Writing, Communication & Language · verified 4 September 2026

Best AI for Legal Writing

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

The 4 that fit

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. Strongest at long-form drafting and holding a consistent voice across a whole document rather than a paragraph.

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 will happily rewrite your voice into its own. Give it a sample of your writing to work against.

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. Fastest for everyday drafting — emails, summaries, outlines — with the widest format support.

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: Default output has recognisable tics. Anything customer-facing needs an editing pass.

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

Grammarly

By GrammarlySan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Works inside the apps you already write in rather than a separate window, which is why it actually gets used. Grammar, tone and clarity in place.

Free plan
Yes
Writing without spelling and grammar mistakes, tone detection, and 100 AI prompts for
Month to month
$30/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$12/mo
$144 a year, Pro plan −60%

Watch out: Better at fixing than composing. It smooths writing toward a neutral register, which is not always what you want.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier: writing without spelling and grammar mistakes, tone detection, and 100 AI prompts for generating text
Pro$30/mo · $12/mo yearlyrewriting whole sentences in a click, tone adjustment, unlimited personalised suggestions, and plagiarism and AI-text detection. It opens on a 7-day free trial with nothing to pay on the day and a reminder two days before it ends
EnterpriseCustomadds proactive AI across the apps you work in, dedicated support, bring-your-own-key encryption, custom roles and permissions, and data loss prevention
Open Grammarly Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot

By MicrosoftRedmond, United States1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Sits inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, so it works on the documents and meetings a company already has. The closest thing to AI that needs no change of habit.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$25.20/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
$21/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business plan −17%

Watch out: An add-on rather than a standalone purchase: the enterprise Copilot seat is $30 a user a month on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 licence you must already hold, and Copilot Chat is only included if you already pay for an eligible subscription. Agents need an Azure subscription on top again.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business$25.20/mo · $21/mo yearlyan add-on to an existing Microsoft 365 plan rather than a subscription in its own right
Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot$28.20/mo · $23.50/mo yearlythe Microsoft 365 apps across devices with Copilot built in
Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot$38.40/mo · $32/mo yearlythe same again with the advanced security tier
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the enterprise seat$30/mo yearly
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chatincluded at no additional cost for Microsoft Entra users on an eligible Microsoft 365 subscription, though agents need an Azure subscription and Copilot Studio capacity is bought prepaid
Open Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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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 legal writing?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 4 rather than one: Claude, ChatGPT, Grammarly, Microsoft 365 Copilot. 4 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?

3 of the 4: Claude, ChatGPT, Grammarly. 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.