We build software for law firms. So we get asked about MyCase a lot.
Not "is MyCase good?" — for a solo or small firm, it is fine. The real question we get is: "what does this cost over the next few years if we keep going?"
That is harder to answer from MyCase's pricing page than it should be. The Advanced tier is $109 per user per month. That number is real. It is also not what a 15-attorney firm actually pays once you add accounting, payment processing, and the price increases that come every renewal.
Here is the full picture.
The tiers, and why mid-sized firms end up on Advanced
MyCase has three plans. Annual billing is required to hit the headline numbers. Monthly billing adds roughly 10% to each tier.
| Plan | Per user / month (annual) | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $39 | Case management, basic time tracking, client portal. No MyCase IQ. No Open API access. |
| Pro | $89 | Adds MyCase IQ (pre-configured AI prompts), advanced reporting, automations. Still no Open API access. |
| Advanced | $109 | Adds Open API access, custom roles and permissions, dedicated success manager. |
If you have 10 or more attorneys and any plan to integrate MyCase with anything else (a document management system, an intake form provider, an internal AI workflow, anything that talks to an API), you end up on Advanced. Pro looks attractive on the price comparison until you discover the integrations or automations you need require API access that Pro does not have.
15 attorneys on Advanced: $1,635/month. That is the starting point, not the total.
The add-ons that are not really optional
MyCase Accounting: $39/month flat
Trust accounting is included on every tier, which is a meaningful difference from Clio (where trust accounting requires a separate QuickBooks subscription). For full general-ledger accounting, however, you still need the MyCase Accounting add-on at $39 per month flat (not per user). For 15 attorneys, that is $468 per year — small relative to the rest, and almost universally added.
LawPay processing: 2.95% + $0.30 per transaction
If you take payments through MyCase, they go through LawPay (which AffiniPay, MyCase's parent, also owns). LawPay's published rate for legal practice is 2.95% plus $0.30 per transaction on credit card volume. On a $50,000-per-month collections practice, that runs about $1,500 per month, or $18,000 per year, in processing alone.
You can technically use a different payment processor and skip this line. Whether that stays practical over time is worth watching. In late 2024, MyCase migrated existing users to LawPay with limited notice and a fee restructure (covered extensively in legal-tech press at the time). The integration with non-AffiniPay processors is supported, but new feature investment has clearly concentrated in the LawPay path.
MyCase IQ: included, but capped
MyCase IQ is the AI feature bundled into Pro and Advanced. There is no separate IQ subscription, which sounds like a deal until you read the reviews. Per Lawyerist: "MyCase IQ supports only pre-configured prompts customized to specific tasks, which reduces the likelihood of inaccurate responses and AI hallucinations." Translation: the AI is curated by MyCase. You cannot ask it open-ended questions about your matters, run multi-step workflows, or combine MyCase data with other tools in the same session.
Firms that want actual general-purpose AI on their MyCase data are doing one of two things. Either they pair Advanced (for the Open API) with an open-source MCP connector and use Claude directly — see our MyCase MCP server — or they pay a separate AI vendor for case-aware tooling. The second route adds another $30-60 per user per month. The first is free.
Docketwise (immigration practice add-on): $69-$79/user/month
If your firm has an immigration practice, MyCase's Docketwise add-on is $79 per user per month on monthly billing or $69 with annual. For a 4-attorney immigration team inside a larger firm, that is another $3,300+ per year on top of the base subscription.
The actual 3-year number
At flat pricing, no payment processing:
| Cost item | Monthly | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyCase Advanced (15 users) | $1,635 | $19,620 | $19,620 | $19,620 |
| Accounting add-on | $39 | $468 | $468 | $468 |
| Total | $1,674 | $20,088 | $20,088 | $20,088 |
3-year total at flat pricing, no processing: $60,264. Add LawPay processing on a $50K-per-month collections practice and that climbs to $114,264.
Now factor in price increases. AffiniPay (MyCase's parent) raised $250M+ at a multi-billion-dollar valuation. That valuation gets serviced through existing customer revenue: tier creep (more features pushed behind Advanced), more add-ons, and processing margin. MyCase's 2024 to 2026 pricing trajectory has been steadily upward. Assuming a modest 7% annual increase on the base subscription:
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription | $1,674 | $1,791 | $1,917 |
| Annual cost | $20,088 | $21,492 | $23,004 |
3-year total with modest annual increases, no processing: $64,584. With LawPay processing on $50K/month and increases: somewhere between $115K and $130K.
What you own when year three ends
Your data exports, mostly. The case-level information comes out as CSV. Documents come out as a bulk download. Accounting comes out as standard ledger reports. That part is reasonable.
What does not come out: the workflows, the automation rules, the IQ-trained behaviors, the document-template logic, the role-and-permission structure your office manager spent two months tuning. Leave MyCase and the workflow layer is rebuilt from scratch on whatever comes next.
A few things worth knowing before signing a multi-year:
- Annual billing requires up-front payment for the year. Mid-year cancellation does not refund.
- The LawPay migration in late 2024 happened with limited notice. Firms that had been on alternate processors received tier-restructure notifications and effectively had to re-evaluate. Whatever pricing you sign today is not necessarily the pricing your firm operates under in three years.
- The Open API access that justifies the Advanced tier is gated behind a manual support request and an OAuth registration process. There is no self-serve developer portal as of May 2026.
Is it worth it?
MyCase is good software. It is materially cheaper than Clio at the same firm size, the trust-accounting-included story is real, and for solo and small firms it handles the core workflow without much friction.
The economics shift at 15 attorneys with real collections volume and a 5-year view. At that scale, you are paying per seat indefinitely for a workflow layer you cannot port, with pricing that increases on AffiniPay's schedule, and with payment processing pulling another $54K out of the firm over three years.
We have built custom case management platforms for firms in this situation. A purpose-built system for a 15-attorney firm typically costs in the $44,000 to $80,000 range, paid once. No per-seat licensing. Trust accounting and general ledger as core architecture, not an add-on. Full data and workflow ownership. Break-even against MyCase Advanced (with processing): roughly 14 to 18 months. By year three, the firm owns something durable and has spent meaningfully less than the MyCase path.
That math is not the right answer for every firm. But if you are signing a 3-year implicit commitment to MyCase's cost structure and processing pipeline, the comparison is worth running on your specific numbers.
If you want to keep MyCase but want full Claude (not the IQ-curated subset) on top of it — without paying a separate AI vendor — that is what our open-source MyCase MCP connector is for. Claude reads matters, contacts, documents, and calendar from the MyCase API, every interaction is audit-logged for ABA Opinion 512, and the only marginal cost is your existing Anthropic subscription.
The TCO math we run is free. Book a call and we will walk through it on your numbers. No pitch, just the breakdown.
Sources: MyCase pricing page, MyCase Advanced Tier help center article, Lawyerist review of MyCase IQ, LawPay published rates for legal practice, Capterra and G2 user reviews, ABA Formal Opinion 512 (July 2024), public AffiniPay funding announcements.