Spellbook vs HAQQ

Spellbook is built around a Microsoft Word add-in: it redlines contracts against your playbooks, benchmarks terms against market standards, and drafts from your own templates, all inside the document you're already editing. In 2026 it added "Associate," described as an AI agent that can work through multi-document legal matters under a lawyer's oversight, a genuine step beyond single-document redlining, and a sign the company is trying to grow past being a pure Word plugin.

It's also genuinely easy to try: Spellbook ships a self-serve 7-day free trial with no sales call required, and says it's trusted by 4,500+ in-house teams and law firms with a 4.7 G2 rating. For a team that lives in Word and just wants better contract review, that's a low-friction way to find out if it fits.

Spellbook doesn't do legal research, jurisdiction-aware analysis, or practice management, no matter tracking, billing, time capture or client CRM. A firm running Spellbook for contracts still needs separate tools for everything else a practice does: research, matter files, invoicing, client intake. Its drafting focus also stays inside a single document or a Word-native workflow, built around US and Canadian commercial-contract norms, rather than reasoning about which jurisdiction's law actually governs a clause.

HAQQ covers the same contract drafting and review ground, redlining, playbook-based benchmarking, clause generation, and adds legal research, jurisdiction-aware analysis across 200+ countries, and the practice layer: matters, time, billing and client CRM, all inside the same platform rather than three or four separate subscriptions.

Spellbook doesn't publish prices either: its own pricing page offers "custom pricing for modern legal teams" based on team size, gated behind a demo request for anything beyond the free trial. That's a lighter-touch sales motion than most legal-AI vendors on this page, the trial genuinely lets you evaluate before talking to anyone, but you still won't know the actual cost of a full rollout until someone quotes it. HAQQ publishes its prices and runs a free tier on top of them, so the number is the same whether you're evaluating alone or ready to buy.