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Best CARET Legal alternatives (2026)
8 alternatives to CARET Legal in legal practice management, ranked by entry price. CARET Legal starts at $79/user/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheaper than CARET Legal: Clio, CosmoLex, PracticePanther, Rocket Matter, MyCase.
- Closest by price: Clio ($49/user/mo), CosmoLex ($59/user/mo), PracticePanther ($59/user/mo).
CARET Legal alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clio STALE · 2026-09-02 | $49/user/mo | No | Yes | solo attorneys | clio.com |
| 2 | CosmoLex | $59/user/mo | No | — | small to mid-size law firms | cosmolex.com |
| 3 | PracticePanther | $59/user/mo | No | Yes | solo attorneys | practicepanther.com |
| 4 | Rocket Matter | $59/user/mo | No | — | growing law firms | rocketmatter.com |
| 5 | MyCase | $60/user/mo | No | — | solo and small law firms | mycase.com |
| 6 | Centerbase STALE · 2026-09-02 | quote-only | No | — | mid-size to large law firms | centerbase.com |
| 7 | Filevine | not priced monthly | No | Yes | plaintiff litigation firms | filevine.com |
| 8 | Smokeball STALE · 2026-09-27 | not priced monthly | No | — | small to mid-size US law firms | smokeball.com |
Data current through 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 3 of 8 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Legal Practice Management index.