CourtAPI — Federal Court Data vs Korean Public Data

In-depth architectural comparison of the CourtAPI — Federal Court Data and Korean Public Data MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

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Choose CourtAPI — Federal Court Data when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Legal domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).

Explore CourtAPI — Federal Court Data Details

Choose Korean Public Data when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Legal domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).

Explore Korean Public Data Details

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	C CourtAPI — Federal Court Data Legal	Korean Public Data Legal
Summary	Search and retrieve US federal court cases, dockets, claims, and documents via PACER	Korean government open data - weather, population, law search via data.go.kr
Category & Scope	Legal	Legal
Quality signal

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "courtapi-federal-court-data": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "courtapi-federal-court-data"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "korean-public-data": {
      "url": "https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg"
    }
  }
}

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