Casetext (CoCounsel) vs Everlaw
Different stages of litigation work. Casetext became CoCounsel after Thomson Reuters acquired it in 2023 for $650 million; it is a research and drafting assistant grounded in Westlaw case law, sold quote-based with reported pricing of roughly $225-$639 per user per month depending on Westlaw bundling. Everlaw is an eDiscovery and litigation collaboration platform with its own AI assistant for reviewing large document sets. Choose CoCounsel when the bottleneck is legal research and memo drafting; choose Everlaw when the bottleneck is managing discovery across thousands of documents. Neither publishes a public price list, so budget only after a sales quote. No hands-on testing was done for this comparison.
| Decision point | Casetext | Everlaw |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Litigation and transactional attorneys at firms already paying for Westlaw, who want research, drafting, and document review in one assistant grounded in Thomson Reuters' case law libraries rather tha | Litigation teams and in-house counsel managing discovery: collecting, reviewing, and producing large volumes of documents and communications with collaboration and AI-assisted review in one platform. |
| Plans and cost | No public pricing; sold quote-based through Thomson Reuters. Third-party reports cite roughly $225-$639 per user per month depending on Westlaw bundling and firm size, annual contracts. Prices as of Oct 2026. | Quote-based; no public price list. A third-party listing suggests starting around $250/month, unverified. Prices as of Oct 2026. |
| Limitations | No public price list; every firm goes through a Thomson Reuters sales quote, usually bundled with Westlaw, and contracts typically run one year with auto-renewal. AI output still requires attorney ver | Pricing is quote-based with no public rate card, so budgeting requires a sales conversation. It is a litigation platform, not a general legal AI: legal research and transactional drafting are better s |
Use the same input
A litigation team needs both cited case research for a motion and a review of 50,000 produced emails. Assign the research half to one tool and the document-review half to the other, then compare which half each tool handles natively.
What a successful result must preserve
The tool must serve licensed attorneys, ground its output in verifiable legal sources, and disclose pricing before purchase.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on publicly available information. Product history and reported pricing come from vendor pages and third-party legal-tech reporting, re-checked October 2026. We did not run a scored hands-on test; no quality ranking is claimed.
- Casetext — Official website ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-24)
- Everlaw — Official website ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-24)