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. 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 says 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, and describes itself as a low-cost option in this space. For a team whose entire need is a dependable litigation-data feed to plug into an existing risk or verification workflow, this 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 8,200 or more 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 priced at around Rs 10,999 per year for the Premium plan, and Claw also has a free plan for individual advocates.

05Side-by-side comparison

06What each option costs

The two sit on different pricing logic, which reflects the different jobs they do.

• Vakeel360: free for its public case-status search tool. The Court Case API runs on fixed monthly plans with, the vendor says, no setup fee and no per-call charges, positioned as an affordable option for this category. Exact tiers are not published and should be confirmed directly with the vendor.
• Claw: a flat, per-seat annual subscription of roughly Rs 10,999 per year for the Premium plan, covering case-law research, case tracking and management, and AI tools together, plus a free plan for individual advocates. Enterprise and team plans are paid.

For a team that only needs a litigation-data feed, Vakeel360’s fixed-fee API model is easy to budget for and does not require paying for research or management tools it will not use. 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.

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.

08Where 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, Vakeel360’s purpose-built API and broad tribunal and district-court reach genuinely fit that job well. 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 8,200 or more courts, AI compliance that reads a court order and schedules the next step, and contract drafting, all inside one subscription, 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.

09Sources and further reading

The tools discussed here, linked to their official sources:

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

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.

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