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eCourts API for India: case, order, cause list and court data in one REST API

An eCourts API gives software structured access to Indian court case records, orders and cause lists that otherwise sit on separate court portals, for legal-tech, lending, compliance and research teams.

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Short answer

The eCourtsIndia API returns case details by CNR, case search, certified order PDFs, AI order summaries and cause lists from the Supreme Court, High Courts, district courts and tribunals through one Bearer-token REST API. Case detail costs INR 1.50 per call on pay as you go, with INR 200 free credit. Surepass, Vakeel360 and Legalkart also sell court data APIs.

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Which API does a eCourts check?

eCourtsIndia API: 4 endpoints, Pay as you go at 3x base rate (case detail INR 1.50, search INR 0.60), or base rate INR 0.50 and INR 0.20 on Enterprise; INR 200 free credit.

The API for this

JurisGrid score 92 out of 100

eCourtsIndia API

JurisGrid score 92 of 100. Pay as you go at 3x base rate (case detail ₹1.50, search ₹0.60), or base rate ₹0.50 and ₹0.20 on Enterprise; ₹200 free credit.

Endpoint: GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}Full case record by CNR, INR 1.50 per call
Endpoint: GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/v2/searchCase search by party, advocate, judge, court or act, INR 0.60 per call
Endpoint: GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}/order/{filename}Order as a certified true copy PDF, INR 3.75 per call
Endpoint: GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/causelist/searchCause list search, INR 3.00 per call
MCP URL: https://mcp.ecourtsindia.com/mcp

Get API key Docs MCP setup

shell

curl -s "https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/DLND020047882015" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ECOURTSINDIA_API_KEY"

What does it return?

5 fields, as documented by the provider.

Case number, court, district, state and current status
Petitioners, respondents and their advocates, and the judges
Hearing history with purpose and next hearing date
Judgment and interim orders with file names you can download
Statutory provisions cited, with India Code links

Who else sells a eCourts API in India?

6 providers compared on what they sell for this check, access and published price.

Provider	What they sell for this	Score	API	MCP	Price	Source
eCourtsIndia	eCourtsIndia API	92	Public REST API	Public MCP server	Pay as you go at 3x base rate (case detail ₹1.50, search ₹0.60), or base rate ₹0.50 and ₹0.20 on Enterprise; ₹200 free credit	Source
Attestr	Unified eCourt case details API	40	Public REST API	Not published	Not published	Sourceopens the source page
Surepass	eCourts API for civil and criminal case records, plus CNR search	36	Public REST API	Not published	Not published	Sourceopens the source page
bharat-courts	Open-source Python SDK for eCourts case search, orders and cause lists	34	No API	Not published	Free (MIT license)	Sourceopens the source page
Vakeel360	Case status, order search and cause list API for 25+ courts, fixed monthly plans	27	Public REST API	Not published	Fixed monthly plans, quote on request	Sourceopens the source page
LegalKart	Court and registry data APIs covering CNR records, orders and cause lists	22	API on request	Not published	Not published	Sourceopens the source page

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When is it the right choice?

Legal-tech products that track client cases and hearing dates

Good for

Legal-tech products that track client cases and hearing dates
Lenders and NBFCs screening borrowers for litigation
AI assistants that need court records as grounded context
Research teams building datasets across courts

Limits

Records are mirrored from public eCourts sources, so a case can lag the live court portal until a refresh is queued
Pay as you go is billed at 3x the base rate; the base rate needs an Enterprise plan from ₹10,000 a month
Search results carry no case title; build one from the petitioners and respondents arrays

Frequently asked questions

Is there an official eCourts API?

No official public API was found. The eCourts portals are web pages, so developers use third-party APIs such as eCourtsIndia, Surepass, Vakeel360 or Legalkart, or an open-source scraper such as bharat-courts.

How much does the eCourtsIndia API cost?

Pay as you go is billed at 3x the base rate: INR 1.50 for a case detail, INR 0.60 for a search and INR 3.00 for a cause list search. Enterprise plans bill at the base rate (INR 0.50, INR 0.20, INR 1.00) from INR 10,000 a month. New accounts get INR 200 free credit and failed or empty requests are not charged.

Which courts does it cover?

The docs list district courts, High Courts, the Supreme Court, tribunals and consumer commissions, with court structure endpoints that are free to call.

Can an AI agent call this API?

Yes. eCourtsIndia runs an MCP server at https://mcp.ecourtsindia.com/mcp, so assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can use the same data after signing in at eCourts. The REST API uses a Bearer token.

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