Lawyers/Law Dopers: Weslaw, Lexis, and cost/benefit analysis

I’m trying to decide whether to continue on with my current legal database plan, to try to get a different and much less expensive plan, to switch to a different service, or to just toss them altogether and just use the free online service offered by the Texas State Bar. Any insight or advice would be appreciated, e.g., how much you pay per month for your service, what you would pay and what you would consider outrageous, how good the service (how easy to search and use) compared to the other services, whether you get by with a free service offered by your State Bar, how much appellate work you do or feel like you can do with it, etc.