Comparison
Jurata® Legal Agent vs. DeepLegal
DeepLegal is the AI legal research tool of DeepCloud AG, a spin-off of Abacus. Its answers draw on federal law from Fedlex, cantonal law from LexFind and court decisions from entscheidsuche.ch. This comparison covers legal sources, research, answer validation, work with documents, drafting in Word and access for both offerings. The comparison covers DeepLegal itself, not the other products of DeepCloud or Abacus. As of October 2026.
Third-party information is sourced from their public websites and documentation.
Legal sources
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Legislation | Federal law and the law of all 26 cantons, more than 500’000 statutory articles | Federal law via Fedlex, cantonal law via LexFind |
Case law | More than 960’000 decisions: Federal Supreme Court including unpublished judgments, Federal Administrative, Criminal and Patent Courts, cantonal courts and administrative practice | More than 800’000 federal and cantonal decisions since 1954 via entscheidsuche.ch (according to the provider) |
Circulars and directives | Library maintained by Jurata with more than 1’100 documents from 15 areas of law, including FINMA, FTA, SEM, FSIO and FCRO | Not listed as a source; the website names legislation and case law as its sources |
Source view | One click on a citation opens the article or decision next to the answer and highlights the supporting passage; direct link to Fedlex, bger.ch or the cantonal source | Side panel next to the answer with the cited statutes and decisions and the underlying passages; link to the full document and the official original source |
Swiss Legal Graph
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Citation graph | Interactive citation graph with around 1.5 million nodes and almost 20 million relationships: shows in 2D or 3D how statutes and judgments cite each other; every source opens directly from the graph | Not documented |
Procedural history and outcome | The graph links judgments to the lower instance and shows whether it was upheld, set aside or amended and how the proceedings ended | Not documented |
Research
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Research modes | Fast mode with answers in around 15 seconds, Deep Agent for in-depth, multi-step research | Research chat in natural language with multi-step analysis; no selectable research modes (such as fast or in-depth) documented |
Visible work steps | The agent first searches broadly, then checks the full primary sources in a targeted way; every tool call is shown in the chat | Multi-stage process according to the provider; the answer is structured by step (e.g. case formulation, relevant legislation); display of individual searches not documented |
Follow-up questions on unclear facts | The agent asks structured follow-up questions with options or form fields before continuing the research | Not documented |
Deadline calculator | The agent calculates deadlines in days or months, taking into account the public holidays of the relevant canton and court holidays | Not documented |
Commercial register (Zefix) | The agent queries the commercial register via Zefix: UID, company name, registered office, auditor and current authorised signatories based on SOGC publications | Not documented in DeepLegal |
Languages | German, French, Italian, English | German, French, Italian, English |
Answer validation
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Check of every statement | After every answer, answer validation checks each statement against the cited original sources and shows what is supported, partly supported or not supported | Source references with a link to the original source; no automatic check of the answer documented |
Check of every citation | Each citation is assessed individually: supported, wrong pinpoint, not relevant to the statement or contradicting it | Not documented |
Unsupported legal statements | Legal statements without a source are flagged in the answer | No flagging documented; according to the provider, the system indicates when it is unsure |
Documents, dossiers and your own knowledge
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Your own documents | Upload contracts, judgments and briefs and ask questions about them; the cited passage is highlighted in the document | Document analysis announced on the website as “available soon” |
Dossiers per matter | A dossier groups all chats and case documents of a matter; the agent knows the case from the first question and uses findings from earlier chats in the dossier | Case handling and analysis of complete case files under development according to the provider (newsroom, August 2026) |
Your own knowledge base | Upload your own expertise to the Library once and use it in every chat, privately or shared with your team | Not documented |
Skills | Save instructions as Skills and call them into any chat with “/”, personal, shared with the team or prepared by Jurata | Custom instructions (prompts) under development according to the provider (newsroom, August 2026) |
