Manage AI vs Filevine: pricing, features and which to choose

Manage AI is Clio's generative AI feature set inside Clio Manage, the company's cloud-based legal practice-management platform. Clio introduced the predecessor, Clio Duo, in October 2023 and said it would become available in 2024. Clio says its platform is used by more than 400,000 legal professionals, while the 2023 announcement cited more than 150,000. The current product combines matter, contact, document, calendar, time, expense, billing, and client-communication records in one workspace. That positioning makes Manage AI an operational assistant rather than a standalone legal chatbot. It is aimed at firms that already organize their work in Clio, because its useful context comes from records held in Clio Manage. Clio's current pages use Manage AI, while older coverage may use Clio Duo.

Manage AI handles routine actions tied to a firm's existing records. Its AI launchpad can schedule events from documents, automate bills, analyze documents, answer questions about matters and firm operations, create time entries, expenses, tasks, and events, summarize recent matter activity, and assist with emails and other documents. Matter action cards can propose document review, client communications, bills ready for approval, and calendar events. The Catch up widget summarizes recent activity without requiring users to open each matter section. A typical workflow is review, approval, and then filing, sending, or billing. Clio's product pages describe court-document date extraction, draft invoices, and client updates. The workflow reduces manual entry, but the lawyer or staff member remains responsible for checking output before it reaches a client or court.

Manage AI's main constraint is its dependence on Clio's records and workflow. It is less suitable for firms seeking a specialist contract-review tool, a standalone legal research database, or local deployment. Compared with Kira, whose job overlap is contract analysis and provision extraction, Manage AI focuses on practice operations. Compared with Harvey, the overlap is generative legal assistance, but Manage AI is tied more closely to matter administration, billing, and deadlines. Compared with Spellbook, the overlap is drafting support, while Spellbook's job is centered on Microsoft Word. Clio Work is the closer in-company alternative for cited research and matter-based legal drafting. Pick Manage AI if your firm already uses Clio Manage and wants reviewable automation around daily matter operations.

Filevine was founded in 2014 in Salt Lake City by Ryan Anderson, its CEO, and grew from a personal injury case management tool into a broad legal platform. It says nearly 6,000 customers and 100,000 legal professionals use it, from boutique firms to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, and that users upload more than 20 million pages of documents a day. In September 2025 Filevine announced $400 million in equity funding over two rounds led by Insight Partners, Accel and Halo Fund, which Law.com reported put its valuation at about $3 billion. Its core customers remain plaintiff litigation firms, though it also sells contract management and products for in-house and public sector teams.

Filevine's case management centralizes everything about a matter: contacts, documents, emails, text messages, phone logs, deadlines, calendars, tasks, notes, intake forms and audit logs. Firms configure custom project templates, fields and workflows for each practice area, and automations move cases between phases. Other modules cover lead intake, document assembly, e-signature, timekeeping and billing, client texting, reporting dashboards and contract lifecycle management. Implementation is handled by Filevine and certified partners. The platform runs on AWS and offers APIs and integrations with Microsoft 365, Google, accounting tools and others. Its depth of configuration suits firms with established processes but means setup takes real work.

Filevine's strengths are deep, configurable case management, AI that works with the full context of each matter, strong deposition tools, medical chronologies for injury firms and heavy investment in product. Its weaknesses are opaque pricing, AI billed separately by project, a configuration-heavy setup and a feature set that can be more than small firms need. Litify offers a similar Salesforce-based platform with native AI agents. Clio is simpler and better known among small firms. EvenUp and Supio focus on AI for personal injury demands and case analysis. CaseMark sells AI deposition summaries per file. Choose Filevine if you want case management and legal AI in one system.