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Docket Alarm pricing

Rates, units and pass through costs are all published on the pricing page and in the signup flow. There are two self serve plans. Pay-As-You-Go costs 39.99 dollars a month, with each unit priced separately. A document costs 4 dollars, a docket update 3 dollars, new case alerts 3 dollars a day, docket tracking 2 dollars a day, and a search in federal courts 1 dollar. Flat-Fee costs 99 dollars a month and covers unlimited document access, case alerts, docket tracking and search, plus filtering by motion.

Both plans include documents from state courts that charge fees. Analytics are sold on top as three named add ons (Federal Analytics, Easy Analytics and the Analytics Workbench), none priced publicly. Government access fees sit outside both plans and are disclosed. The vendor passes court charges on without markup and reproduces the PACER schedule at 10 cents a page, with a 30 page or 3 dollar cap and no cap on transcripts.

It charges nothing where the document is already in its database. State courts that charge fees, mostly in California, are offered as a choice to accept or decline at the moment of access. Customers may also use their own PACER account and be billed by the government directly. A free tier, framed as keeping the law open, gives a weekly allowance of searches and document or docket views. It is limited to material already in the system and excludes anything that must be bought from a government system.

A three day trial with no commitment is offered. API access is in neither plan and has no published figure or unit. Self service subscriptions renew automatically, need three days' notice to cancel before the next term, and are stated to be nonrefundable.