# OpenLaws

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openlaws/  
**Website:** https://openlaws.us/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

OpenLaws is a Public Benefit Corporation that provides programmatic access to U.S. law text — federal and state statutes, regulations, constitutions, and case law — through a unified Legal Data API. The platform exposes keyword and citation search, hierarchical division retrieval, historical versions with redline comparisons, citation parsing and validation, and deep links to authoritative government sources. Coverage spans 53 U.S. jurisdictions (50 states + D.C. + Puerto Rico + Federal) with more than 4.3 million law sections under a single data model, targeted at RegTech, LegalTech, GRC / IRM, generative AI / RAG, and legal research workloads.

## Kin Score — 36.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 29.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **OpenLaws Courts API** — Courts issue Opinions and belong to a Jurisdiction.
- **OpenLaws Jurisdictions API** — All data (statutes, regulations, caselaw opinions) in OpenLaws are organized into jurisdictions. This allows you to scope searches and lookups to a specific state or federal jur...
- **OpenLaws Law Divisions API** — Divisions represent the hierarchical documents that make up statutes, regulations, and constitutions. Each document has a 'path' which uniquely identifies the document and where...
- **OpenLaws Laws API** — Laws represent a specific law type in a Jurisdiction. For example, Code of Federal Regulations belongs to the FED Jurisdiction and is represented by the law_key `FED-CFR`. Flori...
- **OpenLaws Opinions API** — Opinions represent published and unpublished case law opinions. Opinions belong to a Court and Jurisdiction.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Openlaws Agentic Access** — 28 operations

## Security (2)

- **Openlaws Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Openlaws Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Openlaws Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Legal, Law, Statutes, Regulations, Constitutions, Case Law, Citations, Search, RAG, Legal Tech, RegTech, Compliance, GRC, Government Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/openlaws/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.