How much does Filevine cost? Pricing explained (2026)

Search “how much does Filevine cost” and you will find numbers. Forty-nine dollars a user. Eighty-seven. Fifty to seventy-five for a base tier. They read as authoritative, they contradict each other, and almost none of them cite anything. One of the most-quoted pages lists its author as “admin” and discloses that its answers are produced with AI tools.

So let’s be straight with you. Filevine pricing is quote-based, and Filevine publishes no price list for its platform. Its pricing page names five packages (LOIS, Matters, Intake, Depositions, and Signatures) and attaches a dollar figure to exactly none of them. The page states it plainly: “All packages are custom built for your team’s needs.”

Every major review platform reports the same wall. Capterra lists the pricing model as “Other.” TrustRadius says Filevine “does not currently have any pricing plans listed at this time.” Software Advice offers “pricing available upon request.” When four independent listing sites all decline to publish a number, that tells you something real about how the product is sold.

The $49 number, and what it actually means

One figure shows up in nearly every article on this topic, and nearly all of them get the scope wrong.

That figure is $49 per user per month, and it comes from Filevine’s free trial. Start the 14-day trial and, unless you cancel first, it converts into a paid month-to-month subscription at that rate. Here’s the part the other articles skip: the trial path is self-serve, and it does not include any implementation or customization. It’s the configure-it-yourself rate, not the number a firm receives at the end of a sales conversation. Treating the two as the same is the single most common mistake made about Filevine pricing.

Worth knowing before you start a trial: a credit card is required, and there is no free tier.

What actually drives your quote

Your seat price is the beginning of the calculation, not the end. Filevine bills the base platform per user, per month, but the pieces stacked on top follow their own rules, and that’s where quotes diverge between two firms of identical size.

Modules bill separately, and not all of them bill per seat. Filevine’s Product Specifications, last updated July 15, 2026, spell out at least four different billing units in use at once:

Per user, per month: the base Filevine platform, Filevine Immigration, LOIS Legal Research.
Per Project: LOIS Assistant, LOIS Advanced, LOIS Expert, LOIS Contracts, LOIS Government. Each carries “a contracted minimum number of Projects per billing year,” and those minimums are use-it-or-lose-it, with “no roll over or carry forward.”
Per integration: Filevine Enterprise Automation.
Per phone number: Lead Docket Text Line, at $20.00 per month, which includes 1,000 texts and 300 voice minutes, then $0.02 per text and $0.05 per minute beyond that.

That per-Project detail deserves a second read if AI is part of why you’re buying. It means part of your bill scales with your caseload rather than your headcount, and an annual minimum you don’t consume is money you don’t get back.

The AI allowance is smaller than most firms expect. The same specification document defines metered AI use as “three (3) chats per user per month, unless otherwise provided in an applicable Sales Order,” after which “access will be temporarily restricted until the next usage period begins.” Three chats. If your team’s plan is to lean on AI daily, that lives in a Sales Order amendment, and it is not part of the base number you were quoted.

The contract shape is part of the price. Filevine’s publicly posted Subscription Agreement describes subscriptions that auto-renew in one-year terms unless you give notice, with fees paid in advance treated as non-refundable. Plans are also sized to the seats and modules you commit to rather than what you end up using. Buying ahead of where your firm actually is becomes a cost you carry.

None of that is unusual for enterprise software. All of it is worth pricing in before you sign, because the cost of over-buying seats in month two is that you carry them to month twelve.

The line item that outweighs the seat price

Here’s the part firms underestimate. Implementation, configuration, and data migration are separate one-time costs, and on a platform as configurable as Filevine they are not a rounding error.

Drew Cannon, a consultant who works with law firms on digital systems and was brought into a firm struggling with its implementation, put the arithmetic bluntly in May 2025: “When all the add-ons, templates, and migration fees are added up, they can total as much or more than the user licenses.”