Drafting and Microsoft Word
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Drafting | Create a memo, a letter or an email from an answer with one click; export as Word or PDF | According to its FAQ, DeepLegal also speeds up document drafting; no dedicated drafting feature (such as a memo, letter or email from an answer) is described; export of research results as PDF, Word or Markdown |
Word editor | Integrated Word editor in the Workbench: fully equivalent to Microsoft Word, the file format (.docx) is preserved 100 %; with tracked changes, comments, styles, numbering, table of contents, spell check and AI editing directly at the selected passage | No document editor documented; research results can be exported as a Word file |
Word Add-in | Word Add-in on Microsoft Marketplace with Chat, Research, Drafting, Revision and Review | No Word Add-in for DeepLegal |
Citations and footnotes in Word | Search statutes and judgments directly in Word and insert them as an inline citation or footnote, e.g. “Art. 41 OR” or “BGE 138 III 67” (in the Word Add-in) | Not available (no Word Add-in) |
Templates | Personal and team templates (.docx); the agent selects the right template and applies it (in the Word Add-in) | Not available (no Word Add-in) |
Revision with track changes | The agent revises the whole document or a selection; every change appears as a Word tracked change, can be accepted individually and leaves the formatting unchanged (in the Word Add-in) | Not available (no Word Add-in) |
Automatic document review | Finds inconsistencies in terminology, cross-references, consistency, completeness, legal accuracy and ambiguity, checks named companies against the commercial register and offers a one-click correction for every finding (in the Word Add-in) | Not available (no Word Add-in); document analysis is announced on the website as “available soon” |
Confirm or autopilot | You decide whether the agent asks you to confirm each action in the document or carries it out automatically (in the Word Add-in) | Not available (no Word Add-in) |
Professional secrecy and data
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Legal opinion on professional secrecy | Opinion by Dr. iur. David Vasella (Walder Wyss): use, including entering client data without the client’s consent, complies with professional rules and data protection law (Art. 321 SCC, Art. 13 BGFA, FADP, GDPR) | Not publicly documented |
Training on your data | No, neither by Jurata nor by the model provider | No, no general model training on your data (according to the provider) |
Provider and access
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Provider | Jurata AG, Zurich | DeepCloud AG, Wittenbach SG, a spin-off of Abacus |
Trial | 7 days free, no credit card required | No trial advertised; information on trials and demos on request by email |
Support | By email and via a Swiss telephone hotline; response within 24 hours (Entry) or within 4 hours (Pro, Max), during business hours | According to the terms, online and by email, Monday to Friday 8–12 and 13–17; response time depends on the severity of the incident, no response times published |
Google reviews | 5.0 stars (492 reviews) | DeepCloud AG (provider of DeepLegal): 4.5 stars (2 reviews) |
Trustpilot reviews | 4.9 stars (87 reviews) | No Trustpilot profile for DeepLegal |
Focus
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | DeepLegal |
|---|---|---|
Main focus | Legal agent for research, review of your own documents and drafting, in the web app, in the Word editor and in Word | AI-assisted research in legislation and case law, part of the DeepCloud offering |
Suited to | Law firms and legal departments that want research, document work and drafting in one tool | Law firms and legal teams mainly looking for fast research in official sources, particularly in a DeepCloud and Abacus environment |
Conclusion: Jurata® Legal Agent compared with DeepLegal
DeepLegal is the AI legal research tool of DeepCloud AG, a spin-off of Abacus. DeepLegal makes federal law from Fedlex, cantonal law from LexFind and court decisions from entscheidsuche.ch accessible in natural language, with links to the official original source, and is particularly suited to law firms and legal teams in a DeepCloud and Abacus environment.
The Jurata® Legal Agent combines research, review of your own documents and drafting in one tool. The answer validation of the Jurata® Legal Agent checks every statement and every citation against the original sources cited. In addition, there are dossiers per matter, circulars and directives in the Library, a citation graph showing the course of instances, a deadline calculator with cantonal public holidays and the Zefix lookup.
For drafting, the Jurata® Legal Agent offers an integrated Word editor that is fully equivalent to Microsoft Word, and a Word Add-in. If you want research, document work and drafting in one tool, you can test the Jurata® Legal Agent on your own case for 7 days free of charge, without a credit card.
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