Is CASEpeer or Tabs3 better?

Neither clearly leads. CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Tabs3 at $69/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, CASEpeer or Tabs3?

CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Tabs3 at $69/month.

Does CASEpeer or Tabs3 run on more platforms?

CASEpeer runs on Web, iOS, Android. Tabs3 runs on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.

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 Tabs3 is typically brought in for.

What can CASEpeer do that Tabs3 cannot?

CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Medical treatment tracking, Settlement and lien management, Negotiation tracking. Tabs3 covers Tabs3 Billing, Trust accounting, General ledger and accounts payable, PracticeMaster.

Legal · head to head

CASEpeer vs Tabs3

CASEpeer

Legal

Case management built specifically for plaintiff personal injury firms

From: $79/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Tabs3

Legal

Billing, trust and general ledger accounting for small and mid-sized US law firms

From: $69/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

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.; Tabs3 the interface follows Windows desktop conventions from an earlier era, so new fee earners and staff take longer to train than they would on a browser-based competitor.
They diverge on capability: CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Tabs3 covers Tabs3 Billing.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which CASEpeer and Tabs3 actually diverge.

Attributes where CASEpeer and Tabs3 differ
Attribute	CASEpeer	Tabs3
Starting price	$79/month	$69/month
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android	Windows, Web, iOS, Android

Identical on both: pricing model (Per user per month), 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 Tabs3

Tabs3 Billing
Trust accounting
General ledger and accounts payable
PracticeMaster
On-premises or cloud subscription

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 Tabs3
Contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one placenot Tabs3
Personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measurednot Tabs3
Firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseloadnot Tabs3

Tabs3

Small firms billing hourly that want billing and the firm general ledger in one system rather than reconciling twonot CASEpeer
Practices that must run three-way trust reconciliation without a separate bookkeeping packagenot CASEpeer
Firms that need an on-premises deployment because of client or insurer restrictions on cloud-hosted matter datanot CASEpeer
Long-established practices replacing a decades-old billing system while keeping accounting in housenot 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.

Tabs3

The interface follows Windows desktop conventions from an earlier era, so new fee earners and staff take longer to train than they would on a browser-based competitor.
On-premises deployment puts backup, disaster recovery, server upgrades and patching on the firm, which small practices without IT support routinely underestimate.
It is built around hourly and flat fee billing, so a contingency practice tracking case costs and settlement disbursements will find the case financial model a poor fit.
PracticeMaster case management is priced separately from billing, so the advertised per-user rate is not what a firm wanting matter management actually pays.
Choosing the on-premises option no longer avoids a subscription, because it is billed per user per month like the hosted version.

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

Tabs3

$69/month

OnSite Subscription$69/month
- Deployed on the firm server
- Billing, trust accounting and general ledger
- PracticeMaster add-on at 32 USD per user per month
Tabs3 Cloud$89/month
- Hosted by the vendor
- Billing, trust accounting and general ledger
- PracticeMaster add-on at 35 USD per user per month

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.

CASEpeer review

Choose Tabs3 if

You need tabs3 billing.
You work on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.
You also want trust accounting.

Tabs3 review

Questions people ask

Is CASEpeer or Tabs3 better?: Neither clearly leads. CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Tabs3 at $69/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, CASEpeer or Tabs3?: CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Tabs3 at $69/month.
Does CASEpeer or Tabs3 run on more platforms?: CASEpeer runs on Web, iOS, Android. Tabs3 runs on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.
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 Tabs3 is typically brought in for.
What can CASEpeer do that Tabs3 cannot?: CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Medical treatment tracking, Settlement and lien management, Negotiation tracking. Tabs3 covers Tabs3 Billing, Trust accounting, General ledger and accounts payable, PracticeMaster.

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.

Tabs3: Is Tabs3 right for a personal injury firm working on contingency?

No. It is built for hourly and flat fee billing with a firm general ledger. A contingency practice needs case cost tracking and settlement disbursement handling, which is what CASEpeer and Filevine are built around.

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.

Tabs3: Can I still buy Tabs3 as a perpetual licence?

No published perpetual price exists. The on-premises option, called OnSite Subscription, starts at 69 USD per user per month, with the hosted Tabs3 Cloud starting at 89 USD per user per month.

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.

Tabs3: Does it replace QuickBooks?

For most firms yes. It includes a double-entry general ledger and accounts payable, which is the usual reason firms choose it over billing-only products.

CASEpeer vs Tabs3

CASEpeer

Tabs3

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in CASEpeer

Only in Tabs3

What people use each for

CASEpeer

Tabs3

Where each one falls short

CASEpeer

Tabs3

Pricing, plan by plan

CASEpeer

Tabs3

Which should you pick?

Choose CASEpeer if

Choose Tabs3 if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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