A MyCase alternative for small law firms

People who look for a MyCase alternative have often done the sums already, because MyCase lists its prices in full. The question is usually which plan their firm actually needs. Many of the tools a small practice leans on, such as intake forms and e-signature, start on Pro, and split billing waits for Advanced. This page lays out what MyCase’s own pricing page says, then puts Coil next to it, including what Coil has not finished.

MyCase at a glance

Everything here is from MyCase’s pricing page, as listed on October 28, 2026. Prices are per user per month in US dollars.

• Billing terms. The page says annual billing saves up to 16% and is paid up front. Monthly plans are month to month. Your rate depends on the number of active firm users.
• Trial. Ten days, full access, no credit card.
• Basic. Case and contact management, calendaring, tasks, time and expenses, invoices, trust ledger and reconciliation, trust balances by case, multiple bank accounts, LawPay online payments, basic financial reports, customizable reporting and unlimited document storage. The client portal is marked limited on Basic.
• Pro adds. Unlimited e-signature, document generation, automated workflows, client intake forms, the legal CRM, two-way texting, chat and a call log, custom fields, court rules calendaring (a separate subscription is required), batch billing and payment plans, LEDES billing, integrations including QuickBooks, the iOS app, and the 8am IQ writing and document assistants.
• Advanced adds. Split billing, rate plans, a work in progress report, advanced document automation, a desktop drive, full content search, an open API, and the 8am IQ case and discovery assistants. The discovery assistant covers 5,000 pages per user per month, with 5,000 more for the firm at $30.
• Add-ons. MyCase Accounting at $39 per user per month on Pro and Advanced. LawPay Payments has no monthly fee; the page does not list processing rates.
• Every plan. The 8am MyCase MCP connector, for searching MyCase data from Claude.

Coil at a glance

Coil is hosted practice management for solo and small US firms. It is in beta.

• Price. Free during the beta, no card required. Beta firms keep founding pricing when paid plans start. There is no paid price yet. Coil’s stated rule is one price for every tool, with no seats, tiers or add-ons.
• Available now. Trust accounting with client and matter ledgers and three-way reconciliation. Intake with lead scoring, follow-up sequences and a conflict check that conversion cannot skip. E-signature. A client portal in English and Spanish. Time and expenses with UTBMS codes. Documents with versions and text search. Calendar with deadline chains and iCal feeds. Reports. Exports including QuickBooks layouts and LEDES 1998B. Personal injury and criminal defense modules. Discovery and deposition tools. An API and MCP connection for the AI assistant you choose.
• Next phase, not available yet. Invoicing, online payments, payment plans, multi-currency matters, and Coil’s built-in AI assistant.
• Not built yet. Mobile apps, live QuickBooks sync, e-filing, and court rules for real jurisdictions. Today’s rule sets are generic starters.

MyCase and Coil side by side

MyCase facts as listed on MyCase’s pricing page on October 28, 2026. Coil facts from the Coil features page.

Where MyCase may suit you better

If you bill clients and take card payments through your practice software today, MyCase does both on every plan, and Coil’s invoicing and payments are not out of testing. MyCase also has an iOS app from Pro, two-way texting built in, court rules through a subscription, and accounting as an add-on if you want your books inside the same product. Its AI assistants, including discovery OCR on Advanced, are part of the plan rather than a key you bring.

Where Coil may suit you better

The tools that sit on MyCase Pro, intake, the CRM, e-signature and the full client portal, are in Coil now with no tier to reach. For a firm of three that would otherwise choose Pro, MyCase lists $300 a month billed annually, or $360 billed monthly. Coil is free during the beta, and beta firms keep founding pricing afterwards.

Coil’s trust ledger refuses any disbursement that would take a client below zero on every route, including the API, and no AI connection can reach trust. Coil’s personal injury module (providers, liens, demand packages, a settlement worksheet that posts to trust) and its criminal defense module are included rather than sold separately. And an AI assistant connected by MCP can be held to the scopes you set, with a mode that hides client names.

Switching from MyCase

Coil’s importer was built for MyCase and Clio exports. It takes contacts, matters, time and expenses, bills with balances, the trust ledger in date order, tasks, calendar entries and documents by matter folder from a ZIP. You preview and map each file, rows that would overdraw trust are refused and listed, and a second run updates records instead of making duplicates.

Since Coil’s invoicing is still in testing, bring your matters and trust records across during the free beta and keep billing in MyCase until invoicing is available. Your Coil data can leave at any time in the full firm export, which opens without Coil.

Try Coil with your own files while the beta is free, and keep the part that works for you.

Last checked October 28, 2026. Product names belong to their owners. MyCase is not affiliated with Coil. Details about it come from its public pages on the date above and may have changed since.