Vern vs Luminance
Luminance is Legal-Grade AI for enterprise legal departments. Vern is contract review for everyone else. One is a platform for large legal teams managing due diligence, litigation, and compliance. The other helps your whole team understand what they're signing.
Do you need an enterprise legal AI platform, or do you need to understand your contracts?
Luminance is built for enterprise legal departments that need AI across multiple functions — drafting, negotiation, due diligence, litigation, compliance. If you have a General Counsel, a legal ops team, and a budget for enterprise software, Luminance is designed for you. But if you're an ops lead, a founder, a commercial manager, or anyone who signs contracts without a legal department backing you up — you need something different. You need to know what's risky before you sign. That's Vern.
Enterprise legal AI vs accessible contract review
Vern You are here
AI contract review for teams that don't have a legal department on speed dial. Upload a contract, get a clause-by-clause risk report with plain-English explanations and enforceability scores. Self-serve signup, transparent pricing, free tier available. SOC 2 Type 2 certified. 100% UK/EU data residency.
Luminance
A comprehensive "Legal-Grade AI" platform used by 1,000+ customers across legal, finance, and commercial departments. Covers contract drafting, negotiation, due diligence, compliance, and litigation support. Gartner recognised. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified. UK data residency available. Enterprise-only, no public pricing.
How they stack up
| Feature | Vern | Luminance |
|---|---|---|
| Primary function | Focused contract review | Multi-function legal AI platform |
| AI contract review | ||
| Contract drafting | — | |
| Contract negotiation AI | — | |
| Due diligence | — | |
| Compliance management | — | |
| Litigation support | — | |
| Plain-English risk reports | — | |
| Enforceability scoring | Vern Score per clause | — |
| Traffic-light risk ratings | — | |
| Custom risk playbooks | — | |
| Email-in submission | Forward & forget | — |
| AI chat per contract | — | |
| Word add-in | — | |
| Self-serve signup | Start in minutes | — Enterprise sales process |
| Free tier | 1 contract/month | — |
| Transparent pricing | Published on website | — Enterprise only |
| Customers | Growing | 1,000+ |
| Gartner recognised | — | |
| ISO 27001 | — | |
| SOC 2 | Type 2 | |
| UK/EU data residency | 100% guaranteed | UK residency available |
| Review speed | Under 10 minutes | Not disclosed |
What sets them apart
Multi-function legal AI vs focused contract review
Luminance covers drafting, negotiation, due diligence, litigation, and compliance across multiple departments. Vern does one thing brilliantly: it reviews your contracts and tells you exactly what's risky, in plain English, before you sign.
Enterprise legal departments vs everyone
Luminance is built for organisations with dedicated legal teams, legal ops functions, and enterprise procurement budgets. Vern is built for ops teams, founders, commercial managers, and procurement leads who need to review contracts without waiting for legal.
ISO 27001 + Gartner vs SOC 2 + self-serve
Luminance has ISO 27001, SOC 2, and Gartner recognition — the credentials enterprise procurement teams look for. Vern has SOC 2 Type 2, 100% UK/EU data residency, and something Luminance doesn't: you can sign up and start reviewing contracts in minutes, without a sales call.
Hidden pricing vs published pricing
Luminance doesn't publish pricing — you go through an enterprise sales process and get a custom quote. Vern publishes everything: free tier, £249/month Pro plan, no surprises. You know exactly what you'll pay before you start.
Which one is right for you?
Choose Vern if
- You need to review contracts but don't have an in-house legal team
- You want plain-English risk reports your whole team can understand
- You want to start today — no demos, no sales calls, no procurement process
- You need transparent pricing you can budget for
- You want enforceability scoring, not just risk flagging
- You need UK/EU data residency guaranteed
Choose Luminance if
- You have a large enterprise legal department managing multiple legal functions
- You need AI across drafting, negotiation, due diligence, litigation, and compliance
- You need Gartner-recognised, ISO 27001 certified technology for procurement sign-off
- You have budget approved for enterprise legal AI
- You want a platform that serves legal, finance, and commercial departments
- You need a vendor with 1,000+ existing enterprise customers
Pricing comparison
Vern
1 contract/month, forever
Pro plan: 25 contracts, 10 users
- No credit card needed
- Self-serve signup
- Cancel anytime
- Published on the website
Luminance
Enterprise sales process required
Custom quotes based on department size and scope
Typically large annual contracts
You don't need Legal-Grade AI.
You need to know what's risky
before you sign.
Upload a contract and get a plain-English risk report in minutes. No enterprise sales process, no procurement approval, no waiting.