CoCounsel
by Casetext · AI assistant for legal, tax, audit and accounting work
16.2 — BenchRank score out of 100
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Overview
CoCounsel is Thomson Reuters' AI assistant for legal, tax, audit, accounting and compliance work. It answers from Thomson Reuters' authoritative content rather than the open web, and shows its sources and reasoning so users can verify the output. It integrates with Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint, Microsoft 365 and document management systems.
- Best for
- Legal, tax, audit and accounting teams wanting AI answers tied to citable sources
- Pricing
- The captured pages show no prices or plans; the only route shown is a contact form for sales.
- Runs on
- Web
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Connects to Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint and Microsoft 365
- Surfaces sources and reasoning so outputs can be checked
- Prompts and user content are not used to train the LLMs
- Region-based hosting offered in the UK, Australia and Canada
Trade-offs
- No pricing published; buying runs through a sales contact
- Answers restricted to Thomson Reuters' own content databases
- Retention is set up by a client manager, not self-serve
- Default processing, hosting and backups are US-based
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
- MCP support
- 0 out of 100
- API quality
- 0 out of 100
- Documentation
- 0 out of 100
- Agent friendliness
- 71 out of 100
- Changelog
- 0 out of 100
- Marketing site structure
- 35 out of 100
- Operational trust
- 40 out of 100
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
- Openness
- 60 out of 100
- Maintenance
- 15 out of 100
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