Nearly every advocate reading this uses Indian Kanoon, and so do we. This is not an argument against it. It is a map of where it ends.
Indian Kanoon is free, fast and the default for most Indian advocates. It gives you the text of judgments. It does not tell you whether an authority is still good law, it does not pin an answer to a paragraph, and it carries no cause lists, no case tracking and no limitation clocks. That is the gap this page is about.
It is free, and that is not a small thing. A junior in their first year of practice, a legal aid lawyer, a district-court advocate in a small town — all of them can read the same Supreme Court judgment as a senior counsel in a metro, at no cost. Very little in Indian legal infrastructure has done as much levelling. Any page that treats that as a weakness is not worth reading.
It is fast, and it is where the judgment already is. If you know the case name, you are on the text in seconds. No plan tier, no seat, no login screen between you and the paragraph. That is a real product decision and a good one.
Coverage reaches the unreported. High Court judgments that will never see a reporter show up there, often quickly. For district and High Court practice, where the useful authority is frequently unreported, that matters more than a curated collection would.
It deep-links cleanly. You can send a colleague a link to a judgment and they can open it. Anyone who has tried to share a judgment out of a subscription platform knows how rare that is.
Not hypotheticals. These are the three situations in which a free library hands the work back to you.
You have a judgment that says exactly what you need. It is from 2011. Somewhere between then and now, a larger Bench may have taken a different view, or the same view for different reasons, or approved it in terms that narrow it. Full-text search will not raise a hand. What you get is a cited-by list, and the work is to open the later judgments one at a time looking for the words overruled, reversed, doubted, referred to a larger Bench. If the list is long, that is an afternoon. If you are filing tomorrow, that afternoon does not exist.
Your High Court has taken a consistent view on a question for years. Another High Court has taken the opposite view. Somewhere in between, the Supreme Court has said something that touches the question without deciding it squarely. Working out whether your line survives means reading across courts, in sequence, and holding the whole chronology in your head. Keyword search returns documents; it does not return a position. Assembling that position by hand is slow, and it is the step most easily left half-done under time pressure.
A written submission arrives with eleven citations. Some are good. One may have been overruled. One may say something quite different from what the paragraph number suggests. Checking all eleven properly means opening each judgment, finding the proposition, and then checking each one's own subsequent history. Under time pressure that check is often partial, with judgment relied on for the rest. That is a rational use of time and it is also exactly where a case gets lost.
| Capability | Indian Kanoon | Lawgger |
|---|---|---|
| Full text of judgments | Yes, free | Yes — 2.07 crore+ |
| Courts covered | Broad, including district material | Supreme Court + all 25 High Courts |
| Good-law verdict | Cited-by lists you read yourself | Still good law / overruled, on every authority |
| Answer pin-cited to the paragraph | Not offered | Yes, every answer |
| Table of Authorities from a pasted brief | Not offered | Authority Check, with verdicts |
| Statute-to-case links | Partial | 1.28 crore+ case-to-section links |
| Cause lists | Not offered | Any court, any date |
| Live display boards | Not offered | 527 courts, 426 benches |
| Case tracking by CNR | Not offered | Yes, with plain-words digests |
| Limitation clocks | Not offered | 21 statutory clocks |
| Drafting formats | Not offered | 3,500+ across 61 categories |
| Price | Free; a paid AI upgrade tier is offered separately1 | ₹1,999 / month · ₹19,999 / year — 14-day trial, no card |
1. A paid upgrade tier with AI features sits alongside the free service; check the current price with the vendor. Feature reads from public material, July 2026 — corrections to anubhav@lawgger.com. Cross-vendor pricing on our cost guide.
Everything above reduces to a single difference: whether the platform tells you where an authority stands, or hands you the material to work it out.
Every authority Lawgger puts in front of you carries a verdict, checked when you ask. Not a flag on some judgments and silence on the rest. Where the position is genuinely unsettled, it says that too. How good-law checking works.
Paste the opponent's written submission. You get back a Table of Authorities with a verdict against each citation, and a pin-cite to the paragraph each one actually turns on. The eleven-citation problem, in the time it takes to read a page.
Answers name the judgment and the paragraph, and open on it. You read the paragraph and decide for yourself. That is the only form of AI research an advocate can safely sign under. See how it works.
The trial is the whole product for fourteen days. Pin-cited research with a good-law verdict on every authority, cause lists, live display boards, CNR tracking, limitation clocks, drafting formats and billing. Nothing is held back, and no card is asked for.
Run it beside Indian Kanoon rather than instead of it. Take the authorities you were going to cite this fortnight, check whether each one still stands, and see whether a verdict changes anything you would have filed. That is the only test that settles the question.
After the fourteen days Lawgger is ₹1,999 a month or ₹19,999 a year, about ₹66 a day, with a GST invoice and cancellation whenever you want. If you are still in law school or in your first years, see our page for law students, and the full pricing page for what the plan includes.
Yes. Full-text search and reading judgments is free, which is why it is the default across Indian practice. A paid upgrade tier with AI features is offered alongside the free service; check the current price with the vendor. The free service on its own remains the best zero-rupee legal library in India.
The text it serves is the court's own text, and advocates have relied on it for years. Reliability of text is not the same as reliability of position. A judgment can be reproduced perfectly and still have been overruled six years later, and that is the gap a free full-text library is not built to close.
Not as a verdict. It shows which later judgments cite the one you are reading, and you read those to find out how it was treated. That is real information, but it is your afternoon rather than the platform's, and a single missed reversal in a long cited-by list is how bad citations reach a filing.
Better depends on the task. For free full text, nothing beats it. For an answer pinned to a paragraph with a good-law verdict on every authority, for Authority Check across a pasted brief, and for cause lists, case tracking and limitation dates, Lawgger is built for that work at ₹19,999 a year. The two are complementary rather than mutually exclusive.
Yes, on both. Lawgger additionally carries 1.28 crore case-to-section links across 1,607 central and state acts in 37 jurisdictions, so a section takes you to the judgments that construe it rather than to judgments that merely mention the words. That matters most where a section has been renumbered — see the IPC to BNS mapping.
Yes. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial of the full product and no card is required to begin. After the trial Lawgger is ₹1,999 a month or ₹19,999 a year, and you can cancel at any time.
2.07 crore and counting, in full text, from the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, along with 1,607 central and state acts across 37 jurisdictions, 1.28 crore case-to-section links, 18 lakh citation links and 10 Indian languages. Every subscription includes all of it, with no single-court module. See courts coverage.
That is what we would expect. Keep Indian Kanoon open for fast free reading of a judgment you already know you want. Use Lawgger when you need the answer pinned to a paragraph, a good-law verdict, a Table of Authorities from an opponent's brief, or anything outside research such as listings, tracking and limitation dates.
No card to begin, and everything is in the trial — research, listings, tracking, limitation dates, drafting and billing. Then ₹1,999 a month or ₹19,999 a year.