# Virtual data rooms for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026 Gane Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "virtual data room" and as "M&A due diligence data room", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/virtual-data-rooms/2026-10/enterprise This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/corporate/virtual-data-rooms/enterprise/index.md **Standing:** Datasite Diligence leads with 46% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 57 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts. ## First-choice share | Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Datasite Diligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/datasite-diligence/index.md) | 46% | 19% | 67 | | 2 | [Intralinks](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/intralinks/index.md) | 18% | 20% | 55 | | 3 | [SecureDocs](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/securedocs/index.md) | 11% | 5% | 19 | | 4 | [Firmex](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/firmex/index.md) | 7% | 0% | 35 | | 5 | [iDeals](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/ideals/index.md) | 5% | 9% | 32 | | 6 | [DealRoom](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/dealroom/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 19 | | 8 | [FirmRoom](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/firmroom/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 11 | | 11 | [Box](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/box/index.md) | 2% | 42% | 24 | | 12 | [Ansarada](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/ansarada/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 24 | | 13 | [DFIN Venue](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/dfin-venue/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 11 | Rank is by share of first choices among all 55 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels. ## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt - Claude Haiku 4.5: iDeals; alternatives Ansarada, Datasite Diligence, Intralinks - GPT-5.4 mini: Datasite Diligence; alternatives Firmex, Intralinks, iDeals Virtual Data Room - Gemini 3.5 Flash: Datasite Diligence; alternatives Ansarada, Box, Clinked, DealRoom - Perplexity Sonar: Datasite Diligence; alternatives Box, Doxis, Intralinks - Grok 4.20: Datasite Diligence, Intralinks; alternatives Firmex, iDeals Virtual Data Room - Mistral Small: Datasite Diligence; alternatives Box, Intralinks - DeepSeek V4 Flash: Datasite Diligence; alternatives Intralinks, iDeals - Llama 4 Maverick: Datasite Diligence, Intralinks; alternatives Box - Qwen 3.7 Flash: Intralinks; alternatives Box, Datasite Diligence, Firmex, SecureDocs - Kimi K2: Intralinks; alternatives Datasite Diligence, Firmex, iDeals - GLM 4.7 FlashX: Datasite Diligence, SS&C Intralinks; alternatives Papermark Data Rooms, Peony Data Room, iDeals - MiniMax M2.5: Firmex, Intralinks; alternatives Box, Datasite Diligence - GPT-6 Luna: iDeals; alternatives Datasite Diligence, Intralinks - Muse Glimmer 30B: Datasite Diligence, Intralinks; alternatives Box VDR ## Sources the answers cite 80 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers: - peony.ink: 60 answers, 97 citations - papermark.com: 48 answers, 90 citations - idealsvdr.com: 41 answers, 46 citations - fast.io: 36 answers, 50 citations - clinked.com: 27 answers, 28 citations - datasite.com: 22 answers, 30 citations - dataroom-providers.org: 20 answers, 24 citations - ethosdata.com: 19 answers, 22 citations Pages named in the most answers: - https://peony.ink/blog/top-10-virtual-data-room-providers (50 answers) - https://fast.io/resources/virtual-data-room-providers (32 answers) - https://clinked.com/virtual-data-room-providers (27 answers) - https://idealsvdr.com/blog/virtual-data-room/best-virtual-data-rooms-compared (27 answers) - https://bignewsnetwork.com/news/279338211/top-10-data-room-providers-the-ultimate-guide-for-businesses (19 answers) - https://papermark.com/blog/best-virtual-data-rooms-for-due-diligence (19 answers) - https://agilityportal.io/blog/7-best-virtual-data-rooms-for-m-a-dont-choose-until-you-read-this (17 answers) - https://papermark.com/blog/best-virtual-data-rooms (17 answers) - https://fast.io/resources/virtual-data-rooms-comparison (15 answers) - https://dealroom.net/resources/virtual-data-room-providers-comparison (14 answers) ## Warned against - Box: 10 of 24 labels negative. "Avoid Datasite, Intralinks, and per-user models like Box if cost predictability across thousands of users is your top priority" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt) - Datasite Diligence: 13 of 67 labels negative. "Avoid Datasite, Intralinks, and per-user models like Box if cost predictability across thousands of users is your top priority" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt) - Intralinks: 11 of 55 labels negative. "Legacy Enterprise VDRs to Avoid for Predictable Costs - Datasite, Intralinks" (MiniMax M2.5, budget prompt) - Dropbox: 6 of 6 labels negative. "Standard Cloud Storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, MS OneDrive) configured as VDRs: ... these tools lack the granular permissions" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt) ## Record - Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology - License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, October 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.