A Legora alternative
built India first.
Legora calls itself the agentic operating system for legal work. Gotham is the agentic legal operating system for law firms and legal teams of every size, 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 Legora if it is already rolled out across your firm, most of your work is European or US law, and a branded client portal is central to how you work.
Gotham vs Legora, side by side
| What to compare | Gotham | Legora |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A legal operating system: research, drafting, review and filing in one workspace. | An agentic operating system for legal work: Agent, Workflows, Tabular Review, Word and Outlook add-ins, Portal, Lists and Monitors. |
| 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 130,000 legal professionals at more than 2,000 law firms and in-house teams in over 80 markets, according to Legora. |
| 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 an exclusive partnership with Manupatra (January 2026). Legora 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. | US federal and all 50 states, UK commentary through FromCounsel, and sources across Europe, the Nordics, Singapore and Australia. |
| Agents and 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. | An Agent that plans and delivers work, no-code Workflows, and Tabular Review across thousands of documents, each answer cited. |
| 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 with playbooks and translation. Court-format drafting, e-stamping or eSign for India are not described. |
| 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. | Building a legal ontology and an AI-native citator: in limited beta in September 2026, with general availability planned for the fourth quarter. |
| 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, ISO 42001, GDPR and HIPAA. Bring your own encryption key. No training on your data. |
| Data location | Stored in your own country, India for Indian customers. | Four regions: EU, US, APAC and 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, with citations to the paragraph.
Your data stays in India
Gotham stores Indian customers' data in India. Legora publishes four hosting regions, EU, US, APAC and Australia, but not India.
Indian court work end to end
Draft in the court's format, track cases by CNR, keep a hearing diary, then stamp, sign and file, in the same workspace as your research.
What Legora does well
A broad agentic suite
Legora's Agent plans and delivers work, watches your email and documents, and produces Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. Workflows are built by lawyers without code.
Client portals
Portal lets clients share files and run your firm's workflows under your brand, without seeing your prompts or know-how, and without a guest licence.
Research across many countries
Legora works with publishers in the US, UK, Europe and Asia, including Manupatra for India, and is building a citator from its acquisitions of Qura and Wexler.
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 draft in an Indian court's format, and a check on where each vendor will store your data.
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 Legora if
- You have already rolled out Legora across the firm.
- Most of your work is European or US law.
- A branded client portal is central to your service.
- Your data can sit in the EU, US, APAC or Australia.
Questions
Does Legora cover Indian law?
Yes. Since January 2026, Legora has an exclusive partnership with Manupatra that brings Manupatra's Indian content into Legora. Gotham includes 365 million Indian legal documents of its own.
Can Legora store data in India?
Legora's support site says it runs in four regions: EU, US, APAC and Australia. It does not list India. Gotham stores Indian customers' data in India.
How much does Legora cost?
Legora does not publish its prices; you book 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 Legora in India?
Yes. Legora opened an office in Bengaluru in early 2026 and appointed a Head of India.
Sources and methodology
Checked 4 October 2026. Facts about Legora come from the pages below. Facts about Gotham come from Gotham’s own product, pricing and security pages.
- Legora about page
- Legora product
- Legora legal research
- Legora Agent
- Legora Portal
- Legora security
- Legora hosting regions
- Legora and Manupatra partnership (January 2026)
- Indian Legal Tech: Legora's Bengaluru office (January 2026)
- Bar & Bench: Legora's Head of India (March 2026)
- Legora ontology and citator (September 2026)
- Gotham security, corpus, workflows and pricing
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