A Harvey alternative
built India first.
Harvey is a global legal AI platform. Gotham is the agentic legal operating system for law firms and legal teams of every size: research, drafting, review and filing in one workspace, built India first, with the law of 90+ countries and your data stored in your own country.
The short answer
Choose Gotham if you are a firm or legal team of any size, including a large multi-office firm, and you want one platform for research, drafting, review and filing, with Indian law built in, the law of 90+ countries, enterprise controls such as SSO and ethical walls, and your data stored in your own country.
Stay with Harvey if it is already rolled out across your firm, most of your work is US or European law, and you depend on its partner content and integrations.
Gotham vs Harvey, side by side
| What to compare | Gotham | Harvey |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A legal operating system: research, drafting, review and filing in one workspace. | A global legal AI platform: Agents, Vault, Knowledge, Workflows and more. |
| Who uses it | Law firms of every size, from chambers to large multi-office firms, and in-house legal teams. Built India first, for US, UK and cross-border work too. | More than 200,000 lawyers at 3,000+ firms and legal teams in 70+ countries, according to Harvey. |
| Indian law | Built in: 365 million Indian legal documents: the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, tribunals and regulators, in 22 scheduled languages. Search by SCC, AIR or neutral citation. | Through a partnership with SCC Online, for customers who also subscribe to SCC Online. Harvey publishes no Indian document counts. |
| Other law | US and UK case law and legislation, plus official court, legislation, regulator and tax sources from 90+ countries and territories. Pick the countries for each question. | 500+ legal sources worldwide (an October 2026 post says 1,000+), with partners such as LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer and Legalscape. |
| Agents and bulk review | Gotham AI answers with citations to the paragraph. An agentic citator shows how later judgments treated each point of a case. Deep Research with a plan you approve. Tabular Review across a whole data room, and contract review against your firm's playbook. | Agents that plan and do work with citations, and Vault review tables across up to 100,000 documents. |
| Drafting and filing | Drafting in court formats, redlines and a Word add-in, on Gotham Pro. Matters, chronologies, case tracking by CNR, a hearing diary, eSign and e-stamp in the same workspace. | Word and Outlook add-ins, playbooks and workflows. Court-format filing for India is not described. |
| Integrations | Word add-in, Google Drive and SharePoint import, and integrations on Gotham Pro. | iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, Google Drive, Aderant, Ironclad, mobile apps and APIs. |
| Citator | An agentic citator built on a legal ontology: treatment point by point (followed, distinguished, doubted, overruled, referred to a larger bench), with the passage, and bench strength applied. | No citator of its own is described. Customers who also use LexisNexis can check citations with Shepard's inside Harvey. |
| Security | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Data stored in your own country. Never used to train AI. SSO, SAML and SCIM. | Lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001; confirms annual SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits. No training on customer data. |
| Data location | Stored in your own country, India for Indian customers. | EU or Switzerland, US, or Australia. No India region is published. |
| Pricing | Junior for one lawyer: ₹499 a month or ₹3,999 a year plus GST in India; $9 a month or $79 a year elsewhere. Gotham Pro: priced with your firm. | Not published. Every route is a demo request. |
Products change often. Ask both vendors to show each point in a live demo, and put anything important in the contract.
Why teams choose Gotham
Built for large firms
Shared matters, roles and ethical walls. SSO, SAML and SCIM. Firm workflows, playbooks and a library of agent skills. SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and data stored in your own country. Gotham Pro is priced with your firm.
An agentic citator for Indian law
India is the most complicated jurisdiction to get right. Gotham's legal ontology records each holding, bench and statute version. Its agents read every later judgment that cites a case and show, point by point and with the passage, whether it was followed, distinguished, doubted or overruled.
Indian law is built in
Gotham includes 365 million Indian legal documents from the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, tribunals and regulators. You do not need a separate SCC Online subscription to research Indian law.
Your data stays in India
Gotham stores Indian customers' data in India. Harvey publishes regions in the EU, Switzerland, the US and Australia, but not India.
Indian court work end to end
Draft in the court's format, track cases by CNR, then stamp, sign and file, in the same workspace as your research.
What Harvey does well
Integrations and content partners
Word and Outlook add-ins, mobile apps, iManage and NetDocuments, and content from LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer, SCC Online and other publishers.
Agents and bulk review
Harvey runs several agents in parallel and on a schedule, and its Vault reviews up to 100,000 documents in tables.
How to test both fairly
- Pick one real, bounded piece of work, not a demo question.
- Give both products the same documents and the same question.
- Agree beforehand what a good answer needs: the right authorities, pinpoint citations, the right format.
- Have a qualified lawyer check every answer against the source.
- Time the corrections, not just the first draft.
- Check permissions, data deletion, exports and audit logs as well as output quality.
Include an Indian research question that needs Supreme Court and High Court authority, a check on how later judgments treated it, and a draft in an Indian court's format. Ask each vendor where your data will be stored.
Which one should you pick?
Pick Gotham if
- You want one platform for research, drafting, review and filing.
- Indian law matters to your practice, alongside other countries.
- You need enterprise controls and your data stored in your own country.
- You want to prove it on a live matter in a two-week pilot.
Stay with Harvey if
- You have already rolled out Harvey across the firm.
- Most of your work is US or European law.
- You need iManage or NetDocuments on day one.
- Your data can sit in the EU, US or Australia.
Questions
Does Harvey cover Indian law?
Since January 2026, Harvey has a partnership with SCC Online that brings SCC Online's Indian content into Harvey for customers of both. Gotham includes 365 million Indian legal documents without a separate subscription.
Can Harvey store data in India?
Harvey's security page lists data regions in the EU or Switzerland, the US and Australia. It does not list India. Gotham stores Indian customers' data in India.
How much does Harvey cost?
Harvey does not publish its prices; you request a demo. Gotham Junior costs ₹499 a month plus GST in India or $9 a month elsewhere, and Gotham Pro is priced with your firm.
Is Harvey in India?
Harvey announced a Bengaluru office in July 2025, and Indian firms have been reported as clients. We could not confirm from Harvey's site whether the office is open.
Sources and methodology
Checked 4 October 2026. Facts about Harvey come from the pages below. Facts about Gotham come from Gotham’s own product, pricing and security pages.
- Harvey platform
- Harvey Knowledge (sources and integrations)
- Harvey Vault
- Harvey security
- Harvey and SCC Online partnership (January 2026)
- Harvey funding announcement (September 2026)
- law.asia: Harvey's Bengaluru office (July 2025)
- law.asia: Harvey's Indian clients (October 2025)
- LexisNexis and Harvey alliance (June 2025)
- Gotham security, corpus, workflows and pricing
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