Comparison
ChatGPT vs Magnar
Which sources each one reads, what it hands back, how it treats your clients' information, and when each is the right tool for legal work.
Updated August 2026
ChatGPT answers questions. Magnar does the legal work.
Both start from the same place: a language model that understands what you ask of it. They part ways in what happens next. ChatGPT is a general assistant you brief on the legal context in every conversation, and whose citations you check one by one. Magnar already knows your country's legislation and case law, cites every ruling with the original text one click away, and hands the work back ready for your review.
Below we compare the two across the dimensions that matter when the document on the table belongs to a client: where the sources come from, how much material fits in a single analysis, what you get at the end, and what happens to the information you upload. There is also a section on where ChatGPT is more than enough, because some work is a perfect fit for a general-purpose AI.
Where ChatGPT and Magnar part ways
Seven dimensions that matter when the document on the table belongs to a client.
One real assignment, two outcomes
I need the rulings from the last three years on contract termination for material breach, with citations I can put in a claim.
It returns a reasonable summary of the general standard and mentions a few rulings. Before citing them you have to look each one up in the official source and confirm it exists and says what it says.
- You verify every citation by hand
- You reassemble the text for your brief
It returns the rulings with full citations, a summary of each one and the original text one click away. From there it drafts the document with the citations already in place.
- Every citation traces back to its source
- The draft arrives ready for your review
An illustration of the workflow, not a captured set of results.
The sources of Chile, inside the product
Magnar reads the official sources of your jurisdiction. That is the gap a general-purpose AI does not cover by design.
- Sentencias de la Corte Suprema y de las Cortes de Apelaciones
- Sentencias de tribunales civiles, penales y laborales
- Normativa chilena vigente
The document on the table belongs to your client
Your information is never used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. Every interaction is processed in isolation.
Your documents, queries and data are exclusively yours.
Independently audited certification covering servers, databases and internal processes.
Usando Magnar cumples con la nueva Ley de Protección de Datos 21.719 para tu firma y tus clientes.
When ChatGPT is enough
Some work is a perfect fit for a general-purpose AI. Worth saying out loud.
An email, a meeting summary or a plain-language explanation: no legal tool needed.
Getting up to speed on an industry or a technical concept before a meeting.
Translating, organizing ideas, preparing a deck or tightening up a text.
Magnar takes over where ChatGPT falls short: when the citation has to be exact, the case runs 3,000 pages and the result goes out with your signature.
Firms and companies that already decided
23000+ lawyers in Chile use Magnar
Keep ChatGPT for everything else
Magnar does not replace your general assistant. It replaces the hours you spend checking whether the ruling it cited exists.
What buyers ask before deciding
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