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Everlaw vs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery comparison

Everlaw and Microsoft are both solutions in the eDiscovery category. Everlaw is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 7.5. Everlaw holds a 1.1% mindshare in eD, compared to Microsoft’s 27.3% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Everlaw users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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66% willing to recommend
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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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Everlaw
Ranking in eDiscovery
9th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
Ranking in eDiscovery
2nd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the eDiscovery category, the mindshare of Everlaw is 1.1%. The mindshare of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery is 27.3%, up from 15.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

SimardeepSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
An user-friendly solution that provides fast and accurate processing capabilities
The product is very user-friendly. When new employees join, they find Everlaw the easiest to learn among our different eDiscovery tools, such as Relativity, Canopy, and Nuix. It's simple to use, even for third-party uploads. Their support team is very good and resolves issues quickly. Everlaw is fast and accurate in processing. Producing documents is easy - we create and use a protocol for future productions. Processing errors in Everlaw can't be fixed, which is efficient. 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. I think Everlaw's predictive coding tools are good. It's an AI feature that provides responsive documents. We train the model with 50 responsive or 50 non-responsive documents, and it uses that to pull out responsive documents and exclude non-responsive ones for reviewers. This is a great feature of the tool.
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Frank Radeck - PeerSpot reviewer
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

"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 rely heavily on the search term report, which shows how documents are distributed across selected keywords. This helps us determine if a keyword produces too many results, indicating it might be too broad."
"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."
"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 tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and they didn't disclose it. Thanks to the product, it's easy for me to search and find out what communication a specific user has done, whether it's from SharePoint or any other platform. With Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, we can easily retrieve and restore this data."
"Tasks that took an entire day before we implemented Purview 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."
"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."
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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."
"The support team is open to suggestions. They regularly release updates, often monthly, which include new features and improvements."
"I would suggest adding more platforms. Currently, it's compatible with OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange. Adding more features, as Microsoft continues to expand their cloud offerings, would be beneficial. Exploring options like Azure Files might be an avenue for improvement."
"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."
"The query language can be time-consuming to figure out if you don't know it initially."
"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 see two significant challenges with many of my clients. One is that there are some functionality gaps compared to specialized tools in the legal industry, like a legal hold tool or a document review tool. They have features that Purview eDiscovery lacks. Those gaps create a situation where I almost have to do things twice. I need to collect all my data in eDiscovery and ship it to another platform to complete the review."
"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 sorting and filtering of the result data need improvement, and the interface for writing queries is not user-friendly for business users."
"We find that many critical functions are available only to E5 license holders."
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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 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."
"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."
"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."
"With the full bundle, pricing is not a significant concern. As an M3, I find the Purview pricing of 1250 per user worthwhile."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
6%
 

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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 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 c...
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What is your primary use case for Everlaw?
I have a higher certification in Everlaw for managerial organization. We use Everlaw for everything, like processing documents, creating STRs, promoting documents, and using analytics. I support ou...
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What do you like most about Microsoft Purview eDiscovery?
The tool has been beneficial. Some of our previous users left the organization without sharing the information they had at a personal level. This information was related to the organization, and th...
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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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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.
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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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