Normie ModeBest AI for legal questions
Understanding contracts, regulations and legal questions.
Get it with Claude Max, $100 a month (for up to half your weekly allowance)
Top of 8 models for this task
Get it with Google AI Pro, $19.99 a month
2nd of 8 models for this task
Keep in mind Mostly based on people's votes.
Based on tests of this task. The picks follow a fixed rule using the charts below and each app's plans.
Norm's guide
What I'd tell a friend who asked.
What AI is good at
- Explaining what a contract clause means in plain English.
- Spotting parts of a document worth asking about.
- Drafting a first version of a simple letter.
Where it trips up
- Laws differ by country and change over time.
- Inventing cases or rules that sound real.
- Missing what matters in your particular situation.
How to get a good result
- Tell it which country you're in.
- Ask it what questions to put to a lawyer.
- Have anything important checked by a qualified person.
How the models compare
Every model we could score for legal questions, combining the tests below.
Overall for legal questions
Position on a combined score from 2 tests. The longer the bar, the further ahead · Higher is better
On the tests we have, Claude Fable 5.1 comes out on top, followed by Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-6 Astra.
The evidence
People's votes on legal questions
Tests this task · People compared two anonymous answers to legal and government questions. · Higher is better
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5.5 are neck and neck at the top, followed by Kimi K3 and Gemini 3.8 Flash; Claude Fable 5.1 costs about 3 times as much.
Professional tasks in banking, consulting and law
Tests a related skill · Tasks written by experienced professionals that take a person about two hours, using documents, spreadsheets, email and slides. · Higher is better
Claude Fable 5.1 leads, followed by GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 3.8 Flash.
If you build with it
What the makers charge developers who use the models directly. Using an app? The plans above are what you pay.
Cost per 1,000 typical requests
List price, about 1,500 words in and 500 out per request · Lower is better
GPT-6 Luna is cheapest, followed by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna.