Developer API pricing

Indian court cases API pricing, published per call

One credit wallet, 18 confirmed endpoints, and a price for every one of them printed on this page. Start with 2,500 free credits and keep 500 free credits every month for life. Paid credit packs are coming soon. No quote request, no rate card behind a login.

Availability: Sign up and the free credit grant are live today. Buying prepaid credit packs and the Scale subscription are coming soon. Talk to sales for higher volume in the meantime.

2,500

Free credits on signup

They never expire

500

Free credits every month

Forever, on every account

₹0.10

Base credit rate

No prepaid multiplier

Confirmed priced endpoints

Search, analysis, litigation check and coverage

Plans

Four tiers, three of them self serve

Every tier draws from the same credit wallet and the same per endpoint price list. The tier decides how many credits you get, how fast you may call us, and how many keys you can issue. Nothing about the data changes between tiers: a Free Developer key and an Enterprise key see the same corpus and the same fields.

Free Developer

₹0forever

Build and prototype without a card on file.

2,500 credits on signup, plus 500 free credits every month

Signup grant never expires
Monthly 500 credit grant refreshes on the 1st
1 API key
No AI analysis endpoints on Free; upgrade to Pay As You Go
Up to 10 litigation checks per month
10 requests per minute, 500 per day
Docs and community support

Pay As You Go

From ₹1,000prepaid packs

Base rate credits that never expire. No subscription.

10,000 to 2,40,000 credits per pack

Credits never expire, ever
₹0.083 to ₹0.100 per credit, no multiplier
3 API keys
Full access to AI semantic search, analysis and litigation check endpoints
60 requests per minute, 20,000 per day
Email support and GST invoice on every purchase

Scale

₹7,999per month, GST inclusive

Predictable monthly volume for production workloads.

1,00,000 credits every month

Unused credits roll over up to 3,00,000 while you stay subscribed
₹0.080 per credit effective rate
10 API keys
120 requests per minute, 1,00,000 per day
10 concurrent AI analysis jobs
Priority email support

Enterprise

From ₹15,000per month, contracted

Pooled credits, custom limits, procurement friendly.

Custom volume, pooled across every key in your organisation

Volume rates from ₹0.060 per credit, down to ₹0.040 above 20 lakh credits a month
Unlimited API keys with org level pooling
Custom rate limits up to 600 requests per minute
GST invoicing with TDS handling and purchase orders
Dedicated account manager and written SLA
Audit logs and security review support

Prepaid packs, priced at base rate

One API credit carries a nominal value of ₹0.10. Our smallest pack sells credits at exactly that rate, and larger packs sell them below it. eCourtsIndia's published pricing states a three times multiplier on its pay as you go packs (checked 2026-09-18 at ecourtsindia.com/api/pricing), which is a real hidden cost in this market. We do not charge one.

CourtMesh prepaid API credit packs
Pack	Price, GST inclusive	Credits	Rate per credit	Discount
Dev	₹1,000	10,000	₹0.100	Base rate, 1.0x
Build	₹5,000	55,000	₹0.091	9% below base rate
Grow	₹20,000	2,40,000	₹0.083	17% below base rate

Per endpoint prices

What every call costs

These are the exact prices charged against your wallet, per successful response. Cheap reads stay cheap, heavy AI work is priced for the compute it consumes, and health checks plus job polling are free so that our asynchronous design never penalises a well behaved client.

