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Clio vs MyCase Pricing Calculator: Annual Cost Compared
Calculate the annual cost difference between Clio and MyCase based on your firm's tier and user count.
Annual Clio premium over MyCase
--Updates as you change inputs. Estimate only, not legal advice.
PreviewWhat you'll get
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Users | 5 |
| Clio Essentials | $99/user/mo |
| MyCase Pro | $79/user/mo |
| Annual Clio premium | $1,200 |
Clio and MyCase are the two most widely adopted practice management platforms for small and midsize US law firms, but their per-user pricing diverges meaningfully once you scale past two or three attorneys. This calculator multiplies your selected Clio tier and MyCase tier by your user count across twelve months so you can see the annualized delta in real dollars.
Pricing assumes published monthly per-user rates billed annually: Clio EasyStart at $49, Essentials at $99, and Advanced at $139; MyCase Basic at $49, Pro at $79, and Advanced at $109. Actual quoted pricing may vary based on promotions, contract length, and add-ons like Clio Payments or MyCase Accounting.
Use the result to benchmark your software budget against the roughly 2 to 4 percent of gross revenue that most ABA TECHREPORT respondents allocate to legal tech.
Why use itBuilt for the way law firms actually work
Real published pricing
Uses current Clio and MyCase per-user rates so your annual estimate reflects what vendors actually quote.
Tier-by-tier comparison
Match EasyStart to Basic, Essentials to Pro, or Advanced to Advanced to compare apples to apples.
Scales with headcount
Adjust your user count to see how the gap widens or narrows as your firm grows.
Annualized output
Returns a twelve-month figure rather than a misleading per-user monthly delta.
100% free
No signup, no email gate, no sales call routed to a vendor partner.
Instant results
Recalculates the moment you change a tier or adjust your user count.
ProcessHow it works
- 01 Enter your user count
Include every attorney, paralegal, and staff member who needs a licensed seat in the platform.
- 02 Select a Clio tier
Pick the Clio plan that matches the feature set your firm actually uses today.
- 03 Select a MyCase tier
Choose the closest MyCase equivalent so the comparison reflects similar functionality.
- 04 Review the annual delta
The calculator returns the twelve-month cost difference so you can budget accurately.
CoverageWhat's included
- Clio EasyStart, Essentials, and Advanced tier pricing
- MyCase Basic, Pro, and Advanced tier pricing
- Per-user multiplier for firms of any size
- Twelve-month annualized cost comparison
- Direct dollar delta between the two platforms
- Baseline for negotiating vendor discounts
- Quick sanity check before a demo or trial
ContextWhy this matters
Practice management software is typically the second largest line item in a small firm's technology budget after malpractice insurance technology riders. The ABA 2023 TECHREPORT found that Clio and MyCase together command a majority of the cloud practice management market among solos and firms under ten attorneys, which means most firms are choosing between exactly these two products.
The published per-user gap looks small on a monthly basis, but multiplied across a five attorney firm over a three year contract it can exceed $7,000. That is real money that could fund a paralegal's continuing education, a new client intake system, or simply remain in the operating account.
Running the numbers before you sit through a sales demo also gives you leverage. Both vendors offer discretionary discounts for annual prepay, multi-year commitments, and bar association partnerships, and walking in with a documented cost comparison tends to surface those concessions faster.
Q&AFrequently asked
- Yes. There is no signup, no email capture, and no affiliate redirect. Enter your numbers and the result appears instantly.
- The calculator uses publicly published per-user monthly rates billed annually as of the most recent vendor pricing pages. Promotional pricing, multi-year discounts, and enterprise quotes may differ.
- Clio EasyStart roughly aligns with MyCase Basic, Essentials with Pro, and Advanced with Advanced. None of the mappings are perfect, since each platform bundles different features at each level.
- No. The calculator covers core seat pricing only. Clio Payments, Clio Accounting, MyCase Accounting, and MyCase Payments carry separate transaction fees or monthly charges.
- Solo practitioners and small firm administrators evaluating cloud practice management software. It is most useful before scheduling a demo so you can negotiate from an informed position.
- A negative figure means MyCase is more expensive than Clio at your selected tier and user count. The output is Clio cost minus MyCase cost, annualized.
- Not necessarily. Feature fit, document automation, court rules integration, and trust accounting workflow matter more than a few hundred dollars per year for most firms. Use cost as a tiebreaker, not the decider.
- Request free trials of both platforms, run a real matter through each, and ask each vendor for their best annual prepay discount. Bring this calculator's output to the pricing conversation.