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Vakilat and SCC Online compared

Last updated 27 October 2026

SCC Online alternative: Vakilat answers from Supreme Court judgments with checked quotations at ₹799 a month. Five research runs free, no card needed.

In short

SCC Online is one of India’s largest legal databases, with judgments from every High Court, tribunals, statutes, and digest notes written by its editors. Its AI Pro add-on answers legal questions with hyperlinked citations. For breadth of material, it covers far more than Vakilat does today.

Litigators turn to Vakilat for a different problem: verifying that an authority says what it claims before standing up before the bench. When preparing a special leave petition, a bail application, or an urgent motion, an advocate cannot afford an AI summary that drifts from the judge’s words. In Vakilat, every authority opens directly at the relied-upon paragraph, and every quotation is matched word for word against the official Supreme Court text using deterministic code before you see it. Statements that go beyond the court’s holding are set apart with clear explanations. SCC Online’s published pages do not describe quotation checks like these.

Transitioning from old criminal codes to new laws also differs across both platforms. SCC Online hosts statutory texts for the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA). Vakilat adds an algorithmic transition calculator: enter your offence date, FIR date, and procedural stage, and Vakilat works out whether the IPC or BNS applies substantively, whether old or new procedural codes govern your hearing, and links the applicable provisions to Supreme Court precedents.

The commercial models reflect different priorities. SCC Online asks firms to schedule sales calls for quotes, locking chambers into annual commitments that routinely exceed ₹70,000 to ₹90,000 per user each year when AI add-ons are included. For a solo practitioner, that annual lock-in can reach ₹82,600 with taxes. For a three-advocate chamber, annual outlays often reach ₹2,00,000. Vakilat publishes flat, transparent monthly plans starting at ₹799 a seat for advocates (₹11,314 a year including GST), bills monthly with no long-term contracts, refunds unused runs upon cancellation, and provides five free research runs with no payment details required.

Choose SCC Online for a full research library across Indian High Courts, tribunals, and historical law reports. Choose Vakilat for Supreme Court research you can check line by line, at a transparent price you can see before you sign up.

Side by side

Facts about SCC Online are taken from its own website on 27 October 2026. “Not described on its website” means we looked and found nothing; it may still exist.

  1. Courts covered

    VakilatSupported

    Supreme Court of India, 47,578 judgments decided from 1950, year by year on the coverage page. High Courts and tribunals are not covered yet. Source

    SCC OnlineSupported

    Supreme Court from 1950, all High Courts, selected district courts, tribunals and statutes, with Privy Council judgments from 1807. Source

  2. Answers to legal questions

    VakilatSupported

    Ask in plain words. The answer states the law and cites Supreme Court judgments, quoting the Court's own words.

    SCC OnlinePartial

    AI Pro answers a question in plain language as issues, applicable law, analysis and references. Source

  3. Where a citation points

    VakilatSupported

    Each authority opens at the paragraph it relies on, beside the answer, with a link to the Court's copy. Source

    SCC OnlinePartial

    Answers carry hyperlinked citations to the source document. Paragraph links: not described on its website. Source

  4. Checking citations and quotations

    VakilatSupported

    Before you see the answer, ordinary code finds every citation in the stored judgment and matches every quotation word for word. A second AI model reviews support. A statement that fails is removed or set apart with its reason. Source

    SCC OnlineNot described

    Not described on its website.

  5. Later judgments

    VakilatSupported

    Each judgment lists the later judgments in Vakilat that cite it. It does not label how they treated it.

    SCC OnlineSupported

    Case Reference lists the judgments, digest notes and articles that cite a case. Source

  6. IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act to BNS, BNSS and BSA

    VakilatSupported

    Every IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act section linked to its BNS, BNSS or BSA counterpart, and the code that applies worked out by fixed rules from your dates and stage. Source

    SCC OnlineNot described

    Not described on its website.

  7. Indian languages

    VakilatSupported

    The dashboard in 22 Indian languages and English. Answers come in the language you choose, with case names and quotations kept in the Court's words. Source

    SCC OnlineNot described

    Not described on its website.