Migration alone is its own market. Vineskills, an independent Filevine migration partner whose team includes former Filevine engineers, publishes rates running from $1,250 for a spreadsheet import to $10,000 for a complete migration up to 50 users, and $25,000 or more above 100. Those are a third party’s fees, not Filevine’s. The fact that a specialist migration industry exists around the product is the point.

If you take one thing from this section: when you compare Filevine against another platform, compare year-one totals, not seat prices. They are different questions with different answers.

So is Filevine expensive?

Reviewers say: somewhat, and they say it more about value than about the sticker.

On Capterra, Filevine holds a 4.4 out of 5 across 286 reviews as of July 2026. Break that into sub-scores and Value for Money is the lowest of the four, at 4.2. Not a damning number. It sits below the same reviewers’ scores for ease of use (4.4), features (4.4), and customer service (4.3), which suggests price is the thing they’re most likely to grumble about even when they like the software.

Context matters here, and it cuts against Filevine’s transparency rather than its quality. CASEpeer publishes its rates openly at $79, $119, and $149 per user per month, and states “no long-term contract or setup fee required.” Clio publishes a “starting at $49/user” entry tier but has moved its higher tiers behind “Get Pricing.” CloudLex, like Filevine, publishes nothing. So Filevine isn’t an outlier in the market. It sits on the opaque end of a market that has both.

The honest read: Filevine is priced like a platform you configure, not a tool you switch on, and firms that use a lot of it tend to feel fine about the bill. Firms that bought a lot and turned on a little are the ones writing the value-for-money reviews.

Getting more out of the seats you already pay for

Which points at the real lever. For most firms already on Filevine, the fastest financial win isn’t renegotiating the contract. It’s raising how much of the platform actually gets used, because you’re paying per seat whether or not that seat’s work is visible to anyone.

That’s the gap Legalware fills. It sits on top of the Filevine you already pay for and turns it into one visual board of every case by phase, with overdue flags up front, a firm-wide deadline calendar, and pre-built analytics across matters, tasks, time, and billing, with no migration and no new system to learn. If you’re about to renew and want to know what you’re actually getting for the spend, book a demo and see it running on your own cases.

Filevine pricing FAQ

Does Filevine publish its pricing? No. Filevine’s pricing page names its packages but lists no dollar figures, stating that “all packages are custom built for your team’s needs” and directing you to contact sales for a custom quote. Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice, and TrustRadius all report the same absence of published pricing.

Is Filevine $49 per user per month? Only on one specific path. The $49 per user per month figure is Filevine’s free-trial conversion rate: what the 14-day trial rolls into, month to month, if you don’t cancel. It’s self-serve and excludes implementation and customization. A negotiated firm quote is a separate conversation and a different number.

Does Filevine offer a free trial? Yes. Filevine offers a 14-day free trial that converts automatically into a paid subscription unless you cancel beforehand. A credit card is required, and there is no free version of the product.

Is Filevine’s AI included in the price? Partly. Filevine’s Product Specifications meter AI features at three chats per user per month by default, after which access is temporarily restricted until the next period. The LOIS products bill per Project, with contracted annual minimums that do not roll over.

How long is a Filevine contract? Filevine’s published Subscription Agreement describes automatic one-year renewals with 30 days’ notice to opt out, but the initial term is set in your individual Sales Order, which isn’t public. The free-trial path is month to month. Expect term length to be part of what you negotiate.

Before you sign, or renew

The uncomfortable truth about Filevine pricing is that the internet cannot tell you what you’ll pay, and the confident articles claiming otherwise are guessing. What the public record does tell you is where the money goes: seats first, then modules on their own meters, then a one-time implementation bill that can rival a year of licenses.

Ask for the year-one total in writing. Ask which modules are in the base and which have their own minimums. And if you’re already on Filevine and can’t answer what you’re getting for it, that’s a visibility problem before it’s a pricing one. Book a demo and we’ll show you the answer on your own data.