LEGALFLY vs Legora: what GCs should know before choosing a legal AI platform

There are dozens of legal AI platforms promising to help lawyers draft, review, and analyse in a fraction of the time. However, for in-house departments, efficiency is only part of the equation. Reliability, data control and explainability also matter.

Two popular options are Legora and LEGALFLY. Both make legal work faster and smarter, but they differ in who they’re built for, how they handle data, and how transparently they operate.

This comparison examines how each platform supports in-house legal teams, from features to workflow integration to data governance and explainability.

What is Legora?

Founded in Stockholm in 2023, Legora is an AI-powered workspace for legal professionals. It combines document review, drafting, research and workflow automation in one platform. Its core tools include a Word add-in for drafting and editing, a Tabular Review interface for large document sets, and a Workflows module for automating multi-step legal processes.

What is LEGALFLY?

Founded in 2023 in Belgium, LEGALFLY is a secure AI workspace built for in-house legal teams. It anonymises sensitive data before processing and helps lawyers, procurement teams and business users draft and review legal work with greater speed and accuracy. The platform includes agents for contract review, multi-document review, drafting, legal research and regulatory horizon scanning. It supports 35 jurisdictions and integrates directly with Microsoft Word, Teams and SharePoint.

What can you do with each platform?

How do their capabilities compare?

Both LEGALFLY and Legora help legal teams work faster. For GCs, the question is which platform turns that speed into lasting value through greater capacity, safer delegation and stronger business impact.

Legora focuses on scale. Its automation tools process large document sets, extract data and generate summaries efficiently. That makes it well suited to law-firm-style work such as due diligence or discovery, where throughput and volume matter most. 

LEGALFLY is designed for in-house teams that need to do more with less. It analyses contracts at clause level, flags risks and compliance gaps with clear reasoning, and produces drafts aligned with approved language, allowing work to be delegated safely across the business. Other teams, such as procurement or finance, can self-serve within defined legal parameters, reducing the load on legal.

Data is anonymised before processing, so no sensitive information leaves your organisation’s environment. With regulatory tracking, multilingual review, and a record of every decision, LEGALFLY gives GCs faster output, stronger governance and measurable capacity gains.

Who are these platforms built for?

Legora serves a broad legal audience. It helps lawyers handle complex research, manage case documents and process large volumes of contracts, especially for areas like tax law and litigation.

LEGALFLY is built specifically for in-house teams that balance a wide range of responsibilities, from compliance and contract management to strategic business advice. 

In-house lawyers operate as generalists, switching between high-level risk assessments and detailed document reviews. LEGALFLY is designed to support that mix of strategic and operational work, so legal teams can focus on high-value work while allowing other departments to self-serve within defined legal boundaries.

How well do they fit into existing workflows?

Both platforms integrate with Microsoft Word, SharePoint, and document management systems, so you can work within familiar environments. Legora’s Word add-in focuses on review and assistant functions, while LEGALFLY extends these capabilities to drafting, review and legal research.

How do they handle security and data control?

Both platforms take compliance seriously, but LEGALFLY’s approach is more powerful and adaptable.

With a founder who was an application security engineer, LEGALFLY applies security principles from the ground up. All documents are anonymised before analysis, meaning sensitive details are stripped out locally so no client or personal data leaves your environment.

Organisations can choose where and how their data is processed through four deployment models:

• SaaS, for teams wanting speed and simplicity
• Private cloud, hosted within the organisation’s environment
• Hybrid, combining local anonymisation with cloud analysis
• On-premise, offering full operational and data sovereignty

This flexibility is ideal for legal departments that must comply with internal data-handling rules or sector-specific standards.

Legora is hosted on Microsoft Azure and meets common enterprise standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 and GDPR. Both providers have single sign on and never use customer data to train or fine tune AI models.

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Which platform offers deeper industry expertise?

Legora takes a broad approach, positioning itself as a platform for lawyers across different practice areas. It does not focus on the particular regulatory or operational challenges faced by specific industries.

LEGALFLY is built for in-house teams in industries where regulation and risk change daily, such as technology, manufacturing, transport, banking and insurance.

• Manufacturers and transport operators use it to review multilingual supplier contracts, track renewals and obligations, and align clauses with ESG and CSDDD standards.
• Banks and financial institutions rely on it to assess cross-border agreements, test terms, and identify policy or jurisdictional inconsistencies early.
• Insurers use it to compare underwriting wordings, analyse coverage and exclusion clauses, and monitor regulatory updates.
• Tech companies use LEGALFLY to manage NDAs and data processing agreements, verify alignment with GDPR and DORA, and prepare for new regulations.

How transparent are their AI outputs?

LEGALFLY shows you not just what the AI concludes, but how it got there. Every output includes the reasoning behind each decision and the sources it draws from, whether an internal playbook, legal publisher, or statute. There is a full audit trail for every document, showing how each clause was analysed and every step taken, so review points or discovery questions can be answered with confidence.

Legora also provides comprehensive sourcing, but does not appear to show how the AI reached its conclusions.

Which platform is right for your legal department?

The best legal AI platform isn’t defined by how many features it has, but by how much it improves your working day. For GCs, that comes down to time, control, confidence, and impact.

Time. LEGALFLY cuts routine review and drafting from hours to minutes, freeing legal teams from low-value edits and approvals. Legora’s workflow tools also save time, but focus more on large-scale document handling than day-to-day in-house work.

Control. LEGALFLY gives full visibility into every clause and decision, showing who reviewed what and why. Legora has strong review automation but less traceability for individual reasoning.

Confidence. LEGALFLY anonymises sensitive data before analysis and can be deployed in the cloud, hybrid, or fully on-premise. That flexibility lets you meet internal compliance rules and sector-specific data standards with ease.

Impact. In-house teams using LEGALFLY see tangible results: faster reviews, shorter turnaround times, and measurable capacity gains without additional hires. Legora’s strengths lie in handling large document sets, but its benefits are less tailored to in-house metrics like turnaround and transparency.

If your legal department manages large volumes of external cases or discovery work, Legora may fit your needs. But if your priority is to help a lean in-house team move faster with full oversight and compliance, LEGALFLY might be the better option.