Noxtua and Legora are both European legal AI, and that shared label hides the only question that matters between them: does your security committee treat where the data sits as the control, or who can be compelled to hand it over? Legora answers the first — EU storage region, customer-managed encryption keys, retention you set, no training on your documents. Noxtua answers the second by owning the model and running training and inference on infrastructure operated by European companies, explicitly so that the US CLOUD Act has nothing to reach for. If that distinction is a procurement gate at your firm, it decides the evaluation before anyone sees a demo. If it is not, this is a lopsided product comparison and Legora wins it.
Where Noxtua wins
Sovereignty at the infrastructure layer, not the storage layer. On 2026-03-25 Noxtua moved training and inference into Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud in Munich, alongside work with IONOS, and both companies framed the move around processing in data centres operated under European control. Noxtua trains and serves its own models rather than calling out to a model provider. Legora publishes strong controls — ISO 42001, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, Zero Trust architecture, semi-annual penetration tests, access to your data only with written consent — but it does not publish which model providers run inference or a subprocessor list on its public security page. For a German firm the binding test is not GDPR but professional secrecy under § 203 StGB and § 43e BRAO, and Noxtua names both statutes. Legora’s security page does not.
Licensed publisher content is inside the seat price. Beck-Noxtua runs on beck-online. The PREMIUM package includes access across 11 legal fields — 360+ commentaries, 200+ handbooks, roughly 130 journals, 1.3M headnotes and 1.6M full-text decisions — and research answers carry beck-online citations. A German Legora customer still pays C.H.BECK separately for that database. Compare the two on seat price alone and you are comparing an assistant that includes the research library against one that assumes you already bought it.
A single seat is buyable today. Beck-Noxtua publishes its ladder and sells from one licence. Legora’s entry point is a demo request and a ten-seat annual contract. For a boutique, a two-partner practice, or an in-house team of three, that is the difference between running a real evaluation this month and not running one.
Certifications aimed at German public-sector and regulated buyers. BSI C5 and TISAX sit alongside ISO 42001, 27001, 27017, 27018 and 9001. Legora carries the ISO and SOC 2 set but not the German federal baseline, which matters when the buyer is a public administration body or the judiciary.
Where Legora wins
Jurisdictional reach that is not tied to one publisher family. Legora reported 100,000+ lawyers at 1,500 firms and in-house teams across 50+ markets as of July 2026. Noxtua’s coverage is exactly the map of its publisher partnerships: C.H.BECK in Germany, MANZ in Austria (MANZ-Noxtua launched 2026-06-24), Helbing Lichtenhahn in Switzerland, the Beck houses in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, Ciela in Bulgaria, Blendow in Sweden. Outside that map the research advantage disappears. If your matters touch England, France, the Netherlands or the US, Noxtua has no answer and Legora does.
More product per seat. Legora ships a Word add-in, an Outlook add-in, an editor, a mobile app, Tabular Review for structured extraction across thousands of documents, Workflows, Monitors, Agent Lists and a legal research portal, plus native iManage, NetDocuments and SharePoint connections. Noxtua ships research, document analysis and drafting with a Word integration. For high-volume due diligence — the deal-room extraction case — Tabular Review has no counterpart on the Noxtua side.
Investment velocity you can see in the product. A $600M Series D in 2026 at a $5.6B valuation, past $100M ARR, and five acquisitions inside 2026 — most recently Wexler, announced 2026-07-29, whose fact-extraction technology becomes Legora’s fact-intelligence layer and whose team anchors a London engineering hub. Noxtua raised roughly €80.7M in its April 2025 Series B and had around 80 people in March 2026. Both are real companies; one is compounding surface area four times faster.
Controls you configure rather than inherit. BYOK, customer-set retention periods, storage-region choice, data-governance visibility into who accessed what, and permanent deletion with an export window at contract end. If your objection is “we need to hold the keys and prove the audit trail,” Legora answers that directly. It is a different answer from Noxtua’s, not a weaker one — it is only weaker if the objection was jurisdictional in the first place.
Pricing reality
Noxtua is the one publishing numbers. Beck-Noxtua PLUS (8 legal fields, ~40 commentaries, 16 handbooks) runs €299/month for one licence, €599 for two, €899 for three, €1,199 for four. PREMIUM, with the full beck-online access above, runs €499, €799, €1,049 and €1,299 for one through four. Both are net of VAT, both come with a four-week trial cancellable daily, and both convert to a six-month minimum term with the price guaranteed for six months after the trial ends. From five licences you are into PREMIUM Enterprise and an individual quote.
