TL;DR

• Pick Clio if you’re a solo, small, or mid-sized general-practice firm that wants published per-seat pricing, self-serve onboarding, and a broad feature set across intake, billing, and trust accounting.
• Pick Litify if you’re a mid-to-large personal injury or mass-tort firm that needs a Salesforce-native platform and is prepared to engage sales for a custom quote.
• Core tradeoff: transparent, productized pricing and general-practice breadth (Clio) versus vertical depth for high-volume contingency practices on an enterprise stack (Litify).

Side by side

Dimension	Clio	Litify
Founded	2008	2016
HQ	Burnaby, BC	New York, NY
Target firm sizes	Solo, small, mid	Mid, large
Practice areas	General	PI, mass tort
Starting price (monthly/seat)	$59 ($49 annual)	Not published (gated)
Gated pricing	No	Yes
Integrations listed	0 in dataset (250+ advertised on Essentials tier)	0 in dataset

Pricing

Clio publishes four tiers on its pricing page:

• EasyStart (lowest): $59/user/month monthly, $49/user/month billed annually. Covers time tracking, billing, document management, trust accounting, e-signatures, and mobile apps.
• Essentials (middle): $99/month, $89 annual. Adds the Clio for Clients portal, 250+ integrations, text-to-pay, accounting integrations (QuickBooks, Xero, TrustBooks), and document/matter templates.
• Advanced: $139/month, $119 annual. Adds automated workflows, matter budgets, custom reporting, SAML SSO, and priority support.
• Expand (highest): $169/month, $149 annual. Bundles Clio Grow (CRM/intake), online booking, email marketing, and a website builder.

Litify’s pricing is gated. The vendor’s pricing page (last scraped 2026-04-24) does not publish tiers, seat prices, or bundles, so any comparison requires a sales conversation. Buyers should expect enterprise-style pricing consistent with Litify’s mid-to-large firm positioning and its Salesforce foundation, which typically layers platform licensing on top of the product itself.

Net: if you need to benchmark cost before booking a demo, Clio’s numbers are public; Litify’s are not.

When to pick Clio

Clio fits firms that match one or more of these profiles:

• Solo, small, or mid-sized firms, the three segments Clio explicitly targets.
• General practice, Clio lists “general” as its practice area rather than a vertical specialization.
• Buyers who need price transparency, all four tiers and annual discounts are published.
• Firms that want self-serve onboarding at the low end, EasyStart includes “self-serve data migration,” with guided migration on Essentials and live onboarding on Advanced.
• Firms that need trust accounting out of the box, trust account management is included on the entry tier, and trust balance notifications appear on Essentials.
• Firms that want CRM + PM bundled, the Expand tier bundles Clio Grow, online intake, appointment booking, and a website builder.

When to pick Litify

Litify fits firms that match one or more of these profiles:

• Mid-sized and large firms, the two segments Litify targets, versus Clio’s solo/small/mid focus.
• Personal injury and mass-tort practices, Litify’s listed practice areas, whereas Clio positions as general.
• Firms already standardized on Salesforce, Litify is built on the Salesforce platform, so firms with Salesforce admins, existing orgs, or other Salesforce products can extend that investment.
• Buyers comfortable with gated, quote-based procurement, typical for enterprise legal tech and not a blocker for firms with formal vendor selection processes.
• Firms needing a newer, vertically-tuned system, Litify (founded 2016) was built specifically around contingency-fee workflows rather than adapted from a general-practice product.

Integrations and ecosystem

Neither JSON record enumerates individual integrations, so an apples-to-apples list isn’t possible from the data provided. What we can say:

• Clio advertises 250+ app integrations at the Essentials tier, and calls out QuickBooks, Xero, and TrustBooks as accounting integrations included from Essentials upward. The Clio App Directory is widely documented as one of the largest in legal tech.
• Litify is native to Salesforce, which means it inherits access to the Salesforce AppExchange ecosystem (marketing automation, BI, telephony, etc.). Specific named integrations are not in the provided data.

The practical difference: Clio’s ecosystem is legal-specific and broad; Litify’s ecosystem leans on Salesforce’s general-purpose marketplace plus purpose-built PI/mass-tort connectors surfaced during sales.

Historical pricing context

Clio’s Wayback-sourced pricing history shows a long period of stability followed by a recent increase at the entry tier:

• Starter / EasyStart held at $39/month across snapshots from January 2022 through at least August 2024.
• EasyStart rose to $49/month by the August 2025 snapshot and has remained at $49 through March 2026.
• The top tier has cycled through several names, Top ($149, May 2022), Elite ($129, Aug 2022-Dec 2022), Complete ($129, 2023), and today the published top tier is Expand at $149 annual / $169 monthly, with Advanced at $119/$139 as the highest non-CRM tier.

In short, Clio’s entry price was flat for roughly three years, then moved up ~25% ($39 → $49 annual) between mid-2024 and mid-2025. The product lineup has also been repackaged multiple times.

Litify has no pricing history in the dataset, which is consistent with its gated pricing model, there are no public list prices to snapshot.

Citations

Pricing sourced from vendor pricing pages on 2026-04-24. Historical data from Wayback Machine.