Yes. 8am IQ includes a writing and document assistant on Pro, and a case assistant and an OCR discovery assistant on Advanced. PI chronologies and demands come through a third-party integration.

Does PlaintiffStack have trust accounting like MyCase?

No. PlaintiffStack builds the settlement statement and tracks liens and costs; trust deposits and disbursements stay in your accounting system.

Can MyCase read scanned records?

The Advanced plan's Discovery Assistant runs OCR, with 5,000 pages per user per month. PlaintiffStack reads searchable PDFs, Word and text files, but not scans or faxes yet.

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Case managementReviewed October 21, 2026

PlaintiffStack vs MyCase

Q: How much does MyCase cost?

Basic is $50, Pro $100 and Advanced $130 per user per month billed annually, or $60, $120 and $150 billed monthly. PlaintiffStack is $250 per case with every app included, plus AI usage billed separately.

PlaintiffStack vs 8am MyCase: general practice management from $50 per user with trust accounting and 8am IQ, or one California plaintiff record.

The short answer

8am MyCase is a well-priced general practice system with published plans, trust accounting, payments, texting and an AI assistant that includes OCR on its top plan. It suits small firms that need billing and trust as much as case work. PlaintiffStack is built for California plaintiff volume work, with PI, comp and employment case tools on one record, but without trust accounting or OCR.

General practice management with published prices, billing, trust accounting and built-in AI

MyCase

Small and mid-size firms across practice areas, including personal injury

Owner: 8am (formerly AffiniPay), which also makes CasePeer, LawPay and Docketwise
Pricing: Basic $50, Pro $100, Advanced $130 per user per month billed annually ($60, $120, $150 monthly)
AI: 8am IQ: writing and document assistant (Pro); case assistant and discovery assistant with OCR (Advanced)
Trial: Free trial, no credit card required
Security: SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS attestations on 8am's trust center

Case management and AI on one record

PlaintiffStack

High-volume plaintiff firms in California: personal injury, workers' comp and employment

Price: $250 per case, every app included, no monthly fee. AI usage is billed separately, with an estimate shown before each run.
Practices: PI, workers' comp and employment, on California rules
Security: A BAA with every firm; one US AWS account, models included. SOC 2 in progress

Side by side

PlaintiffStack and MyCase compared
What	MyCase	PlaintiffStack
What it is	General practice management: cases, contacts, documents, time, billing, trust accounting and payments, with 8am IQ AI.	Case management and AI on one record: intake, case work, records, drafting, the client portal and automation.
Built for	Small and mid-size firms of most practice types.	High-volume plaintiff firms in California.
Practice areas	Most practice areas, with a personal injury page; not specialized for plaintiff volume work.	Personal injury, workers' comp and employment built in. Firms can add other practice areas in Customize, on California rules.
California workers' comp and employment	No California workers' comp or employment workflows described.	Built in. Comp: benefits audit, QME cover letter and records index, WCAB petitions, IMR deadline checks. Employment: legal chronology, wage and penalty audit, right-to-sue deadline checks. No PD rating calculator or EAMS e-filing.
AI features and how they're priced	8am IQ Writing and Document Assistant in Pro; Case Assistant and Discovery Assistant in Advanced. Included in the plan price. PI chronologies and demands come through a third-party integration.	Agents propose facts, deadlines and tasks; a person accepts each one, and drafts cite the page. Each run shows an estimated cost first (typically cents); usage is billed separately as part of your quote.
Medical records and OCR	Discovery Assistant OCR in Advanced: 5,000 pages per user per month shared across the firm, with more pages for purchase.	Reads searchable PDFs, Word and text files, and cites the page. No OCR yet: scans and faxes aren't read.
Client portal, texting and intake	Client portal (limited in Basic); two-way texting, chat and call log, intake forms and legal CRM from Pro.	Client portal from a link in any phone browser; texts logged to the case. Intake tracks every lead to a next step, with no automatic capture from web forms yet.
Pricing	Basic $50, Pro $100, Advanced $130 per user per month billed annually; $60, $120, $150 monthly.	$250 per case, every app included, no monthly fee. AI usage billed separately.
Contract and implementation	Monthly or annual billing; annual saves up to 16%. Free trial without a credit card.	No long lock-in contract. After the demo, a switching plan with dates.
Migration	Ask MyCase about data migration scope and any fee; not detailed on its pricing page.	We move your cases, contacts and documents and check the result with you before you switch.
Security	SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS attestations listed on 8am's trust center.	BAA with every firm; one US AWS account, models included (Bedrock); no training on firm data; audit log. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 in progress, no report yet.
Integrations and accounting	70+ integrations from Pro and an open API in Advanced. Trust accounting in every plan; LawPay payments; MyCase Accounting with three-way trust reconciliation.	Microsoft Word and Dropbox live; RingCentral in early access; Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive and QuickBooks coming. No trust accounting.

