask questions across a set of uploaded documents and get answers with the page they came from, which suits a folder of papers rather than one.

Free plan
Yes
Free, capped at 60 pages of use in total rather than per month, with the basic features and
Month to month
$9.99/mo
Expert
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Answers only from what you upload, so the quality of the shortlist is the quality of the answer. The free tier is 60 pages in total, and the step from Expert to Team switches from a flat rate to per user.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, capped at 60 pages of use in total rather than per month, with the basic features and GPT-5 support
Expert$9.99/mo
Team$49/mo
EnterpriseCustompersonalised service and enterprise security for large teams
Open Humata Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

AskYourPDF

By ProtonLabs TechnologyBirmingham, United Kingdom1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Straightforward document chat with citation back to the page, and it handles long PDFs without the usual truncation.

Free plan
Yes
Free, but tightly capped: 1 document a day, 100 pages per document and a 15MB upload limit
Month to month
$14.99/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$11.99/mo
Premium plan −20%

Watch out: A thin layer over a general model, so it inherits that model’s habits. Little here that a general assistant with file upload does not also do.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free, but tightly capped: 1 document a day, 100 pages per document and a 15MB upload limit
Premium$14.99/mo · $11.99/mo yearly50 documents a day, 2,500 pages per document and a 31MB upload limit
Pro$19.99/mo · $14.99/mo yearly150 documents a day, 6,000 pages per document and an 877MB upload limit
EnterpriseCustom1,000 documents a day, unlimited pages per document and a 1,431MB upload limit
Open AskYourPDF Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Docusign

By DocusignSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Can do it. The signature tool most counterparties already accept, with AI that reads an agreement and pulls out the obligations and dates.

Free plan
No
No usable free tier
Month to month
$11/mo
Personal
Billed yearly
$10/mo
$120 a year, Personal plan −9%

Watch out: The free tier is three documents for the life of the account, which is a demo rather than a plan. The AI is not on these eSignature plans at all: it sits on the separate IAM line, sold as unlimited envelopes plus AI.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0A free tier exists but is capped at three documents for the life of the account
Personal$11/mo · $10/mo yearly5 envelopes a month, for one person
Standard$30/mo · $25/mo yearly100 envelopes per user per year, shared templates and real-time collaboration
Business Pro$45/mo · $40/mo yearly100 envelopes per user per year, plus mobile-friendly web forms and payment collection during signing
Enhanced plansCustomthe AI sits on a separate IAM tab sold as unlimited envelopes plus AI, priced on its own page
Open Docusign Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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Volume review over documents you upload yourself

Best AI for Lawyers

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Best AI Legal Tools

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Best AI for Legal Research

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Best AI for Business

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Every AI tool we track

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How to read this list

Two things separate these and both are on every card.

Fit

Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or able to do it without that being its focus.

Free plan

Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a trial that expires.

The order

Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.

Questions

What is the best ai for contract review?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 6 rather than one: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini Notebook, Humata, AskYourPDF, Docusign. 3 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.

Which of these have a free plan?

5 of the 6: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini Notebook, Humata, AskYourPDF. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.

How was this list chosen?

By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.