The side-by-side
Trial Commander vs PracticePanther, on the facts.
No adjectives, no stars, no "winner" badges. Our side comes from the product and our published prices; their side from their published materials, dated. Where they're ahead, the row says so.
Published prices
Trial Commander — per firm, monthly
- Solo Practitioner · 1 seat$49/mo
- Small Firm · 5 seats$149/mo
- Complete (with Trust Accounting) · 5 seats$249/mo
- Enterprise · -1 seats$0/mo
PracticePanther — per user, monthly (annual billing)
- Solo$49/user/mo
- Essential$69/user/mo
- Business$89/user/mo
Verified August 2026 at practicepanther.com/pricing — check current pricing yourself.
Arithmetic for your headcount: the switch calculator. Our AI usage allowances and optional add-ons are on pricing.
Feature by feature
| Area | Trial Commander | PracticePanther |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per firm. One price covers the plan's seats; hiring within your plan doesn't change the bill. | Per user, per month. Each additional user adds their seat price to the bill. |
| Florida rules | Built for Florida practice: deadline computation aware of Florida rules, Fla. Bar Rule 5-1.1 trust safeguards, conflict-check gating on new matters, Ethics Op. 24-1 acknowledgment before AI document export. | General-purpose, all-states practice management; Florida-specific rules are yours to configure and compute. |
| Trust accounting | Ledger with reconciliation, overdraft refusal, and an import gate that requires your migrated trust history to reconcile to the penny before anything is written. | Trust accounting with three-way reconciliation reports. |
| Documents | Your firm's own OneDrive/SharePoint stays the file cabinet: folders map to matters, subfolder structure preserved, matters creatable from your folder tree, new-matter folders provisioned automatically, drafts open in real Word/Excel. Deleting a file in OneDrive never deletes it from a matter. | Document storage in-app, plus integrations including OneDrive. |
| AI drafting | Drafting Studio with practice-area skills, firm-level AI spend caps so a firm can never consume more AI than it paid for, and mandatory attorney-review acknowledgment before export. | AI features per their published materials. |
| Client payments | Not yet — no client credit-card payments today. | Native payments (PantherPayments) — ahead of us here. |
| Mobile | Installable web app (PWA); no native iOS/Android apps yet. | Native mobile apps — ahead of us here. |
| eSignature | Not built in today; fee agreements support in-app signing flows. | Built-in eSignature — ahead of us here. |
| Text messaging | Built, visible in-product, disabled pending carrier (A2P 10DLC) registration. | Two-way texting available. |
| QuickBooks Online | One-way push of invoices, payments, and trust movements — built, in Intuit's production review. | QuickBooks integration available. |
| Leaving | A published 31-day migration path INTO Trial Commander with dry runs and rollback — and your documents stay in your own OneDrive either way, so they never need to be exported from us. | Data export available per their documentation. |
PracticePanther entries reflect their published materials as of August 2026 and are stated neutrally; features and pricing change — verify against their current site. Trial Commander entries reflect the shipped product; what we lack is stated in the rows above and on Why Trial Commander.