Noxtua

What it is

Noxtua is a European legal AI workspace that runs its own models on European infrastructure, with no US cloud provider in the processing path. The Berlin company was called Xayn until it renamed itself after the product. Three functions sit in the workspace: Research over publisher-licensed legal databases, Understanding for document analysis and matrix review across large file sets, and Drafting with a Microsoft Word integration. Noxtua 5, the current version, adds Knowledge Graphs that map legal sources to their connections instead of retrieving passages in isolation. The vendor puts the corpus at 130M+ searchable documents and 8.5M+ court decisions.

The load-bearing part is who supplies that content. Noxtua’s Series B of roughly €80.7M closed in April 2025 with C.H.BECK, Germany’s leading legal publisher, as lead investor, alongside law firms CMS and Dentons and HPC operator Northern Data. That produced Beck-Noxtua, available since 2025-11-26, which answers with beck-online citations. In February 2026 Noxtua added a Europe License spanning six publishers: C.H.BECK (Germany), MANZ (Austria), Helbing Lichtenhahn (Switzerland), and the Beck houses in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.

Why it shows up in Legal Ops stacks

• Sovereignty is the product, not a page in the security pack. Harvey and most of the field route inference through US-operated model providers. Noxtua trains and serves its own models in data centres run by European partners. For a German firm the binding test is not GDPR but professional secrecy — § 43e BRAO and § 203 StGB — and Noxtua names both. Certifications run to BSI C5, TISAX, and ISO 42001, 27001, 27018, 27017 and 9001.
• Licensed publisher content instead of a scraped corpus. Beck-Noxtua Self-Service includes beck-online PREMIUM — 360+ commentaries across 11 legal fields — inside the subscription, and research answers carry beck-online references. That is a different verification story than a citation-checking layer bolted onto a general model.
• Cross-border research is one interface, not six subscriptions. The Europe License, in beta since 2026-02-18 and free to existing single-jurisdiction users during the beta, lets a DACH team put one question to German, Austrian and Swiss material. Slovak and Swiss editions are in development with the local Beck house and Helbing Lichtenhahn.

Pricing

Beck-Noxtua publishes real numbers, which is rare in this segment. Self-Service, for organisations up to 4 employees, is €1,050 per month excl. VAT for 3 licences, with a 4th at €350 per month — so €350 per user/month, about $375, behind a hard 3-seat floor. The trial runs 4 weeks for up to 4 users and is cancellable daily; after it, the subscription starts automatically on a 6-month minimum term. The price guarantee holds 12 months, then the same 3 licences go to €1,230 per month, or €410 per user.

Full-Service starts at 5 licences and is quoted individually, with additional beck-online modules, onboarding and customer success in scope and no published figure. Europe License pricing has not been published either; the vendor says it follows the beta.

Read that published band as the German edition’s price. Noxtua’s other national workspaces and the Europe License are not on it.

Best for

In-house legal teams and firms in DACH — and in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia through the Beck houses — where privileged material cannot cross to US-hosted inference and beck-online is already the research standard. The fit is sharpest at 3 to 4 seats, because that is exactly what Self-Service is priced for and the only tier you can buy without a sales cycle.

Alternatives and when to pick them

• Harvey — pick when the work is firm-side and multi-market and US-operated model infrastructure is acceptable. Its LexisNexis alliance puts Shepard’s inside the product, which Noxtua has no answer to outside continental publisher content. What you give up is the sovereignty argument, entirely.
• Legora — the fastest-growing entrant in the segment: past $100M ARR in April 2026, 800 law firms and legal teams, a $5.6B valuation, and EU data residency across 16 countries. Pick Legora for breadth of jurisdictions and a mainstream platform, accepting residency-in-EU rather than models-and-infrastructure-in-EU.
• LegalFly — the Ghent alternative that anonymises every document before an agent touches it rather than owning the model underneath. €15M Series A led by Notion Capital, about €17M total, and a 2026 contract with the European Commission’s HR Directorate-General. Pick it when the objection is “what leaves our building” and you would rather answer that with redaction than with a German publisher licence.

Watch-outs

• You are buying into one publisher’s corpus. The research advantage is beck-online, and it thins out wherever no Beck house operates. Guard: before signing, list the five research questions your team actually ran last month and confirm each resolves inside the licensed material rather than against the model’s general knowledge.
• The published price steps up 17% at month 13. €350 per user/month becomes €410 once the 12-month guarantee lapses, and the 6-month minimum term begins automatically when the trial ends. Guard: diarise the guarantee expiry on the day you sign, and settle the year-2 rate before you are inside a renewal window.
• No public API and no MCP server. Noxtua documents no developer interface, so it will not sit behind your own agents or feed a DMS-side workflow. Guard: if the plan is “our assistant queries the research layer,” keep iManage or a tool that ships MCP in the design, and treat Noxtua as an end-user seat instead.
• The company is young and consolidating quickly. Headcount was around 80 in March 2026, quadrupled inside a year, after absorbing an 8-person NLP team from Swiss startup Neur.on. Guard: take a 12-month initial term rather than a multi-year one, and get the sovereignty and no-training commitments into the contract rather than accepting the marketing page.