Clio / clio.com
AI-powered legal practice management platform providing matter management, time tracking, billing, document management, and Clio Duo AI assistant for law firms of all sizes.
Pricing
$39/mo
Free plan
Yes
Category
Developer Tools
Platforms
3
Free plan
Yes
API access
Yes
Open source
No
Platforms
3
Clio is the most widely adopted cloud legal practice management platform — used by 150,000+ legal professionals to manage matters, track time, handle billing, manage documents, and run the business of their law practices. Clio Duo is Clio's AI assistant — providing AI document drafting, matter summarisation, research assistance, and AI-powered billing description generation from time entries. Clio Duo reduces the administrative overhead that pulls attorney time from billable work. Time Tracking is a core Clio capability — manual and automatic time capture from calls, emails, and documents, with AI billing description suggestions that make it faster to describe billable activities for billing narratives. Clio Draft provides AI document generation — creating first drafts of common legal documents (engagement letters, demand letters, motions) from templates and matter context. Clio Manage is the core matter management platform providing client management, matter files, task management, and collaboration. Clio Payments provides integrated legal payments processing. 150,000+ legal professionals across 130 countries validate Clio as the most widely deployed legal practice management platform.
Clio AI runs as llm assistant software built around text and document workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on web, ios, and android, with API access for teams that want to embed it into their own products.
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating Clio AI.
AI assistant for document drafting, matter summaries, and billing description generation — reducing attorney administrative overhead and increasing time available for billable client work.
Automatic and manual time capture from calls, emails, and documents with AI billing descriptions — streamlining the billable time capture process for law firm billing accuracy.
AI document generation creating first drafts of common legal documents from templates and matter context — accelerating document creation for engagement letters, demand letters, and standard motions.
Starter $39/user/month. Boutique $69/user/month. Elite $109/user/month. Enterprise custom.
Model
Freemium
Starting price
$39/mo
Free trial
No
MyCase provides legal practice management. PracticePanther provides cloud legal software. Smokeball provides legal PM with productivity tracking. iManage provides document management for large firms. NetDocuments provides legal document management.
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Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
OpenAI, Clio
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android
Deployment
SaaS
Integrations
QuickBooks, Xero, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, API
Team Collaboration
Yes
Launch Year
2023
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. Trust accounting compliance. Enterprise data handling agreements.
Legal matter, client, and document data processed on Clio cloud under applicable legal and attorney-client privilege considerations.
Editorial Verdict
Clio is the best AI legal practice management platform for law firms of all sizes wanting matter management, time tracking, billing, and AI assistance through Clio Duo in a widely validated cloud platform.
Last verified July 24, 2026.
Starter $39/user/month. Boutique $69/user/month. Elite $109/user/month. Enterprise custom.
EasyStart $49/user/month. Essentials $69/user/month. Advanced $99/user/month. Complete $129/user/month. 7-day free trial.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. Trust accounting compliance. Enterprise data handling agreements.
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001. GDPR compliant. Attorney-client privilege in data handling. Enterprise includes data handling agreements.
Legal matter, client, and document data processed on Clio cloud under applicable legal and attorney-client privilege considerations.
Clio processes case and client data under its legal data security standards. Attorney-client privilege provisions in enterprise data handling agreements.
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