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
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	21%	2 of 46	7%	43	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudflare R2 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 Cloudflare R2 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	1	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	0	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	1	0	6
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	1	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Kimi K2	4	1	0	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	0	0	3

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

Direct19 labels6

Paraphrase26 labels8

Comparative25 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained29 labels8

Scale-constrained13 labels2

Negative17 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative129 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 36 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.

“Cloudflare R2 if you're serving data to customers or apps (zero egress, great for read-heavy workloads).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · direct prompt · first choice

“For most new projects, alternatives like Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2 offer compelling cost savings” Kimi K2 · Object storage · comparative prompt · first choice

“The Best Overall Value: Cloudflare R2 ... Cloudflare R2 is often considered the best choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · budget prompt · first choice

“If you're starting fresh with heavy data egress, Cloudflare R2 is the standout in 2026.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · comparative 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.

“avoid if you need versioning, object lock/WORM, S3 Select, or batch operations” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Excellent economics for serving assets, but many engineers treat it as a CDN/cache layer rather than a primary, durable system of record” Kimi K2 · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cloudflare R2 (newer ecosystem and evolving tooling)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare R2, over the 128 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backblaze B2113 of 12842Compare →

Wasabi104 of 12811Not in the top three

Amazon S3100 of 12816Compare →

Google Cloud Storage63 of 1281Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage60 of 1281Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces52 of 1282Not in the top three

MinIO40 of 1280Not in the top three

Storj20 of 1280Not in the top three

IDrive e219 of 1280Not in the top three

IBM Cloud Object Storage13 of 1281Not 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 Cloudflare R2. 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 105 of the 128 answers that named Cloudflare R2 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com77

solved.scality.com51

backblaze.com39

digitalocean.com38

lowcloud.io32

worldmetrics.org32

aimultiple.com31

cloudian.com30

github.com30

gartner.com24

384 of the 384 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare R2 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202658

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage44

lowcloud.io/en/blog/s3-compatible-object-storage32

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage31

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data30

solved.scality.com/object-storage-solutions-small-business30

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage28

backblaze.com/cloud-storage26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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