The Brief:
Legora is switching from seat-based to consumption-based pricing, tied to the launch of its new Agent Pro product.
The move signals a broader industry shift, with law firms facing bills tied to usage rather than headcount.
For two years, law firms have been signing AI contracts the same way they buy software: a fixed number of seats, a fixed annual fee, predictable budgets.
That era is ending.
Legora, fresh off a US$5.55bn valuation and a US$550m Series D, is moving to consumption-based pricing for Agent Pro, its most powerful product yet. Instead of paying per head, firms will pay for what the AI actually does.
What is Agent Pro
Agent Pro is Legora’s newest, most capable product. It can plan, execute, review and deliver complex legal work end-to-end, using the most powerful frontier models available.
The pitch is simple: it does real work, not just assistance. So Legora is pricing it accordingly.
The value of AI over time will get measured in work done, not logins purchased.
Why the shift
As AI platforms become more agentic, usage patterns become unpredictable. One lawyer might run one task. Another might run fifty. A seat licence can’t capture that gap. Consumption-based pricing fixes that mismatch.
Legora isn’t alone.
Anthropic recently pulled its most capable model, Fable 5, out of its flat-rate subscription. It now charges $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens on top of monthly fees. OpenAI has moved enterprise customers of its AI coding agent product, Codex, to consumption billing.
The reason for the shift is the same across the industry. AI agents don’t just suggest and correct. They run long, multi-step tasks continuously. The economics of fixed subscriptions don’t hold when a single session can cost hundreds of dollars to run.
What it means for law firms
Three innovation chiefs told The Lawyer that Legora had already flagged the billing change ahead of their contract renewals.
For heavy users, bills could climb fast. Unlike a seat licence, there’s no ceiling unless firms set one themselves.
Legora has built in tools to manage that risk. A real-time dashboard tracks consumption by organisation, user or matter. Every Agent Pro run can be attributed to a specific client file, giving firms cost transparency per instruction.
The standard Legora Agent stays free under existing contract terms. But for firms serious about agentic AI, the real question isn’t whether to use Agent Pro. It’s how much they’re prepared to spend on it.
Source: Legora