Legora does not publish pricing. Buyer-side reporting through 2026 puts list near $3,000 per user per year on a ten-seat minimum — roughly a $30,000 annual floor before discount, with firms reporting meaningful reductions after pushing back.
The gap is not per-seat, it is entry commitment. One PLUS licence is about €3,600 a year (roughly $4,200), so Legora’s floor is around seven times higher to get started. Run it forward and the ranking flips: four PREMIUM licences work out to about €3,900 per seat per year (roughly $4,600), against Legora’s reported $3,000. Past four seats Noxtua stops publishing and both vendors are quote-gated, so the honest statement is that Noxtua is cheaper to start and Legora is cheaper to scale, with the crossover somewhere between four and ten seats where neither price is public.
Verdict
Pick Noxtua when a European-operated processing chain is a written procurement requirement rather than a preference; when your matters are German, Austrian, Swiss, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian or Swedish and beck-online or its sister databases are already your research standard; when the buyer is public administration or the judiciary and BSI C5 is on the checklist; or when you need to start with one to four seats and a four-week trial rather than a ten-seat annual commitment.
Pick Legora when your matters cross jurisdictions its rivals’ publisher maps do not cover; when Tabular Review, DMS integration or the wider agent and workflow surface is load-bearing; when EU data residency plus BYOK plus a retention policy satisfies your security review; or when you are buying ten or more seats and the per-seat number decides it.
Pick neither when the scope is narrower than either platform. For Word-native drafting and redlining on a small team, Spellbook or LegalOn fits better. For Westlaw-grounded research fidelity, Thomson Reuters CoCounsel. If your requirement is AmLaw-grade procurement signatures and a deeper agent layer, the real comparison is Harvey vs Legora, not this one.
Default pick: start with Legora. Absent an explicit sovereignty clause, it wins on jurisdictional coverage, product surface and per-seat economics at any scale worth a rollout, and its EU residency and BYOK controls clear most security reviews on their own. Switch the default to Noxtua the moment someone in the room says the words “US CLOUD Act” or ”§ 203 StGB” — that is not a preference you can negotiate around later, and it is the one thing Legora’s control set does not answer.
Two things to confirm before either signature. Noxtua documents no public API and no MCP server, so it will not sit behind your own agents or feed a DMS-side workflow; if that is in the plan, keep iManage or a tool that ships MCP in the design and treat Noxtua as an end-user seat. And Noxtua’s Europe License — one licence spanning the publisher partners across jurisdictions, announced 2026-02-18 — is still in beta with pricing unpublished, so a cross-border DACH workflow is a roadmap item to test in the trial, not a line you can budget for today.
Noxtua and Legora are both European legal AI, and that shared label hides the only question that matters between them: does your security committee treat where the data sits as the control, or who can be compelled to hand it over? Legora answers the first — EU storage region, customer-managed encryption keys, retention you set, no training on your documents. Noxtua answers the second by owning the model and running training and inference on infrastructure operated by European companies, explicitly so that the US CLOUD Act has nothing to reach for. If that distinction is a procurement gate at your firm, it decides the evaluation before anyone sees a demo. If it is not, this is a lopsided product comparison and Legora wins it.
Where Noxtua wins
Sovereignty at the infrastructure layer, not the storage layer. On 2026-03-25 Noxtua moved training and inference into Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud in Munich, alongside work with IONOS, and both companies framed the move around processing in data centres operated under European control. Noxtua trains and serves its own models rather than calling out to a model provider. Legora publishes strong controls — ISO 42001, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, Zero Trust architecture, semi-annual penetration tests, access to your data only with written consent — but it does not publish which model providers run inference or a subprocessor list on its public security page. For a German firm the binding test is not GDPR but professional secrecy under § 203 StGB and § 43e BRAO, and Noxtua names both statutes. Legora’s security page does not.
Licensed publisher content is inside the seat price. Beck-Noxtua runs on beck-online. The PREMIUM package includes access across 11 legal fields — 360+ commentaries, 200+ handbooks, roughly 130 journals, 1.3M headnotes and 1.6M full-text decisions — and research answers carry beck-online citations. A German Legora customer still pays C.H.BECK separately for that database. Compare the two on seat price alone and you are comparing an assistant that includes the research library against one that assumes you already bought it.
