Draftable vs HAQQ

Draftable does one job and does it well: showing exactly what changed between two versions of a document, whether that is a Word file, a PDF, a scanned contract, or a spreadsheet. It does not draft, does not review against a playbook, and does not do legal research, that is not a gap in Draftable's product, it is the product. HAQQ drafts, reviews and researches, and includes its own comparison, so the two are not really competing for the same budget line; most firms that use Draftable seriously also need a separate drafting and review tool, which is where HAQQ sits.

Draftable is one of the few vendors in this comparison set with real, published, self-serve pricing: Draftable Business is $129 per user/year and Draftable Legal is $261 per user/year, both billed annually, per Draftable's own pricing page. A separate product, Draftable Clean, strips hidden metadata from documents before they leave your firm and starts at $60 per user/year for teams under ten seats. HAQQ also publishes its prices and runs a free tier, between the two, this is not a comparison where either side hides the number.

This is worth stating plainly rather than hedging: Draftable Desktop's local-processing model is a stronger data-sovereignty story than any cloud-based tool, HAQQ included. "For desktop users, your documents never leave your computer and comparisons are performed locally," per Draftable's own site, which also states "our team can't see what you compare." For a firm where that guarantee matters more than anything else a platform offers, Draftable's answer is better than ours, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.