I spend a lot of time thinking about tokens.

Not because it is the most exciting topic in legal tech, but because it is the one topic that affects everything else. Every AI tool you use—whether it is for drafting, research, or document review—is quietly counting tokens in the background. The bill at the end of the month is always, at its core, a token bill.

Most AI companies solve the communication problem around tokens the same way: they pick the highest realistic usage number, price above it, and present the whole thing as "unlimited." The math works because most users never push against the ceiling. The effect is that AI-powered subscriptions cost meaningfully more than their non-AI equivalents—and in the legal space, where AI tools are genuinely valuable, that gap gets wide fast.

This is broadly fine. It is a reasonable business model. But a pattern I have been noticing lately is worth talking about openly.

The Asterisk You Almost Miss

When I see the words near unlimited on a pricing page, I read them differently than most people might. That word near is doing a lot of work. I noticed it on a competitor's pricing page recently and decided to understand what it actually meant.

It took me three visits to find the relevant line. It was small text, sitting quietly in the middle of the page. Easy to miss the first time. Easy to miss the second time too.

That line contained a link. The link led outside the product's own website—to a third-party domain—where a Fair Usage Policy document lived. That document contained the real numbers.

Here is what makes this worth writing about: the numbers in that policy document told a different story than the headline on the pricing page. And then, separately, the FAQ on the main site gave yet another number—different again, and approximately double what the policy document stated. When there is a legal dispute about what a user was promised, it is the policy document that governs, not the FAQ. So the more generous number displayed prominently is, from a contractual standpoint, the less meaningful one.

I am not going to reproduce exact figures here. But I will say this: what they offer at a higher price point, we offer for less at Legal Desk AI—and we offer significantly more at our equivalent tier.

The File Deletion That Is Called Privacy

The same product has a feature I want to highlight, because it is genuinely clever marketing.

Uploaded files are automatically deleted after seven days. The stated reason is maximum privacy.

I want to be charitable here, because privacy is a real concern and automatic deletion is a legitimate approach. But let us think about what this means in practice for an Indian lawyer.

Indian courts run on continuity. A matter filed today may see its next hearing in six months. A lawyer working on a case in January may need to return to the same documents in July. Tarikh pe tarikh, tarikh pe tarikh—the system is built around the reality that legal work does not resolve quickly.

If your files are gone in seven days, you are re-uploading the same documents over and over again. The workflow is broken at exactly the point where continuity matters most. Whether this is primarily a privacy feature or primarily a storage cost management feature, the practical outcome for a practicing lawyer is the same: your files are not there when you come back.

At Legal Desk AI, files stay as long as your subscription is active. If a subscription expires, we pause access and preserve data during a renewal window. We send reminders before any deletion ever happens—at 60 days, 70 days, and 80 days of inactivity. Nothing disappears without warning. That is not a feature we invented because it was clever. It is just what a tool built for actual legal practice should do.

What Transparent Pricing Actually Looks Like

This brings me to the broader point.

Pricing for AI tools is genuinely complicated. Word counts, storage, database limits, model tiers—there are a lot of variables. I understand why companies want to simplify the message. But simplifying the message by burying the real limits in a linked document on a different domain is not simplification. It is the opposite of transparency.

At Legal Desk AI, everything is on one page, on our own site. Not linked out. Not in small text. Here is exactly what each plan includes:

Free Trial — ₹0 10,000 AI words, 100 MB storage, 10 MB database. No card required. No time limit—you use it until the trial allocation runs out.

Junior Counsel — ₹499/month 125,000 AI words per month, 1 GB storage, 100 MB database. Includes MAYA, SMRITI, all Quick Tools, and case management.

Senior Counsel — ₹999/month 300,000 AI words per month, 2 GB storage, 200 MB database. The same full feature set, scaled for a growing practice.

Advocate-on-Record — ₹1,999/month 650,000 AI words per month, 5 GB storage, 400 MB database. For experienced litigators and heavier workloads.

Eminent Counsel — ₹4,999/month 1.7 million AI words per month, 10 GB storage, 1 GB database. For high-volume practices with sustained AI usage.

These numbers are not in a Fair Usage Policy on a separate domain. They are not in a FAQ that contradicts another document. They are right there, on the pricing page, next to the price.

Legal Desk AI is built by Fuzzy Cloud, and all policies governing usage are hosted directly on the Legal Desk AI site—not on a third-party domain.

What to Ask Before You Subscribe to Any AI Legal Tool

I am not writing this to take down any competitor. Everyone working to bring AI into the Indian legal system is doing something worth respecting. But I do think lawyers deserve to ask harder questions before committing to a subscription.

Before you subscribe to any AI legal tool, ask:

Where are the actual limits documented? If the answer involves a link to a different website with "Fair Usage Policy" in the URL, read that document carefully before you pay anything.

What happens to your files? Seven days, thirty days, indefinitely? This matters enormously in a practice where matters span months and years.

Are the numbers consistent? If the pricing page says one thing and a policy document says another, the policy document is what you agreed to.

Is the pricing on the product's own site, or somewhere else? A company that publishes its real limits clearly on its own pricing page is telling you something about how it intends to treat you as a customer.

There is no such thing as unlimited. There is always a number somewhere. The only question is how hard a company makes you work to find it.

At Legal Desk AI, we would rather put the number on the page and let you decide than bury it where you will only find it after you have already paid.