How much does Smokeball cost?

Smokeball's US prices are by quote. Capterra lists Bill at $49 and Boost at $89 per user per month, with Grow and Prosper+ quoted, and Archie AI is an add-on on most plans. PlaintiffStack is $250 per case with every app included, plus AI usage billed separately.

Is Smokeball good for personal injury?

Smokeball serves PI firms with templates, Archie AI and partners such as Novo for chronologies and demands. It isn't built for plaintiff volume work, and it doesn't describe California comp or employment workflows.

Does PlaintiffStack track time or trust like Smokeball?

No. PlaintiffStack has no trust accounting and isn't built for hourly billing. It builds the settlement statement and tracks liens and costs.

Is Smokeball's AI included?

Archie AI is an add-on on most Smokeball plans, priced by quote. PlaintiffStack shows an estimated cost before each AI run and bills usage separately as part of your quote.

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Case managementReviewed October 21, 2026

PlaintiffStack vs Smokeball

PlaintiffStack vs Smokeball: practice management with trust accounting, AutoTime and Archie AI, or one California plaintiff record at $250 per case.

The short answer

Smokeball is a polished practice management system for small and mid-size firms, strong on document automation, automatic time capture, trust accounting and Word and Outlook, with ISO 27001 certification and an agentic Archie AI. It isn't a plaintiff volume platform. PlaintiffStack brings California PI, comp and employment case tools on one record, but no trust accounting and fewer integrations.

Practice management with document automation, automatic time tracking, trust accounting and the Archie AI assistant

Smokeball

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

Users: 34,000+ legal professionals worldwide, per Smokeball
Plans: Bill, Boost, Grow and Prosper+; US prices by quote
AI: Archie AI, rebuilt in 2026 as an agentic assistant inside matters, Word and Outlook; an add-on on most plans
Security: ISO 27001 certified; hosted on AWS
Accounting: Trust accounting and reporting from the Bill plan up

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 Smokeball compared
What	Smokeball	PlaintiffStack
What it is	Practice management with matters, documents and forms, automatic time tracking (AutoTime), billing and trust accounting, plus Archie 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 practice area templates and calculators from the Grow plan.	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	Archie AI: agentic, multi-step work in matters, Word and Outlook, with apps for chronologies, transcription and bank statements. An add-on on most plans; price by quote.	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	Archie's chronology app; records retrieval and medical summaries through partners such as YoCierge and Novo. Text document search on every plan.	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 from Boost; Intake as an add-on, included in Prosper+ with lead management and inquiry intake.	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	By quote. Third-party listing: Bill $49, Boost $89 per user per month.	$250 per case, every app included, no monthly fee. AI usage billed separately.
Contract and implementation	US terms not published; Smokeball's Australian pricing assumes a 36-month contract. Onboarding included in every plan.	No long lock-in contract. After the demo, a switching plan with dates.
Migration	Ask Smokeball for 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	ISO 27001 certified; AWS hosting; firm data isolated; customer data not given to third parties for AI training.	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	Microsoft 365 Word and Outlook, InfoTrack eSignature and eFiling, accounting integrations, and trust accounting built in.	Microsoft Word and Dropbox live; RingCentral in early access; Outlook, Gmail, Google Drive and QuickBooks coming. No trust accounting.

Choose Smokeball if

You need trust accounting, billing and automatic time capture in your practice system.
Your team lives in Word and Outlook and wants the AI there too.
You run several practice areas and want templates and forms for each.
You want ISO 27001 certification today.

Choose PlaintiffStack if

You're a California plaintiff volume firm and want PI, comp and employment ready on day one.
You want chronologies, missing records reports and demands built for plaintiff work, each fact cited to its page.
You want California deadline checks: IMR after UR denial, right-to-sue filing deadlines, expiring offers and demands.
You want a published price, $250 per case with every app included, and no long lock-in contract.

What each is built for

Smokeball is practice management for small and mid-size firms. It is known for document automation and forms, AutoTime (automatic time tracking), billing and trust accounting, and tight Word and Outlook integration. It says more than 34,000 legal professionals use it. In 2026 it rebuilt its AI assistant, Archie, to run multi-step tasks inside matters, Word and Outlook, with apps for chronologies, audio transcription and bank statement analysis.

PlaintiffStack is a plaintiff platform for California firms, with personal injury, workers' comp and employment built in.

What Smokeball does well

The business side. Trust accounting and reporting start on its first plan, and AutoTime records time as people work. PlaintiffStack has no trust accounting and no time billing focus.
Microsoft 365. Word and Outlook integration runs through every plan, and Archie now works inside both.
Templates. Practice area templates, calculators and automated forms from the Grow plan.
Security. Smokeball is ISO 27001 certified, hosts on AWS, isolates each firm's data and says it doesn't give customer data to third parties for AI training.

If your firm bills hourly in some matters, needs trust accounting and works mostly in Word and Outlook, Smokeball covers that well.

Where plaintiff firms need more

Smokeball's PI support comes from templates, Archie and partners: Novo for chronologies and demand packages, YoCierge for records retrieval. PlaintiffStack's PI cases include treatment, providers, records, demand and coverage, and lien pages; a missing records report, a treatment chronology and a policy-limits demand; and morning checks for expiring offers and demands, record requests untouched for three weeks, and treatment gaps.

California comp and employment are where the gap is widest. PlaintiffStack's comp cases include a benefits audit of TD periods and late payments, QME and WCAB pages, WCAB petition drafting and IMR deadline checks. Employment cases include a legal chronology of protected activity and adverse actions, a wage and penalty audit and right-to-sue filing deadline checks. Smokeball doesn't describe California-specific workflows for either.

In PlaintiffStack, agents propose facts, deadlines and tasks with the page they came from, and a person accepts each one. Each run shows an estimated cost first, typically cents, and usage is billed separately as part of your quote. One limit: PlaintiffStack doesn't read scanned records or faxes yet.

Price and contract

Smokeball's US prices are by quote. Capterra lists Bill at $49 and Boost at $89 per user per month; Grow and Prosper+ are quoted, and Archie AI is an add-on on most plans. Smokeball's Australian pricing is based on a 36-month contract, so ask about US term length before you sign.

PlaintiffStack is $250 per case, every app included, no monthly fee and no long lock-in contract. A general practice with few plaintiff cases may find Smokeball cheaper; a volume plaintiff firm should compare the cost per case with the cost calculator and per-case vs per-seat guide.

Switching

PlaintiffStack moves your cases, contacts and documents and checks the result with you before you switch. Plan where trust accounting and time billing will live first; the switching guide has a checklist.

Questions to ask on the demo

Show a PI case from intake to settlement. Which steps are built in, and which come from a partner or an add-on?
Draft a chronology from the same records on each system. Where does each fact come from, and how does a reviewer check it?
What does a year cost with the AI and intake you would actually use?
What is the contract term, and what happens at renewal?
Where will trust accounting and time billing live if we switch?

If most of your firm's work is California plaintiff volume, PlaintiffStack is worth a thirty-minute look on your own case types.

Questions firms ask

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