Claw vs Vakeel360 (Court-Data API)

Comparison · Court Data API

Updated for 2026 · Claw Editorial

Anyone who has tried to check a person or company’s litigation history for a loan, a background check, or a vendor onboarding knows the problem: court data lives in dozens of separate, differently built portals, and pulling it into your own system reliably is a real engineering job. Vakeel360 exists to solve exactly that, as a court-data API and a free case-status search tool. Claw solves a related but broader problem: running the legal work itself, research, tracking, and drafting, for advocates and legal teams, with an API on top. This page compares the two honestly, so you pick the one built for the job you actually have.

01Two different jobs: a court-data feed vs a legal platform

Before comparing features, it helps to be honest about what each tool is actually for, because they are not competing for the same buyer.

Pulling raw court data into your own system

Banks, NBFCs, background verification firms, and corporate legal and compliance teams often need one narrow thing: a reliable, programmatic feed of case status, orders, and cause-list data across many courts and tribunals, so they can run a litigation check as part of a loan approval, a vendor onboarding, or a background verification flow. This is a data-integration job. The buyer usually already has their own workflow, dashboard, or risk engine, and just needs the court data to flow into it.

Running the legal work itself

Advocates, law firms, and in-house legal teams have a different problem. They need to search case law to build an argument, track their own matters across courts so nothing is missed, draft and manage documents, and often want AI help along the way. This is a workflow job, not just a data-integration job, even though it also depends on court data underneath.

Why the confusion happens

Both jobs touch the same underlying public court records, so tools built for one job often get compared to tools built for the other, which is not a fair comparison. A litigation-check API and a legal operations platform can both be excellent at what they do, while being the wrong fit for each other’s buyer.

02What to look for in a court-data API

For the specific job of pulling court data into another system, four things matter most.

• Breadth of court and tribunal coverage: whether it reaches the High Courts, district courts, and the specific tribunals (such as NCLT, CAT, ITAT, CESTAT, RERA) that your checks actually need.
• Data freshness: whether responses reflect the current status of a case, since a stale litigation check defeats the purpose of running one.
• Predictable pricing: whether the cost is a flat, plannable fee or an unpredictable per-call charge that scales badly with volume.
• Ease of integration: clear documentation and a simple JSON response, so an engineering team can wire it up without a long procurement cycle.

A litigation-check API and a full legal operations platform can both be excellent at what they do, while being the wrong fit for each other’s buyer.

03Vakeel360 at a glance

Vakeel360 is, first and foremost, a free public search tool for Indian court case status, orders, and judgments, letting anyone look up a case by CNR number, case number, party name, or advocate name at no cost. On top of that free tool, it has launched a Court Case API aimed squarely at the data-integration job described above.

The API is built to serve law firms, banks and NBFCs, background verification companies, and corporate legal teams that need to check litigation records as part of a larger workflow. Its stated coverage spans 25 or more courts, including a set of High Courts, district courts (121 or more, across 19 states, including Delhi’s district courts), and tribunals such as NCLT, CAT, ITAT, CESTAT, NCLAT, RERA, and DRAT (vakeel360.com/api, checked 17 September 2026). The company describes the underlying data as fetched in real time directly from court servers, and offers case status, order search (with the site noting recent-order access, described as covering roughly the last two to three weeks), advocate search, and cause lists in JSON and Excel formats.

On pricing, Vakeel360 states on its own API pricing page (checked 17 September 2026) that it uses fixed monthly plans with no setup fee and no per-call charges, positioning this as simpler and more predictable than metered legal-data APIs. It does not publish an actual rupee figure anywhere on the site: the page asks businesses to contact Vakeel360 to discuss pricing, and it does not say whether GST applies on top of the quoted rate. We are not inventing a number here, and neither should you; treat any specific price you see quoted elsewhere for Vakeel360 as unconfirmed until the vendor gives it to you in writing. For a team whose entire need is a dependable litigation-data feed to plug into an existing risk or verification workflow, the underlying model, a flat quote with no per-call metering, is a genuinely well-matched, purpose-built option, and its free public search tool is a reasonable way to sample the underlying data before committing to the API.

04Claw at a glance

Claw is built differently: as a full legal operations platform for advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams, where court data is the foundation of several tools rather than the product itself.

On case-law research, Claw covers 30 crore or more judgements across 25 High Courts (1980 to 2026) and the Supreme Court (1950 to 2026), with semantic and AI search that understands the legal question, verified court-ready citations, and results typically in under 5 seconds. On case tracking, it covers 9,102 courts across India, including all states, tribunals, and district courts, alongside the Supreme Court, with automatic case updates, cause lists, and WhatsApp and email alerts. Its AI auto-compliance feature reads a court order and schedules the resulting compliance reminders on its own.

Beyond search and tracking, Claw adds Legal GPT, an AI legal assistant, a full contract lifecycle management suite (drafting, clause library, approvals, e-sign, obligation tracking), MIS reports and Claw Notebooks for matter oversight, and multilingual legal translation support. Claw also offers an API for programmatic access to court and litigation data, so a team that wants to pull Claw’s underlying data into its own systems is not limited to the product interface. The combined subscription, covering case research, case management, and AI tools, is Rs 1,099 per month (Rs 10,999 per year) for the Premium plan, exclusive of GST, per clawlaw.in/price (checked 17 September 2026), and Claw also has a free plan for individual advocates. A separate, per-search litigation-search product is priced roughly Rs 250 to Rs 750 per search for teams that only need occasional lookups rather than a subscription.

