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Per-seat pricing is the norm and the per-seat rate usually falls as seats rise. Ask what happens when you add a junior mid-year, and whether the seat is transferable when someone leaves.
A guide to how legal research is priced in India, not a quotation. We do not print rupee figures for other vendors' plans, because those figures move and are almost always quoted rather than listed. What you get here is the shape of each vendor's pricing and the questions that decide your number.
Indian legal research runs from free — Indian Kanoon's full-text library — to paid platforms that are almost all sold by quotation rather than at a published price, with GST normally extra. Firm and institutional research subscriptions are typically quoted in the ₹1.5–3 lakh a year range for research alone. Lawgger publishes one price: ₹19,999 a year, practice tools included.
Single-user unless stated. Only Lawgger's own figure is a published price; every other row tells you how that vendor prices rather than what it will charge you.
| Vendor | What you get | What is published | GST | Basis | Described as of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCC Online — AI-assisted research | AI-assisted research over case law and editorial material | No figure we can verify as a published list price | GST normally extra | Quote on request | July 2026 |
| SCC Online — higher tiers | Multi-seat and institutional plans | Varies with plan, seats and coverage | GST normally extra | Quote on request | July 2026 |
| SCC Online — junior or student schemes | Entry schemes, availability varies | Ask the vendor directly | GST normally extra | Offered periodically | July 2026 |
| SCC Online — limited-coverage plans | Fewer courts or years than a nationwide plan | Priced according to what is covered | GST normally extra | Confirm the coverage schedule | July 2026 |
| SCC Online — print reports | The printed reporter | Priced separately from online plans | As applicable | Published | July 2026 |
| Manupatra — short pass | Access for a single stretch of research | Published on the purchase page | As applicable | Published | July 2026 |
| Manupatra — pre-paid card / per search | A fixed allowance of searches | Published on the purchase page | As applicable | Published | July 2026 |
| Manupatra — annual plans | A year of access, individual or firm | No annual list price published | Usually extra | Quote on request | July 2026 |
| LexisNexis India | Research library, plan-dependent coverage | Not published | Usually extra | Quote on request | July 2026 |
| CaseMine | Case law with visual citation mapping | Plan or quote based | Usually extra | Quote / plan based | July 2026 |
| Jhana | AI assistance for Indian legal work | Not published | Usually extra | Quote on request | July 2026 |
| Lexlegis | AI-assisted Indian legal research | Not published as a standard figure | Usually extra | Quote / plan based | July 2026 |
| Law Finder (Chawla) | Case law and statutes, long-standing | Plan based | As applicable | Quote / plan based | July 2026 |
| Indian Kanoon | Free full-text search; paid AI upgrade tier | Free; upgrade priced separately | As applicable | Published | July 2026 |
| Lawgger | Research, courts, drafting and the whole practice | ₹1,999 / month · ₹19,999 / year | GST invoice issued | Published list price | Current |
How to read this. Quote on request means there is no standard figure and the number depends on seats, institution type, coverage and contract length. Firm and institutional research subscriptions in India are typically quoted in the ₹1.5–3 lakh a year range for research alone; that is a range, not a price, and it varies enormously with seat count. Nothing on this page is a quotation — confirm every figure with the vendor in writing before it goes into a budget.
A research subscription does not run a practice. The rest is bought separately, usually from three or four different vendors, and it rarely appears in a comparison of research platforms.
| What a chamber also needs | How it is usually bought | Included in Lawgger |
|---|---|---|
| Cause lists and listing alerts | Free government apps, or a separate diary service, priced per user | Included |
| Case tracking and status updates | A separate tracking tool or a clerk's time | Included — CNR tracking with plain-words digests |
| Matter and client management | Practice management software, usually per user per month | Included |
| Time recording and billing | A billing tool, usually per user per month | Included — timer, GST invoices, Razorpay |
| Document formats and templates | Bought as a format book, or built up over years | Included — 3,500+ formats, 61 categories |
| Limitation and deadline tracking | A diary, a wall calendar, and memory | Included — 21 statutory clocks |
Practice software in India is typically sold per user per month, and bands vary widely by vendor and feature set, so get written quotes rather than trusting a published band. What is not in dispute is the structure: most chambers pay twice, once for research and once for everything else. See case management software for advocates and law firm software in India.
Worked with a quoted range rather than an invented figure. Substitute the number on your own quote.
