TL;DR

• Pick Bill4Time if you want granular tier choices starting at $27-$39/user/month (annual) and prefer to pay only for trust accounting and LEDES when you need them.
• Pick MyCase if you want built-in legal AI (“8am IQ”), two-way client texting, and eSignature bundled into a single platform, and you’re willing to pay up to $109/user/month (annual) for the top tier.
• Core tradeoff: Bill4Time offers four tiers optimized around billing depth; MyCase offers three tiers optimized around case management breadth and modern client-communication features.

Side by side

Dimension	Bill4Time	MyCase
Founded	2006	2010
HQ	Seattle, WA	San Diego, CA
Target firm sizes	Solo, small	Solo, small
Practice areas	General	General
Starting price (monthly, lowest tier)	$49/user (or $39 annual)	$49/user (or $39 annual)
Gated pricing	No	No
Integrations listed	0 in dataset	0 in dataset

Pricing

Lowest tier. Both vendors list an identical entry point: $49/user/month billed monthly, or $39/user/month billed annually. Bill4Time calls this “Time & Billing”; MyCase calls it “Basic.” The feature mix differs, Bill4Time’s entry plan includes accounting, invoicing, payment processing, QuickBooks integration, and a mobile app, while MyCase Basic focuses on case/contact management, client portal, online payments, and unlimited document storage.

Middle tier. Bill4Time’s mid options are Legal Pro at $69/month (or $59 annual) and Time & Billing Enterprise at $79/month (or $69 annual). Legal Pro adds trust accounting, conflict checking, contingency billing, LEDES export, and NetDocuments/Box integration. MyCase’s mid tier is Pro at $99/month (or $89 annual), adding 8am IQ legal AI, unlimited 2-way texting, unlimited eSignature, client intake management, and advanced billing. MyCase Pro is roughly $20-30/seat more than Bill4Time Legal Pro but includes AI and communication tooling Bill4Time doesn’t surface.

Highest tier. Bill4Time Legal Enterprise tops out at $99/month ($89 annual), adding customizable data fields, custom LEDES export, and a dedicated success specialist. MyCase Advanced tops out at $119/month ($109 annual), adding MyCase Drive, full-text search, the 8am IQ case assistant, advanced document automation, split billing, and an open API. At the ceiling, MyCase is roughly $20/seat more but adds API access and document automation; Bill4Time leans into billing customization and LEDES.

Neither vendor gates pricing, both publish tier tables on their public pricing pages.

When to pick Bill4Time

Bill4Time fits firms whose pain is billing complexity, not case management breadth. Specific profiles:

• Solo or small firms that bill hourly and need deep invoicing controls, invoice templates, invoice cover letters, UTBMS codes, and LEDES export appear on the Legal Pro tier at $59-$69/seat.
• Firms that already use QuickBooks, QuickBooks integration is included on the entry tier, not reserved for premium plans.
• Firms wanting a cheaper ladder, the $39 annual entry price and $59 Legal Pro annual price land below MyCase’s $89 Pro. Firms that don’t need AI or texting avoid paying for them.
• Firms needing contingency or trust-heavy billing without jumping to a top-tier plan, these land on Legal Pro, not Legal Enterprise.

When to pick MyCase

MyCase fits firms whose pain is client communication and case throughput, not billing complexity. Specific profiles:

• Firms that want legal AI out of the box, 8am IQ is included starting on the Pro tier, with an expanded case-assistant version on Advanced.
• Consumer-facing practices that text clients, unlimited 2-way texting (including image acceptance) is bundled in Pro at $89-$99/seat.
• Firms that sign a lot of documents, unlimited eSignature is included on Pro, avoiding separate DocuSign spend.
• Firms wanting document automation and an open API at the top tier, Advanced at $109-$119/seat bundles these where Bill4Time Legal Enterprise focuses on billing customizations.

Integrations and ecosystem

Neither vendor’s JSON record includes a populated integrations array, so a like-for-like count isn’t possible from the data provided. What the tier descriptions do surface:

• Bill4Time references QuickBooks (entry tier), calendar sync (entry tier), and Box plus NetDocuments (Legal Pro and above).
• MyCase references Google and Outlook integrations (Pro tier) and an open API (Advanced tier).

MyCase’s open API on the top tier is the most notable ecosystem difference, Bill4Time’s tiers don’t mention a public API. Buyers who plan to build custom workflows should weigh this.

Historical pricing context

Bill4Time has a rich Wayback history. Its Time & Billing entry tier held steady at $29 monthly / $27 annual from January 2022 through at least June 2025, more than three years of flat pricing on the public page. Legal Pro similarly held at $49 monthly / $45 annual across the same window. The current pricing ($49 monthly / $39 annual on entry; $69 monthly / $59 annual on Legal Pro) represents a recent step-up, and the lineup expanded to include Time & Billing Enterprise (first seen in the June 2024 snapshot at $69 monthly / $67 annual) and a new Legal Enterprise tier.

MyCase’s captured history is thinner, two snapshots showing a single “MyCase” plan at $49 in January 2022 and a “Basic” plan at $39 in March 2022. That’s insufficient to draw a trajectory, but the current three-tier structure (Basic/Pro/Advanced at $39/$89/$109 annual) reflects a move toward feature-stratified pricing rather than a single flat plan.

Net: Bill4Time appears to have recently raised its long-stable prices and added enterprise tiers; MyCase’s public history is too sparse in this dataset to characterize beyond noting the shift from one plan to three.

Citations

Pricing sourced from vendor pricing pages on 2026-04-24. Historical data from Wayback Machine snapshots listed in each vendor’s pricing_history. Integration counts reflect only what is present in the supplied vendor JSON and may understate each product’s actual ecosystem.