Docket Alarm

Docket Alarm provides a cloud‑based platform that aggregates and delivers federal, state, and intellectual‑property court filings. Attorneys and paralegals can search, receive alerts, and run analytics on litigation outcomes. The service offers a public Developer API for programmatic access to case data, pricing plans, and documentation, supporting legal research and workflow automation.

Docket Alarm is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Legal Tech, Litigation, and Data.

Docket Alarm’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, pricing, engineering blog, and 13 more developer resources.

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19.5/100 emerging ▼ -8.4 Agent 0/100 human only Heartbeat 67/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 API

Company Legal Tech Litigation Data

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 9.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Developer API

Provides programmatic access to Docket Alarm case data, pricing plans, and documentation.

Docket Alarm API pricing

Prices published by Docket Alarm, read 2026-10-14 from www.docketalarm.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	$0
Pay-As-You-Go	$39.99 per month + per-use fees
Flat-Fee	$99 per user/ month
Enterprise	Contact us

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Docket Alarm Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Docket Alarm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: docket-alarm
name: Docket Alarm
description: Docket Alarm provides a cloud‑based platform that aggregates and delivers federal, state, and intellectual‑property
  court filings. Attorneys and paralegals can search, receive alerts, and run analytics on litigation outcomes. The service
  offers a public Developer API for programmatic access to case data, pricing plans, and documentation, supporting legal research
  and workflow automation.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/docket-alarm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  probe_state: blocked
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-14'
modified: '2026-10-14'
x-docs-platform: redoc
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
tags:
- Company
- Legal Tech
- Litigation
- Data
tags_raw:
- Company
- LegalTech
- Litigation
- API
- Data
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
image: https://www.docketalarm.com/site_media/img/logo75px.png
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/docket-alarm-plans-pricing.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/docket-alarm-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/docket-alarm-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/docket-alarm-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/docket-alarm-packages.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/TermsOfService
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/Privacy
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://sandbox.docketalarm.com/news
- type: Login
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/login/google
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/DocketAlarm
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/docket-alarm-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/api
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.docketalarm.com/blog
apis:
- name: Developer API
  description: Provides programmatic access to Docket Alarm case data, pricing plans, and documentation.
  humanURL: https://www.docketalarm.com/api
  baseURL: null
  aid: docket-alarm:developer-api
x-coverage:
  state: blocked
  reason: bot-challenge
  method: derived
  generated: '2026-10-14'
  generator: derive-coverage.py (pre-flight evidence)
  detail: the company's own front door answers a browser with an anti-bot challenge, so nothing behind it is reachable by
    any reader
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.docketalarm.com/mcp
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.docketalarm.com
    status: 403
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Docket Alarm API — frequently asked questions

Does Docket Alarm have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Docket Alarm, including Developer API.

How much does the Docket Alarm API cost?

Docket Alarm publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-10-14. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Docket Alarm, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Docket Alarm API ready for AI agents?

Docket Alarm has a Kin Score of 19.5 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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