Comparison
Jurata® Legal Agent vs. Swisslex
Swisslex is the legal database of Swisslex – Schweizerische Juristische Datenbank AG in Zurich; with Swisslex 6.0 it offers AI support for legal research. The Jurata® Legal Agent from Jurata AG, also based in Zurich, is an AI workspace for research, Response Validation, document review and drafting, in the browser and in Microsoft Word. The comparison is based on information made publicly available by the providers and on the commercial register, Google and Microsoft Marketplace. As of October 2026.
Third-party information is sourced from their public websites and documentation.
Provider and access
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Swisslex |
|---|---|---|
Provider | Jurata AG, Zurich | Swisslex – Schweizerische Juristische Datenbank AG, Zurich |
Focus | AI workspace for client work: research, review, drafting and revision in one application, including directly in Word | Legal database with integrated AI support for research (Swisslex 6.0) |
Google reviews | 5.0 stars (492 reviews) | 5.0 stars (5 reviews) |
Trustpilot reviews | 4.9 stars (87 reviews) | No Trustpilot profile |
Sign-in | Microsoft and Google Single Sign-on or email and password, in all plans | Single Sign-on with Microsoft or Google not publicly documented |
Research with the agent
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Swisslex |
|---|---|---|
Research modes | Fast, with answers in around 15 seconds, and Deep Agent for multi-step research, both included from the Entry plan | Semantic AI search with selectable analysis modes included in the base fee; Deep Research with search agents only with the paid Premium add-on |
Visible work steps | The agent first searches broadly and then checks the full primary sources in a targeted way; every tool call is shown in the chat | Deep Research with search agents (Premium) researches over several steps and delivers an analysis with source references; a display of the individual work steps is not publicly documented |
Follow-up questions on the facts | If the facts are unclear, the agent asks structured follow-up questions with options, suggested answers or form fields before continuing its research | Users can ask the AI chatbot follow-up questions; structured follow-up questions from the AI on the facts are not publicly documented |
Deadline calculator | Deadlines in days or months, taking into account the public holidays of the relevant canton and court holidays | Not publicly documented |
Commercial register | Lookup via Zefix: UID, company name, registered office, auditor and, based on SOGC publications, current authorised signatories | Not publicly documented |
Response Validation
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Swisslex |
|---|---|---|
Checking every statement | After every answer, Response Validation checks each statement against the original sources cited for it and shows what is supported, partly supported or not supported | Answers with citable sources and provisions; an automatic check of statements against the sources is not publicly documented |
Checking every citation | Each citation is assessed individually: supported, wrong pinpoint, does not contribute to the statement, or contradicts the statement | Not publicly documented |
Unsupported legal statements | Legal statements without a citation are flagged | Not publicly documented |
Supported passage in the source | Clicking a citation opens the article or decision next to the answer and highlights the supporting passage | Highlighting of the supporting passage not publicly documented |
Legislation, case law and administrative practice
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Swisslex |
|---|---|---|
Legislation | Over 500’000 statutory articles from federal law and all 26 cantons, with dedicated search tools for cantonal law | Statutes and ordinances included in the base fee; scope of cantonal law not publicly quantified |
Case law (scope according to provider) | Over 960’000 published decisions: Federal Supreme Court including unpublished judgments, Federal Administrative, Federal Criminal and Federal Patent Court, cantonal courts and administrative practice | Over 807’000 decisions at federal and cantonal level, including unpublished decisions |
Administrative practice | Library with circulars, directives and practice notes, including from FINMA, ESTV, SEM, BSV and EHRA | Circulars, directives and instructions issued by authorities not publicly documented |
Citation graph | Interactive citation graph (Swiss Legal Graph with around 1.5 million nodes and almost 20 million relationships), showing the course of instances and the outcome of proceedings | Navigation via citations and references between statutory articles and judgments; a graphical display showing the course of instances and the outcome of proceedings is not publicly documented |
Documents, dossiers and drafting
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Swisslex |
|---|---|---|
Own documents | Upload of contracts, judgments and briefs (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and images, including scans); the cited passage is highlighted in the document | Upload of own documents, inclusion in the AI search and analysis; follow-up questions in the context of the documents |
Case memory | Dossiers per matter: every new chat knows the case from the first question, and insights from earlier chats in the dossier are included automatically | Dossiers for documents, notes and annotations with real-time collaboration in the team; a case memory across AI chats is not publicly documented |
Drafting | One click turns an answer into a memo, a letter or an email | Creation of drafts such as memos, letters or emails not publicly documented |
Word editor | Integrated Word editor, 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 own Word-compatible editor publicly documented |
Export | Individual answers or entire conversations as Word or PDF, with clickable links to Fedlex and the decisions and with a list of sources | Export of documents as PDF or Word; export of AI answers with a list of sources not publicly documented |
Word Add-in
Criterion | Jurata® Legal Agent | Swisslex |
|---|---|---|
Word Add-in | On Microsoft Marketplace; sections Chat, Research, Drafting, Editing and Review | No Swisslex add-in on Microsoft Marketplace |
Research in Word | Search statutes and judgments directly in Word and insert them as an inline citation or footnote, for example «Art. 41 OR» or «BGE 138 III 67» | No Word Add-in on Microsoft Marketplace |
Drafting from templates | Personal and team templates (.docx); the agent selects the right template and applies it | No Word Add-in on Microsoft Marketplace |
Editing | 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 | No Word Add-in on Microsoft Marketplace |
Automatic review | Finds inconsistencies in terminology, cross-references, consistency, completeness, legal accuracy and ambiguity, and checks the companies named against the commercial register; fix with one click | No Word Add-in on Microsoft Marketplace |
Confirm or autopilot | You decide whether the agent asks you to confirm each action in the document or carries it out automatically | No Word Add-in on Microsoft Marketplace |
Conclusion: Jurata® Legal Agent compared with Swisslex
Swisslex is an established legal database in Switzerland, operated by Swisslex – Schweizerische Juristische Datenbank AG in Zurich. With Swisslex 6.0, Swisslex offers semantic AI search with selectable analysis modes, the upload of your own documents for the AI search, and dossiers for documents, notes and annotations with real-time collaboration in the team; according to the provider, the database contains over 807’000 decisions at federal and cantonal level, including unpublished decisions.
The Jurata® Legal Agent is built as an AI workspace for the whole of client work: Fast, with answers in around 15 seconds, and Deep Agent for multi-step research are included in all plans. After every answer, Response Validation checks each statement against the cited original sources and assesses each citation individually; clicking a citation opens the article or decision and highlights the supporting passage.
The Jurata® Legal Agent keeps each case in a dossier with case memory and creates drafts in the integrated Word editor, fully equivalent to Microsoft Word, or directly in Microsoft Word: the Word Add-in offers research with citation insertion, editing as tracked changes and automatic review. You can test the Jurata® Legal Agent free of charge for 7 days on your own case, without a credit card.
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