Trellis Law Cost: Trellis Law Pricing and Plans

Trellis Law costs 69.95 dollars a month or 649.95 a year for its Personal plan, 129.95 a month or 1,099.95 a year for Research, and 199.95 a month or 1,999.95 a year for Research and Judge Analytics, each covering one state. Law firm and academic plans are quoted. The number that decides your real cost is the content view allowance: 240 a year on Personal and 900 on the other two, and Trellis uses one content view every time you search, view, download or print anything. On the annual Personal plan that works out to about 2.71 dollars per view.

Those figures come from the Trellis support center, read on September 10, 2026. Trellis is a genuinely useful product for state trial court work, and it is also priced in a way that is easy to misjudge, because a plan that looks like a flat subscription behaves more like a metered one. Here is what each tier costs, what a single view costs, and how to size the plan before you pay for the wrong one.

How much does Trellis Law cost in 2026?

All three published plans list the same core features: Search, Alerts, Motions and Issues, Judge Bios, Case Update and State Law. The only feature that separates the top tier is Judge Analytics, and the price of that one feature is easy to isolate. On annual billing, Research and Judge Analytics costs 900 dollars a year more than Research for the same 900 views, which is 75 dollars a month for judge analytics alone. On monthly billing the gap is 70 dollars.

Annual billing saves more than the headline suggests, and the saving is uneven. Twelve months of Personal at the monthly rate is 839.40 dollars against 649.95 paid up front, about a 23 percent discount. Research saves 459.45 dollars a year, about 29 percent. Research and Judge Analytics saves 399.45, about 17 percent. If you expect to stay a full year, Research on annual billing is the best value in the lineup.

What is a Trellis content view, and what does each one cost?

Trellis describes the rule in one sentence: each time you search, view, download or print any item on trellis.law, you use one content view. Searches count. So does opening a ruling, a docket or a judge bio page, requesting a case update, and printing. The allowance is shared, too. Trellis lets most plans add unlimited users, and every one of those users draws from the same pool of views.

Spread evenly, 240 views is 20 a month and 900 is 75 a month. Trellis also sells a Content View Add-On for what its help center calls Lawyer Entry Monthly plans once the allotment runs out: 20 extra monthly views for 23 dollars, 40 for 43, 60 for 62, 80 for 78 or 100 for 100, charged alongside the subscription. You can buy one add-on, and anyone who still runs short is sent to sales. At roughly a dollar a view the add-on is cheaper per view than Personal itself, which tells you Personal is priced for occasional use.

How many content views do I actually need?

Count a real task, not a month. Take a common one for a litigator: preparing for a hearing in front of a judge you have not appeared before. One search for the judge, one judge bio, six rulings opened on similar motions, and two of them downloaded comes to ten views. That is our illustration rather than a Trellis figure, but the arithmetic is the point. A Personal plan covers about two of those preparations a month before the allowance is gone, and a second lawyer on the same account cuts that in half.

The practical rule is to buy the Research tier if more than one person will use the account or if Trellis is part of your weekly workflow, and to stay on Personal only if you look up a case or a judge a handful of times a month. Because users share the pool, a two lawyer firm on Personal is really two people splitting 20 views a month.

Is there a Trellis free trial?

Yes. Trellis offers a 14 day free trial with up to 75 content views and up to 5 document requests. If you reach the usage limit before the 14 days are up, Trellis gives you the option to start your subscription immediately with full plan benefits. Seventy five views happens to be the monthly average of the Research tier, which makes the trial a good measuring tool if you use it that way.

Run your actual matters through it and note the view count at the end of each working day. After a week you will know whether your usage looks like Personal, Research or something that needs a quote, and you will be choosing a plan from your own numbers rather than from the pricing page.

What does Trellis cover, and what costs extra?

