Draftiro vs CoCounsel — overview
CoCounsel — formerly Casetext, now owned by Thomson Reuters — is one of the strongest AI research and document-review tools on the market, grounded in Westlaw and backed by KeyCite. If your practice lives on deep research and review across very large document sets, CoCounsel earns its place. What it is not is a daily workspace: it does not run your conflicts, your deadlines, or your matters, and it does not track AI-assisted time for billing.
Pricing, plainly
When we checked Thomson Reuters' plan page in September 2026, CoCounsel Essentials was listed from $340.85/mo; pricing depends on tier and whether Westlaw is bundled, so check the current plan page. Draftiro starts free (no card) with paid tiers from $29/mo. The two are not really competing on price — CoCounsel sells Westlaw-grounded research depth; Draftiro sells an affordable all-in-one workspace.
Who should switch — and who shouldn't
If you already pay for Westlaw and your bottleneck is appellate-grade research and large-scale review, keep CoCounsel; nothing in Draftiro replaces KeyCite. The smarter move for many litigators is to keep CoCounsel for the heavy research and add Draftiro as the daily workspace — drafting, conflicts, court-day math, and AI-assisted time entries for attorney review — for less than a second CoCounsel seat. For solos and small firms that don't need Westlaw depth every day, Draftiro alone, with case-citation checks against CourtListener when available and free CourtListener lookups, may cover most of the work.
Where CoCounsel wins
- Westlaw-grounded retrieval and KeyCite-backed verification
- Deep, multi-step research and review agents
- Document review across very large production sets
Where Draftiro wins
- A daily workspace, not just a research tool
- Conflict checks + court-day math + matter management in one place (CoCounsel has none of these)
- Lower entry price — from $29/mo, plus a free plan with no card (CoCounsel Essentials listed from $340.85/mo in September 2026)
- AI-assisted time entries for attorney review
Side by side
| Feature | Draftiro | CoCounsel |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | Public, self-serve | Contact sales |
| Case-citation checks (CourtListener when available, or equivalent) | Included | Included |
| Conflict checking with audit trail | Included | Not included |
| Court-day math (federal + state holidays) | Included | Not included |
| AI-assisted time entries (for attorney review) | Included | Not included |
| Outlook calendar sync | Included | Not included |
| Self-serve signup (no sales call) | Included | Included |
| Free plan | Included | Not included |
Common questions
Is CoCounsel’s Westlaw grounding better than Draftiro’s CourtListener citation checks?
For deep, citator-grade research, yes — CoCounsel is grounded in Westlaw with KeyCite, which is deeper than the public CourtListener corpus Draftiro checks against. The trade-off is price and scope: CoCounsel is a research tool (Essentials listed from $340.85/mo in September 2026); Draftiro is an all-in-one workspace from $29/mo that checks detected case citations against CourtListener when available and flags statutes as unchecked.
Can I run CoCounsel and Draftiro together?
Yes. A workable split is CoCounsel for Westlaw-grounded research and large-scale document review, and Draftiro as the daily workspace for drafting, conflicts, deadlines, and AI-assisted time tracking that CoCounsel does not provide.
Does CoCounsel handle conflicts and deadlines like Draftiro?
No. CoCounsel is a research and review tool; it does not run conflict checks, court-day math, or matter management. Draftiro builds those into the writing flow.
Will my data train AI models?
No. Draftiro does not use your matter content to train AI models, and the Google Gemini paid-service terms we use bar Google from using it to improve its products. See our Privacy Policy for what providers may retain.