Every category where a model named Archer 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
Internal controls and SOX	Tax and compliance	2%	13 of 71	27%	15	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Archer yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Archer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase12 labels3

Comparative22 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“I would recommend Archer or HighBond as internal controls management tools... Archer is noted as the best overall for most teams” Mistral Small · Internal controls · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Large enterprises with mature GRC programs and the resources to configure and maintain a heavyweight platform.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal controls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose Archer if you need a comprehensive enterprise GRC platform with control catalog management” MiniMax M2.5 · Internal controls · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Enterprise-level organizations needing integrated risk management and compliance.” Mistral Small · Internal controls · comparative 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.

“Avoid legacy enterprise GRC systems (such as RSA Archer or ServiceNow GRC).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Internal controls · scale prompt · hard negative

“significantly more affordable than enterprise platforms like ServiceNow GRC or Archer ($150K-$500K+)” Kimi K2 · Internal controls · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“the enterprise suites (Archer, MetricStream, ServiceNow, Workiva) are over-scoped and over-priced” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Internal controls · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“these tools often become "shelf-ware"—expensive, unused, or filled with inconsistent data” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Internal controls · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Archer, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Archer was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

MetricStream32 of 452Not in the top three

ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management30 of 451Not in the top three

AuditBoard28 of 4512Not in the top three

Diligent One Platform26 of 452Not in the top three

Workiva25 of 450Not in the top three

Vanta21 of 453Not in the top three

LogicGate Risk Cloud19 of 452Not in the top three

Drata14 of 452Not in the top three

Hyperproof12 of 453Not in the top three

Sprinto12 of 451Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Archer. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 38 of the 45 answers that named Archer and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

optro.ai34

gartner.com29

worldmetrics.org26

gitnux.org24

sprinto.com20

wifitalents.com17

v-comply.com13

supervizor.com12

metricstream.com11

riskwatch.com11

197 of the 197 domain citations in answers naming Archer came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

optro.ai/blog/best-internal-control-management-software30

gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-controls-software28

worldmetrics.org/best/internal-control-management-software23

sprinto.com/blog/internal-control-software20

worldmetrics.org/best/internal-control-software14

gitnux.org/best/internal-control-management-software12

gitnux.org/best/internal-controls-software12

wifitalents.com/best/internal-control-software12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Archer

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

RSA Archer 2RSA Archer (Archer Suite) 1RSA Archer (now Archer) 1RSA Archer Suite 1

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