Learn why Sqyro owns its legal research infrastructure instead of relying on third-party APIs
Most AI legal tools use third-party APIs (CourtListener, Casetext/Thomson Reuters) for case law — adding latency, per-search costs, and single points of failure. Westlaw and LexisNexis self-host but charge $200-500+/month. Sqyro self-hosts 10.7M opinions on dedicated hardware with zero per-search fees, starting at $199/month — the same data independence as enterprise research platforms at solo-attorney pricing.
Hetzner AX102 with 128GB RAM, dual NVMe storage, PostgreSQL 16 + pgvector
14 proprietary tools + 2 fallback tools — no third-party API dependency
New opinions, citations, and docket entries added quarterly from CourtListener bulk data
Sqyro indexes 10.7M opinions and 76.4M citations from the same public court data. Westlaw has additional editorial content (headnotes, key numbers), but for case discovery and citation checking, Sqyro provides comparable coverage at 60-80% lower cost.
The legal corpus server runs on enterprise hardware with RAID 1 storage redundancy, automated backups, and health monitoring every 15 minutes. The main application continues functioning — research tools gracefully fall back to CourtListener APIs if needed.
Sqyro updates its legal corpus quarterly from CourtListener bulk data, adding new opinions, citations, and docket entries. The current corpus spans 360 years of US legal history.
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