Every category where a model named DocSend 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	Since September 2026
Virtual data rooms	Equity and corporate	2%	15 of 48	43%	7	under 10 labels · led by iDeals at 25%
Financial close management	Accounting and close	0%	49 of 85	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 55%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

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

By model

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	2	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0	0

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative15 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labels1

Negative6 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative41 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 5 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.

“DocSend (Best for Startups & Fundraising) ... industry standard for early-stage startups raising capital because of its aggressive pricing and analytics.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual data rooms · budget prompt · first choice

“Go with DocSend or Papermark—they are cheap, fast, and offer the exact analytics you need” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Virtual data rooms · comparative prompt · alternative

“If you are a startup seeking seed funding... DocSend or Box will suffice” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Virtual data rooms · 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.

“DocSend is priced per-user. If you have a team of 5 people, you will pay significantly more than with Peony. It also lacks a free plan” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Virtual data rooms · budget prompt · soft negative

“Per-user pricing: $15-$250/user/month (e.g., DocSend, ShareVault) - expensive at scale for 500 employees” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Virtual data rooms · scale prompt · soft negative

“for simpler pitch-deck or investor sharing—not my first choice for a formal diligence process.” GPT-6 Luna · Virtual data rooms · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DocSend, over the 41 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DocSend was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SecureDocs23 of 415Not among the top eight

Intralinks22 of 411Not among the top eight

Datasite Diligence21 of 412Not among the top eight

Papermark18 of 415Not among the top eight

Firmex17 of 412Not among the top eight

iDeals16 of 411Not among the top eight

Digify16 of 410Not among the top eight

Peony Data Room11 of 416Not among the top eight

Clinked11 of 410Not among the top eight

Ansarada10 of 411Not among the top eight

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

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 38 of the 41 answers that named DocSend and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peony.ink19

clinked.com16

ellty.com16

g2.com16

idealsvdr.com15

papermark.com15

dataroom-providers.org12

learn.g2.com12

firmroom.com11

orangedox.com11

143 of the 143 domain citations in answers naming DocSend came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

peony.ink/blog/top-10-virtual-data-room-providers17

clinked.com/virtual-data-room-providers16

learn.g2.com/best-virtual-data-room-software12

dealroom.net/resources/virtual-data-room-providers-comparison9

fast.io/resources/virtual-data-room-providers9

firmroom.com/vdr-providers9

geekflare.com/guides/best-vdr-software9

papermark.com/blog/virtual-data-room-cost9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

docsend.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DocSend takes 2% of first choices and iDeals takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “virtual data room”

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not in the top ten

Position for “virtual data rooms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 14,800 a month (“docsend”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 201 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 10,750 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,228 · 92 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 19,263
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

92 ads · 56 text, 22 image, 14 video · 67 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as DROPBOX, INC., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 46 in the year, 46 before. 2 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 15 of 48 in virtual data rooms

Segment leader

25%

iDeals

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 41 answers
Its own site cited: in 38 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on docsend.com

249

subdomains included

Content

243

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	183	1	2026-07-23
Case study	37	0	2020-03-13
Comparison	11	1	2026-07-31
Glossary or explainer	5	undated
Conference or event	4	undated
Webinar or virtual event	1	undated
Template or tool	1	undated
News or press	1	undated

Most recent

2026-07-31Docsend vs firmex vdr comparison
2026-07-23How financial services firms share documents while staying compliant blog
2024-06-20Data rooms for investors everything you need to know blog
2020-03-13500startups streamlines fundraising process case study
2017-09-14Sales metrics content performance blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page docsend.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 September 29, 2026.

Names read as DocSend

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

Digify/DocSend 1DocSend (by Dropbox) 1

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

DocSend is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Secure virtual data rooms for managing mergers and acquisitions, startup fundraising, and investor communications. Track engagement and share documents confidently.
docsend.com
For: Companies and teams doing deals, fundraising, investor communications, compliance, and high-stakes document sharing
docsend.com
Free plan or trial: Get started for free; No credit card required; Try for free docsend.com
Customers named: Gusto500 Startups
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What DocSend's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: docsend.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when DocSend's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as DocSend, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DocSend by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DocSend is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name DocSend, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.