Global Relay Archive
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Google Vault is first at 20%.
Smarsh Enterprise Archive is first at 18%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Smarsh Enterprise Archive is first at 42%.
Why models recommend it
“One of the longest-standing leaders in communications archiving... Financial institutions facing SEC/FINRA scrutiny generally lean toward Global Relay”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Smarsh and Global Relay are generally the broadest choices for financial-services communications capture”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · first choice
“A leading compliance archiving and surveillance platform, heavily used by financial institutions”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
“Prefer or evaluate these as stronger alternatives... Global Relay, Mimecast, Theta Lake”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Another platform with a high negative rate (47% for small businesses), criticized for similar issues as Proofpoint”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Avoid or be truly cautious about: Global Relay (if you're not a large enterprise)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Enterprise-grade alternative ... if you need very robust supervision (more expensive, better for larger or highly regulated B2B)”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Significantly more affordable and easier to implement for SMBs than heavy enterprise platforms like Global Relay or Smarsh.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Global Relay Archive, over the 110 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 30 | View → | |
| 80 | 12 | View → | |
| 71 | 5 | View → | |
| 53 | 8 | View → | |
| 39 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 0 | View → | |
| 35 | 10 | View → | |
| 33 | 3 | View → | |
| 31 | 1 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Global Relay Archive →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 102 of the 110 answers that named Global Relay Archive and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
266 of the 335 domain citations in answers naming Global Relay Archive came from a third party's page. Thirty-one were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 6,419 | 43 | 2026-10-02 | TPRM, PAM | |
| Podcast or video | 304 | 2 | 2026-09-11 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 118 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 101 | 19 | 2026-09-30 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 49 | 2 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Comparison | 20 | 2 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Report or ebook | 12 | 3 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| News or press | 8 | 0 | 2025-07-29 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2026-05-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | 1 | 2026-07-14 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-02Is ai the next chapter of communications capture blog
- 2026-10-01Finfluencer marketing compliance a guide for financial services firms blog
- 2026-09-30London breakfast briefing misconduct risk and firm liability conference or event
- 2026-09-30London breakfast briefing digital assets briefing with deloitte conference or event
- 2026-09-28What is communications data provenance a guide to defensible regulatory records glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-28Ai meeting records explained which record does your firm need to keep blog
Events in person
- May 20, 2026Global RegTech Summit 2026Convene 133 Houndsditch, London · hosted
- March 24, 2026 to March 25, 2026Innovation 2026 – Global Government ForumExcel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL, London · sponsored
As the event pages on globalrelay.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page globalrelay.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.