DocketXDocketX vs Claude
You may already use Claude for all sorts of things, legal questions included. That is a genuinely useful comparison to make, not a strawman: Claude is a general-purpose assistant, built to be capable across an enormous range of tasks, and DocketX is a narrow verification layer built around one, checking a legal citation against real law before it reaches you. We are not going to tell you what Claude does or doesn't do here; we don't know its current answer and won't guess. Put these eight questions to it yourself, the next time it hands you a case citation, and compare what you get to what we state below, which you can check.
| The question | DocketX answer | Their answer |
|---|---|---|
| Does it verify that every citation exists, before you see the answer? | Yes. Every citation is looked up in 18,123,788 citations across 989 reporters; anything unverifiable is removed from the answer and disclosed. | Ask Claude |
| What is the measured hallucination rate, on what test? | Zero unverifiable citations survived across 348 adversarial and real answers on three models, measured on the production system. | Ask Claude |
| Exactly what law does it hold, and as of when? | 615,391 Texas appellate decisions through June 2026, 122,681 Texas statute sections, 45,660 U.S. Supreme Court opinion documents, 370 county local rules, 2,008 court rules verbatim. Machine-readable at docketrouter.ai/api/v1/jurisdictions. | Ask Claude |
| What does it NOT cover? | Federal district and circuit opinions, most states' case law (Texas deepest, Washington next), treatises, and citator history. We publish the gaps. | Ask Claude |
| Can you audit an individual answer afterward? | Yes, per request: what was retrieved, what was checked, what was removed, retrievable by request id. | Ask Claude |
| Can it run on your own hardware? | Yes, private-pod keys restrict to in-house models on infrastructure you control, with bring-your-own-key support. | Ask Claude |
| What does it cost, exactly? | $0.01 per retrieval query plus model usage at cost, prepaid, no seats, no annual minimum. Pricing is published. | Ask Claude |
| Is the answer's source a document you can open? | Yes, every cited authority links to the record, and rule text is held word for word. | Ask Claude |
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Ask any legal AI a narrow question in your jurisdiction, then verify every citation it produced against the published reporters before you rely on it. Whatever tool you end up buying, do this before you rely on it. It is the single test that catches the failure that costs the most.
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Claude is a product of its respective owner and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of DocketX; names are used for identification and comparison only. We make no claims about their features, pricing or accuracy, ask them directly. Our own figures are counted from our live library and independently checkable through our public API. Not legal advice.