Choose MyCase if

You need billing, trust accounting and online payments in the same system as your cases.
You run several practice areas and want one general platform at a published price.
You want OCR on scanned documents today (Advanced plan).
You want to start with a free trial and month-to-month billing.
You need SOC 2 Type 2 attestation in hand.

Choose PlaintiffStack if

You're a California plaintiff volume firm and want PI, comp and employment phases, case tools and checks built in.
You want medical chronologies, missing records reports and demands in the product, each fact cited to its page.
You want deadline checks that understand California comp and employment: IMR after UR denial, right-to-sue filing deadlines, tolling agreements ending.
You want one price per case that includes every app, rather than per-seat tiers.

General practice vs plaintiff practice

8am MyCase is general practice management for small and mid-size firms. Its owner, 8am (formerly AffiniPay), also makes LawPay and 8am CasePeer, the company's PI-specific product. MyCase publishes its prices: Basic $50, Pro $100 and Advanced $130 per user per month billed annually, or $60, $120 and $150 billed monthly.

PlaintiffStack is a plaintiff platform for California firms: personal injury, workers' comp and employment, each with its own phases, pages, case tools and morning checks.

What MyCase does well

Money in one place. Time, invoicing, trust accounting and LawPay payments with next-day deposits come in every plan. MyCase Accounting adds three-way trust reconciliation for $39 per user per month. PlaintiffStack has no trust accounting.
Client contact. Two-way texting, chat, a call log and intake forms with a legal CRM from Pro.
AI with OCR. The 8am IQ Discovery Assistant on Advanced runs OCR on scanned documents, with 5,000 pages per user per month shared across the firm. PlaintiffStack doesn't read scans or faxes yet.
Plain pricing. Published tiers, monthly or annual billing, and a free trial without a credit card.
Security paperwork. 8am lists current SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS attestations on its trust center.

For a small firm with mixed practice areas and real billing needs, MyCase is a good fit, often at a lower cost than a plaintiff platform. If you're PI-only and like 8am, look at PlaintiffStack vs CasePeer too.

Where PlaintiffStack differs

Plaintiff case tools. MyCase's AI helps write, summarize and search. PI medical chronologies and demands come through a third-party integration. PlaintiffStack's PI cases include a missing records report, a treatment chronology and a policy-limits demand; comp cases include a benefits audit, a QME cover letter and records index and WCAB petition drafting; employment cases include a legal chronology, a wage and penalty audit and a pre-litigation demand. Every fact cites the page it came from, and a person accepts it.

California deadlines. PlaintiffStack's morning checks watch for IMR deadlines after UR denial, civil filing deadlines after a right-to-sue notice, tolling agreements ending, expiring offers and untouched record requests.

Settlement math. PlaintiffStack's settlement statement computes the fee and lien reductions; trust deposits and disbursements stay in your accounting system.

Price

MyCase is per user; PlaintiffStack is $250 per case, every app included, with AI usage billed separately (each run shows an estimate first, typically cents). A five-person firm on MyCase Pro billed annually pays $100 x 5 x 12, or $6,000 a year. The same firm opening 60 cases a year on PlaintiffStack pays $15,000. For a small general practice, MyCase will usually cost less. The case for PlaintiffStack is the plaintiff work it does on each case; weigh that against your own numbers with the cost calculator.

Switching

PlaintiffStack moves your cases, contacts and documents and checks the result with you before you switch. Because PlaintiffStack has no trust accounting, plan where trust will live first; the switching guide covers the rest.

What to check before you decide

Mix of work. If plaintiff cases are a small share of your matters, a general system like MyCase is likely the better value. If they are most of your work, the case tools matter more than the seat price.
Records. If many records arrive as scans, MyCase Advanced's OCR is a real advantage today.
Trust and billing. MyCase handles both; PlaintiffStack handles neither, so you would keep an accounting system.
AI. Ask each vendor to produce a chronology from the same set of records and show where each fact came from.

Bring your own case types to both demos. PlaintiffStack's is thirty minutes, booked straight from the site.

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