Everlaw vs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comparison

Everlaw and Microsoft are both solutions in the eDiscovery category. Everlaw is ranked #6 with an average rating of 6.7, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 7.8. Everlaw holds a 3.6% mindshare in eD, compared to Microsoft’s 9.0% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Everlaw users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 6, 2024

Everlaw and Microsoft Purview eDiscovery compete in the eDiscovery market. Everlaw appears to have an advantage with its intuitive navigation and collaborative tools, while Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is preferred for its integration with Microsoft services.

Features: Everlaw includes intuitive navigation, efficient collaboration tools, and advanced analytics with visual data presentation. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery provides seamless access to Microsoft services, comprehensive data search capabilities, and compliance tracking features.

Room for Improvement: Everlaw could improve with enhanced customization, better data export features, and increased flexibility. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery faces challenges with occasional performance issues, the need for simplified workflows, and improvements in efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Everlaw is recognized for its simple deployment process and responsive support. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery offers straightforward deployment, with mixed feedback on customer service responsiveness, but provides extensive documentation for guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Everlaw is seen as cost-effective with a favorable ROI due to its feature set and reliability. Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is initially more expensive but is considered a good investment for users heavily integrated into Microsoft, offering long-term cost benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Everlaw

Ranking in eDiscovery

6th

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Ranking in eDiscovery

1st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of Everlaw is 3.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is 9.0%, down from 27.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

eDiscovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery	9.0%
Everlaw	3.6%
Other	87.4%

eDiscovery

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Dawne Herbert

Project Manager, Litigation at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Efficient discovery workflows have supported fast reviews but ingestion of document families still needs work

Everlaw's best features include ease of ingestion, processing speed, processing metadata, metadata redactions, and seamless application of redactions on the native. The speed of processing makes the biggest difference in my day-to-day work because the faster we get data into a review system, the less time that we have down for projects. Everlaw has positively impacted my organization by offering an opportunity for an alternative to our current database management that we use for eDiscovery. It has a different aesthetic feel, and we use it primarily for shorter-lived cases.

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Frank Radeck

Director, IT Infrastructure & Cloud Technology at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented the solution now take just 30 minutes.

The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms. It is critical for Purview to be able to connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices and data in other SaaS apps. From a support perspective, I can do things while I'm eating lunch or something else. It's more dynamic and responsive. I think everybody appreciates it. We're not tied to one device. Purview's multi-cloud capabilities are also essential for the same reasons. Keeping everything under one umbrella further increases the time savings. Purview accounts for critical regulations from around the world. This is crucial because we hold ourselves accountable to standards and need to align with them. Working at a law firm, we have clients who dictate to us what standards they expect. The visibility is excellent. As we move more things into the cloud, more opportunities exist to put everything under one umbrella.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Customer support is phenomenal and is one of the most appealing factors with Everlaw."

"In Everlaw, you can add related items within a search to a search component, allowing you to build and expand your search incrementally. For example, you can start with an initial search, add related items, and then continue adding more related items to the entire search. Another thing about Everlaw is its speed. It loads quickly, whether it's images or documents."

"We use the tool specifically for unitization in many projects. It's very easy for reviewers to use. Everlaw is improving daily, introducing new features like analytics and AI. Analytics in Everlaw runs by default when we process anything. We used AI to train the system for review in a project with five million records."

"The most valuable features are automatic content logging tagging. Performing these tasks manually would be impossible. Since most of our data is already in Microsoft, it's convenient to run it through this tool."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery has saved me personally a lot of time because I can query it, and it touches everything we have as a full Microsoft shop."

"The return on investment is saving the equivalent of one or two full-time IT department employees and a few hours per week for legal staff."

"The speed of it is valuable. I am able to search even 10,000 mailboxes for specific content. It helps search and accommodate the often limited information provided by users regarding what they need."

"The ability to query everything that's in Microsoft and send links or add people, like managers, to review the documents is valuable. It's easy as I don't have to download and email anything. I just add them as a reviewer, and they can access it from there."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is the content search. We can use it to find the data we need by searching for keywords, phrases, or the sender or recipient. It helps us gather information from current employees or ones who have left the company."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is its ability to search across various platforms, including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive. It enables a streamlined, unified process for searching across these platforms."

