Clio Pricing: One Published Price, Three Quotes
Clio publishes one price: Clio Manage Starter, starting at $49 per user per month. The three tiers above it, Core, Signature, and Elite, all carry a “Get pricing” button instead of a number, and Clio Work, the legal AI product, has no published price at all.
That is the honest answer to “how much does Clio cost,” and it is a more recent answer than most comparison articles give. Check the plan names against what you are reading elsewhere before you trust a price.
The current Clio Manage lineup
| Plan | Published price |
|---|---|
| Starter | From $49/user/month |
| Core | Quote |
| Signature | Quote |
| Elite | Quote, includes Clio Grow |
Older guides describe a differently named four-tier lineup with published prices for every tier. Clio’s own pricing page today lists Starter, Core, Signature, and Elite, with a price on the first one only. A live vendor page beats a search summary every time, and this is a case where a lot of secondhand pricing is out of date.
Starter
From $49 per user per month, billed through a free trial signup rather than a sales call. Contact, matter and document management in one system, unlimited document storage, calendaring, task management, time and expense tracking from anywhere, the mobile app, a firm dashboard, and client payments by card, eCheck, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Legal accounting is built in, so trust and operating accounts reconcile without separate bookkeeping software.
What Starter does not include, per Clio’s own comparison table: custom fields, matter stages, and custom roles and permissions. A firm where different people should see different matters is not on Starter.
Core
Quote only. Everything in Starter plus the AI layer: billing parameters set once so bills draft on schedule, documents turned into calendar events and tasks confirmed against the source, client updates drafted from real case activity, and a secure client portal for messaging, payment and matter tracking. Core adds custom fields and two custom roles.
Signature
Quote only, and marked Popular. Everything in Core plus unlimited custom roles and permissions, matter stages on a kanban board, AI-built reports on profitability and productivity scheduled to your inbox, multi-currency billing, and split bills across payers.
The unlimited-roles line is the practical reason firms move here. Two custom roles covers a partner and an associate, and stops covering a firm the moment paralegals, billing staff and contract attorneys need different views.
Elite
Quote only, marked as saving over 17%. Signature’s practice management bundled with Clio Grow, the client acquisition suite: lead capture with Grow AI, consultation booking with online forms and scheduling, automated review requests, and referral and ad spend tracking.
The 17% is a bundle discount against buying Signature and Grow separately, which tells you Grow is otherwise an add-on.
The add-ons
Clio Grow is included in Elite and available as an add-on to the tiers below it. Clio for Personal Injury handles medical records, damages and settlements with HIPAA compliance included, and is sold separately. Advanced document automation is a third add-on. None of the three carries a published price.
Clio Work, the legal AI product that reads matters, researches over a billion legal documents through Clio’s citator, tracks dockets, and drafts summaries and arguments, has its own pricing page with no prices on it.
Grow AI is billed per outcome, not per seat
Clio launched Grow AI on August 20, 2026, and it is the one part of the lineup that does not follow the per-user model the rest of the page runs on.
Grow AI puts intake agents on a firm’s phone line, inbox and website chat around the clock. An inbound call, email or chat gets an immediate response: the agent answers common questions, captures contact and case details, checks the lead against the firm’s own scoring and conflict rules, and books qualified prospects into a consultation. Phone agents are US-only at launch, with more regions planned.
The billing is the interesting part. Clio charges when Grow AI actually converts a lead, such as capturing a client through the voice agent or reviving a prospect who had gone quiet and later signs. Inquiries that do not convert are not charged, and firms set a monthly spending target.
Two things to weigh before reading that as cheap. It sits inside Clio Grow, which means the Elite bundle or an add-on with no published price, so the entry cost is still a sales conversation. And per-conversion pricing scales with your success rather than your headcount, which is the right shape when intake is genuinely broken and an expensive one once it is working.
What the pricing page glosses over
Three of four tiers require a sales conversation. “From $49” is a floor on the cheapest plan, which means the number most firms actually pay is not published anywhere.
“From” is doing work in that $49. Clio does not publish what moves Starter above its starting price, and the pricing page carries a separate “Large firm? Get your custom quote” path, so headcount is clearly a factor.
Permissions are the upgrade trigger, not features. Custom roles go from none to two to unlimited across Starter, Core and Signature. For most firms, the reason to leave a tier is that somebody should not be able to see something.
The free trial is real and self-serve on the lower tiers. Starter and Core both offer “Try for free” alongside “Get pricing,” so you can evaluate before the pricing conversation rather than after it.
Is Clio free?
No. Clio has a free trial, and no free plan. Data migration, training, and 24/5 support are included with a subscription rather than sold separately, which is a genuine part of the value at these prices.
When Clio isn’t worth it
Clio is the default legal practice management system for a reason. Trust accounting that satisfies compliance, matter-centric documents, and billing that survives an audit are not things a general purpose tool does, and a firm that bills hours needs all three.
Where the price stops matching the job is the solo or two-attorney practice that is really struggling with intake and the calendar. Consultations that never get booked, client emails that sit for two days, follow-ups on a matter that stalled. Those are scheduling and inbox problems, and on the Clio ladder they are answered by moving up to a quoted tier and adding Grow.
Grow AI is Clio’s answer to exactly that, and for a firm already on Elite it is a reasonable one. The cost of the answer is the thing to look at: you reach it through a quoted tier or an unpriced add-on, and then you pay again each time it converts someone.
Carly is priced for the same bottleneck without either gate. Booking pages and connected calendars are unlimited, intake follow-ups and reminders are Zapier-style workflow steps that are free rather than bundled into a higher tier, and the assistant that reads the inbox, replies, and books the consultation starts at $35 a month rather than per user or per signed client. Carly connects to thousands of apps, Clio included, so the matters and the trust ledger stay exactly where they belong.
FAQ
How much does Grow AI cost? Clio has not published a rate. Grow AI is billed per outcome rather than per seat, so a firm pays when it converts a lead and not for inquiries that go nowhere, with a monthly spending target the firm sets. It sits inside Clio Grow, which is bundled into Elite or sold as an add-on, and neither carries a published price.
How much does Clio cost per user? Clio Manage Starter starts at $49 per user per month. Core, Signature and Elite are quoted individually and have no published price.
What are Clio’s plans called now? Clio Manage is sold as Starter, Core, Signature, and Elite. Comparison articles listing a different four-tier lineup are describing an older version of the pricing page.
Does Clio have a free plan? No, only a free trial. Data migration, training and 24/5 support are included with a paid subscription.
What is the difference between Starter and Core? Core adds the AI features, scheduled bill drafting, document-to-calendar conversion, drafted client updates, a client portal, custom fields, and two custom roles.
Does Clio Work have a price? Not a published one. Clio Work has its own pricing page with a demo request rather than a number.
What is included in Elite? Signature plus Clio Grow, Clio’s client acquisition suite, at a bundle saving Clio describes as over 17%.
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