Pricing
Native price books for the Maldives, Sri Lanka and India — benchmarked to the local bar scale and prevailing firm rates. UK and USA are offered as cross-border practice modules for MV / LK / IN lawyers handling foreign-touching matters (immigration, arbitration, enforcement, corporate). We do not serve US or UK domestic-only practice.
Benchmarked to Bar Council of Maldives indicative scale & Malé firm quotes.
Individuals & SMEs · pay per document · Maldives
One flat, published price per document. No subscription, no seat licence, no retainer. Every deliverable is reviewed and signed off by a locally licensed advocate before release.
All prices flat · no quote required
Market: MVR 3,500 – 7,500
Written opinion on a discrete question of law, 4–8 pages, with citations.
Market: MVR 6,000 – 20,000
NDA, employment, tenancy, sale, services or shareholders' agreement.
Market: MVR 2,500 – 6,000
Plain-language review of a third-party contract with red-flag list.
Market: MVR 1,500 – 3,500
Formal letter before action, recovery notice, cease-and-desist or statutory notice.
Court filing fees, stamp duty, notarisation and translation certifications are charged at cost. Complex matters (multi-party, cross-border, regulated sector) are quoted on request or routed to the firm-tier per-case rate card below.
Billed monthly per seat.
Min 1 seat · Unlimited research · 20 light drafts / seat / month
Min 5 seats · Departmental workspace · 30 light tasks / seat / month
Min 1 seat · Chambers workspace · 25 precedent lookups / seat / month
Priority SLA + 500 LCC credits
Dedicated AM + 1,500 LCC credits
Tier selected at order placement.
A Critical-tier brief routinely consumes 200,000–350,000 tokens of frontier-model reasoning. Three tiers — Standard, Complex, Critical — match price to the actual depth of the work, and still land in the lower-mid band of locally reported firm quotes.
Cited memo on a discrete question of law, 8–15 pages with statute and case authorities.
Malé firm rate: MVR 3,500 – 25,000
Bespoke commercial agreement — NDA, employment, lease, services, JV — bilingual where requested.
Malé firm rate: MVR 6,000 – 20,000
Plaint, written statement, reply or interlocutory application with cited authorities.
Malé firm rate: MVR 8,000 – 25,000
Reasoning audit of a draft judgement or impact analysis of a policy proposal.
Malé firm rate: MVR 5,000 – 15,000
Verified judiciary accounts only.
All Critical-tier judiciary outputs auto-route to Senior Review by a licensed advocate (included in price, 4-hour SLA) and are watermarked Lex Works Verified — Judiciary Grade.
| Deliverable | Standard | Complex | Critical (incl. Senior Review) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precedent Cross-Reference Report | MVR 2,800 | MVR 5,200 | MVR 9,500 |
| Judgement Reasoning Audit | MVR 3,200 | MVR 6,500 | MVR 11,500 |
| Conflicting Authorities Analysis | MVR 3,500 | MVR 7,200 | MVR 12,800 |
| Draft Judgement Consistency Check | MVR 2,500 | MVR 4,800 | MVR 8,500 |
| Comparative Law Lookup | MVR 2,200 | MVR 4,200 | MVR 7,500 |
Complexity-linked. Added at checkout.
Licensed advocate reviews and signs. Mandatory & included on judiciary Critical tier.
Priority inference queue for time-sensitive filings.
Per page with translator's certification — volume rate kicks in automatically (1-10 · 11-50 · 51+).
Deeper multi-step reasoning for novel or genuinely complex questions.
1 LCC = MVR 100 of Standard-tier deliverable value in Maldives.
Bundles never expire and are transferable across sub-accounts. Rush Delivery and Advanced Reasoning Pass are billed separately in cash; certified translation is LCC-eligible.
| Bundle | Face value | Pre-buy price | Discount | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 LCC | MVR 50,000 | MVR 47,500 | 5% | Solo practitioners, small firms |
| 2,000 LCC | MVR 200,000 | MVR 186,000 | 7% | Mid-size firms, bar chapters |
| 5,000 LCC | MVR 500,000 | MVR 455,000 | 9% | Government departments, LPOs |
| 15,000 LCC | MVR 1,500,000 | MVR 1,335,000 | 11% | Courts, AG's Office, large corporates |
| 50,000+ LCC | MVR 5,000,000 | Negotiated | 13%+ | Institutional Alliance Partners (negotiated) |
Each jurisdiction is priced in its own currency at industry-standard local rates — not a single MVR figure auto-converted at spot FX. Lex Works is a tool for qualified legal professionals and the bench; it does not replace formal legal representation in contested proceedings. Senior Counsel Sign-Off is mandatory and included on all judiciary Critical-tier outputs.