Doctrine is a French legal research platform for lawyers and in-house counsel. It is a professional tool: it brings together court decisions, codes, statutes, and European texts. Its AI, called “Assistant,” answers your legal questions with cited sources, analyzes your documents, and helps you draft. Dedicated tools handle contracts and litigation files.
Doctrine has a free plan. The recommended plan to start with: Doctrine subscription, see the website. Prices checked on October 3, 2026 on the vendor’s official page.
DoctrineA legal question, an answer grounded in the lawWho it’s for: lawyers, in-house counsel, CPAs, and HR managers who need to check a point of French law.
You ask your question in plain language. Assistant searches statutes, codes, court decisions, and tax content, then writes a structured answer: the texts, the case law, the conclusion. Each source can be checked in one click.
The detailed analysis gives a structured answer with sources and decisions. “Concis” (Concise) mode gives the essentials in a few lines, 50% faster according to Doctrine. Your choice applies to the whole conversation.
You upload contracts, summonses, meeting minutes. Assistant summarizes them, looks for a clause, compares them, sorts them by date, or translates them. Up to 150 MB per file and 1 GB per conversation.
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Prices not checked on October 3, 2026: check Doctrine’s pricing page for current prices.
| Plan | Price | Who it’s for |
|---|---|---|
| Doctrine subscription Recommended to start | See the website | Lawyers, legal counsel, accountants |
| Flow Counsel, Flow Litigate | On request | Legal departments and law firms |
A free trial is offered on the pricing page. We were not able to confirm how long it lasts.
Start with the free trial, using two or three real questions from your week. If you are neither a lawyer nor in-house counsel, first check whether your legal department or your law firm already has a subscription: that is the most common case, and it saves you from paying twice.
Your data. Your documents are hosted in Europe and you can delete them; Doctrine is ISO 27001 certified.
What it does less well
Ask Assistant your first legal questionDoctrineThe prompt to copy
An employee in their probationary period wants to leave the company. How much notice must they give their employer, and what happens if they don’t? Give me the applicable texts and recent decisions from the Cour de cassation.
In the starter kit for 10 jobs.
For large law firms and legal departments that work across several countries, mostly in English.
A general-purpose assistant for rewording or summarizing a text, with no verified legal database behind it.
For a first sourced search on the web, outside specialized legal databases.
Doctrine subscription: see the website; Flow Counsel: Flow Litigate, on request. Prices checked on October 3, 2026 on the vendor’s official page.
Yes. A free trial is offered on the pricing page. We were not able to confirm how long it lasts.
Your documents are hosted in Europe and you can delete them; Doctrine is ISO 27001 certified.
Harvey: For large law firms and legal departments that work across several countries, mostly in English. Claude: A general-purpose assistant for rewording or summarizing a text, with no verified legal database behind it. Perplexity: For a first sourced search on the web, outside specialized legal databases.
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