Manage AI vs Litify: 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.

Litify was founded in 2016 by John Morgan, of the personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan, and Reuven Moskowitz, and Morgan & Morgan became one of its largest customers after migrating millions of client and case files. Bessemer Venture Partners took a majority stake in 2023. Litify says it serves more than 45,000 legal professionals, including Salesforce itself, plaintiff and defense firms, in-house legal teams, government agencies and nonprofits. Because it runs on Salesforce, firms get Salesforce's security, mobile apps, reporting and integrations, and can extend Litify with other Salesforce apps. In March 2026 Litify rebranded its product as an AI-native Platform of Action.

Litify covers the full case lifecycle. Intake tools capture leads, qualify them and send retainers for e-signature. Matter management tracks parties, deadlines, tasks, notes, emails and files, with configurable workflows for each practice area. Document management and generation, timekeeping, billing and eBilling, and real-time reports and dashboards are included, all configured in a no-code environment. For corporate legal departments, Litify offers enterprise legal management with matter intake, outside counsel spend control and eBilling. Litify says its platform runs on Salesforce and AWS, with Anthropic as its closed AI model provider. Implementation is a project, often with partners, rather than a self-serve signup.

Litify's strengths are its Salesforce foundation, end-to-end coverage from intake to billing, a growing library of native AI agents, strong personal injury features and support for corporate legal departments. Its weaknesses are a high starting price, implementation effort, dependence on Salesforce skills for deep customization and limited public pricing. Filevine offers similar configurable case management with LOIS AI and deposition tools. Clio suits smaller firms wanting simpler setup. EvenUp and Supio focus on AI for injury demands and case analysis. Eve targets plaintiff firms with AI-native workflows. Choose Litify if your firm wants a Salesforce-based platform with AI agents across every case.