"Purview eDiscovery has made it significantly easier to handle rare litigation requests."

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Cons

"Everlaw could be less choosy about accepting control numbers for third-party loads. When uploading third-party loads, it currently needs two mandatory fields (like within date or end date or page count). I think the control number should be the only required field. Everlaw isn't used for Data Breach projects. For normal eDiscovery, we can use Everlaw, but most clients prefer Relativity."

"Everlaw can be improved on ingestion by making the ingestion of family members more cohesive, as larger documents sometimes fall behind family members which may get processed earlier, causing some confusion for case teams."

"Purview Data Loss Protection for remediating policy violations needs refinement, for example, in defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives."

"The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially."

"It has been one of the most solid tools I have worked with. However, Purview Data Loss Protection for remediating policy violations needs refinement, for example, in defining what constitutes a credit card because that is where I get the most false positives."

"The sorting and filtering of the result data need improvement, and the interface for writing queries is not user-friendly for business users. We still need all the backend stuff. We have to use Graph API to interface with everything and create custom interfaces on the front end to make it easier for the end users, which is costly. The reporting, sorting, and filtering capabilities that other products have aren't available natively in Purview."

"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders. It would be beneficial to have more options available for E3 customers. Enhanced Teams functionalities and better capture of text message data, both SMS and MMS, would also be improvements."

"I would suggest adding more platforms."

"Purview eDiscovery works, but it's not entirely perfect. There were times when search results would get hung up or error codes would be presented and we'd have to contact Microsoft to get that sorted out."

"The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be beneficial. Copilot is expected to add such functionality in the future."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is higher than that of other tools. Other tools offer bundle rates, but Everlaw charges per GB, which is more expensive. It doesn't charge for users; it only charges for hosting."

"The costs associated with E5 licensing are currently expensive for us, so we use the E3 license, which comes with fewer features and functionalities."

"Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comes as part of Microsoft 365 licenses."

"The pricing and licensing with Microsoft can be complex, and licensing is known to be a challenge because it changes frequently. While the licensing for Purview is not as tricky as other Microsoft products, navigating licenses since the shift to E3 and E5 plans has been a task, as individual licenses must now be purchased separately."

"With the full bundle, pricing is not a significant concern. As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile."

"In the positions that I've had through contracting over the years, I've heard talk of it being overpriced and underperforming compared to its competitors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

25%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Healthcare Company

15%

Legal Firm

Government

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Everlaw?

The tool's pricing is higher than that of other tools. Other tools offer bundle rates, but Everlaw charges per GB, which is more expensive. It doesn't charge for users; it only charges for hosting.

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What needs improvement with Everlaw?

Everlaw can be improved on ingestion by making the ingestion of family members more cohesive, as larger documents sometimes fall behind family members which may get processed earlier, causing some ...

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What is your primary use case for Everlaw?

My main use case for Everlaw is eDiscovery project management. A specific example of how I use Everlaw for eDiscovery project management is that we take client data in its raw format, have it proce...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The setup process was very straightforward. We acquired pricing through our reseller in NASDAQ, eliminating the need to search for prices ourselves.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially. While there are options with dropdowns to select criteria, having a natural language feature would be benefici...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?

I sometimes use it for legal holds or to find lost items, and to determine what is going on. However, most of the time, my use case is legal-related.

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Overview

Everlaw is thoughtfully architected to be the fastest, most powerful, and easiest ediscovery solution on the market. We bring the superior software experiences you’re used to in your consumer life — the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speed of Google and the blissful usability of Apple products — to your litigation toolkit.

Everlaw

Efficiently respond to legal matters or internal investigations with intelligent capabilities that reduce data to only what’s relevant. Discover data where it lives. Discover and collect data in place, within your Microsoft Purview boundary. Manage workflows efficiently. Streamline your eDiscovery process with an end-to-end workflow from one platform. Accelerate your process. Get insights quickly with built-in capabilities, reducing review time and costs.

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