Claude for Legal: New Artifacts, Who Can Use It & Price
Claude for Legal added 10 ready-made legal artifacts on Oct 28, 2026: cite check, matter board, Harvey Intake and more, plus 60+ connectors. What shipped and price.
Quick answers
- What is Claude for Legal?
- Anthropic's legal offering for Claude: open-source practice-area plugins, 60+ legal connectors and, since Oct 28, 2026, a gallery of ready-made legal artifacts.
- What shipped on Oct 28, 2026?
- A legal artifacts gallery: six Anthropic tools (cite check, jurisdiction survey matrix, matter board, playbook deviation board, regulatory horizon scan, tabular review) plus four from Harvey, PwC, Goodwin and Foley & Lardner.
- Who can use Claude for Legal?
- Anthropic files the launch under Claude Enterprise. Legal teams and law firms use it in Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude for Microsoft 365.
- How much does Claude for Legal cost?
- Anthropic lists no separate price. It comes with Claude plans, Enterprise in particular, priced through Anthropic sales.
Anthropic added ready-to-use legal artifacts to Claude for Legal on October 28, 2026. Claude for Legal is now a full kit for legal teams: plugins for each practice area, 60+ connectors to legal tools, and shareable trackers and dashboards that cite their sources. Each artifact opens on an example, so a lawyer can see how it works before adding real documents.
Anthropic's model for every artifact is simple: you bring your documents and sources, Claude does the first pass, and a lawyer applies judgment. Each answer links back to the source.
1. Claude for Legal at a glance
Item | Detail |
|---|---|
Jan 2026 | First legal plugin for Claude |
Apr 2026 | Claude for Word beta, with contract review as the lead use |
May 2026 | Claude for Legal: 12 practice-area plugins, 90+ named workflow agents |
Oct 28, 2026 | Legal artifacts gallery |
Connectors | 60+ legal tools, incl. Bloomberg Law, Filevine, Ivo, Legora, Patlytics |
Product tier | Claude Enterprise |
Open source | Anthropic-built plugins can be installed or forked |
2. The six Claude for Legal artifacts
Artifact | What it does |
|---|---|
Cite check | Compares a document with its sources; flags wrong quotes, page numbers and unsupported claims |
Jurisdiction survey matrix | Compares one legal topic across states or countries, with links to the law |
Matter board | Turns engagement letters, emails or spreadsheets into one board of matters, owners and deadlines |
Playbook deviation board | Flags clauses that differ from your standard terms and routes them to the approver |
Regulatory horizon scan | Maps upcoming rules on a timeline for your business, ranked by impact |
Tabular review | Builds a table of chosen terms across many contracts, linked to the exact language |
Teams can ask Claude to tailor any artifact, then pull in playbooks and research through connectors so nobody uploads files by hand. Sharing reaches colleagues, clients and partners, with settings that keep privacy and ethical walls between teams.
3. Partner artifacts in Claude for Legal
- Harvey Intake (Harvey): one place in Claude for business legal requests; routine ones are answered from Legal's guidance in Harvey, the rest go to a lawyer whose reply comes back in Claude.
- Subpoena Response Tool (PwC): turns precedents, standard objections and templates into audit-ready first drafts.
- AI Governance Benchmark (Goodwin): benchmarks a company's AI governance and surfaces gaps.
- Obligations Checker (Foley & Lardner): reviews both parties' obligations before and after closing.
- Coming next: artifacts from Legora and Orrick.
Anthropic is also funding public interest groups that build access-to-justice artifacts, such as record clearance tools from The Access Project, and starting a Legal Ambassadors Program.
4. Who can use Claude for Legal
The announcement sits under Claude Enterprise. Anthropic's legal deployment guide names three surfaces for legal teams: Claude for chat and research, Claude Cowork for matter-level work across files and apps, and Claude for Microsoft 365 inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Legal tech companies build on the Claude Platform API. Spellbook, for example, says it runs close to 500,000 contracts a month through Claude.
5. Claude for Legal price
Anthropic has not published a separate Claude for Legal price. The plugins are open source, and the artifacts and connectors come with your Claude plan. Enterprise pricing is quoted by Anthropic sales. Partner tools such as Harvey still need their own licenses.
6. Where Sumus fits
Yes, you can put Claude to work for your legal and business team without an Enterprise contract. In Sumus, Claude works as an AI employee in your team chat: it reviews contracts, drafts first passes and tracks open items, while your lawyers see and approve everything in the same thread.
What we're watching
- Whether the legal gallery reaches Team and Pro plans.
- The Legora and Orrick artifacts Anthropic says are coming.
- Independent tests of cite check against human cite checking.
FAQ
Is Claude for Legal free?
The Anthropic-built plugins are open source, but you need a Claude plan to run them; the artifacts launch is filed under Claude Enterprise.
What is Harvey Intake?
A partner artifact that routes business legal questions from Claude into Harvey and returns a lawyer's answer in Claude.
How many legal connectors does Claude have?
More than 60 since May 2026, listed in Claude's legal directory.
Does Claude for Legal give legal advice?
It does the first pass with sources linked; Anthropic's model is that a lawyer applies judgment to the result.
Claude for Legal vs OpenAI Astra for Law?
OpenAI tuned GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index behind a trusted-access program; Anthropic ships shareable tools, plugins and connectors on top of Claude.
Sources
- Claude: Introducing artifacts for legal work, Oct 28, 2026
- Anthropic legal deployment guide (Claude for legal teams), 2026
- Law.com Legaltech News, Oct 28, 2026. Read Oct 29, 2026.
Update log
- — Oct 29: First published. Covers the Oct 28, 2026 legal artifacts gallery and the May 2026 Claude for Legal launch.