Data prices · Law firms & legal teams
What AI labs pay for legal data
AI labs building legal tools want real contracts, redlines, matter files and the reasoning behind negotiated positions. Publishers have signed large content deals, but there are no public prices for law firm work product, and client confidentiality decides what a firm may license.
What buyers want
Records your team already keeps
01
Drafts and redlines
How a contract changed through negotiation, version by version.
02
Matter outcomes
What was argued or agreed, and how it turned out.
03
Templates and playbooks
The positions your firm takes and the fallbacks it accepts.
Price signals
What public deals and research show
$250M+
Reported value of News Corp's five-year content deal with OpenAI. It shows what text licensing can be worth, though news content differs from legal work product.
Press Gazette$200-$2,000
Typical price per checkable task. A drafting task with a known accepted answer can become one.
Epoch AI, 2026We found no public price for a law firm licensing its work product for AI training. Prices are set per deal.
The wider market
$203M
Data licensing contracts Reddit disclosed in early 2024, with terms of two to three years.
TechCrunch$250M+
Reported value of News Corp's five-year content deal with OpenAI, including cash and credits.
Press Gazette$10k-$100k
Per-company payouts for shut-down startups' Slack messages, tickets and email archives, across nearly 100 deals.
Forbes, April 2026$200-$2,000
Typical price per reinforcement learning task, according to Epoch AI's interviews with people who build them.
Epoch AI, 2026Pricing factors
What moves the price
- Client consent
- Client information needs informed consent under the ABA rules, so cleared matters are what sell.
- Version history
- Redline sequences show reasoning that a final contract hides.
- Practice area
- Specialist areas with little public material are worth more.
- Years of history
- Longer runs of records show change over time and how outcomes played out, which a single year can't.
- Rights you can prove
- Buyers pay for data you own or are allowed to license. Data held for customers without their permission won't sell, so our calculator cuts the estimate when rights are unclear.
Our calculator
How we estimate legal data
Our indicative model starts from a base value per system for about five years of history at an 11-50 person company, then applies a sector weight of 1.4x, your history, team size and rights. It is an estimate we confirm on a call, not a market price.
| System | Base value |
|---|---|
| Contracts & case files | $45k |
| Docs, wikis & SOPs | $10k |
| CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot) | $15k |
Recurring
Paid again every month
Firms open new matters and negotiate new agreements every month. Cleared matters can go out as monthly batches on a refresh term.
How recurring revenue worksRules that apply
ABA Formal Opinion 512 says lawyers must protect client information under Rule 1.6 when using generative AI. We never touch privileged material unless your client has consented in writing.
Source: ABA Formal Opinion 512Valuation
What is your data worth?
No access to your systems needed. We confirm the number on a 30-minute call.
Questions
Legal data, answered
Can a law firm license client documents?
What about our own templates?
Who decides which buyers get it?
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