For former Casetext and CoCounsel 1.0 users
Casetext Alternative and Casetext Replacement for Document Review After the Casetext Shutdown
Casetext is gone, and the replacement Thomson Reuters offers is CoCounsel inside Westlaw, priced by quote. If what you actually used Casetext for was reading a stack of case documents and getting cited answers, you can replace that job with a flat, published price.
Casetext dates come from Thomson Reuters. Old Casetext prices are reported by third parties and labeled that way. CaseClerk prices are the ones on our pricing page.
Replace the document review part of Casetext today
Upload the documents for one matter and ask questions across all of them. Every answer names the document it came from. 25 pages on the house, no card.
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What is the best Casetext alternative?
It depends on which Casetext job you are replacing. For case law research, the realistic replacements are Westlaw with CoCounsel, Lexis+ with Protégé or vLex Vincent. For reviewing your own case documents and getting answers you can check, CaseClerk is a direct replacement at $99, $249 or $499 a month, with no seat quote and no multi year term.
Thomson Reuters retired the standalone Casetext product on April 1, 2025 and folded CoCounsel into Westlaw. Firms that paid a small monthly fee for Casetext now face a quote based, per user contract. Most small firms only need part of what that contract sells.
- April 1, 2025
- Standalone Casetext retired by Thomson Reuters
- $650M
- What Thomson Reuters paid for Casetext in 2023
- $99
- CaseClerk Solo per month, published, 2,500 pages
- 1,000
- Files per case CaseClerk reads and cites
What a Casetext replacement for document review has to do
- Read the whole matter at once
- Pleadings, discovery responses, deposition transcripts, medical records and contracts go into one matter vault. CaseClerk reads up to 1,000 files per case in 18 formats, including scanned PDFs.
- Name the source of every answer
- Casetext users got used to checking the source. CaseClerk keeps that habit: each answer names the document it came from, and the page where the text shows it, so you verify before you rely.
- Pull terms out of contracts
- Run contract analysis across the file for key terms, obligations and risks, or compare one document against another. Every finding points back to the file it came from.
- Show the price before the demo
- $99, $249 or $499 a month for the account, with the page allowance printed next to each plan. A year costs the price of six months. There is no per user quote to wait for.
- Keep client documents out of training
- CaseClerk does not use your case documents to train any AI model of its own. The Firm plan offers a confidentiality agreement for firms whose clients ask for one.
- Let you test it on a real file
- 25 pages and up to 5 documents with no card. Put a real matter through it and judge the answers yourself before anyone signs anything.
How to move off Casetext without losing a week
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List the Casetext jobs you actually used
Research, document review, contract extraction and drafting are four different purchases now. Write down which ones your lawyers used in the last six months.
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Price the research part separately
If you still need case law, get a Westlaw with CoCounsel quote and compare it with Lexis+ and vLex, and check whether your state bar bundles vLex Fastcase as a member benefit.
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Move the document work to a flat priced tool
Upload one live matter into CaseClerk, ask the questions you used to ask Casetext, and check the cited documents. Most firms know within an afternoon.
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Size the plan by pages, not by lawyers
Solo covers 2,500 pages a month, Professional 10,000 and Firm 30,000. Pick by the volume of documents you read, since the price does not rise with headcount.
CoCounsel under Westlaw and CaseClerk, honestly compared
CoCounsel today does more than Casetext did, and far more than CaseClerk. This table is for deciding which job you are paying for.
| CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters) | CaseClerk | |
|---|---|---|
| Price visibility | No published list price. Quote per firm | Published: $99, $249 and $499 a month. Enterprise tier quoted |
| Billing model | Per user, on an annual or multi year term | Flat account price with a monthly page allowance |
| Commitment | Annual, 12 percent off at 2 years and 18 percent off at 3 years | Month to month, or a year for the price of six months |
| Case law research | Yes, with Westlaw content. Genuinely stronger here | No, and it does not claim to |
| Drafting | Yes, in CoCounsel Legal | No |
| Reading a whole matter with cited answers | Yes | Yes, up to 1,000 files per case |
| Try before you buy | Demos and trials through Thomson Reuters | 25 pages and 5 documents, no card |
| Best for | Firms buying research, know how and AI as one Westlaw contract | Firms whose Casetext job was reading their own files, at a price they can see |
CoCounsel details come from Thomson Reuters pages. Per user figures on review sites are third party estimates that Thomson Reuters does not confirm.
Who switches from Casetext to CaseClerk
Solo litigators who used Casetext for the file
You searched case law somewhere else anyway, and used Casetext to get through productions and transcripts. CaseClerk Solo at $99 a month covers that job for 2,500 pages a month.
Small plaintiff and defense firms
Medical records, claim files, depositions and expert reports in one vault per matter, with every answer pointing to the page. Professional at $249 a month reads 10,000 pages.
Transactional lawyers doing diligence
Contract analysis across a data room for change of control, assignment, indemnity and termination terms, each finding cited to the agreement it came from.
