Communications archiving and compliance · RankedProofpoint Enterprise Archive
Proofpoint Enterprise Archive is an information archiving platform from Proofpoint for communications archiving and compliance · proofpoint.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 115 of 116 for small business buyers.
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%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Smarsh Enterprise Archive is first at 42%.
Why models recommend it
“the best default choice is usually Proofpoint’s midmarket archiving / Discovery & Archive offering”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“Safer Bets ... Proofpoint Enterprise Archive – accepted challenger, higher satisfaction scores”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Need the broadest regulated communications coverage? Smarsh or Proofpoint.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · first choice
“Proofpoint Archive is a compliance-focused archiving solution for email, messaging, and regulated communications.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“considered "criticized challengers" due to their complex pricing, unavailability of functions, slow search, and lack of robust technical support”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“What I'd avoid on a tight budget: enterprise-first platforms like Smarsh Professional Archive or Proofpoint Enterprise Archive”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Proofpoint has a high negative rate (53%), with criticisms focusing on functionality and support issues”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“similar email-focused products may be inadequate if you must retain Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, SMS, voice, social media, or trader communications”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Proofpoint Enterprise Archive, over the 105 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | 35 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 10 | View → | |
| 72 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 52 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 32 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 29 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 2 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Proofpoint Enterprise Archive →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Proofpoint Enterprise Archive's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- customers and channel partners
- Price stated
- Straightforward flat-fee pricing for unlimited storage for qualifying companies
- Integrations
- 5
- Customers named
- Brinker Capital
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 93 of the 105 answers that named Proofpoint Enterprise Archive and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
255 of the 317 domain citations in answers naming Proofpoint Enterprise 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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |