Ordalie: our review

Ordalie looks like a legal chatbot, with a difference that matters: every answer cites its sources among more than two million official texts — codes, statutes, case law, BOFiP — and an imported document stays anchored in the context of the case file rather than treated as generic text. The publisher claims a hallucination rate under 1% thanks to this grounding in sources, a figure that remains a publisher's claim, not an independent measurement.

Ask a question, get a sourced answer

The use fits in three moves: query the official texts and check every answer against its cited source, import a contract or a case file to analyse it in context, draft or amend a document from instructions. The Vault module, reserved for the most expensive offering, adds a connection to the firm's internal repositories — but its public description stops at that name, with no detail on how it works.

A free tier that isn't a disguised trial

This is the point that sets Ordalie apart from other tools in this category: the "Ordalie" tier requires no credit card and doesn't stop after a few days. Ten queries a week, seven days of history, import of three documents — enough to judge the tool on a real case file before paying. Beyond that, PRO (€69 excl. tax/month/user) and MAX (€99 excl. tax/month/user) are billed month to month with no commitment, or with a 10% discount yearly, and managed through Stripe.

The point that interests us most: AI under contract

On the angle that structures this section — professional secrecy and hosting — Ordalie goes further than the sector average. The main infrastructure runs on Scaleway, in France; inference providers, including Azure France, are contractually required to process data on French territory, with no reuse for training and no retention of prompts or answers. The publisher also claims SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications. That's the level of detail one expects before handing documents covered by professional secrecy to a third-party tool — see our page on AI for the legal sector.

What stays unclear

Two points deserve checking before signing. The first: "heavy use" on PRO and MAX is quantified nowhere, replaced by a fair-use principle — comfortable as long as you don't approach it, unpredictable otherwise. The second: on-premise deployment, useful for a firm that refuses any cloud, only exists as an unpriced option on the MAX offering.

Our recommendation

Ordalie suits a firm that wants to try legal AI on its own case files before paying, and that prefers a per-user subscription over a quote. For a need for total isolation, with no dependency on the cloud whatsoever, a fully offline local station goes further (see our alternatives below). Our AI agent service helps frame the right choice based on the firm's actual usage volume.