CosmoLex publishes three plans, keeps its general ledger and payables on Pro, and sells CRM and e-signature as add-ons. LawAOS ships the ledger, signatures, intake and AI on every plan.
CosmoLex lists Launch at $49, Core at $99 and Pro at $129 per user/month billed yearly, and claims three-way reconciliation. Its general ledger and bank feeds are on Pro; CRM and e-signature are add-ons. LawAOS lists $29-$119/user/month with the ledger and signatures on every plan.
- Choose LawAOS when
- You want the general ledger, three-way reconciliation, e-signatures, intake and AI without choosing the top tier or adding modules.
- Choose CosmoLex when
- You want bank feeds into the ledger, a website add-on from the same vendor, or a longer track record in legal accounting.
On CosmoLex's pricing page the general ledger is on Pro and e-signature is an add-on. Both are on every LawAOS plan.
Every panel below is rendered from the product’s own components with fictional records for Okafor & Byrne LLP.
Client money reconciles three ways
Each client has a ledger. The database refuses a drawdown larger than the client's cleared balance, and a filed three-way reconciliation compares the statement, the book and the sum of client ledgers.
Billing posts to the books
Invoices, payments, credit notes and deposit batches post to the ledger, and aged receivables and matter profitability come from the same records.
Every LawAOS cell names a shipped module. Every CosmoLex cell comes from CosmoLex's own pages, read in September 2026; a row those pages do not mention says "not confirmed".
| LawAOSShipped modules | CosmoLexVendor's own pages, September 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Practice management | ||
| Matter management | All plans | |
| One workspace per matter | Overview, files, conversations, workstreams, invoices and proposals on one record | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Workstreams inside a matter and across the firm | Inside a matter, or on their own across the firm | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Boards, tasks, child tasks and saved views | Board and list views, child tasks, owners and saved views | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Documents with versions | Upload, create, edit, version and share from the matter | |
| Matter and client conversations | Internal and client threads stay on the record | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Docket, deadlines and calendar | Court dates, filings and firm deadlines on one calendar | |
| Time tracking and billing | All plans | |
| Proposals with priced fee items | Draft, send, accept and convert | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Money and firm operations | ||
| Expenses, journals, budgets and reports | Expenses, journals, budgets and reports | Higher plans |
| Trust-account reconciliation | Three-way: statement, book and client ledgers. No bank feed yet. | |
| People, roles and leave | Members, roles, departments and leave requests | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Payroll and payslips | Pay components, payroll records and payslips | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Documents and clients | ||
| Native e-signatures | All plans | Paid add-on |
| Client portal | All plans. Branded with the one-time white-label add-on on any plan; custom domain from Firm or with that add-on. | |
| Risk and compliance | ||
| Conflicts checking | All plans | |
| AML and KYC screening | All plans | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Ethical walls | All plans; applied by an authorized administrator | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Knowledge and AI | ||
| Knowledge base and CLE tracking | All plans | Not confirmedNot found on the vendor's pages |
| Built-in AI assistant | Agents file tasks, documents and calendar events in the matter | Higher plans |
| AI on every paid plan | Fair-use and rate controls apply | Higher plans |
| Pricing | ||
| Published per-seat pricing | $29-$119/user/monthEnterprise quoted | Published, from $49 |
- Included: shipped in the product
- Offered in some form: depends on the plan, a separate product or an integration
- Not confirmed: not found in public documentation at the snapshot date
- Not offered: a well-known absence
Read on CosmoLex's own site in September 2026. Vendor plans change; check the sources below before you buy. If a cell is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- CosmoLex: pricing (www.cosmolex.com/pricing) (read September 2026)
- CosmoLex: legal calendaring software (www.cosmolex.com/features/legal-calendaring-software) (read September 2026)
- CosmoLex: trust accounting software (www.cosmolex.com/features/trust-accounting-software) (read September 2026)
- CosmoLex: run conflict check (support.cosmolex.com/knowledge-base/run-conflict-check) (read September 2026)
- LawAOS
The ledger is not a tier
Chart of accounts, journals, bank reconciliation by CSV and financial reports are on every LawAOS plan.
- LawAOS
Signatures and intake are included
Native e-signatures with a certificate of completion, and intake forms with a pipeline, are part of every plan rather than add-ons.
- CosmoLex
Where CosmoLex is ahead
CosmoLex lists bank feeds on Pro and a website add-on, and has published pricing for every add-on. LawAOS imports bank statements by CSV only and has no bank feed.
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