Comparison
Paxton vs ClientSafeAI: $499 per user, or $499 for the firm
Is there a Paxton alternative that isn’t priced per user?
The short answer
Paxton is a legal AI assistant for research, drafting and file analysis, grounded in primary law, at $499 per user per month or $2,999 per user per year. ClientSafeAI has no legal research content. It answers from your documents only, on a server dedicated to your firm, at $499 a month for everyone.
- Pick Paxton if you need research grounded in case law and regulations, alongside drafting and medical summaries, for a small number of lawyers.
- Pick ClientSafeAI if your need is questioning your own files, for more than one person, on hardware no other customer touches.
Side by side
| Compared on | Paxton | ClientSafeAI |
|---|---|---|
| What answers come from | Primary law, including case law and regulations, plus the files you upload. | Only the documents and recordings you upload. Every answer cites the source page. |
| Where the model runs | Paxton’s platform on Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and AWS, all in the US. | On a GPU server dedicated to your firm, in the US by default or in another country as a customization. The AI model, database and files all run on that one machine. |
| Trains on your data? | No. Paxton says data is never used for model training. | Never, on any plan. |
| Hardware shared with other customers? | Paxton describes a “secure closed model” but doesn’t say whether hardware is dedicated per customer. | No. One customer per server. |
| Price | Individual: $499 per user per month, or $2,999 per user per year. Enterprise: custom volume pricing. | $499/mo flat. Unlimited documents and questions, no per-seat pricing. |
| Minimum commitment | Monthly or yearly per-user plans, with a 7-day free trial. | Month to month. Cancel any time. |
| Independent audits | SOC 2. Paxton also says it adheres to ISO standards and complies with HIPAA. | No third-party audit report (SOC 2 or ISO) yet. We don’t sign HIPAA BAAs. |
When Paxton is the better choice
- Research is the job. Paxton has case law and regulations; we have no legal research content.
- You’re a solo lawyer on the annual plan: $2,999 a year costs less than our Workspace.
- If a client requires a SOC 2 report today, Paxton has one. We don’t yet.
What ClientSafeAI actually is
A Private AI Workspace is a GPU server ordered for one firm. Your documents, the AI model and the database all live on it, and answers cite the page they came from. Call and meeting recordings are transcribed on the same server. It costs $499 a month, flat, with no per-seat pricing. How the data is handled is set out on the security page.
Talk to us about a Workspace
Every Workspace is set up by hand on its own server, so it starts with a short call about your documents and how your firm works.
Sources
Every statement about Paxton above comes from these pages, checked September 30, 2026:
- Paxton — Pricing (per-user plans, trial)
- Paxton — Home (closed model, SOC 2, primary law)
- Paxton — Platform (training policy)
- Paxton — Subprocessors (cloud providers, US processing)
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