Pick ChatGPT if
everyone who wants a hosted general assistant — writing, Q&A, light research, images.
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Our take
Pick ChatGPT if everyone who wants a hosted general assistant — writing, Q&A, light research, images. Pick Harvey if amLaw / large in-house legal teams that need agents, a document vault, and admin analytics on the same tenant. Skip ChatGPT if teams that cannot send prompts to OpenAI, or developers who need a repo-aware IDE (Cursor) or a local runtime (Ollama). Skip Harvey if solo lawyers who want a $20 chat
Best for
ChatGPT A general-purpose conversation
Harvey Firm or in-house legal work on one governed workspace
Free plan
ChatGPT $0 · unlimited everyday text chats (abuse guardrails). Limited uploads, images, voice, deep research, memory, Codex, and desktop Work. Confirmed as the free plan on chatgpt.com/pricing copy and Help
Harvey No free plan
Lowest paid
ChatGPT Plus $20/mo, monthly only
Harvey Not published by the vendor
Next step up
ChatGPT Pro $100 / $200 / $500 per month
Harvey
Coding agent
ChatGPT Codex, rate-limited on Free
Harvey Agents
Runs where
ChatGPT Local or hosted
Harvey Hosted
Watch out
ChatGPT chatgpt.com/pricing HTML still hides $
Harvey No public price list
Last checked
ChatGPT 2026-10-19 · help.openai.com
Harvey 2026-10-22 · harvey.ai
Which one, then?
Pick Harvey if
amLaw / large in-house legal teams that need agents, a document vault, and admin analytics on the same tenant.
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