Every category where a model named Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Communications archiving and compliance	Security operations	7%	7 of 101	6%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	1	1	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	1	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase11 labels1

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative4 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Barracuda offers a straightforward, easy-to-manage archiving solution that is highly popular with small-to-midsized businesses” Muse Glimmer 30B · Comms archiving · budget prompt · first choice

“If you are primarily Microsoft 365 and want the simplest, affordable compliance archive: Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Comms archiving · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“For pure email compliance with zero headaches, this is the best price-to-feature ratio.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comms archiving · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall Value: Barracuda Cloud Archiving” Kimi K2 · Comms archiving · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Indexing / search reliability complaints. Sysadmin community reports describe a prolonged indexing problem making search and export non-functional.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Comms archiving · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Smarsh Enterprise Archive29 of 453Compare →

Mimecast Cloud Archive26 of 455Compare →

MailStore Server23 of 458Compare →

Jatheon23 of 453Compare →

Proofpoint Enterprise Archive23 of 453Compare →

Global Relay18 of 452Not among the top eight

Google Vault12 of 452Compare →

Microsoft Purview11 of 452Compare →

Intradyn10 of 451Not among the top eight

Theta Lake6 of 450Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 45 of the 45 answers that named Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

jatheon.com40

archondatastore.com27

expertinsights.com26

gartner.com17

aiemaily.com15

us.fitgap.com15

zipdo.co15

clean.email14

g2.com13

smarsh.com13

195 of the 195 domain citations in answers naming Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

jatheon.com/blog/best-data-archiving-software35

archondatastore.com/blog/email-archiving-solutions25

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-email-archiving-solutions-for-businesses24

gartner.com/reviews/market/digital-communications-governance-and-archiving-solutions15

clean.email/archive-emails/email-archiving-solutions14

us.fitgap.com/search/enterprise-information-archiving-software/small-business12

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-archiving-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison10

mailmodo.com/marketing-stash/email-archiving-software10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“barracuda cloud archiving service”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 a month
Its own site: It sits on Barracuda's site (barracuda.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 7 of 101 in comms archiving

Segment leader

20%

Smarsh Enterprise Archive

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 45 answers
Its own site cited: in 45 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service; a claim can dispute any of them.

Barracuda 5Barracuda Cloud Archiving 4Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service (Message Archiver) 1Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service / Cloud Email Archive 1

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Barracuda is the company behind Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service.

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On record

Company records

Also from Barracuda: Barracuda Bot Protection, Barracuda Cloud Archive, Barracuda Cloud Archiving, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Barracuda CloudGen, Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, Barracuda Email Protection and 10 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Be prepared, protected and proactive with Barracuda Cloud Archive, the easiest way for a business to preserve, access and act on communications data.
de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archive
For: businesses
de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archive
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archive, barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archive, de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archiving, barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archiving, de.barracuda.com/products/email-protection/cloud-archiving/plans. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.