No Seats. No Subscriptions. You Pay for Work, Not for Logins.

Legal software has trained firms to expect a particular kind of bill: a fixed price per user, per month, forever — whether that user logs in daily or twice a quarter. You buy seats, you ration them, you fight over who gets one, and you pay the same in a slow month as in a trial sprint. The pricing has nothing to do with the value you actually got.

TrialBase AI is built on a different model, because we think the old one is backwards. There are no seats and no subscriptions. You pay for the work the platform does — nothing else.

Here's what that means in practice.

One firm, one balance — invite everyone

TrialBase AI bills at the level of your firm, not the individual. Your firm has a single balance, and anyone you want can have an account — every attorney, every paralegal, every clerk who touches a case. There's no per-head license to buy, no "we only have three seats" math, no leaving the new associate out because the renewal already closed.

The people who need the tool get the tool. You're never paying for a login that's sitting idle, and you're never rationing access to a tool that's supposed to make the whole team faster.

You pay for output, not for time

When you generate a demand letter, a deposition summary, or a trial opening, you pay for that piece of work — based on what it actually took to produce. Run ten medical summaries in a heavy week and that week costs more. Run nothing the next week and it costs nothing.

That's the whole point: your bill tracks your work. A quiet month is a cheap month. There's no subscription quietly draining whether you used it or not, and no annual commitment you have to grow into.

You know the cost before you run it

Usage-based pricing only feels fair if there are no surprises — so we built it to be transparent up front. Before a job runs, the platform checks it against your available balance, and you're working from a prepaid balance you top up on your terms. You're never running up an invoice in the dark and discovering the number at the end of the month.

No overage traps. No "you've exceeded your plan." Just a balance you control and a cost you can see.

Why this is the right model for litigation

Legal work is lumpy. A firm doesn't produce the same volume every month — it surges around trials, deadlines, and big intakes, then quiets down. Per-seat subscriptions punish that rhythm: you pay peak prices during the quiet stretches and still hit access limits during the surges.

Usage-based, firm-wide pricing fits the actual shape of the work. It scales up when you're busy and costs nothing when you're not. It lets a solo or a small firm adopt the same platform as a large one without a per-seat barrier to entry. And it aligns our incentives with yours: we only earn when the platform actually produces something useful for you. We don't get paid for shelfware.

The bottom line

No seats — invite your whole firm.
No subscriptions — nothing draining in the background.
Pay for work, not logins — your bill matches what you produced.
No surprises — you see the cost before you run it, from a balance you control.

It's pricing that finally matches how a firm actually uses its tools.

See how it works for your firm at ai.trialbase.com.