Archive-It vs Smarsh Archive
Archive-It
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| Figure | Archive-It | Smarsh Archive |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Social Media Archiving Software | 7.9 (#10) | 6.9 (#27) |
| Audience | Archive-It serves cultural heritage and other mission-aligned organizations seeking to preserve digital collections. | Smarsh presents the archive for enterprise, small and mid-sized firms, and public-sector organizations. |
| Integrations | Archive-It offers APIs and access integrations, including the Partner API, CDX/C API, OpenSearch, and DuraCloud Archive-It Sync. | Smarsh lists Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Zoom among supported communications channels. |
| Purpose | Archive-It is a curator-controlled service that crawls, hosts, and provides access to web content, including video and social media. | Smarsh Archive stores communications data and makes it searchable and useful for compliance, discovery, and analysis. |
| Support | Accounts include access to tutorials, documentation, training, technical assistance, and support from Archive-It web archivists and engineers. | Smarsh advertises 24/7 support and tailored options for Archive customers. |
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In their own words
Archive-It
Archive-It has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Smarsh Archive
Smarsh Archive stores business communications in a searchable archive for compliance, discovery, and business insight. It retains native content with metadata from more than 100 channels, including email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom, mobile SMS, social media, chat, instant messages, and voice. Custom channels can capture additional sources. Search includes AI tools, filtering, and faceted views, with exports in PST, EML, HTML, XML, and optionally EDRM formats. Retention controls include policy rules, immutable WORM storage, configurable legal holds, and defensible deletion. Smarsh lists support for SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA, MiFID II, FCA, CIRO, and other supervisory expectations. Safeguards include TLS in transit, AES 256 at rest, isolated key management, SIEM monitoring, record hashes, and multi-availability-zone redundancy. APIs cover capture, search, export, retrieval, reporting, discovery, surveillance, identity management, and ingestion. The archive is custom-configured for organizational requirements. Pricing is available on request.