A single seat is buyable today. Beck-Noxtua publishes its ladder and sells from one licence. Legora’s entry point is a demo request and a ten-seat annual contract. For a boutique, a two-partner practice, or an in-house team of three, that is the difference between running a real evaluation this month and not running one.
Certifications aimed at German public-sector and regulated buyers. BSI C5 and TISAX sit alongside ISO 42001, 27001, 27017, 27018 and 9001. Legora carries the ISO and SOC 2 set but not the German federal baseline, which matters when the buyer is a public administration body or the judiciary.
Where Legora wins
Jurisdictional reach that is not tied to one publisher family. Legora reported 100,000+ lawyers at 1,500 firms and in-house teams across 50+ markets as of July 2026. Noxtua’s coverage is exactly the map of its publisher partnerships: C.H.BECK in Germany, MANZ in Austria (MANZ-Noxtua launched 2026-06-24), Helbing Lichtenhahn in Switzerland, the Beck houses in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, Ciela in Bulgaria, Blendow in Sweden. Outside that map the research advantage disappears. If your matters touch England, France, the Netherlands or the US, Noxtua has no answer and Legora does.
More product per seat. Legora ships a Word add-in, an Outlook add-in, an editor, a mobile app, Tabular Review for structured extraction across thousands of documents, Workflows, Monitors, Agent Lists and a legal research portal, plus native iManage, NetDocuments and SharePoint connections. Noxtua ships research, document analysis and drafting with a Word integration. For high-volume due diligence — the deal-room extraction case — Tabular Review has no counterpart on the Noxtua side.
Investment velocity you can see in the product. A $600M Series D in 2026 at a $5.6B valuation, past $100M ARR, and five acquisitions inside 2026 — most recently Wexler, announced 2026-07-29, whose fact-extraction technology becomes Legora’s fact-intelligence layer and whose team anchors a London engineering hub. Noxtua raised roughly €80.7M in its April 2025 Series B and had around 80 people in March 2026. Both are real companies; one is compounding surface area four times faster.
Controls you configure rather than inherit. BYOK, customer-set retention periods, storage-region choice, data-governance visibility into who accessed what, and permanent deletion with an export window at contract end. If your objection is “we need to hold the keys and prove the audit trail,” Legora answers that directly. It is a different answer from Noxtua’s, not a weaker one — it is only weaker if the objection was jurisdictional in the first place.
Pricing reality
Noxtua is the one publishing numbers. Beck-Noxtua PLUS (8 legal fields, ~40 commentaries, 16 handbooks) runs €299/month for one licence, €599 for two, €899 for three, €1,199 for four. PREMIUM, with the full beck-online access above, runs €499, €799, €1,049 and €1,299 for one through four. Both are net of VAT, both come with a four-week trial cancellable daily, and both convert to a six-month minimum term with the price guaranteed for six months after the trial ends. From five licences you are into PREMIUM Enterprise and an individual quote.
Legora does not publish pricing. Buyer-side reporting through 2026 puts list near $3,000 per user per year on a ten-seat minimum — roughly a $30,000 annual floor before discount, with firms reporting meaningful reductions after pushing back.
The gap is not per-seat, it is entry commitment. One PLUS licence is about €3,600 a year (roughly $4,200), so Legora’s floor is around seven times higher to get started. Run it forward and the ranking flips: four PREMIUM licences work out to about €3,900 per seat per year (roughly $4,600), against Legora’s reported $3,000. Past four seats Noxtua stops publishing and both vendors are quote-gated, so the honest statement is that Noxtua is cheaper to start and Legora is cheaper to scale, with the crossover somewhere between four and ten seats where neither price is public.
Verdict
Default pick: start with Legora. Absent an explicit sovereignty clause, it wins on jurisdictional coverage, product surface and per-seat economics at any scale worth a rollout, and its EU residency and BYOK controls clear most security reviews on their own. Switch the default to Noxtua the moment someone in the room says the words “US CLOUD Act” or ”§ 203 StGB” — that is not a preference you can negotiate around later, and it is the one thing Legora’s control set does not answer.
Two things to confirm before either signature. Noxtua documents no public API and no MCP server, so it will not sit behind your own agents or feed a DMS-side workflow; if that is in the plan, keep iManage or a tool that ships MCP in the design and treat Noxtua as an end-user seat. And Noxtua’s Europe License — one licence spanning the publisher partners across jurisdictions, announced 2026-02-18 — is still in beta with pricing unpublished, so a cross-border DACH workflow is a roadmap item to test in the trial, not a line you can budget for today.