TL;DR

• Pick Clio if you are a solo, small, or mid-sized general-practice firm that wants published per-seat pricing starting at $49/month and a broad feature set spanning intake, billing, and trust accounting.
• Pick Filevine if you run a litigation or personal injury practice at a small, mid, or large firm and need a case-management system purpose-built for those workflows, and you are comfortable requesting a custom quote.
• Core tradeoff: transparent horizontal PM (Clio) vs. vertical litigation/PI depth with gated enterprise-style pricing (Filevine).

Side by side

Dimension	Clio	Filevine
Founded	2008	2014
HQ	Burnaby, BC	Salt Lake City, UT
Target firm sizes	Solo, small, mid	Small, mid, large
Practice areas	General	Litigation, PI
Starting price (monthly/seat)	$59 (EasyStart, monthly) / $49 annual	Not published (gated)
Gated pricing	No	Yes
Integrations listed in dataset	0 (references “250+” on Essentials)	0

Pricing

Clio publishes four tiers on its pricing page:

• Lowest, EasyStart: $59/seat monthly, $49/seat billed annually. Includes time tracking, billing, document management, trust accounting, e-signatures, and mobile apps.
• Middle, Essentials ($99/$89) and Advanced ($139/$119): Essentials adds the client portal, accounting integrations (QuickBooks, Xero, TrustBooks), custom fields, and access to the 250+ app integration library. Advanced layers on automated workflows, matter budgets, custom reporting, SAML SSO, and priority support.
• Highest, Expand: $169/seat monthly, $149/seat billed annually. Bundles Clio Grow (legal CRM), online intake, appointment booking, email marketing, website builder, and all Advanced features.

Filevine’s pricing is gated, the pricing page does not disclose tier structures or per-seat rates, and buyers must contact sales for a quote. This makes direct dollar-for-dollar comparison impossible from public data. Firms evaluating Filevine should plan for a sales-led procurement cycle and request a written quote tied to seat count, modules, and contract term.

When to pick Clio

Clio is the better fit when:

• You are a solo, small, or mid-sized firm and want to see pricing before talking to sales.
• Your practice is general or spans multiple areas, Clio’s dataset lists “general” as its practice focus, whereas Filevine is scoped to litigation and PI.
• You want a predictable per-seat cost ranging from $49 to $149 annually, with clear upgrade paths.
• You need built-in trust accounting, billing, and invoicing out of the box on the lowest tier.
• You want an integrated CRM + practice management bundle (Expand tier includes Clio Grow).

When to pick Filevine

Filevine is the better fit when:

• You run a litigation or personal injury practice where deep case-management workflows matter more than generalist features.
• You are a mid-sized or large firm, Filevine explicitly targets up through large, while Clio’s stated target tops out at mid.
• You are prepared for custom, sales-led pricing and expect to negotiate contract terms rather than self-serve sign-up.
• Your firm needs vertical-specific tooling (demands, medical records management, litigation timelines) that horizontal PM suites typically do not match.
• You value a platform that was architected around case depth from 2014 onward rather than general PM.

Integrations and ecosystem

Neither vendor’s structured integrations list is populated in the dataset provided, so an exact catalog comparison is not possible here.

From Clio’s pricing page content, the Essentials tier advertises access to 250+ app integrations, and accounting integrations are named explicitly: QuickBooks, Xero, and TrustBooks. Clio also ships a virtual desktop drive for PC and Mac and a Clio for Clients secure portal.

Filevine’s integration roster is not enumerated in the provided data. Buyers should request the current integration list from Filevine sales, particularly around document automation, e-signature, medical records, and accounting tools relevant to litigation workflows.

Historical pricing context

Clio’s pricing_history shows a multi-year trajectory:

• From January 2022 through August 2024, the entry tier (labeled “Starter” and later “EasyStart”) held steady at $39/seat monthly.
• By August 2025, EasyStart had moved to $49/seat, where Wayback snapshots confirm it remained through March 2026.
• On the top end, snapshots captured “Top” at $149 (May 2022), “Elite” at $129 (Aug 2022, Dec 2022), and “Complete” at $129 (early 2023). The current published top tier (Expand) is $169 monthly / $149 annual, indicating upward movement at the high end as well.

In short: Clio’s entry price held flat for roughly 2.5 years, then stepped up ~26% (from $39 to $49) during 2024-2025, with the highest tier climbing from $129 to $169 monthly over the same broader period.

Filevine has no public pricing history in the dataset because pricing has remained gated, so no comparable trajectory can be reported.

Citations

Pricing sourced from vendor pricing pages on 2026-04-24 (Clio: https://www.clio.com/pricing/; Filevine: https://www.filevine.com/pricing/). Historical Clio pricing data from the Wayback Machine, spanning January 2022 through March 2026. Filevine pricing is gated and not publicly disclosed; figures and comparisons involving Filevine pricing are therefore omitted rather than estimated.