Docket Alarm

What to ask before you buy

1. Which courts are covered, and how quickly are new filings indexed?
2. What do the PACER and state court document fees add on top of the subscription?
3. What does the AI analytics feature rest on, and how far back does the data go?
4. What are the API limits on my tier?

Limits in the record

• Document fees from PACER and state courts are billed separately, so the subscription is not the full cost.
• The analytics rest on court records, which reflect filings rather than outcomes in every case.
• The checked pages do not publish a confidentiality or data-location statement.

How it sits in Legal research

This sits alongside Trellis in the analytics part of the category, but it covers federal and IP tribunals where Trellis focuses on state trial courts. A firm may need one or both depending on where it litigates.

Reading the vendor’s wording

The vendor states that its analytics are trained on over a billion real court records. That describes the training corpus for its models, which is public court data rather than customer work product. The checked pages do not state how a firm's own tracked matters are handled.

How to evaluate it in a trial

1. Check coverage and indexing speed for the courts your firm appears in.
2. Calculate the real cost including PACER and state court document fees, which are billed separately.
3. Test the analytics against a matter you already understand.
4. Review the API limits if you plan to integrate.

What adopting it costs

The switching cost is low for the subscription itself, but any alerts, tracks, or API integrations a firm has built would have to be rebuilt elsewhere.

Closest alternative

Trellis — The closest alternative. Both provide litigation analytics over court data; Trellis focuses on state trial courts while this one covers federal, state, and IP tribunals.