Pre/Dicta Pricing and Cost per Case

Pre/Dicta does not show a price on its website, only a Book a demo button. The one figure the company has published is in its Startup Alley profile on LawNext: an annual subscription for 50 cases at $1,800 per case, which works out to $90,000 a year. It is priced per case, not per seat, and sold to large firm litigators, law departments, plaintiffs' firms and litigation funders rather than to solo practitioners.

If you are reading this, you probably have a demo booked or a quote coming, and you want to know whether the number on it is normal. Below is what Pre/Dicta has said about its own pricing, what the per-case model means for a real docket, what you get for it, and what the cheaper judge analytics tools cost if a prediction is more than you need.

How much does Pre/Dicta cost?

Pre/Dicta sells an annual subscription priced by the number of cases you load into it. Its Startup Alley profile on LawNext, written when the company launched its federal motion to dismiss product, puts it in one sentence: "Our annual subscription price for 50 cases is $1,800 per case." Its own site has no pricing page (the /pricing address returns a 404), and every page ends in a demo request.

Treat $1,800 as an anchor, not a quote. It dates from the company's early commercial release, the product has since grown well beyond motions to dismiss, and the profile does not say what the rate is for 10 cases or 500. The questions to put to the sales team are below.

Is there a Pre/Dicta free trial?

No free trial is offered on Pre/Dicta's website. The site offers two routes: Book a demo, and Request case consultation, where you send a live matter and see what the platform predicts for it. If you want to test before buying, ask for the consultation on a case you already know the outcome of.

What does Pre/Dicta include?

Pre/Dicta predicts how a specific judge is likely to rule on a motion. Instead of reading the briefs, it models the judge, the parties and the lawyers. The company describes collecting the federal docket and every judge's personal attributes, including age, background and political affiliation, and its site now speaks of more than 20 million cases and 40 million judicial decisions. Legaltech Hub's profile lists more than 100 historical and biographical attributes of judges, parties and firms.

• Motion prediction. Motion to dismiss was the first product; the platform now lists summary judgment, class certification, venue transfer and other motions.
• Accuracy claim. 85 percent on federal motions to dismiss, tested over 50,000 motions according to the company. That is Pre/Dicta's own figure, not an independent study.
• Timelines. Case timeline forecasting across the pre-discovery, discovery and trial phases.
• Named modules. Judicial IQ, Counsel Compare, Outcome Intelligence, Venue Strategist, Precedent Intelligence, and firm and judge performance indexes.
• Coverage. Federal courts, with California state courts added in October 2024 according to Legaltech Hub.

Is Pre/Dicta worth $1,800 a case?

It depends almost entirely on what a wrong call on one motion costs you. Pre/Dicta names its buyers plainly: large firm litigators, law department litigators, plaintiffs' firms and litigation funders. For a funder deciding whether to put seven figures behind a claim, or a law department deciding whether to settle before a motion to dismiss is briefed, $1,800 is a rounding error against the decision it informs.

For a small firm it is a different calculation. If your typical federal case carries a total budget in the low five figures, a prediction that costs $1,800 per matter eats a visible slice of it, and the 50 case plan commits you to $90,000 a year before the first prediction. Most small firms get more from knowing how often their judge grants the motion, which a judge analytics plan shows for a fraction of the price, and from walking into the briefing with the right authority.

Three questions decide whether it pays for you:

1. How many federal cases a year would you actually run through it? Below the plan size, the effective per-case cost rises.
2. Would a prediction change what you do, such as settle, remove, transfer or file? If you would brief the motion regardless, the forecast is interesting but not worth $1,800.
3. Can you measure it? Some law departments keep their own matter outcomes and spend in a data warehouse, and an AI data analyst that answers plain-English questions over that data shows how often their own motions to dismiss succeeded, which is the baseline any prediction should beat.

What to ask before you sign a Pre/Dicta quote

• The per-case rate at your real annual volume, and whether unused cases roll over.
• What counts as a case: one docket, one motion, or one party.
• Which courts are covered today beyond federal and California state courts.
• Whether the accuracy figure has been measured on your practice area and your district.
• The contract term and whether there is a pilot on a handful of live matters first.

Pre/Dicta alternatives and what they cost

Judge analytics tools do not predict a single motion, but they show what a judge has done, which is often what a litigator actually needs. These are the published prices we have verified.

Our Lex Machina pricing comparison covers the analytics plans in more depth, and the Trellis cost breakdown explains how its content views are counted.

What a prediction does not give you

A forecast that your judge grants motions to dismiss 60 percent of the time tells you the odds. It does not tell you which cases in your circuit decide the pleading standard for your claim, or whether the decision opposing counsel leans on was narrowed last year. The motion is still won or lost on the authority in the brief.

That is the job CaseSearch does. Ask in plain English, for instance whether district courts in the Third Circuit have dismissed a consumer fraud class action for failure to plead reliance, and you get the on-point decisions with their citations, the holding in plain language and a good-law signal. You can run one question in the tool at the top of this page with no account. After that it is 49 dollars a month, or 24 billed yearly, with no sales call. For how it sits next to brief checkers, platform AI and analytics, see our guide to AI for litigators, priced by job.

Questions buyers ask about Pre/Dicta pricing

How much does Pre/Dicta cost per case?

Pre/Dicta has published one figure: $1,800 per case on an annual subscription for 50 cases, or $90,000 a year. The rate for smaller or larger case bundles is not published, so the current number comes from a demo and a quote.

How accurate is Pre/Dicta?

Pre/Dicta says its predictions on federal motions to dismiss are accurate 85 percent of the time, tested over 50,000 motions. That is the company's own figure. We have not found an independent study that measures it, so ask for results on your district and practice area.

Who uses Pre/Dicta?

Pre/Dicta names large firm litigators, law department litigators, plaintiffs' firms and litigation funders as its customers, and its site adds general counsel, private equity firms and insurers. The per-case pricing suits organizations that make expensive decisions on a portfolio of cases.

Is Pre/Dicta cheaper than Lex Machina?

They are priced differently, so it depends on volume. Lex Machina is a subscription quoted by firm and practice area, while Pre/Dicta charges per case. A firm running a few high-stakes matters may pay less with Pre/Dicta; a firm that needs analytics across its whole docket usually pays less per matter with a subscription.