GC AI vs ThoughtRiver

GC AI is an AI platform for in-house lawyers and legal teams to ask questions about documents or links and produce answers and drafts. Its Word add-in supports drafting, reviewing, editing, and redlining clauses or full contracts in Microsoft Word. Exact Quote and clickable citations help users check legal analysis against source text, while real-time research draws on official sources, including more than 13 million US court opinions. Users can attach and chain skills from the Skill Library or create them through chat with Skill Creator. Agent Connectors link more than 20 apps, including Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Drive, and HubSpot. The Individual plan includes unlimited chats and skills, the Word add-in, Easy Edit, and Agent Connectors; US Case Law is an add-on. Individual costs $500 a month, billed monthly, with a yearly option whose price is not shown. Team pricing is on request and billed yearly; it adds Enterprise SSO, team skills, shared chats, US Case Law, and support. REST API use is billed separately in credits.

ThoughtRiver is an AI contract review tool for agreements reviewed before or after signing. Its Lexible LLM flags issues, obligations, and risks, while Playbooks check contracts against preset criteria and show which provisions are met or unmet. Teams can generate review output or redlines, and generative editing is designed to follow drafting style and negotiation guidelines. Contracts can be submitted by email, drag and drop, or the Word add-in; the platform works inside Outlook, Word, and Teams. Listed integrations include Microsoft 365, Power BI, HighQ, and iManage, and ThoughtRiver provides a public API following the OpenAPI Specification. It focuses on in-house teams and law firms processing over 200 agreements per year, while also supporting non-legal teams. ThoughtRiver lists no free plan and a 28-day trial. Monthly plans are 6.00 USD, 14.00 USD, and $49 a month; Professional starts at £15,000 a year and Enterprise at £30,000 a year.