Clio Pricing for a Small Firm, and How MyCase Compares

Clio's published price starts at $49 a user a month for its entry plan, and its three higher tiers carry no public number at all. MyCase, by contrast, names three tiers in full on its own page, running $50 to $150 a user a month depending on the tier and the billing cycle.

Quick answer

Clio's Starter plan is the only Clio plan with a printed price: $49 per user per month. Core, Signature and Elite are quoted after you talk to sales, and Clio Grow, the separate intake and CRM product, is included only in Elite and sold as a quoted add-on on Core and Signature. MyCase prints all three of its own tiers, Basic, Pro and Advanced, each with a monthly and a lower annual rate. Clio's pricing page lists its card and ACH processing rates; MyCase's says its LawPay payments carry no monthly fee but gives no percentage. Use the table below to see what each page actually commits to, then take the unpriced half of each list into the demo.

What does Clio actually sell, and at what price?

Search results for "Clio pricing" also list a Clio page called Get Work Pricing; its newest archived copy is a form that asks about the firm before showing any price, not a price list (Clio, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-05-17, the newest one). The numbers sit on Clio's general pricing page instead, and they come with their own naming puzzle: "Clio Work" is Clio's newer AI workspace, "Clio Manage" is the practice management product with the plans and prices below, and "Clio Grow" is the separate intake and CRM product.

Clio Manage has four plans: Starter, Core, Signature and Elite. The page states one number, "Clio's plans start at $49 USD per user per month," and the Starter card reads "Starting at $49/user"; neither says whether that assumes annual or monthly billing. Core, Signature and Elite each show a "Get pricing" button with no number attached. Elite bundles Clio Manage with Clio Grow and carries a "Save over 17%" tag without saying what the saving is measured against.

Clio Grow is included in Elite and available as an add-on for Core and Signature, priced through sales; the plan comparison marks its features "No" on Starter. Grow's AI phone, web and email agents are listed as "Pay per matter hired with Grow AI's help," so ask what one hired matter costs (Clio pricing, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-10-05).

What does MyCase cost for the same firm?

MyCase publishes three tiers, each with a monthly rate and a lower rate for paying annually. Basic runs $60 a user a month monthly or $50 annually, and includes case and contact management, time entry, invoicing, trust accounting and online payments. Pro runs $120 or $100, adding unlimited eSignature, document generation, automated workflows, client intake forms with a legal CRM, and 70-plus integrations. Advanced runs $150 or $130, adding an AI case assistant, a discovery tool with OCR, advanced document automation and open API access (MyCase pricing, checked 2026-10-06).

MyCase's owner, AffiniPay, renamed itself 8am, and MyCase now goes by 8am MyCase (MyCase, checked 2026-10-06). The site footer names the company as "8am, LLC" (MyCase, checked 2026-10-06), so check which legal entity the contract you sign names.

What does each vendor commit to in writing?

What would a 3-user firm pay each year?

Illustrative: this three-lawyer firm is imaginary, its size is made up to run the arithmetic, and none of it comes from a client; the prices are the published ones cited above.

The formula is users × price per user per month × 12, so swap in your own head count. Clio's $1,764 a year undercuts MyCase's annual Basic by $36 and its monthly Basic by $396, but that comparison only holds at the bottom tier. Clio's page does not say whether the $49 figure already assumes annual billing, so ask that directly; it is the same open question as what Core, Signature and Elite would cost this same firm, since neither has a public number to run the same math on.

Who processes the money, and what happens to trust funds?

Clio's payments page says online payments are included in all Clio Manage subscriptions at fixed rates, with no extra or variable card-network fees, and that processing fees are never withdrawn from an IOLTA trust account (Clio, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-09-14). The rates themselves sit on the pricing page: 2.95% for credit and debit cards (3.75% for Amex), 1% for eCheck and for ACH, and 4.95% for Pay Later with Affirm, the same on all four plans (Clio pricing, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-10-05).

MyCase routes payments through LawPay, which also carries the 8am name. Its pricing page lists LawPay Payments at $0 with "No monthly fee, competitive processing rates" and prints no percentage (MyCase pricing, checked 2026-10-06). Its payments page says MyCase customers who sign up for LawPay pay no monthly fees for the life of the account, and that LawPay ensures compliance with ABA and IOLTA guidelines (MyCase, checked 2026-10-06).

IOLTA stands for Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts, a type of client trust account. ABA Model Rule 1.15(a) says a lawyer must hold property of clients or third persons separate from the lawyer's own, keep their funds in a separate account, and keep complete records of those funds (ABA, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-10-02). That is a model rule: each state bar sets its own trust accounting rules, and in Canada each provincial law society sets its own. In British Columbia, for example, the Law Society of BC says all lawyers who handle trust funds for clients or third parties are subject to its trust assurance standards (Law Society of BC, checked 2026-10-06).

None of this is legal advice, and I am not a lawyer; ask your own bar or law society which rule applies before relying on either vendor's description of compliance.

Can either tool show which ads brought a paying client?

Clio's pricing page lists, among Elite's Clio Grow features, "Track referrals and ad spend to see what's actually winning clients" (Clio pricing, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-10-05). Its Grow page says custom intake forms can be shared on a website, by email or by text, and that the answers flow into Grow and sync to Clio Manage when leads convert to clients (Clio Grow, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-09-14). MyCase's integrations page lists a CallRail connection described as "marketing insights for call tracking and conversation analytics," aimed at "pinpointing the ads, keywords, and offers" behind the calls that convert (MyCase, checked 2026-10-06).

Neither vendor's page documents a built-in export that sends a signed case back to Google Ads or GA4 as a conversion. MyCase lists Zapier, which it says can share data and trigger actions between MyCase and other software; whether that route reaches Google Ads for your setup is something to test, not assume (MyCase, checked 2026-10-06). The fields that make a signed case traceable to one ad click, including Clio Grow's own CallRail connection, are covered in the law firm CRM field list; the upload itself, once a case signs, works the way described in CRM to Google Ads offline conversions.

Judge any of this by signed cases, not by the lead count either tool reports; why cost per signed case is the number that matters covers that math.

What should you lock down before you sign?

• Is the per-user price fixed for a term, or can it rise at renewal? On cancellation, Clio's FAQ says it takes effect at the end of the current term, and MyCase's says you can cancel in Settings at any time but paid fees are non-refundable.
• Does the plan I am quoted include intake and lead tracking (Clio Grow, or MyCase Pro and up), or is that a separate line? On Clio, what does one hired matter cost under Grow AI's pay-per-matter pricing?
• What exactly exports if I leave, in what file format, and how long does it take? Clio's FAQ says data can be exported in open, nonproprietary formats while the account is active or within 90 days of cancellation (Clio pricing, checked 2026-10-06 via the Internet Archive copy of 2026-10-05); ask MyCase for its equivalent in writing.
• Is there a minimum number of seats? MyCase's FAQ ties the monthly rate to the number of active users and says no long-term contract or setup fee is required (MyCase pricing, checked 2026-10-06); ask Clio the same.
• What is the processing percentage on payments, in writing? Clio prints its rates; MyCase's pricing page says only "competitive processing rates."
• Which state's (or province's) trust accounting rules does the vendor say its payments setup follows, and has your own bar or law society confirmed that is enough?