CourtMesh API credit cost for each of the 18 confirmed endpoints
Endpoint	Method	Credits	Base rate price	What you get
/health	GET	0	Free	Uptime probe. Never billed, never rate limited against your quota, though it carries its own 120 requests per minute per IP guard shared by every caller.
/get-timeline/{requestId}	GET	0	Free	Status poll for an async timeline job. Polling is free so our async design never costs you extra.
/judges/search	GET	1	₹0.10	Filter the Supreme Court and High Court judge roster by name. Our cheapest metered read.
/search/cases	POST	1	₹0.10	Keyword search across 315.6 million records with court, year, judge, case type and date filters plus cursor pagination.
/cases/{id}	GET	1	₹0.10	Full structured case detail with parties, bench, citations and judgment text. No AI cost involved.
/cases/{id}/related	GET	1	₹0.10	Related documents and the derived order timeline for the same case number.
/cases/{id}/analysis	GET	1	₹0.10	Reads a stored AI analysis if one already exists. Priced as a plain read: the AI work was paid for when it was generated.
/cases/{id}/pdf	GET	5	₹0.50	Judgment PDF retrieval through a signed URL. Priced for bandwidth, not for compute.
/search/cases/semantic	POST	10	₹1.00	AI semantic search: filter extraction, query optimisation, embedding and vector search across roughly 2 million cases. Not available on the Free tier.
/request-timeline	POST	20	₹2.00	Reads stored orders by default, priced at the 1 credit cache rate. Send refresh:true to ask the source court portal for current orders instead; that costs the full 20 credits only when it genuinely triggers live work, reported as meta.liveFetch. Not available with refresh:true on the Free tier, and tribunal cases cannot be live-fetched at all. Polling the job status is free.
/cases/{id}/analyze	POST	100	₹10.00	Generates a full AI analysis: issues, arguments, statutes referenced, precedent treatment and case strength. Not available on the Free tier. allowRemoteFetch:true adds a 20 credit surcharge when the source document has to be fetched from a remote host on the allowlist rather than served from stored data.
/cases/{id}/analyze-consolidated	POST	400	₹40.00	Consolidated analysis across every document attached to a matter. The heaviest call we sell. Not available on the Free tier.
/usage	GET	0	Free	Your own balance, tier limits and per endpoint call counts for the current billing period. Unmetered by design: checking your usage must never itself burn a credit.
/reference/courts	GET	0	Free	The court hierarchy the search endpoints accept for their court filter. No API key required, cached for an hour with an ETag.
/reference/case-types	GET	0	Free	The case type taxonomy the search endpoints accept for their caseType filter. No API key required, cached for an hour with an ETag.

The cache rule, in your favour

Call the analyze endpoint on a case that already has a stored analysis and we return the stored result billed at the ₹0.10 read price, not the ₹10.00 generation price. You never pay twice for the same AI work, and you do not have to build a cache lookup on your side to avoid it. This is the same cache aware billing that runs inside the CourtMesh application.

The same rule applies to a safe retry: send an Idempotency-Key header on party screen, batch screen, analyze, analyze-consolidated or request-timeline calls, and a replay of the same key with the same body returns the stored response with no second charge. See Idempotency in the API documentation.

Product endpoints

Litigation check, coverage and the changes feed

The core search and analysis endpoints above are one product. These three are separate products with their own pricing logic, and we mark each one confirmed and live or indicative and not yet available so nothing on this page overstates what you can call today.

Litigation check

Confirmed, live

Screens a person or company name against the corpus with deterministic entity resolution and an optional LLM adjudication pass. A match prices like an analysis call, a genuine no match prices far lower, and adjudication is an optional surcharge on top.

CourtMesh litigation check pricing
Endpoint	Match found	No match	Adjudicate surcharge
POST /party/screen	₹10.00 (100 credits)	₹2.00 (20 credits)	+₹8.00 (+80 credits)
POST /party/screen/batch	₹10.00 (100 credits)	₹2.00 (20 credits)	-

Public coverage

Confirmed, live

Corpus coverage and freshness by court and year, cached and free to call. No API key required.

CourtMesh coverage endpoint pricing
Endpoint	Credits	What you get
GET /coverage	Free	Corpus coverage and freshness by court and year, cached and refreshed every few hours. No API key required and never billed.

Changes feed

Indicative, not yet available

The change feed and watchlist events are not live yet. These are the prices we intend to charge, published in advance so you can plan for them; nothing here can be called today.

CourtMesh changes feed indicative pricing
Endpoint	Credits	What it will do
GET /changes	1 per page	Paginated feed of case status changes since a given timestamp, one credit per page of up to 100 changes. Not yet available; priced in advance so integrators can plan for it.
GET /watchlists/{id}/events	1 per page	Paginated events matched against a watchlist, one credit per page. Not yet available.

Not priced per call

Watchlist management and webhook delivery are free by design; they carry cost only through the changes feed events they generate. Also indicative and not yet available.

CourtMesh watchlist and webhook endpoints not billed per call
Endpoint	Credits	What it will do
POST /watchlists	Free	Create a watchlist of parties or cases to track for changes, free within your tier's item cap. Not yet available.
GET /watchlists	Free	List your watchlists. Not yet available.
DELETE /watchlists/{id}	Free	Delete a watchlist. Not yet available.
POST /webhooks	Free	Register and manage webhook endpoints for watchlist events. Not yet available.
POST /webhooks/deliveries	Free	Webhook delivery and retry, no credit charge either way. Not yet available.