Trellis provides state trial court coverage across 45 states, and each published plan is priced for a single state. Its documents come in three kinds. Some are free inside the subscription. Some are free to request in select counties, Alameda and Los Angeles in California and Cook County in Illinois, within a monthly document request limit, and Trellis says those requests come back within about 20 minutes. The rest are purchasable for an additional fee in 21 counties across Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington, and Trellis notes that document fees may vary rather than publishing a schedule.

Budget for that last category separately if your practice runs through those counties, because it sits outside the plan price. Once the filings are downloaded, reading a few hundred pages of the other side's motion practice is its own job, and AI review that answers questions across an entire case file with source citations is a different purchase from anything a docket service sells.

How do you cancel a Trellis subscription?

Through support rather than a button. Trellis says you can cancel at any time by contacting Trellis Support, choosing Cancellation Related in the form dropdown and giving a brief explanation. The help article does not spell out refunds or notice periods for annual plans and points to the Trellis terms of service for those, so read them before you pay for a year up front.

Trellis Law alternatives and what they cost

The closest like for like choice depends on the court. For state trial courts, Trellis has few direct rivals at a self serve price. For federal matters, Docket Alarm's pay as you go plan costs less than Trellis Personal before documents, and its flat plan removes the metering entirely at 99 dollars per user. If the analytics you want are federal and deep, our breakdown of Lex Machina pricing and the litigation analytics plans that publish a price compares every option, including the Lexis+ plans that list analytics without naming Lex Machina, and the full Lexis+ rate card is in our LexisNexis pricing breakdown. Federal documents also carry their own court fees, which we cover in how much PACER costs.

Is Trellis worth it for a small firm?

For litigators who live in state trial courts, often yes. Trial court rulings are hard to find in one place anywhere else, and knowing how a particular judge has handled a motion type is information you cannot get from appellate case law. Research and Judge Analytics at 1,999.95 dollars a year is self serve and a small fraction of what an enterprise analytics contract tends to cost.

Where Trellis is the wrong purchase is when the real problem is authority. A trial court ruling rarely binds anyone, and Trellis does not market a citator, so it will not tell you that the appellate decision everyone keeps citing was reversed last year. Firms that buy it hoping to replace Westlaw or Lexis usually find they still need a research tool, and our legal citator comparison covers what that verification step requires.

Casesearch handles that half. You ask the legal question in plain English and get the on point decisions with citations you can open and a good law check on every result. It does no judge analytics, so it sits next to Trellis rather than replacing it. It will be 39 dollars a month for a solo and 89 for a firm at launch, a flat price on the page rather than one metered by the view. It is not yet on sale and the waitlist is open.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Trellis per month?

Trellis costs 69.95 dollars a month for Personal, 129.95 for Research and 199.95 for Research and Judge Analytics, each for one state, according to the Trellis support center in September 2026. Paid annually the same plans are 649.95, 1,099.95 and 1,999.95 dollars a year. Law firm and academic plans are quoted by Trellis sales.

Does Trellis charge per search?

Effectively yes, within your allowance. Trellis uses one content view each time you search, view, download or print an item, and the published plans include 240 or 900 views a year. There is no separate fee per search until the allowance runs out, at which point eligible monthly plans can buy one add-on of 20 to 100 extra monthly views for 23 to 100 dollars.

Can multiple users share a Trellis account?

Yes. Trellis says most plans allow unlimited users on one account, but all of those users share the same content views. Adding a colleague does not add views, so a shared Personal plan runs out twice as fast.

Does Trellis include judge analytics?

Only on the Research and Judge Analytics plan, at 199.95 dollars a month or 1,999.95 a year for one state. Personal and Research include judge bios but not Judge Analytics. On annual billing the analytics tier costs 900 dollars a year more than Research for the same number of content views.

Is Trellis a replacement for Westlaw or Lexis?

Not for most firms. Trellis is built around state trial court records: rulings, dockets and judge behavior. It does not market a citator, and trial court rulings are rarely binding authority. Most litigators who use Trellis pair it with a research tool that finds controlling appellate law and checks whether it is still good law, such as Lexis+, Westlaw or Casesearch.