Free API access for legal aid.
The full US primary law API, free for verified nonprofit legal aid and public interest organizations: statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions across all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.
1.4 million
civil legal problems reach a legal aid organization's door every year without getting any or enough help.
Of the problems that already reached their door, legal aid organizations could not fully help with 71% of them.
Remaining 29% received the help they needed to resolve the problem.
That number isn't a demand estimate. It's Legal Services Corporation's own intake data: of the civil legal problems that already reached a legal aid organization's door, 71% got no help or not enough of it, because the organization ran out of resources, not because the problem wasn't real.
We've talked with legal aid nonprofits trying to build AI tools to stretch a small (sometimes largely volunteer) team further. Nearly every one hit the same wall early: the statutes, regulations, and court rules they need are public domain, Congress and the state legislatures already paid to write them, nobody owns the law. But turning that law into a shape software can actually use costs money to build, and the quotes they were getting priced it for a corporate legal budget. A nonprofit with no line item for data infrastructure was paying the same rate as a company with a procurement team.
That part is fixable. So we fixed it.
To be direct about scope: this doesn't close the justice gap. Data was never legal aid's biggest constraint, staffing is, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. It removes one line item that shouldn't have existed for organizations already stretched thin.
The same service, free
Verified legal aid and nonprofit organizations get the exact same API as every paying customer, not a limited or delayed tier.
The full corpus
The complete US Code, the CFR, all 52 state and territory codes, state and federal constitutions, court rules, and Executive Orders. Nothing held back for the free tier.
5,000 free credits every month
Enough for sustained daily use by a small team. Usage beyond that is discounted for verified nonprofits, not cut off, email us for the exact rate.
REST API and MCP server
The same two ways to call the API that every developer gets: REST endpoints and native MCP tools for Claude, Cursor, and VS Code.
No procurement cycle
No sales call, no contract negotiation, no minimum commitment. Verify nonprofit status, get a key.
Section-level citations
Every result cited and linked to its official government source, so what you build can be verified by anyone who checks.
Same docs, same support
Full API reference, quickstart guides, and the same support channel as every other customer.
How to get access
Three steps, no application form to fill out beyond the message below.
Tell us about your organization
Send your org name, mission, and a contact email, either through the form below or directly to contact@vaquill.ai.
Confirm nonprofit / legal aid status
Reply with your 501(c)(3) determination letter (US orgs) or equivalent nonprofit, NGO, or legal aid registration for orgs outside the US.
We turn the key on
Same API, same corpus, same docs as every paid customer. No procurement cycle, no sales call.
Eligible organizations: 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal aid providers, legal aid societies, public interest law organizations, and equivalent nonprofit/NGO legal aid providers outside the US. Law school clinics and pro bono programs, email us, most qualify too.