| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communications archiving and compliance | Security operations | 3% | 10 of 101 | 17% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Smarsh Enterprise Archive at 20% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you are already on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and just need basic compliance, look no further than Exchange Online Archiving / Google Vault.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comms archiving · budget prompt · first choice
“I recommend starting with Mimecast Cloud Archive or Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving (if using M365)” MiniMax M2.5 · Comms archiving · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving at $3/user/month offers the best value if you're in the Microsoft ecosystem” MiniMax M2.5 · Comms archiving · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for Microsoft 365 Shops ... works well for M365 shops with straightforward email archiving needs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comms archiving · paraphrase prompt · alternative
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.
“Known limitations include: Poor user experience... Large mailbox difficulties” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comms archiving · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 13 of the 13 answers that named Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving and are not a share of its labels.
Fifty-eight of the fifty-eight domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
What Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-archive, microsoft.com/sr-latn-rs/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-archive, microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-365/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-archiving-email, microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-365/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-archiving-email, microsoft.com/es-es/microsoft-365/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-archiving-email. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: