AI law firms and lawyer-led legal services for startups, compared

An AI law firm uses software to draft and review legal work, with licensed lawyers checking and signing off, and usually sells the finished document for a fixed fee or a subscription instead of billing hours. These 26 AI law firms and lawyer-led legal services say on their own websites that they work with startups, from company formation and fundraising to contracts, visas and patents.

Last updated 2026-10-20 · 26 providers covered

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Firms are grouped by type of work, not ranked, and listed alphabetically within each table.

Prices are the firms' own published figures, checked on 20 October 2026, and can change.

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What is an AI law firm for startups?

It is a law firm, or a lawyer-led service, that uses AI to produce the documents a startup needs while a licensed lawyer reviews the result. Founders typically pay a known price per document or per month rather than an hourly bill.

The legal set-up varies, so check it before you sign. Arceus says it is a law firm whose engagements are handled by US-barred attorneys (source), Moritz describes itself as a law firm incorporated in California (source), and Compound Law calls itself a licensed law firm in Germany (source). Falcon delivers legal services through Falcon Law BV in Brussels (source). Soxton states that it is not a law firm and that licensed attorneys provide its legal services (source).

Which AI law firms handle formation and fundraising?

Fellow, Carta Law, Kyra Law, Blackletter, Agile Counsel, Vector, Lexsy, Lex Generalis, StartupTechLaw, Founders Law Club and Virgil list company formation, equity or venture financing among their core work. Fellow and Kyra Law publish prices for it.

Firm	Where	Startup work	Pricing model	Published price
Agile Counsel	US and Singapore	Venture financings, Delaware flips, outside general counsel	Describes its work as price-predictable	Not stated. Source
Blackletter	US and Ontario, Canada	Company-side financings: SAFEs, notes, priced rounds	No billable hours	Not stated. Source
Carta Law	US and England and Wales	Venture financing from term sheet to close. Carta Law says it is a brand used by separately regulated law firms, Carta Law, P.C. (US) and Carta Law Limited (England and Wales). Source	Fixed fee per round	Not stated. Source
Fellow	US	Formation and US flips, option plans, SAFEs, priced rounds	Fixed fee per deliverable; hourly only for advisory	Formation from $2,900; SAFE or note from $2,400; NVCA priced round from $30,000. Source
Founders Law Club	US	Formation, contracts, patents, trademarks	Membership	Not stated. Source
Kyra Law	England and Wales	Funding rounds including SEIS/EIS, shareholders' agreements, contracts	Fixed fee per piece of work	Whole funding round £5,000 to £10,000 + VAT. Source
Lex Generalis	US	Corporate, IP and outside general counsel for startups	Not stated	Not stated. Source
Lexsy	US	Formation, co-founder stock, equity grants, financings	Annual membership plus credits	Membership $5,000 a year. Source
StartupTechLaw	US	Formation, funding agreements, trademarks	Monthly plan or traditional billing	Plan $199 a month. Source
Vector	US	Startup formation, financings, commercial contracts, outside general counsel	Says most work is billed hourly at about half the cost of Big Law; outcome-based pricing and monthly retainers also offered	Not stated. Source
Virgil	Not stated	Corporate legal plus finance and compliance for venture-backed startups	Not stated	Not stated. Source

Which AI law firms handle customer and vendor contracts?

General Legal, Arceus, Moritz, Blue Tide, Compound Law and Falcon focus on commercial contracts and publish their prices. The lowest published entry price is $250, for a short contract or NDA review at General Legal, Arceus and Blue Tide.

Firm	Where	Published price	Source
Arceus	US	NDA or order form $250; review of 1 to 24 pages $500 to $1,000; drafting from $1,000	Source
Blue Tide	US	Simple review $250; standard review $500; full negotiation $1,000; drafting from $2,000	Source
Compound Law	Germany	NDAs and LOIs from €750; contract review from €750; MSA from €1,500	Source
Falcon	Belgium	Monthly plans from €1,000 for up to 6 tasks	Source
General Legal	US	Contract review $250 (3 pages or fewer) or $500 (3 to 25 pages); negotiation $1,000; drafting $2,000	Source
Moritz	US (California law firm)	$750 for a contract up to 25 pages on your paper; $1,500 or $2,500 for longer or third-party paper	Source

Line-by-line prices for each firm are on the flat-fee startup lawyers page.

Which AI law firms work as outside general counsel?

OneGC, Shepherd, Lexsy, Soxton, StartupTechLaw, Falcon and Compound Law sell monthly or annual plans that cover a startup's routine legal work. Published plans start at $199 a month at StartupTechLaw and $999 a month at OneGC.

OneGC lists a Starter plan at $999 a month for pre-seed and early-stage companies (source), and Shepherd offers subscriptions from $1,000 a month (source). All plans are compared on the fractional general counsel for startups page.

Which AI law firms handle visas, patents and trademarks?

For immigration, LegalOS and Alma work with startups that sponsor visas; for patents, Fearn, Patentext (a registered patent agency) and Landfall IP serve startups; Trama files trademarks for a single all-in price. Each publishes at least some pricing, except Landfall IP.

Alma lists $8,000 for a new O-1 petition (source) and LegalOS says its legal fees typically run $2,000 to $9,000 per case (source). Fearn lists $2,500 for a provisional patent application (source) and Trama lists $590 for a US trademark including government and attorney fees (source). See O-1 visa lawyer costs and provisional patent cost for full comparisons.

How to compare AI law firms for your startup

Check four things: where the firm is licensed, whether the price is fixed before work starts, who reviews the AI's draft, and how extra scope is charged. The firms' own pages answer most of these.

Jurisdiction matters first. Kyra Law works under the law of England and Wales (source), Compound Law in Germany and Falcon in Belgium, while most other firms here practise US law. Fellow says many of its clients are based in Europe and the US and are building toward a Delaware structure (source).

On price certainty, Moritz says you approve one price before work starts and it does not move (source). Arceus prices extra negotiation rounds from $500 each (source), so a long negotiation can cost more than the first review.

How this list was built

Every provider here is in the AI Native Map directory of AI-native law firms and says on its own website that it serves startups or venture-backed companies. Facts and prices come from each provider's site and were checked on 20 October 2026.

Firms are grouped by type of work, not ranked. Where a firm does not publish a detail, the table says "Not stated". The full directory is at AI-native law firms.

FAQ

What is the cheapest AI law firm for a startup contract review?

Among firms that publish prices, General Legal, Arceus and Blue Tide each list $250 for a short contract or NDA review, and Moritz lists volume work from $250 a matter. Prices were checked on 20 October 2026.

Are AI law firms real law firms?

Many are, but not all. Arceus and Moritz describe themselves as law firms, Carta Law says it is a brand used by separately regulated law firms in the US and in England and Wales, and Falcon provides legal services through Falcon Law BV. Soxton says it is not a law firm and that licensed attorneys provide its legal services, and Patentext Services describes itself as a registered patent agency rather than a law firm.

Do AI law firms charge by the hour?

Most firms on this list charge fixed fees or subscriptions. Vector says most of its work is billed hourly, and StartupTechLaw offers traditional billing alongside its $199 monthly plan.

Can a startup outside the US use these firms?

Yes, depending on the law you need. Kyra Law covers England and Wales, Compound Law covers Germany and Falcon covers Belgium, and Agile Counsel handles Delaware flips for startups moving to a US structure.