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1 category · Named, not ranked

Cloudian

13Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

10 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

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cloudian was named 9 times in Object storage, where Backblaze B2 led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market10 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 of 61

under the label threshold

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 Cloudian 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	0%	10 of 46	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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 more advanced features or hybrid deployment options, Cloudian is a strong alternative.” Mistral Small · Object storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Offers S3-compatible storage solutions that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud.” Llama 4 Maverick · Object storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Popular on-premise object storage options include Cloudian and MinIO” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cloudian/MinIO for on-prem/hybrid control” Kimi K2 · Object storage · negative 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 Cloudian, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudian was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backblaze B210 of 133Not in the top three

Amazon S39 of 134Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage9 of 130Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage9 of 130Not in the top three

MinIO9 of 130Not in the top three

Wasabi7 of 131Not in the top three

Cloudflare R27 of 130Not in the top three

Ceph5 of 130Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces4 of 130Not in the top three

Scality3 of 130Not 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 Cloudian. 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 12 of the 13 answers that named Cloudian and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudian.comYour site8

backblaze.com4

filebase.com4

g2.com4

lowcloud.io4

mixpeek.com4

solutionsreview.com4

solved.scality.com4

aimultiple.com3

cloudexpat.com3

Thirty-four of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Cloudian came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

backblaze.com/cloud-storage4

filebase.com/blog/best-object-storage-providers-in-2026-vendors-options-and-pricing4

lowcloud.io/en/blog/s3-compatible-object-storage4

solutionsreview.com/data-storage/the-best-object-storage-solutions4

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage3

cloudexpat.com/blog/enterprise-cloud-storage-comparison-20253

cloudian.com/guides/s3-storage/best-s3-compatible-storage-for-enterprise-top-5-options-in-3

cloudian.com/guides/s3-storage/best-s3-compatible-storage-providers-top-5-options-in-20263

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cloudian

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

Cloudian/MinIO 1

Is this your product?

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 Cloudian'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 Cloudian, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 cloudian.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.