Small business▼−5Since September 2026: 21% → 16%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
16%from 21% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 2 → 3 of 34
Cloudflare · 3 categories · RankedCloudflare R2
135Judge labels
25First choices
14Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
19% in Object storage for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 51 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 47 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cloudflare R2 →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business3 of 43
18%57 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 51
19%47 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 56
8%28 labels
accepted challenger
In object storage · 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 Cloudflare R2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | Cloud and infrastructure | 19% | 2 of 51 | 17% | 47 | accepted challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 21% → 21%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Backup and disaster recovery | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 49 of 116 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Veeam Data Platform at 38% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 87 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cloudflare R2 held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Object storage · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 21% → 21%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
21%from 21% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 of 46, unchanged
Enterprise▼−3Since September 2026: 12% → 10%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 3 of 46, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | 21% | 21% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 21% → 21%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 51, unchanged |
| Backup and DR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 49 of 116, unchanged |
| Telemetry pipelines | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 87 of 124, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare R2 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare R2 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
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
Direct22 labels5
Paraphrase28 labels9
Comparative21 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained28 labels8
Scale-constrained14 labels3
Negative22 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative135 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 38 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.
“Heavy Egress / Global Apps | Cloudflare R2 | Best for serving media, web assets, or SaaS app files directly to users globally with zero egress fees.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · scale prompt · first choice
“Best for Active SaaS Applications & Global Read-Heavy Workloads: Cloudflare R2 ... is the premier choice.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · direct prompt · first choice
“The best overall option in this category is Cloudflare R2, especially for read-heavy workloads” Muse Glimmer 30B · Object storage · comparative prompt · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Backblaze B2 or Cloudflare R2 (depending on your workload)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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 versioning, no object lock, and no WORM compliance, so it is not suitable for immutable or regulatory backups.” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“Multiple outages in 2026 (13 incidents in 8 days in Aug), including R2 failures, 503 errors, and unrepaired data” Grok 4.20 · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“13 separate incidents in just 8 days... the frequent outages raise concerns about production reliability” Kimi K2 · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“has no versioning and no object lock, making it unsuitable for immutable backups or regulatory compliance” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Object storage · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare R2, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare R2 was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare R2, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare R2 was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Cloudflare R2. 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 131 of the 135 answers that named Cloudflare R2 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
solved.scality.com70
backblaze.com64
digitalocean.com57
github.com54
mixpeek.com44
g2.com38
cloudian.com37
geekflare.com35
developers.cloudflare.comYour site31
wasabi.com31
430 of the 461 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare R2 came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Cloudflare R2 stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Cloudflare R2 stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 6,600 a month (“cloudflare r2”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 73 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Cloudflare's site (cloudflare.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
19%
rank 2 of 51 in object storage
Segment leader
46%
Backblaze B2
- First choices
- 25 across its categories
- Named in
- 135 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 131 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
Names read as Cloudflare R2
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cloudflare R2; a claim can dispute any of them.
AWS S3 / Cloudflare R2 1R2 1
Follow Cloudflare R2
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
Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare R2.ShowHide
The company
Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare R2.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- R2 gives developers object storage minus the egress fees
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- R2 will never charge for egress. The pricing model depends on three factors alone: storage volume, Class A operations (writes, lists) and Class B operations (reads). blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga
- Starting price
- $0.015 / GB, per month blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga
- Free plan or trial
- 10 GB-months of stored data, 1,000,000 Class A operations, per month, 10,000,000 Class B operations, per month blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga
- Hosting
- North America
- Customers named
- VecteezyCloudflare Images
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications
What Cloudflare R2's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blog.cloudflare.com/r2-ga, developers.cloudflare.com/r2, blog.cloudflare.com/r2-open-beta, developers.cloudflare.com/r2-sql, blog.cloudflare.com/r2-local-uploads. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 Cloudflare R2'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 Cloudflare R2, 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 Cloudflare R2 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cloudflare R2 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 Cloudflare R2, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Cloudflare R2 is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Cloudflare R2 is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCloudflare R2 is among the products AI models recommend first in Object storage this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.