Lawhive vs DoNotPay vs Clio AI vs Filevine
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Lawhive
Fixed-fee UK legal work, AI-drafted, lawyer-signed
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DoNotPay
AI-driven consumer-protection chatbot
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Clio AI
AI-powered legal practice management — time tracking, billing, and cli...
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Filevine
Legal case management with AI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 4 / 10 | 6.6 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Subscription | Paid | Subscription |
| Free tier | — | Some free features; main platform $36/month | Free trial available | — |
| Paid from | — | $36/month | $49/month (EasyStart) | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 2m+ users | 150000+ legal professionals | — |
| Founded | 2020 | 2015 | 2008 | 2014 |
| Maker | — | Joshua Browder | Jack Newton, Rea Regan | — |
| Verdict | Lawhive is a regulated law firm built around an AI paralegal called Lawrence, not a piece of software you install. Case intake, document drafting and legal research run through Lawrence; a solicitor from its roughly 500-... |
DoNotPay popularised the "robot lawyer" idea — automating consumer tasks like contesting parking tickets, cancelling subscriptions, and drafting dispute letters. For simple, templated US consumer-admin chores it can save... |
Clio is the dominant cloud practice-management platform for small and mid-size firms, and it got much bigger in November 2025 by closing a $1 billion acquisition of vLex — bringing the Vincent AI research assistant and a... |
Filevine is a well-regarded legal case and matter management platform, mainly for US law firms, that has layered AI on top for document analysis, summarisation, intake and drafting assistance. For litigation-heavy and pe... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.