Filevine
Plane
| Feature | Filevine | Plane |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Contact sales | Free / from $7/mo |
| Free Plan | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| Rating | 4.3 / 5 | 4.2 / 5 |
| Best For | plaintiff-firms, insurance-defense, personal-injury, litigation-teams | developers, open-source-advocates, startups, engineering-teams |
| Founded | 2014 | 2022 |
| Case Management | ✓ | ✗ |
| Document Automation | ✓ | ✗ |
| Ai Contracts | ✓ | ✗ |
| Task Management | ✓ | ✗ |
| Reporting | ✓ | ✗ |
| Client Portal | ✓ | ✗ |
| Cycles | ✗ | ✓ |
| Modules | ✗ | ✓ |
| Views | ✗ | ✓ |
| Pages | ✗ | ✓ |
| Self Hostable | ✗ | ✓ |
| Analytics | ✗ | ✓ |
✓ Filevine Pros
- Excellent for litigation firms
- Good document automation
- AI contract tools
- Strong task management
✗ Filevine Cons
- Not ideal for transactional practice
- Pricing not transparent
- Implementation timeline long
✓ Plane Pros
- Open source and self-hostable
- Modern clean interface
- Jira-like power without complexity
- Active community
✗ Plane Cons
- Relatively new
- Smaller integration ecosystem
- Documentation still maturing
The Verdict
Filevine is built for plaintiff firms and insurance defense, with a focus on case-management and document-automation. Plane targets developers and open source advocates and leads with cycles and modules.
Filevine uses custom enterprise pricing, while Plane starts at $7/mo — a tangible advantage for teams with a fixed budget.
Plane has a free plan, which gives it a meaningful edge for individuals and small teams exploring their options. Filevine requires a paid subscription from day one.
This is a genuinely close comparison. If you can, sign up for both free trials (where available) and run a one-week test with your actual team tasks before deciding.