---
title: "eCourts API India: endpoints, price, free credit"
url: https://jurisgrid.com/solutions/ecourts-api/
reviewed: 2026-11-13
type: solution
sector: court-data
---
# 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.

Reviewed: 13 Nov 2026

## 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.

## Which API does it?

**eCourtsIndia API** (JurisGrid score 92 of 100). Price: 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. INR 200 free credit on signup, no card needed.

- `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}`: Full case record by CNR, INR 1.50 per call
- `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/v2/search`: Case search by party, advocate, judge, court or act, INR 0.60 per call
- `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/case/{cnr}/order/{filename}`: Order as a certified true copy PDF, INR 3.75 per call
- `GET https://webapi.ecourtsindia.com/api/partner/causelist/search`: Cause list search, INR 3.00 per call
- MCP: https://mcp.ecourtsindia.com/mcp
- Docs: https://ecourtsindia.com/api/docs?ref=jurisgrid

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

## What does it return?

- 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?

| Provider | What they sell | Score | API | MCP | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [eCourtsIndia](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/ecourtsindia/index.md) | eCourtsIndia API | 92 | Public REST API | Public MCP server | 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 |
| [Attestr](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/attestr/index.md) | Unified eCourt case details API | 40 | Public REST API | Not published | Not published |
| [Surepass](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/surepass/index.md) | eCourts API for civil and criminal case records, plus CNR search | 36 | Public REST API | Not published | Not published |
| [bharat-courts](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/bharat-courts/index.md) | Open-source Python SDK for eCourts case search, orders and cause lists | 34 | No API | Not published | Free (MIT license) |
| [Vakeel360](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/vakeel360/index.md) | 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 |
| [LegalKart](https://jurisgrid.com/providers/legalkart/index.md) | Court and registry data APIs covering CNR records, orders and cause lists | 22 | API on request | Not published | Not published |

## 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 INR 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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