Alt Legal is the best-reviewed product in this category — 4.9 on Capterra across 36 reviews, 4.8 on G2 across 22 — and it is cheaper than we are. If you are reading this page hoping for a reason to leave, we may not give you one.
Price, plainly
| Portfolio | Alt Legal | Sealvo |
|---|---|---|
| 50 marks | ~$60/mo | $149/mo |
| 200 marks | ~$195/mo | $349/mo |
| 400–500 marks | ~$295/mo | $799/mo |
We are more expensive at every tier. There is no version of this comparison in which we are the budget option.
What you get for the difference
Alt Legal sells docketing, and sells trademark monitoring as a separate add-on. The comparison that makes sense is not docketing against docketing — it is docketing plus whatever you pay for watch and screening against one subscription that includes:
- Register watch — new filings scanned against your marks, with alerts.
- Conflict screening by mark name or serial number.
- DuPont factor analysis — why a conflict scored as it did, factor by factor, rather than a similarity number.
- Clearance reports before filing and on applications already filed.
If you do not need those, Alt Legal is the better buy and we would rather say so than have you find out in month two.
Where Alt Legal users report limits
From public reviews, consistently:
- Patents. Patent docketing is weaker than trademark docketing. Reviewers attribute it to the USPTO's patent systems not being readable the way TSDR is — a real constraint, not a product failing.
- Foreign and litigation deadlines require manual entry.
- TTAB docketing is described as needing more depth.
- Onboarding — uploading records takes time.
That last one is the clearest structural difference between the two products. Alt Legal docketing begins when your matters are in it. Sealvo derives a docket from the register using the attorney of record, so a firm can see its own deadlines before entering anything — including before buying.
The second-system case
Malpractice carriers commonly expect two independent docketing checks. If Alt Legal is your system of record and it is working, the question is not whether to replace it — it is what is checking it. Two systems reading the same register and disagreeing about a date is a useful event. Two systems that are the same system is not a second check.
Honestly
Alt Legal has been doing this for years, has thousands of users and an unusually happy review profile. We are newer, we are more expensive, and we bundle things they sell separately. Both of those sentences are true, and which matters more depends entirely on what else is already on your invoice.