  8. Your own documents

    VakilatSupported

    Attach up to five files to a question, up to 20 MB and 1,000 pages each. The answer cites them by file and page.

    SCC OnlineNot described

    Not described on its website.

  9. Price

    VakilatSupported

    Advocate ₹799, Professional ₹1,599, Chambers ₹2,999 a seat a month plus GST, billed monthly. Unused runs of a cancelled month are refunded. Source

    SCC OnlineNot described

    Not shown to a visitor; firms are asked to make contact. AI Pro is a paid add-on to a subscription. Source

  10. Free use

    VakilatSupported

    Five research runs free, no card. Searching and reading judgments is free on every plan. Source

    SCC OnlinePartial

    A trial of 7 days or 4 hours of browsing. Source

  11. Inside AI assistants

    VakilatSupported

    A Vakilat connector for Claude searches and reads judgments and checks citations, with 30 free calls a day.

    SCC OnlinePartial

    Its content is available inside Harvey, under a partnership announced in January 2026. Source

Where SCC Online goes further

  • It covers High Courts, tribunals, statutes and older material that Vakilat does not cover. Source
  • Judgments come with digest notes written by its editors. Source
  • It works on iOS and Android devices. Source

Questions

Is Vakilat a reliable alternative to SCC Online for Supreme Court litigation?

Vakilat is an alternative to SCC Online for Supreme Court litigation when you need answers with checked citations and exact paragraph references. While SCC Online covers High Courts, tribunals, and statutory digests that Vakilat does not yet host, Vakilat matches every quotation word for word against the official Supreme Court text before display.

How do Vakilat and SCC Online AI Pro ensure citations stand up in court?

Vakilat checks every cited authority against its stored repository of 47,578 Supreme Court judgments, opens each case at the relied-upon paragraph, and matches quoted text word for word. Statements lacking direct support are set apart with clear explanations before counsel reads them. SCC Online AI Pro provides hyperlinked references to source documents, but its product pages do not describe word-for-word quotation matching or automated checks against judicial text.

How does Vakilat compare to SCC Online for transitioning matters from IPC and CrPC to BNS and BNSS?

Vakilat automatically identifies whether the IPC or BNS, and CrPC or BNSS, governs a matter by calculating transition rules from your offence date, FIR date, and procedural stage. It cross-links provisions between old codes and new criminal laws while citing relevant Supreme Court precedent. SCC Online publishes the statutory texts of the new criminal acts, but its website does not describe date-driven algorithmic determination of applicable criminal procedure.

How does Vakilat subscription pricing compare to SCC Online plans?

Vakilat publishes flat, transparent monthly pricing starting at ₹799 per seat for advocates, ₹1,599 for professionals, and ₹2,999 for chambers, with five free research runs and pro-rata refunds on unused runs. SCC Online does not publish pricing for its web editions or its AI Pro add-on publicly, requiring legal teams to request quotes for annual contracts.

How do Vakilat and SCC Online handle client confidentiality and data privacy under Indian law?

Vakilat treats user prompts and uploaded case documents as confidential under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) and Bar Council of India standards, never using your legal briefs to train public AI models. SCC Online maintains institutional data security for its enterprise subscriptions, though its public site does not detail how AI Pro processes confidential draft pleadings attached to queries.

Can litigators use Vakilat on mobile devices in regional languages during court hearings?

Yes, litigators can access Vakilat on any mobile or tablet browser without dedicated app downloads, submitting queries in 22 Indian languages. While answers appear in the selected language, Vakilat preserves official case citations and judicial quotations in the Supreme Court's original English words so advocates can read them directly to the bench. SCC Online provides mobile apps for Android and iOS, but its platform does not describe multilingual query answering in Indian languages.

Try it on your own question

Ask Vakilat a question from this week's matter. Five research runs are free, with no card. See also how the checks work and which years Vakilat holds.

Sources

Checked on 27 October 2026. Products change, so if anything here is out of date, write to hello@vakilat.io and we will correct it.