Pilot5 Legal Review: Pricing, Credits and Limits

Pilot5 Legal at a glance

You describe a matter or attach an agreement, and a chat companion helps you frame the brief. Five models then work on it separately before critiquing each other's reasoning anonymously. The output is a recommendation of GO, PIVOT, NO GO or INSUFFICIENT BASIS, with a confidence score, the sources behind each claim and a Minority Report that keeps the strongest dissent. Work is paid in credits, where 1 credit has a list value of $1. As of 5 October 2026, new accounts get 10 free credits with no card, and subscriptions run from $29 a month for 30 credits to $999 a month for 1,750. The vendor says plainly that it does not give legal advice.

What Pilot5 Legal does

The homepage lists five legal workflows, each priced in credits (read on 5 October 2026).

• Statutory review (0.5 credits, about 90 seconds). Checks a separation agreement or similar US employment document against selected federal requirements and shows the provision behind each finding. The console capture names OWBPA/ADEA, FCRA, DTSA and the Speak Out Act. Findings are tagged Missing, Needs review or No defect found, and you can export an annotated agreement in Word.
• Contract understanding (0.2 credits). Maps what each numbered clause of an unfamiliar contract does, quotes the source wording verbatim and flags material it skipped.
• Settlement range (about 4 credits, about 10 minutes). You enter what is in dispute, your position and the other side's stated position. Five independent positions are tested and the result shows what each side would have to give up. The form itself warns that the panel is not a neutral mediator and that the session is not privileged.
• Statutory authority lookup (free). Paste up to 25 citations and get the publisher's own text back, with the official source and retrieval date. No generative model is used, and anything unresolved stays marked unresolved.
• Firm playbook (free). Save approved firm positions on top of the statutory baseline so later reviews reuse them. Each position needs human approval.

The Pilot5 page for legal teams lists the primary sources the panel retrieves from: CourtListener opinions and dockets, govinfo for the US Code, eCFR, the Federal Register, Congress.gov, Regulations.gov, official statute text for 17 states and the District of Columbia, OpenStates, SEC EDGAR and the OFAC SDN list. Every claim is tagged as sourced or inferred. Case citations are checked against CourtListener for a matching reporter cite, court, year and parties. Pilot5 is careful to call that a fabrication check, not a citator: it confirms a case exists, not that it is still good law.

Outside the browser, the Pilot5 MCP guide connects the same engine to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Le Chat and Zed through OAuth, with 31 tools registered on the server. A REST API with scoped keys and signed webhooks is documented as well. Listed document connectors include Clio, SharePoint, NetDocuments and Google Drive.

Who Pilot5 Legal is for, and who should skip it

It suits a US-qualified lawyer, in-house counsel or compliance officer who wants an argued second opinion before a position goes to a client, a board or a court. The settlement-range and statutory-review workflows fit employment matters in particular, because the statutory checks shown are federal employment rules. Each run shows its credit estimate before it starts, which helps with matter budgets.

Skip it in these cases:

• Your matters sit under non-US law. The homepage says every review is scoped to United States law and no other jurisdiction is consulted.
• You want a drafting tool, a full research database or a citator. The legal-teams page says Pilot5 is none of those.
• You have no lawyer to review the output. The site says it does not practise law, does not create an attorney-client relationship and that outputs must be reviewed by a qualified professional.
• Your procurement checklist requires SOC 2 or ISO 27001. We found neither claimed on the trust, security or privacy pages.

How much does Pilot5 Legal cost?

USD, checked 5 October 2026, from Pilot5's pricing page. 1 credit has a list value of $1.00.

The pricing page also lists indicative Enterprise API bundles from $640 for 1,000 credits to $10,000 for 20,000 credits, scoped per engagement. Monthly subscription credits are valid for 12 months from each grant and are spent oldest-first, per the Pilot5 FAQ.

One point to confirm at checkout: the Annual toggle carries a "Save up to 10%" badge, yet the yearly figures shown on the page ($348, $948, $1,788, $3,588 and $11,988) are exactly twelve times the monthly prices. No discounted annual price is listed here because none is readable on the page.

Inside the legal console, a statutory review uses 0.5 credits, a contract map 0.2 credits and a settlement range about 4 credits.

What the free credits cover

At the listed rates, 10 free credits pay for about 20 statutory reviews, 50 contract-understanding runs or two settlement-range sessions. The FAQ says the same grant is enough for one full five-model deliberation in the general A-Team mode, which costs 3.0 to 5.5 credits. Pilot5 describes itself as pay-as-you-go rather than freemium: once the grant is gone, the smallest top-up is the $20 pack.

Credits are reserved when a run starts, settled on completion, and any excess is refunded, according to the terms of service (effective March 2026). The same terms say purchased credits and subscription fees are non-refundable except where the law requires, and EU buyers can ask for a refund of unused credits within 14 days.

Does Pilot5 Legal store or train on my matters?

The Pilot5 privacy policy (version 1.3, effective June 2026) says deliberation content is never used to train AI models. Questions and context are sent through OpenRouter to the selected model providers, which the policy names, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek and others. A pseudonymisation layer swaps names and identifiers for tokens before inference, though the legal-teams page notes that automated detection cannot guarantee every identifier is caught.

Deliberation history is kept for 2 years and conversations for 1 year. A Zero Data Retention mode keeps a run's content out of the database and discards it within 24 hours. The database is hosted with Supabase in the EU, and a GDPR Article 28 DPA is available on request.

How Pilot5 Legal compares with other tools reviewed here

We have not reviewed another legal tool yet, so these are the closest sourced or credit-billed professional tools.

• Veltrix, the AI finance copilot for books and cash, answers plain-English questions from connected accounting data and shows the report behind each number (Starter $49 a month after a 14-day trial, per our review checked 2 October 2026). Veltrix grounds answers in your own books. Pilot5 Legal grounds them in public legal authority and adds a built-in opposing argument.
• Viktor, the AI employee for Slack and Teams, also bills in credits ($100 of free credits, then Team from $50 a month for 20,000 credits, per our review checked 4 October 2026). Viktor executes tasks across connected tools. Pilot5 executes nothing; it produces a reasoned recommendation and leaves the decision with you.
• Chat.sh, the AI help centre that answers with citations, cites the pages it used for customer questions (free tier of 50 pages and 100 AI answers a month; $599 one-time lifetime, per our review checked 13 October 2026). Citations there point to your support content, while Pilot5 cites statutes, regulations and court opinions.

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