Vol. III · No. 47
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
caseledge
Independent analysis
Est. MMXXIV
Clio raises base plan to $49/user · 3 days ago MyCase holds pricing for Q2 · 6 days ago New review: Actionstep workflow engine · 9 days ago PracticePanther adds AI intake · 12 days ago Amberlo opens London data region · 14 days ago Methodology v2.3 published · 21 days ago Smokeball raises Series B, pricing unchanged · 24 days ago Filevine confirms gated pricing for 2026 · 28 days ago Clio raises base plan to $49/user · 3 days ago MyCase holds pricing for Q2 · 6 days ago New review: Actionstep workflow engine · 9 days ago PracticePanther adds AI intake · 12 days ago Amberlo opens London data region · 14 days ago Methodology v2.3 published · 21 days ago Smokeball raises Series B, pricing unchanged · 24 days ago Filevine confirms gated pricing for 2026 · 28 days ago
Data Report · Last updated 2026-05-31 · Data through 2026-05-31

What law-firm software actually costs.

The median legal practice management platform starts at $49 per user per month. 10 of 27 vendors will not publish a price at all. Below: the full distribution, the historical trend, and the raw data.

How this is measured

caseledge tracks 27 legal practice management vendors. Current pricing is scraped from each vendor's public pricing page; historical pricing is reconstructed from Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) snapshots. "Entry-tier price" is the lowest published per-seat monthly price across a vendor's tiers. Vendors that gate pricing behind a demo request are reported as gated, never estimated. The historical trend is computed per vendor, comparing each vendor's earliest observed price to its latest, because Wayback coverage differs across vendors. Full method: caseledge.com/methodology.

§ IThe snapshot

Of 27 tracked vendors, 13 publish a usable per-seat price. 10 gate pricing entirely, and 4 list tiers without naming a price. Among priced vendors, entry-tier cost ranges from $6.90 to $149 per user per month, with a median of $49.

Smokeball $149 CasePeer $79 Amberlo $59 PracticePanther $59 Bill4Time $49 Tabs3 $32 CaseFleet $30 LawPay $19 Rocket Lawyer Practice Management $12.41 FreshBooks Legal $6.90

Vendors that offer annual billing discount it by a median of 11% versus monthly. Median entry-tier price by target firm size:

  • solo: $49 per user per month (n=9)
  • small: $49 per user per month (n=11)
  • mid: $40.50 per user per month (n=6)

§ IIThe trend

12 vendors have enough Wayback history for a like-for-like comparison. Of those, 5 raised their entry-tier price, 5 held it flat, and 2 cut it. The median change across the cohort is 0.0%.

Each line below is one vendor, drawn from its first observed price to its latest. The x-axis is "first" versus "latest", not calendar time: vendors entered the Wayback record at different dates, so a shared time axis would misrepresent the data.

First observed Latest observed $149 $0
Raised price Held price Cut price

§ IIIThe raw data

Vendor First observed Latest observed Change
Smokeball $29 (2022-05-19) $149 (2026-05-08) +413.8%
Bill4Time $27 (2022-01-19) $49 (2026-05-08) +81.5%
CosmoLex $79 (2022-01-20) $109 (2026-05-11) +38.0%
Clio $39 (2022-01-16) $49 (2026-03-06) +25.6%
PracticePanther $49 (2026-04-19) $59 (2026-05-08) +20.4%
CasePeer $79 (2024-07-17) $79 (2026-05-08) 0.0%
LawPay $19 (2023-08-05) $19 (2026-05-08) 0.0%
MyCase $49 (2022-01-20) $49 (2026-05-08) 0.0%
Rocket Matter $39 (2023-03-30) $39 (2026-04-08) 0.0%
Tabs3 $32 (2026-05-08) $32 (2026-05-18) 0.0%
FreshBooks Legal $19 (2025-03-02) $6.90 (2026-05-24) -63.7%
Rocket Lawyer Practice Management $39.99 (2026-05-08) $12.41 (2026-05-18) -69.0%

§ IVCite this

caseledge, "Legal-Tech Pricing Transparency Index," updated 2026-05-31. https://caseledge.com/pricing-index/

Journalists: a print-ready summary with quotable figures is on the press kit page. The data is free to cite and reproduce with a link back to this page.