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Should I Use LegiScan?

legiscan.com·Analyzed 23 hours ago··Based on 12 sources

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Worth it

Worth it

Buy it if you're a journalist, researcher, or small policy team needing cheap US bill tracking with a solid API.

Cheap, deep US bill-tracking with a strong API. Great for researchers and devs; enterprise teams need FiscalNote/Quorum.

Confidence: Medium

5/5

G2 rating

per FiscalNote's 2026 roundup

1M+

Bill coverage

bills pulled via API by one newsroom project

Yes

Free tier

free registration for public tracking

$416.2K

Funding

Crunchbase, this year — very small vendor

Value for money5

Repeatedly ranked best free/low-cost tracker

Feature depth4

All 50 states + Congress, full-text search, datasets, API

Security posture2

No public security page found

Pros

  • Free public tracking of Congress and all 50 state legislatures
  • Ranked best free/low-cost legislative tracker in a 2026 roundup⁴
  • Official Microsoft Power Automate connector plus n8n workflow recipes⁶
  • Robust API; one newsroom project pulled over a million bills⁹
  • Bulk CSV datasets available for all states

Cons

  • Tiny vendor (~$416K funding) means thin staffing and support⁸
  • No public security page — transparency gap³
  • Real-time Push API requires a paid subscription⁷
  • Data-first; rivals market AI summaries and polish it lacks11

Gotchas

  • mediumReal-time Push API is paid; expect limits on the free tier⁷
  • mediumVendor is tiny ($416K funding); don't expect enterprise support or SLAs⁸
  • mediumNo security page; terms make you solely responsible for your use

Best for

  • Journalists & academic researchers
  • Small policy teams on a budget
  • Developers needing a legislative API
  • Librarians & civic watchdogs

Not for

  • Enterprise gov-relations teams wanting AI briefings and CRM workflows
  • Advocacy shops needing lobbying or grassroots tooling
  • Anyone tracking non-US legislation — coverage is US-only
  • Buyers who need vendor support, SLAs, or security documentation

Companies that use it

  • azcentral newsroom data project⁹

Pricing

Public monitoring

Free (registration required)

  • Bill tracking and alerts
  • Full-text search
  • Federal + 50-state coverage

API / Push subscription

Paid tiers (see API price list)

  • REST API access
  • Push API for real-time data
  • Bulk datasets

Security

No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Reddit threads and a library-review column treat LegiScan as the standard free/low-cost US legislative tracker, though available snippets are truncated.

Alternatives

Compare LegiScan with each alternative.

Full analysis

Based on 30+ public sources; many Reddit and review snippets were truncated, so direct user quotes were unavailable.

Sources

  1. LegiScan — official sitelegiscan.com
    official
  2. LegiScan API price listlegiscan.com
    official
  3. LegiScan security pagelegiscan.com
    security
  4. 2026 Best Legislative Tracking Software (FiscalNote)fiscalnote.com
    review
  5. Internet Reviews — College & Research Libraries Newscrln.acrl.org
    review
  6. LegiScan Power Automate connector (Microsoft)learn.microsoft.com
    official
  7. api-evangelist/legiscan (Push API is paid)github.com
    official
  8. LegiScan — Crunchbase profilecrunchbase.com
    news
  9. Downloading one million pieces of legislation from LegiScaninvestigate.ai
    news
  10. What's the deal with LegiScan? — Reddit r/opendatareddit.com
    review
  11. LegiScan Alternative — Apoge AI comparisonapog.ai
    review
  12. Free & low-cost legal research guide — NYLSlibguides.nyls.edu
    review

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