Pay $59 per lawyer per month for every feature
Plainmatter has one plan. Each owner or attorney uses one seat, and paralegals, assistants and bookkeepers join for free.
Try every feature for 30 days without entering a card.
$59per lawyer per month
Staff seats: $0
Try every feature for 30 days without a card. Add staff for free.
Every seat includes
- Matters, contacts and parties
- Always-visible timer and quick time entry
- Reconstruct my day from calls, notes and hearings
- Invoices from unbilled time and expenses
- Client invoice links and payment records
- Trust ledgers per client with three-way reconciliation
- Printable reconciliation reports
- Intake form with automatic conflict checks
- Word templates with merge fields
- Court-day deadline calculator
- Calendar feed for your phone or Outlook
- Reports with CSV export and a report builder
- Import from Clio and MyCase CSV exports
- Full data export at any time
- AI features, off until an owner turns them on
- Free staff seats
Compare Plainmatter with Clio, MyCase and PracticePanther
The table lists the plan we compare against on each product, at the price the vendor publishes.
Some features Plainmatter includes need a higher plan or a paid add-on on those products, as the notes show.
| Feature | Plainmatter | Clio | MyCase | PracticePanther |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan compared | One plan | Starter1 | Pro2 | Business3 |
| Published price per month | $59 per lawyer | $49 per user1 | $100 per user2 | $89 per user3 |
| Staff seats | Free | Paid per user4 | Paid per user5 | Paid per user6 |
| Intake and conflict checks | Included | Clio Grow add-on for Core and Signature, included in Elite, price not published. Conflict check on Core and above.7 | Intake forms on Pro and Advanced. Conflict check tracking on Advanced.8 | Intake forms on Business and Business Pro. No conflict check listed.9 |
| Trust accounting | Included, with three-way reconciliation | Included on every plan, with trust and operating reconciliation10 | Included. Three-way reconciliation with MyCase Accounting at $39 per user.11 | Trust ledger and reconciliation. Full trust accounting on Business Pro at $114.12 |
| Document templates | Included, Word templates | Templates on Core and above. Advanced document automation is a paid add-on.13 | Document generation on Pro. Advanced automation on Advanced.8 | Document templates on every plan14 |
| AI features | Off until an owner turns them on | Included on Core and above15 | 8am IQ assistants on Pro and Advanced16 | None listed on the pricing page17 |
We take every competitor figure from the vendor's published pricing page, on the date shown. Prices change, so check each vendor's current page before you decide.
- 1 https://www.clio.com/pricing/ (“Clio’s plans start at $49 USD per user per month”; plan comparison table), checked 2026-10-17
- 2 https://www.mycase.com/pricing/ (Pro, $100 annually or $120 monthly, USD per user per month), checked 2026-10-17
- 3 https://www.practicepanther.com/pricing/ (Business, $89 per user/month), checked 2026-10-17
- 4 https://www.clio.com/pricing/ (priced “per user per month”), checked 2026-10-17
- 5 https://www.mycase.com/pricing/ (priced per user; FAQ “How many people can use MyCase?”), checked 2026-10-17
- 6 https://www.practicepanther.com/pricing/ (priced “per user/month”), checked 2026-10-17
- 7 https://www.clio.com/pricing/ (add-ons; plan comparison table), checked 2026-10-17
- 8 https://www.mycase.com/pricing/ (plan features), checked 2026-10-17
- 9 https://www.practicepanther.com/pricing/ (plan features), checked 2026-10-17
- 10 https://www.clio.com/pricing/ (FAQ “Is accounting included in my plan?”), checked 2026-10-17
- 11 https://www.mycase.com/pricing/ (Basic features; MyCase Accounting), checked 2026-10-17
- 12 https://www.practicepanther.com/pricing/ (Accounting features; Business Pro), checked 2026-10-17
- 13 https://www.clio.com/pricing/ (plan comparison table; add-ons), checked 2026-10-17
- 14 https://www.practicepanther.com/pricing/ (Solo features), checked 2026-10-17
- 15 https://www.clio.com/pricing/ (FAQ “Is AI included in my plan?”), checked 2026-10-17
- 16 https://www.mycase.com/pricing/ (Legal AI comparison), checked 2026-10-17
- 17 https://www.practicepanther.com/pricing/ (plan comparison), checked 2026-10-17
Work out your monthly cost by firm size
These figures count staff, because Clio, MyCase and PracticePanther bill each paralegal or assistant as a user. Plainmatter adds nothing for staff.
| Firm | Plainmatter | Clio Starter | MyCase Pro | PracticePanther Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 lawyer, 1 staff | $59 / mo | $98 / mo | $200 / mo | $178 / mo |
| 3 lawyers, 2 staff | $177 / mo | $245 / mo | $500 / mo | $445 / mo |
| 5 lawyers, 3 staff | $295 / mo | $392 / mo | $800 / mo | $712 / mo |
Get answers about pricing and switching
Each owner or attorney in your firm uses one lawyer seat. Paralegals, legal assistants, bookkeepers and other staff join as staff members for free.
Yes. Export your contacts, matters and time entries to CSV from Clio or MyCase, upload the files to Plainmatter, and match each column to a Plainmatter field before you import.
The switching guide covers each step, including how to enter trust balances.
Plainmatter keeps a ledger for each client and matter, blocks any payment that would take a ledger below zero, and produces a printable three-way reconciliation report.
Your state bar sets how often you reconcile and which records you keep. Check your state's rules and reconcile on the schedule they require.
Yes. A firm owner can download one ZIP file at any time with every record as CSV, plus your original documents and templates.
After you cancel, you can still sign in and export for 90 days.
AI features stay off until a firm owner turns them on in settings. While they are off, Plainmatter sends none of your firm's data to an AI provider.
Add a card before day 30 to keep working in your firm. If you do not add one, we keep your data for 90 days so you can export it or subscribe later.
Cancel from your firm's billing settings at any time. We stop billing at the end of the month you have paid for, and you keep export access for 90 days.
We keep each firm's records separate, encrypt traffic between your browser and Plainmatter, and store data with managed providers that encrypt it at rest and back it up.
We do not hold a SOC 2 report yet. The security page lists what we do today.
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