BAILII vs Midpage

BAILII is a free web service for finding British and Irish case law, legislation, European case law, and other legal materials. Readers can search databases by keyword or browse by date and A–Z title list. Search help covers basic, advanced, multidatabase, citation, date, and Boolean searches, including AND, OR, and NOT. LawCite supports searching by citation, parties, court, jurisdiction, article title, author, year, and cases or legislation considered. Collections include case law, legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related material. The help section explains printing and downloading documents. BAILII says access requires no password and places no cookies on users’ machines. Its stated beneficiaries include pro bono organisations, neighbourhood law centres, students, and users in developing countries; legal practitioners and educators are also among its audiences. OpenLaw makes selected leading judgments and reports available for legal education. BAILII does not offer an API or permit bulk downloads, and says large-scale downloading may lead to blocked access. It invites commercial users and educational institutions to make annual donations, without specifying an amount.

Midpage is a legal research platform and data provider for litigators and legal technology teams working with US primary law. It searches case law, statutes, regulations, and agency guidance through manual tools or an AI research agent. Users can draft briefs and memos from research and uploaded documents, check citations, and use an AI citator to see how later courts treated an opinion. Midpage states its collection includes 16M+ published and unpublished opinions with metadata, alongside statutes and regulations from all 50 states. It integrates with Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity for source-grounded research and drafting; legal data and retrieval tools are available through APIs, MCP, or a database connection. Midpage says safeguards are independently validated through annual SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA audits. Customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit and is not used to train or fine-tune AI models. A 14-day trial is listed; the paid Law Student plan costs $25 a month for one seat before tax and requires proof of US law-school enrollment or employment.