Every category where a model named Backblaze 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%	33 of 121	22%	9	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 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative7 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“Simplest, most affordable for pure file backup: Backblaze Business (~$80/yr per device).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Backup and DR · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for Simplicity: Backblaze (~$80/year)” MiniMax M2.5 · Backup and DR · budget 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.

“is also a low-friction option, though it is more backup-focused than full disaster recovery” Perplexity Sonar · Backup and DR · budget prompt · soft negative

“Not "avoid," but the cloud client is frequently criticized for pausing uploads” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Backblaze, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Backblaze was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IDrive Business21 of 279Not in the top three

Acronis Cyber Protect16 of 278Not in the top three

Veeam8 of 271Not in the top three

Axcient x360Recover7 of 271Not in the top three

Acronis5 of 270Not in the top three

CrashPlan4 of 271Not in the top three

Carbonite4 of 270Not in the top three

Commvault4 of 270Not in the top three

Datto SIRIS4 of 270Not in the top three

Bacula3 of 270Not 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. 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 22 of the 27 answers that named Backblaze and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hyperconvergence.com17

listicler.com15

ifeeltech.com13

axcient.com12

cybersecurityessential.com8

digacore.com8

expertinsights.com8

learn.g2.com8

reddit.com7

solutionsreview.com7

103 of the 103 domain citations in answers naming Backblaze came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs17

listicler.com/best/best-backup-disaster-recovery-small-businesses15

axcient.com/blog/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions12

ifeeltech.com/blog/best-cloud-backup-small-business11

cybersecurityessential.com/smb-msp/smb-guides/best-smb-backup-solutions-20268

digacore.com/blog/cloud-backup-solutions-for-small-business8

learn.g2.com/best-backup-software7

consilien.com/news/best-cloud-backup-solutions-smb-20265

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Backblaze

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

Backblaze Business 4

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Claim this page

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at backblaze.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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