Legal case management software prices: who publishes them, and what a seven-user firm pays a year

"LEAP legal software", "LEAP pricing", "Clio vs LEAP", "best case management software for solicitors": the software searches in this sector are about price and reviews, and the pricing pages mostly answer with a form. We read what was published on one day and worked it for one firm.

What this is, and is not. A desk check of each supplier's own pricing page as it stood on 1 October 2026. We did not trial any system or ask for a quote. LEAP's page gives no price, so the LEAP row carries a third-party figure and says so. Read the live pages before deciding.

The prices, as published

The example firm

Five fee earners (two partners, a licensed conveyancer, a probate executive, a trainee), two support staff who also need logins, so seven users; conveyancing, probate and some private client; moving from an on-premises system at the end of its contract.

The sums, where a price exists

For the seven users the published range is £4,032 (Hoowla, user licences only) to £11,760 (Osprey Premium in its first year). Osprey's 5% yearly rise puts the same seven licences at £12,348 in year two. Migration, implementation and training are extra everywhere and are the part of LEAP's own page that explains why it does not publish a figure. For a firm leaving an on-premises system, the migration quote is often the larger number in year one, and it is the one no supplier prints; ask for it in writing before comparing the subscriptions.

What the price does not tell you

Whether the system does legal accounts to the SRA Accounts Rules or needs a second product. Whether the conveyancing workflow carries searches, SDLT and Land Registry inside it or by integration. What the exit costs: data export in a usable form, and the notice period. And what the search is really about, which the review-site complaints make clear: logins, support response, and whether the firm can leave. None of that is on a pricing page, and a demo is where to ask.

Where Overlyft fits

Overlyft does not sell case management software, and an assistant it sets up needs one to read from. The four AI staff it sets up for a firm, the Matter Updater, Chaser, Probate Clerk and File Opener, work inside whichever system the firm runs, drafting the client updates, the chasers and the file-opening checks that the system stores but does not write, with a supervising solicitor reviewing each one. The comparison that matters to a partner is a paralegal's salary against the cost of setting up an assistant, and that is a different page. This one is about the software.