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CASEpeer vs Spellbook

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CASEpeer

Legal

Case management built specifically for plaintiff personal injury firms

From
$79/month
Rated
-
Spellbook logo

Spellbook

Legal

Contract drafting and review assistant inside Microsoft Word

From
On request
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: CASEpeer it is built for plaintiff contingency work, so a firm doing hourly defence or corporate work will find no billing model that matches how it earns.; Spellbook it publishes no accuracy figure for its own output and no independent evaluation exists, so a firm must run its own assessment on real agreements.
  • They diverge on capability: CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Spellbook covers Word add-in drafting.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which CASEpeer and Spellbook actually diverge.

Attributes where CASEpeer and Spellbook differ
AttributeCASEpeerSpellbook
Starting price$79/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer user per monthquote
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWindows, macOS, Web

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Legal).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in CASEpeer

  • Intake and case screening
  • Medical treatment tracking
  • Settlement and lien management
  • Negotiation tracking
  • Statute of limitations monitoring

Only in Spellbook

  • Word add-in drafting
  • Contract review
  • Benchmarks against market standards
  • Question answering
  • Named model providers

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

CASEpeer

  • Plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien trackingnot Spellbook
  • Contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one placenot Spellbook
  • Personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measurednot Spellbook
  • Firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseloadnot Spellbook

Spellbook

  • Transactional lawyers drafting commercial agreements in Wordnot CASEpeer
  • In-house teams reviewing inbound contracts without a contract lifecycle systemnot CASEpeer
  • Lawyers who want a first pass at redlines before applying their own judgementnot CASEpeer
  • Firms that need to know which model providers process their documents before adopting an AI toolnot CASEpeer

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

CASEpeer

  • It is built for plaintiff contingency work, so a firm doing hourly defence or corporate work will find no billing model that matches how it earns.
  • There is no full double-entry general ledger, so the firm still needs separate accounting software and somebody to reconcile between the two.
  • The narrow personal injury focus means a practice that diversifies into family, employment or criminal work has to run a second system or migrate.
  • It has changed corporate hands three times since 2021, from independent to MyCase to AffiniPay, now trading as 8am, so roadmap continuity is a fair question to put to the vendor.
  • Sitting in the 8am group aligns it with LawPay and MyCase, so firms committed to a different payments provider get less from the integrations.

Spellbook

  • It publishes no accuracy figure for its own output and no independent evaluation exists, so a firm must run its own assessment on real agreements.
  • The ten times more accurate claim originated in a funding announcement as a statement of intent and has no methodology, dataset or baseline behind it.
  • Contract text is processed by third-party model providers, so despite the zero data retention agreements this still needs checking against client confidentiality terms and outside counsel guidelines.
  • Pricing is not published, so seat cost cannot be compared against competitors without booking a demo.
  • It is a drafting assistant rather than a contract lifecycle system, so it does nothing for execution, obligation tracking or renewals.

Pricing, plan by plan

CASEpeer

$79/month
  • Basic$79/month
    • Personal injury case management
    • Intake and treatment tracking
    • No minimum seat count
  • Pro$119/month
    • Adds reporting and automation
    • Lien and settlement tracking
    • No long-term contract required
  • Advanced$149/month
    • Full feature set
    • Advanced reporting
    • No long-term contract required

Spellbook

On request
  • Spellbook$undefined/year
    • Priced by the number of seats on the licence
    • Rates quoted after a demo, not published
    • Seven day free trial, free access for academic use

Which should you pick?

Choose CASEpeer if

  • You need intake and case screening.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want medical treatment tracking.

Choose Spellbook if

  • You need word add-in drafting.
  • You work on Windows, macOS, Web.
  • You also want contract review.

Questions people ask

Is CASEpeer or Spellbook better?
Neither clearly leads. CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Spellbook at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, CASEpeer or Spellbook?
CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Spellbook at On request.
Does CASEpeer or Spellbook run on more platforms?
CASEpeer runs on Web, iOS, Android. Spellbook runs on Windows, macOS, Web.
What is CASEpeer best used for?
CASEpeer is most often used for plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien tracking, contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one place, personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measured, firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseload. Of those, plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien tracking and contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one place are not what Spellbook is typically brought in for.
What can CASEpeer do that Spellbook cannot?
CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Medical treatment tracking, Settlement and lien management, Negotiation tracking. Spellbook covers Word add-in drafting, Contract review, Benchmarks against market standards, Question answering.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

CASEpeer: Is CASEpeer suitable for a corporate or defence firm?

No. It is built around contingency personal injury work: treatment, liens and settlement. A corporate firm billing hourly should look at Clio, Tabs3 or a large firm system instead.

Spellbook: Is Spellbook's accuracy independently verified?

No. It publishes no accuracy figure of its own, and no third-party evaluation has been published. It did not participate in the Vals Legal AI Report, the main independent lawyer-baselined benchmark. Evaluate it on your own agreements during the trial.

CASEpeer: What does CASEpeer cost?

Published per-user rates are 79 USD for Basic, 119 USD for Pro and 149 USD for Advanced per month, with no minimum seat count and no long-term contract required.

Spellbook: Which models does it use and where does our text go?

Spellbook names OpenAI GPT-5 and Anthropic Claude models, and states it has zero data retention agreements with both providers. Confirm the current terms and subprocessor list against your client confidentiality obligations before use.

CASEpeer: Who owns CASEpeer?

It was acquired by MyCase in March 2021 and moved to AffiniPay in June 2022. AffiniPay rebranded to 8am in August 2025, so CASEpeer now sits alongside MyCase and LawPay in that group.

Spellbook: What does it cost?

Pricing is per seat but is not published. The vendor quotes it after a demo, so the seat rate cannot be compared with competitors in advance.

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