Firms that will not sign a three year term
If the Westlaw quote only makes sense at 2 or 3 years, keep research on whatever you already pay for and move the reading work to a monthly plan you can cancel.
Did Casetext shut down?
Yes. Thomson Reuters retired the standalone Casetext product on April 1, 2025. Casetext.com began redirecting to a CoCounsel page on February 1, 2025, and CoCounsel 1.0 on casetext.com stayed available through March 31, 2025. The technology lives on as CoCounsel inside Westlaw and Practical Law.
The timeline below is the one Thomson Reuters itself published across its press releases and help center.
| Date | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|
| June 26, 2023 | Thomson Reuters agrees to buy Casetext for $650 million in cash | Thomson Reuters press release |
| August 17, 2023 | The acquisition closes | Thomson Reuters press release |
| February 1, 2025 | Casetext.com starts redirecting to a CoCounsel page | Thomson Reuters help center |
| March 31, 2025 | Last day of CoCounsel 1.0 on casetext.com | Thomson Reuters help center |
| April 1, 2025 | The standalone Casetext product is retired | Thomson Reuters help center, widely reported |
| August 5, 2025 | CoCounsel Legal launches inside Westlaw with Deep Research and guided workflows | Thomson Reuters announcement |
If you are reading this as a former Casetext subscriber, the practical effect is simple: the product you paid for monthly no longer exists, and its successor is sold as part of a Thomson Reuters subscription. For the full picture on that side, see what CoCounsel costs today and how Thomson Reuters quotes it.
How much did Casetext cost, and what does the replacement cost?
Casetext was cheap by legal research standards, and its successor is not. Casetext's research plans were reported at $65 and $99 a month, and the first CoCounsel on Casetext at roughly $220 per user per month. Today Thomson Reuters publishes no CoCounsel list price at all.
| Product | Price | Status |
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| Casetext Basic (research) | Reported at $65 a month | Retired |
| Casetext Premium (research) | Reported at $99 a month | Retired |
| CoCounsel on Casetext (2023) | Reported at roughly $220 per user per month, self serve | Retired March 31, 2025 |
| CoCounsel under Thomson Reuters today | No published list price. Self serve quote for smaller firms, sales quote above that. Third party estimates run from about $104 to $639 per user per month. Thomson Reuters states 12 percent off a 2 year term and 18 percent off a 3 year term | Current |
| CaseClerk | $99, $249 or $499 a month per account, published. A fourth Enterprise tier is quoted | Current |
The old Casetext prices come from third party reports, and we label them that way. What matters for your budget is the right hand column. A three lawyer firm that paid a few hundred dollars a month for Casetext can now be looking at a per user CoCounsel quote on a 2 or 3 year term. That is fine if you want the whole Westlaw ecosystem, and hard to justify if all you did was read your own documents.
Which Casetext features does CaseClerk replace?
CaseClerk replaces the document side of Casetext and CoCounsel 1.0, not the research side. Reviewing documents, searching a document set for a fact and extracting contract terms map directly. Case law research, citator checks and drafting do not, and we would rather say so than lose your trust in week one.
| What you used Casetext for | Where it lives now | Does CaseClerk do it? |
|---|---|---|
| Case law research and citator checks | Westlaw with CoCounsel, Lexis+ with Protégé, vLex Vincent | No. CaseClerk is not a research database |
| Reviewing a set of documents and asking questions about them | CoCounsel inside the Thomson Reuters stack | Yes. Upload the matter, ask in plain English, every answer names the document |
| Extracting terms from contracts | CoCounsel, or contract review tools like Kira and Spellbook | Yes. Key terms, obligations and risks across the file, each cited to its source |
| Searching a large document set for a fact | CoCounsel, or an ediscovery platform | Yes, up to 1,000 files per case in 18 formats |
| Drafting letters, memos and briefs | CoCounsel Legal, Harvey, general assistants | No. CaseClerk answers questions, it does not draft |
If contract work is most of what you did, AI contract review software for law firms goes deeper on what CaseClerk extracts and how it cites each term.
Is there a Casetext replacement for small law firms?
Yes, but most small firms now need two tools instead of one. For research, vLex Vincent is often the cheapest route, since many state bars bundle vLex Fastcase as a member benefit. For reading case files, CaseClerk costs $99 to $499 a month for the whole account, not per lawyer.
The combination usually lands well under a per user CoCounsel contract for a firm of one to ten lawyers, and neither side locks you into a multi year term. If you are also comparing enterprise platforms, our Harvey AI alternatives for small law firms table lists the vendors that post a price and those that require a seat minimum.
Casetext alternative questions from former subscribers
What happened to Casetext?
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What replaced Casetext?
Is CoCounsel the same as Casetext?
How much is CoCounsel compared with Casetext?
Can CaseClerk do legal research like Casetext?
Can I try CaseClerk before cancelling anything?
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