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Backblaze Business Backup

11Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Backblaze Business Backup was named 2 times in Backup and DR, where Veeam led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 110

under the label threshold

Mid-market37 of 121

under the label threshold

Enterprise80 of 99

under the label threshold

In backup and dr · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Backblaze Business Backup 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
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	37 of 121	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Backblaze Business Backup 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 Backblaze Business Backup across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“If you need basic, low-cost backup for endpoints/files: Go with Backblaze Business.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“IDrive Business or Backblaze Business Backup may be more suitable” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Backup and DR · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Backblaze Business Backup, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Backblaze Business Backup was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acronis Cyber Protect10 of 115Not in the top three

Veeam Data Platform6 of 112Not in the top three

IDrive Business6 of 111Not in the top three

Cove Data Protection3 of 110Not in the top three

Commvault2 of 110Not in the top three

Veeam Backup Essentials2 of 110Not in the top three

Wasabi2 of 110Not in the top three

Druva Data Resiliency Cloud1 of 111Not in the top three

Synology NAS + Active Backup1 of 111Not in the top three

Axcient x360Recover1 of 110Not 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 Backblaze Business Backup. 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 8 of the 11 answers that named Backblaze Business Backup and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hyperconvergence.com6

ninjaone.com5

solutionsreview.com5

veeam.com5

axcient.com4

expertinsights.com4

gartner.com4

helixstax.com4

ifeeltech.com4

pcmag.com4

Forty-five of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming Backblaze Business Backup came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs6

axcient.com/blog/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions4

gartner.com/reviews/market/backup-as-a-service4

helixstax.com/resources/top-backup-solutions-for-small-business4

ifeeltech.com/blog/best-cloud-backup-small-business4

ninjaone.com/blog/best-data-backup-and-recovery-software4

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-backup-services-for-business4

solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/the-best-disaster-recovery-as-a-service-compa4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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