CourtMesh vs eCourtsIndia
The closest thing to a like for like competitor we have: an Indian court data platform that, like us, publishes a per endpoint API rate card, runs an MCP server and sells a party screening product.
Every claim about eCourtsIndia on this page was checked on 2026-09-19 against the source linked beside it. Where we could not verify something we say so rather than estimate. Their terms can change without notice, so check their own page before you buy.
The short answer
Who each one suits best
If you only read one section, read this one. These are two different tools and the choice is usually settled by what kind of question you are asking, not by which product is better.
eCourtsIndia is better for
A litigating advocate who wants one subscription that tracks their own matters, pushes a WhatsApp alert when the record moves, and shows tomorrow's cause list. That daily practice loop is their product and it is a real one. Also anyone who needs cause list data over an API, which we do not offer at all.
CourtMesh is better for
Anyone buying court data as an input to their own product rather than as a practice tool: a lower published price on every comparable endpoint, a free tier that renews every month instead of once, and credits that never expire.
The honest version
What eCourtsIndia does well, and where we differ
Of everyone in this comparison cluster, eCourtsIndia is the company building closest to what we are building. They publish a per endpoint rate card, they run an MCP server for AI clients, they sell a party screening product, and they target the same legal technology and background verification buyers we do. Pretending they are not a serious product would be both dishonest and useless to you.
Start with what they do that we do not. They publish daily cause lists and sell cause list search over their API, so a question like what is listed before this judge tomorrow is one they answer and we do not. They track a lawyer's own matters and push a WhatsApp or email alert when the official record moves. They run a lawyer directory and a verified advocate listing. If your problem is running a litigation practice day to day, that loop is the product and it is theirs, not ours.
Where the two diverge is what you are buying. Their pricing is built around a practice subscription, with an AI clerk that tracks cases, files documents and answers questions about your own brief. Ours is built around the record itself, sold per call, for teams putting Indian court data inside something else: a screening pipeline, a research assistant, a diligence workflow.
That shows up most sharply in price. On their own published rate card, pay as you go is charged at three times their base rate, and only a fixed monthly commitment buys the base rate back. Every comparable line on our published rate card is cheaper than their base rate, before the multiplier. We are not asking you to take that on trust: both rate cards are public and both are linked from this page.
Side by side
CourtMesh and eCourtsIndia, dimension by dimension
Only dimensions where both products can genuinely be compared, and only claims we could read from a published page. A tick marks the side with the advantage on that row, including the rows where it is not us.
| What you are comparing | eCourtsIndia | CourtMesh | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily cause lists | Publishes daily cause lists for courts across India and sells cause list search over the API at ₹1.00 per call at base rate, plus a batch CNR cause list check | Not offered. CourtMesh does not publish cause lists or sell cause list data today | View source |
| Case tracking and alerts | Tracks a case on the official record and sends WhatsApp and email alerts on a change, charged at ₹5 per case per month plus ₹0.50 per alert delivered | Not offered today. Watchlists and webhooks are planned, and nothing is published until the endpoints are live | View source |
| Lawyer and advocate directory | Runs a lawyer directory, a judges directory and a litigants directory, plus a verified advocate listing that advocates can claim | Not offered. CourtMesh publishes a judgment library and a statute library, and does not publish directory pages for people | View source |
| On demand case refresh | Exposes a live re-scrape of a single case at ₹0.05 per call at base rate, and a bulk refresh of up to 50 cases in one request | Offers an order sheet timeline fetch, priced at 20 credits (₹2.00) cold and 1 credit (₹0.10) once cached. No bulk refresh endpoint | View source |
| Case search, price per call | ₹0.20 at base rate, which requires a monthly commitment, and ₹0.60 on pay as you go | 1 credit, ₹0.10, at the same price whether you are on the free tier, a prepaid pack or a plan | View source |
| Case detail, price per call | ₹0.50 at base rate and ₹1.50 on pay as you go | 1 credit, ₹0.10, with no multiplier for buying in smaller amounts | View source |
| Order or judgment PDF | ₹1.25 at base rate and ₹3.75 on pay as you go, described as a digitally signed certified copy from the eCourts system | 5 credits, ₹0.50, for the stored judgment PDF. We do not represent our copies as certified true copies | View source |
| Party screening for diligence | Legal Check at ₹100 per report plus metered AI usage, with the first three completed web checks free | Party screening at 100 credits (₹10) when matches are found and 20 credits (₹2.00) when none are, with a DPDP purpose field required on every call | View source |
| Pay as you go penalty | Pay as you go deposit packs are charged at three times the base rate. Only a ₹10,000 per month or ₹1,00,000 per year commitment buys the base rate | One published price per endpoint. Prepaid packs and plans change what you pay up front, never the price of a call | View source |
| What happens to unused credits | Pay as you go credits never expire, but the monthly and annual enterprise plans state that unused credits do not roll over | Purchased credits never expire and are spent last, after the free monthly grant | View source |
| Free tier for developers | ₹200 in free API credits on signup, granted once | 2,500 credits on signup, worth ₹250, plus 500 free credits every month for as long as the account is open | View source |
| Published coverage you can check before buying | States coverage of the Supreme Court, 25 High Courts, 600 plus district courts and tribunals, and a headline record count | Per court, per year record counts and last ingest freshness published free, no API key needed | View source |
| AI semantic search | Advertises AI summaries of orders and an AI assistant over your own uploaded files. We found no vector or semantic search over the case corpus advertised on their API pages | Keyword search across the full corpus, plus AI semantic search across roughly 2 million cases | View source |
| Statute and provision library | Links to IndiaCode for legislation rather than publishing its own provision level pages, as at the date checked | Publishes its own act and provision library, free to read and linked from the judgments that cite each provision | View source |
| Stated corpus size | States 30.2 crore plus case records | 315.6 million court records keyword searchable, counted on 19 September 2026 | View source |
| API surface and MCP | States 23 API endpoints and an MCP server with 22 tools | Public REST API, 18 confirmed endpoints with a published per call credit price, plus an MCP server | View source |
| Security certifications | We found no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification published on their site as at the date checked | No SOC 2 Type II and no ISO 27001 today. India hosting, per account audit log, API key hashing and a live case removal pipeline | Not published |
Checked 2026-09-19. Rows reading “we could not find” record what was published on the pages we retrieved, not a claim that the capability does not exist; ask eCourtsIndia directly if it matters to your decision. Figures about CourtMesh come from the same constants that drive our own pricing and coverage pages, so they cannot drift apart from what we charge and publish elsewhere.
On comparing record counts
These two numbers do not measure the same unit and should not be read as a score. CourtMesh counts docket records, which includes a case, its status history and its orders. A reported judgment publisher counts documents it has published and edited. A larger number can mean broader coverage or simply a finer unit of counting, so treat both as a claim about scale rather than a ranking, and settle it with a recall test against your own case list.
Be honest about it
When to choose eCourtsIndia instead
We would rather you picked the right tool and came back later than bought the wrong one from us now.
Choose eCourtsIndia when
- You are a litigating advocate and the job to be done is tracking your own matters, with a WhatsApp alert when the record moves.
- You need daily cause list data, whether on the site or over an API. We do not offer it.
- You want a certified true copy of an order, digitally signed from the source system, rather than a stored PDF.
- You want a directory listing as an advocate, or you are looking one up.
- Your volume is high enough that a fixed ₹10,000 a month commitment is comfortable, and refresh calls dominate your usage.
Choose CourtMesh when
- You are putting Indian court data inside your own product and the per call price is what decides the build.
- You do not want a three times multiplier for being small, or a monthly commitment before you see the base rate.
- You are screening parties at volume and want confidence banded matches with evidence, at a tenth of the published price of a Legal Check report.
- You want a free tier that renews every month while you are still building, not a single grant at signup.
- You want per court and per year coverage with ingest freshness published openly, so you can test recall before you commit.
What we do not do
CourtMesh's own gaps, stated on our own page
These are true whichever product you are comparing us against, and you will find them out eventually. Better here.
- No SOC 2 Type II and no ISO 27001. Neither is scoped to a target date today.
- No published uptime or freshness SLA. The document at /sla is a proposed draft, not a signed commitment.
- No editorial headnotes, no publisher citator and no commentary. We carry the record, not a reading of it.
- AI semantic search covers a subset of the corpus, not all 315.6 million records. Keyword search covers the whole of it.
- India only. If your research crosses jurisdictions, we are the wrong tool.
Our security posture, retention windows and subprocessor list are set out in full on API security, and what a licence actually grants is on data licensing.
A note on the underlying records
Who owns what in an Indian judgment
This matters to any comparison of Indian legal research products, because it decides what each side can legitimately hold. In Eastern Book Company v. D.B. Modak, (2008) 1 SCC 1, the Supreme Court held that the raw judgment is in the public domain, while a publisher's copy edited version, headnotes, footnotes and paragraph numbering are that publisher's own protected work where they show skill and judgment. Section 52(1)(q) of the Copyright Act, 1957 places the reproduction of judicial pronouncements outside infringement.
The practical consequence runs both ways. CourtMesh ingests primary records from official court portals and does not ingest, reproduce or resell another publisher's headnotes, editorial summaries or paragraph numbering, which keeps our licensing position clean. It also means we have no editorial layer of our own to offer you, and nothing on this page quotes eCourtsIndia's.
Counsel review pending on this section.
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