Every category where a model named Proofpoint Enterprise Archive 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	5%	8 of 101	5%	39	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Proofpoint Enterprise Archive 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 Proofpoint Enterprise Archive 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	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2	1	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	1	0	4
Mistral Small	1	2	1	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Kimi K2	0	1	2	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	1	0	4
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	1	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	3	0	0	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

Direct32 labels6

Paraphrase23 labels10

Comparative31 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labelsNone

Scale-constrained16 labels2

Negative13 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative127 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 25 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.

“Proofpoint if you want a modern cloud-first archive with strong governance for mainstream business communications.” Perplexity Sonar · Comms archiving · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Proofpoint (Leader in 2024 Gartner MQ for Digital Communications Governance & Archiving; longest-running leader).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Comms archiving · comparative prompt · first choice

“Regulated Industries: Smarsh and Proofpoint lead for financial services and strict compliance.” Mistral Small · Comms archiving · comparative prompt · first choice

“Mimecast or Proofpoint: Highly trusted, enterprise-grade cloud archives.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comms archiving · scale 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.

“Proofpoint is an excellent enterprise-grade tool, but it may require more dedicated administrative overhead” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comms archiving · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: May be overkill for smaller mid-sized companies” Kimi K2 · Comms archiving · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, over the 125 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Proofpoint Enterprise Archive was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Smarsh Enterprise Archive100 of 12524Compare →

Mimecast Cloud Archive72 of 12510Compare →

Global Relay67 of 12510Not among the top eight

Microsoft Purview50 of 12510Compare →

Jatheon50 of 1257Compare →

Google Vault24 of 1256Compare →

Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service23 of 1255Compare →

Archive36021 of 1250Not among the top eight

MailStore Server20 of 1259Compare →

Veritas Enterprise Vault19 of 1251Not 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 Proofpoint Enterprise Archive. 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 120 of the 125 answers that named Proofpoint Enterprise Archive and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

jatheon.com97

archondatastore.com59

gartner.com59

g2.com51

smarsh.com51

proofpoint.comYour site47

expertinsights.com44

f6s.com40

zipdo.co38

worldmetrics.org33

472 of the 519 domain citations in answers naming Proofpoint Enterprise Archive came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

jatheon.com/blog/best-data-archiving-software90

gartner.com/reviews/market/digital-communications-governance-and-archiving-solutions48

archondatastore.com/blog/email-archiving-solutions44

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-email-archiving-solutions-for-businesses38

proofpoint.com/us/products/digital-communications-governance/archive38

f6s.com/software/category/communication-archiving29

wordwatch.io/blog/best-communications-archiving-platforms-202627

aiemaily.com/blog/best-email-archiving-software-for-compliance20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Proofpoint Enterprise Archive 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: 20 a month (“proofpoint enterprise archive”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: It sits on Proofpoint's site (proofpoint.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 101 in comms archiving

Segment leader

20%

Smarsh Enterprise Archive

First choices: 18 across its categories
Named in: 125 answers
Its own site cited: in 120 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 Proofpoint Enterprise Archive

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Proofpoint Enterprise Archive; a claim can dispute any of them.

Proofpoint 26Proofpoint Archive 3Proofpoint Enterprise Communications Archive 2Proofpoint Nuclei Discovery & Archive Suite 1Proofpoint Nuclei Suite 1

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The company

Proofpoint is the company behind Proofpoint Enterprise Archive.

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On record

Company records

Also from Proofpoint: Proofpoint 365 Total Protection, Proofpoint Archive, Proofpoint DSPM, Proofpoint Digital Communications Governance, Proofpoint Digital Risk Protection, Proofpoint Email Protection, Proofpoint Enterprise Communications Archive, Proofpoint Enterprise DLP and 8 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Enterprise Archive solution offers a number of unique features attractive to customers and channel partners.
proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-extends-partner-programs-archive-community
For: customers and channel partners
proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-extends-partner-programs-archive-community
Price stated: Straightforward flat-fee pricing for unlimited storage for qualifying companies proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-extends-partner-programs-archive-community
Integrations claimed: 5 proofpoint.com/us/brinker-capital-implements-proofpoint-archiver-chatter
Certifications: SECFINRA
Customers named: Brinker Capital
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, hosting

What Proofpoint Enterprise Archive's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-extends-partner-programs-archive-community, proofpoint.com/us/brinker-capital-implements-proofpoint-archiver-chatter, proofpoint.com/us/2014-magic-quadrant-leader-enterprise-information-archiving, proofpoint.com/us/proofpoint-extends-cloud-leadership-enterprise-archive-spring-release, proofpoint.com/us/nuix-and-proofpoint-align-accelerate-migrating-data-legacy-archives-cloud. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Proofpoint Enterprise Archive by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Proofpoint Enterprise Archive 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 Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, 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.