Patently vs PatSnap

Patently is a web platform with patent tools and AI assistance for searching, drafting, prosecution, oppositions, licensing, and litigation. Search ranks patents by relevance and includes semantic search that feeds findings into other patent workflows without exports. Create uses the Onardo assistant to draft claims, figures, and descriptions from invention disclosures. Mine maps claims against standards and technical documents and can produce downloadable reports. Rate supports shared ratings and configurable projects for FTO, landscape, novelty, invalidity, and competitor work. License provides standard-essential patent data and analytics across 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, and beyond. Teams can set custom project workflows, export to Word and Excel, and apply project-level permissions with ethical walls and confidentiality barriers. The Free plan is free for one user and individual use, including filtered asset search, Onardo chat, patent-family browsing, and asset-link sharing. Law Firm+ and Business+ use custom pricing; Enterprise pricing is according to requirements. The platform also lists IPMS integration on Law Firm+.

PatSnap provides AI-driven innovation intelligence for intellectual property, research and development, materials science and drug discovery. It is aimed at R&D leaders, IP professionals, engineers, scientists and researchers. PatSnap says its data covers more than 2 billion structured data points across patents, science, litigation and technology; its Open Platform provides more than 210 million global patent and science records. Open Platform use cases include patent search and analysis, competitive intelligence, R&D innovation and patent application support. Developers can connect through REST APIs, MCP servers, UI widgets and Agent Skills. Listed options include Python, Node.js and Java SDKs, MCP support for Claude Desktop and Cursor, React and Vue widgets, and Agent Skills for LangChain and AutoGen with more than 140 atomic tools. PatSnap states that products are available in cloud or on-premises deployments. It says it holds SOC 2 Type 1 certification and meets ISO 27001:2022 standards, and that user data is encrypted in transit and at rest using TLS 1.3 and AES-256. Its proprietary LLM does not use customer data for pretraining or retraining. Plans include a free Basic tier; the pricing note lists a starting price of $200/mo and a 14-day trial.