05Side-by-side comparison

06What each option costs

The two sit on different pricing logic, which reflects the different jobs they do. Every price below is sourced and dated; where a vendor does not publish a number, we say so instead of guessing.

• Vakeel360: free for its public case-status search tool. The Court Case API runs on fixed monthly plans with, the vendor states on its API pricing page (checked 17 September 2026), no setup fee and no per-call charges. Vakeel360 does not publish exact plan amounts anywhere on its site and does not state whether GST applies; it asks businesses to contact it directly to discuss pricing. Confirm current tiers and GST treatment with the vendor before budgeting against a specific figure.
• Claw: a flat, per-seat subscription. The Premium plan is Rs 1,099 per month (Rs 10,999 per year), exclusive of GST, per clawlaw.in/price (checked 17 September 2026), covering case-law research, case tracking and management, and AI tools together, plus a free plan for individual advocates. A separate litigation-search product is priced roughly Rs 250 to Rs 750 per search for occasional lookups. Enterprise and team plans are on quote.

For a team that only needs a litigation-data feed, Vakeel360’s fixed-fee, no-per-call-charge API model is easy to budget for at volume and does not require paying for research or management tools it will not use, which is a genuine strength for that specific job. For an advocate or legal team that needs the underlying legal work done, not just the data behind it, Claw’s single subscription is built to cover more of that work in one place, at a published, dated price.

07How to choose

Match the tool to the job, not the other way round.

If your need is a reliable, affordable court-data or litigation-check API to plug into a lending, background verification, or KYB workflow you already run, Vakeel360 is built specifically for that job, and its broad tribunal and district-court reach is a real strength for verification use cases. If you are an advocate, law firm, or corporate legal team that needs to search case law, track your own matters, draft documents, and get AI help doing the legal work itself, that is a wider job than a data feed, and it is what Claw is built for, with an API available on top for teams that also want to pull that data into their own systems. For a broader look at options in the data-API category specifically, see the best litigation check APIs in India and the best court record check APIs in India.

08Who should not buy Claw

Claw is not the right choice for every buyer on this page, and it helps to say that plainly instead of pitching it as a universal fit. Here are the genuine cases where Vakeel360, or another dedicated tool, is the better pick.

• Your entire requirement is a programmatic litigation-check data feed at volume. If you are a bank, NBFC, background verification firm, or lending platform that just needs case status, orders, and cause lists flowing into your own risk engine or BGV pipeline, and nothing else, Vakeel360’s Court Case API is purpose-built for exactly that, with a fixed monthly plan and no per-call charges. Paying for a full legal operations platform when all you need is a data feed means paying for tools you will not touch.
• You want a completely free way to look up a single case status right now. Vakeel360’s public search tool is free, with no signup and no subscription. If your need is occasional and light, an advocate checking one case for a client, or anyone doing a one-off lookup, that free tool does the job without any cost at all.
• Cost has to scale to zero at high call volumes and you cannot commit to a seat-based product. Vakeel360’s no-per-call-charge model is genuinely better suited to unpredictable or very high-volume automated pulls than a per-seat platform subscription, because the cost does not grow with usage the way a metered or seat-based product can.
• You need deep, court-specific integration detail that only a data-first vendor will document. Vakeel360’s API documentation and its narrower, named list of courts and tribunals is easier for an engineering team to scope precisely than a broader platform where the API sits alongside many other product surfaces.

If none of these match your situation, and what you actually need is case-law research, matter tracking, AI compliance, and drafting for the legal work itself, that is the job Claw is built for, as the next section covers.

09Where Claw fits

Claw is an all-in-one legaltech platform for Indian advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams, combining AI-based case search, an AI legal assistant (Legal GPT), case management, and compliance automation across all Indian courts and tribunals. It is positioned as India’s first all-in-one legaltech platform of this kind.

Claw is not trying to out-compete Vakeel360 as a pure litigation-check API. For a bank, NBFC, or background verification firm that just needs a dependable data feed at predictable, volume-independent cost, Vakeel360’s purpose-built API and broad tribunal and district-court reach genuinely fit that job well, and the previous section sets out those cases honestly. Where Claw fits is one level up: for advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams that need the legal work itself done, case-law research with verified citations, case tracking across 9,102 courts, AI compliance that reads a court order and schedules the next step, and contract drafting, all inside one subscription priced at Rs 1,099 per month (Rs 10,999 per year), exclusive of GST, per clawlaw.in/price (checked 17 September 2026), with an API available for teams that also want to integrate that data elsewhere. If your entire requirement is raw court data for a verification workflow, start with a specialist like Vakeel360. If you need to run legal work end to end, Claw is built for that broader job.

10Sources and further reading

The tools discussed here, linked to their official sources, all checked 17 September 2026:

• Vakeel360: vakeel360.com
• Vakeel360 Court Case API (coverage and pricing model): vakeel360.com/api
• Claw: clawlaw.in
• Claw pricing: clawlaw.in/price
• eCourts Services Portal (official, Government of India): ecourts.gov.in

Vakeel360 does not publish an exact rupee price for its Court Case API on its site as of this check; it states fixed monthly plans with no setup fee and no per-call charges, and asks businesses to contact it for a quote. GST treatment is not stated. Do not treat any specific number quoted elsewhere for Vakeel360 as current unless the vendor confirms it in writing. Claw’s Premium price, Rs 1,099 per month (Rs 10,999 per year), is exclusive of GST and is taken directly from clawlaw.in/price. Feature and pricing details for Vakeel360 are based on publicly available information on its website at the time of writing and should be confirmed directly with the vendor, since plans, coverage, and features change. Last verified: 17 September 2026.

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