The stack as it is usually bought:
The same year on Lawgger:
Do the subtraction with the quote in your own hand against ₹19,999, and note that the second figure covers more of the day. What it does not cover is editorial headnotes and parallel reporter citations, which is a real difference and is set out honestly on our SCC Online alternative page. Whether that difference is worth the gap is a judgment about your own practice, not something a price table can settle. The pricing page has the full terms.
Five things move a quoted figure. Ask about all five in writing.
Per-seat pricing is the norm and the per-seat rate usually falls as seats rise. Ask what happens when you add a junior mid-year, and whether the seat is transferable when someone leaves.
A law school, a bar association, a corporate legal department and a sole practitioner are quoted differently for the same product. Say clearly which you are, and ask whether an individual-practitioner rate exists.
The single biggest source of confusion in this market. A single-High-Court module and a nationwide plan are very different products at very different prices. Get the coverage schedule in writing alongside the figure.
Starter packages for juniors and schemes for students and institutions come and go. Ask directly, and check what your bar association or court library already subscribes to before buying a personal seat.
A lower headline figure often comes with a two or three-year term. Ask what the renewal price is, whether it is capped, and what happens if you want to leave in year two.
Most quotes are exclusive of GST, normally 18%, so the figure you are shown is not the figure that leaves your account. Ask for the inclusive number in writing.
This page deliberately does not print rupee figures for other vendors. Legal research in India is sold by quotation far more often than by list price, the numbers move, and a figure repeated from a forum post or an old brochure would be wrong for most readers on the day they read it. So this page describes how each vendor prices and what moves the number, and leaves the figure to the written quote you obtain. That is a slower way to write a price comparison and it is the only way one is worth citing.
If anything here misdescribes how a vendor prices, or you hold a current written quote that shows something different, write to anubhav@lawgger.com. We will check it and correct the row. We will not publish anyone's individual quote or name.
Lawgger's own price is not a range and does not move by seat: ₹1,999 a month, ₹19,999 a year, on the pricing page, the same for a first-year junior and a twenty-year senior. We are the only entry in the table above that is also a party to the comparison, which is exactly why we describe every other vendor's pricing rather than asserting a figure for it.
It runs from free — Indian Kanoon's full-text library — to paid platforms that are almost all quoted on request rather than list-priced, with the number varying by seats, institution type and coverage, and GST normally extra. Firm and institutional subscriptions are typically quoted in the ₹1.5–3 lakh a year range for research alone. Lawgger publishes ₹19,999 a year.
Indian Kanoon, because full-text search is free. Among paid platforms, comparison is difficult when only some vendors publish a price. Lawgger's ₹19,999 a year is published rather than quoted, and covers cause lists, case tracking, limitation clocks, drafting and billing rather than research alone. Compare it against the quote you are actually given.
SCC Online is sold by quotation rather than at one published list price, and the figure moves with seats, institution type, the courts and years covered and contract length; GST is normally extra. We do not publish a rupee figure for it because any figure we printed would be out of date or wrong for your chamber. Verify with the vendor — see our SCC Online alternative page for the full breakdown.
Not as a standard annual list price. Short-duration access and a pre-paid search card are publicly visible; individual and firm annual plans are quoted on request. Ask for a written quote that states the courts, the years and the number of seats covered, and whether GST is included or extra. More on our Manupatra alternative page.
Usually yes. Most vendors quote a figure and add GST, normally 18%, on top, so the amount leaving your account is higher than the figure you were shown. Always ask whether a quoted figure is inclusive. Lawgger's ₹1,999 a month and ₹19,999 a year are the amounts you pay, and a GST invoice is issued for your books.
Several vendors run starter packages for juniors and schemes for law students and institutions, and availability changes from year to year, so ask directly. Many bar associations, law schools and court libraries also hold subscriptions their members can use. Check what you already have access to before buying a personal seat — see our page for law students.
₹1,999 a month or ₹19,999 a year — about ₹66 a day on the monthly plan and less on the annual one. One published price for everybody, no seat negotiation, GST invoice issued, cancel anytime, and a 14-day trial with no card.
Yes. Indian Kanoon offers free full-text search across a very large collection of Indian judgments. Lawgger is paid, though every plan starts with a 14-day free trial of the full product and no card is required to begin. Free full-text search covers reading; it does not cover cause lists, case tracking, limitation dates, drafting or billing.
Fourteen days free, no card, cancel anytime, GST invoice included.