Cost comparison
Retyping a document costs £140. Rebuilding it here costs £13.26.
A scanned agreement has to come back editable, correctly numbered and in the firm's style. Firms buy that three ways: an add-in licensed per fee earner, a bureau paid per document, or a secretary retyping it.
One document means 20 pages of scanned PDF. Staff time costed at £35 an hour.
Monthly cost at 60 documents
Side by side
The same document, four ways.
Retyping produces no invoice, which is why it rarely gets counted. It is the most expensive column here.
| Word add-in | Outsourced bureau | Retyped in-house | LexForge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay | £3,000 per user, per year | £60 per document | Nothing, on paper | £59–£399 a month, pooled |
| Before you start | Quote, rollout, training | 2–3 weeks onboarding, £3,000 minimum | Nothing | Sign up and upload |
| Time per document | Two hours | 15 minutes | Four hours | 20 minutes |
| Cost of that time | £70.00 | £8.75 | £140.00 | £11.67 |
| Total per document | £70.00 + licence | £68.75 | £140.00 | £13.26 on Practice |
| Scales with | Headcount | Volume | Headcount | Pages used |
Time costed at £35 an hour. Excludes the per-seat licence, charged whether or not a document is processed.
Your volume
Put your own number in.
Set the slider to the documents your firm turns around in a month. Every total includes staff time.
Documents a month
60Monthly cost, time included
240 hours of staff time
2 seats at £3,000/yr · 120 hours of correction
£3,600 in fees
£199 plan plus 20 hours
At 60 documents a month, LexForge costs £3,226 a month less than an outsourced bureau, and 220 hours a month less than retyping.
Plans
Priced by the page, not by the seat.
Allowances are pooled across the firm and renew monthly. Nothing is charged for setup, onboarding or template preparation.
Individual
Solo
£59 /month
1,000 pages per option · 1 user
£1.18 a document
Most popular
Practice
£199 /month
2,500 pages per option · 10 users
£1.59 a document
Higher volume
Firm
£399 /month
5,000 pages per option · 25 users
£1.60 a document
Page packs top up any plan from £499 for 5,000 pages, valid for 12 months.
Full pricing and packs →Ten licensed seats of a per-user add-in cost £30,000 a year before a single document is processed.
Line items
What you stop paying for.
Charged by the alternatives
A licence per fee earner.
Onboarding before the first document.
Template preparation, billed as a project.
A minimum spend, typically £3,000.
Hours of correction on every document.
Rollout, training, renewal negotiation.
Charged by LexForge
Pages used, pooled across the firm.
Nothing else.
No seat to buy, no template project, no minimum.
Working
Every figure on this page.
Stated so you can check it, or substitute your own. Add-in and bureau rates are typical of what firms report paying, not quotes. Neither category publishes pricing.
Why compare against categories rather than named products?
Add-ins and bureaux are quoted, not published, so a named price would be out of date the week it went live. Substitute your own quote in the slider and the comparison still holds.
What does the twenty minutes of tidy-up cover?
Reading through the rebuilt document, checking the words LexForge has flagged as read with low confidence, and adjusting anything the house style got slightly wrong. Longer or worse scans take longer.
Is there a minimum spend or a setup fee?
No. The trial covers 300 Reconstruct pages + 300 Reconstruct with House Style pages, plans start at £59 a month and cancel monthly, and House Styles is included rather than sold as a template project.
What happens in a month where volume spikes?
Page packs top up any paid plan from £499 for 5,000 pages, valid for 12 months. A per-seat licence cannot flex that way, and a bureau charges the same rate however many arrive.
Check it on your own documents
Run one through before you spend anything.
Start free trial£0 · 300 Reconstruct pages + 300 Reconstruct with House Style pages · no setup fee