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Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

13Judge labels
4First choices
1Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving was named 6 times in Comms archiving, where Smarsh Enterprise Archive led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In comms archiving · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Communications archiving and complianceSecurity operations3%10 of 10117%6under 10 labels · led by Smarsh Enterprise Archive at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving 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 Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash10001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.511002
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labels2
Comparative3 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labels2
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 6 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.

“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

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.

“Known limitations include: Poor user experience... Large mailbox difficulties” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comms archiving · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
MailStore Server8 of 133Not among the top eight
Google Vault5 of 131Not among the top eight
Smarsh Enterprise Archive5 of 131Not among the top eight
Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service5 of 130Not among the top eight
Proofpoint Enterprise Archive5 of 130Not among the top eight
Intradyn4 of 130Not among the top eight
Mimecast Cloud Archive4 of 130Not among the top eight
Jatheon3 of 130Not among the top eight
GFI Archiver2 of 131Not among the top eight
Archive3602 of 130Not 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 Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

archondatastore.com8
jatheon.com8
us.fitgap.com8
clean.email6
expertinsights.com6
devopsschool.com5
mailmodo.com5
aiemaily.com4
g2.com4
proofpoint.com4

Fifty-eight of the fifty-eight domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving 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
40 a month (“microsoft exchange online archiving”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
2 a month
Its own site
It sits on Microsoft's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
3%
rank 10 of 101 in comms archiving
Segment leader
20%
Smarsh Enterprise Archive
First choices
4 across its categories
Named in
13 answers
Its own site cited
in 13 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 Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving; a claim can dispute any of them.
Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) 2

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The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Базирано на облака решение за архивиране от корпоративен клас
Price stated
потребител/месец, годишно плащане microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-365/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-archiving-email
Hosting
глобално дублирани сървъри на Microsoftглобално разпределени центрове за данниweltweit
Not stated on the pages read
Integrations, certifications, customers

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.

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  • where Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving 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 Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving, 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.
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