Throughput

Rate limits by tier

Rate limits are separate from credits. Credits control how much you can spend, rate limits control how fast you may spend it. Heavy analysis jobs run in their own lane, so a burst of them can never starve your cheap metadata reads; AI semantic search has its own dedicated per minute ceiling.

CourtMesh API rate limits per tier
Tier	Requests per minute	Requests per day
Free Developer	10	500
Pay As You Go	60	20,000
Scale	120	1,00,000
Enterprise	Custom, up to 600	Custom

Comparison

CourtMesh API against eCourtsIndia

A structural comparison built from each provider's published pricing page. We compare the shape of the offer, that is free allowances, multipliers, expiry, rollover and the point at which you are forced into a sales conversation, because that is what is publicly verifiable on both sides.

CourtMesh API compared with eCourtsIndia API pricing
What you are comparing	eCourtsIndia	CourtMesh API	Source
Free credits on signup	₹200 credits, one time	2,500 credits, worth ₹250	View source
Recurring free allowance	None	500 credits every month, forever	View source
Prepaid entry point	₹1,000	₹1,000	View source
Prepaid credit rate	3x base rate	1x base rate or better	View source
Prepaid credit expiry	Never expires	Never expires	View source
Keyword search, per call	₹0.20 (eCourtsIndia)	₹0.10 (1 credit)	View source
Case detail, per call	₹0.50 (eCourtsIndia)	₹0.10 (1 credit)	View source
Order or judgment PDF, per call	₹1.25 (eCourtsIndia)	₹0.50 (5 credits)	View source
Litigation or party check	₹33 subscription or ₹99 pay as you go (eCourtsIndia Legal Check)	₹10.00 on a match, ₹2.00 on no match	View source
Public coverage and freshness stats	Not published	Free, published at /coverage	View source
Monthly plan	₹10,000 per month, enterprise only	₹7,999 with 1,00,000 credits, self serve	View source
Monthly credit rollover	No rollover	Rolls over up to 3x the monthly grant	View source
Per endpoint price list	Not published as a per call table	All 18 confirmed endpoints published on this page	View source
AI semantic search endpoint	Not published	Live at /search/cases/semantic	View source
AI case analysis endpoints	Not published	Live at /analyze and /analyze-consolidated	View source
Cached AI results	Not published	Repeat analysis billed at ₹0.10, not ₹10.00	View source
MCP server for AI assistants	Published	Live, billed from the same credit wallet	View source
Enterprise monthly floor	₹10,000 per month (eCourtsIndia)	₹15,000 per month, from ₹0.060 per credit	View source
Self serve ceiling	Contact sales above the monthly plan	Self serve through Scale, sales only at Enterprise	View source

Comparison compiled on 2026-09-18 from publicly published pricing pages. Competitor terms change without notice, so please verify their current page before making a purchase decision. Where a competitor does not publish a figure we say so rather than guessing, and we make no claim about their underlying per call rupee rate because it is not published.

Comparing research platforms rather than API rate cards? We publish the same kind of sourced, dated write up against Indian Kanoon, Manupatra, SCC Online, LegitQuest and CaseMine, each saying plainly where the other product is the better choice. See all comparisons.

How billing works

Two wallets, one account

CourtMesh sells two different units because two different things are being metered. Understanding which is which takes about a minute and saves a lot of confusion at invoice time.

API credits, fixed per call

Bought in INR, spent per successful API call at the published rate on this page. The price of a keyword search is 1 credit whether the result set is tiny or enormous, which means you can model your unit economics before you write the first line of integration code. Prepaid credits never expire and are visible in the API keys screen of your CourtMesh account alongside per key usage.

Platform AI credits, token metered

These power the human facing product: AI chat, semantic search in the interface, drafting and case analysis inside Research, My Cases and My Agreements. They are metered on tokens consumed, so a short question costs less than a deep analysis of a 200 page judgment. Plan allowances and top up packs are described on the main pricing page.

Where they meet

A Research Professional subscription includes 5,000 API credits per month, enough for 5,000 keyword searches, or 500 semantic searches, or 50 AI analyses, and those credits are drawn from the API wallet on the same per endpoint prices as everyone else. Research Enterprise API volume is agreed inside the enterprise contract. If your integration outgrows the included grant you buy prepaid packs or move to Scale, and nothing about your application code changes. We deliberately keep the API priced at or slightly above the equivalent in application cost, because the API returns raw JSON for software to consume while the application gives a human the interface, the chat, the alerts and the drafting tools.

FAQ

API pricing questions

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