Every category where a model named Cove Data Protection 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	2%	11 of 121	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

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

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

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“my default recommendation would be Cove Data Protection” Perplexity Sonar · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The modern favorite for a fully cloud/SaaS backup service” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Cove Data Protection \u2014 Best Transparent Pricing” Kimi K2 · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cove Data Protection, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cove Data Protection was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acronis Cyber Protect13 of 157Not in the top three

IDrive Business10 of 152Not in the top three

Veeam Data Platform6 of 151Not in the top three

Datto SIRIS5 of 151Not in the top three

Axcient x360Recover5 of 150Not in the top three

Backblaze Business Backup3 of 151Not in the top three

Veeam3 of 150Not in the top three

Backblaze2 of 150Not in the top three

Veeam Backup Essentials2 of 150Not in the top three

Veeam Community Edition1 of 151Not 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 Cove Data Protection. 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 14 of the 15 answers that named Cove Data Protection and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

consilien.com14

hyperconvergence.com13

axcient.com12

expertinsights.com7

solutionsreview.com7

ifeeltech.com6

listicler.com6

ironorbit.com5

learn.g2.com5

veeam.com5

Eighty of the eighty domain citations in answers naming Cove Data Protection came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

consilien.com/news/best-cloud-backup-solutions-smb-202614

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs13

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

ifeeltech.com/blog/best-cloud-backup-small-business6

listicler.com/best/best-backup-disaster-recovery-small-businesses6

solutionsreview.com/backup-disaster-recovery/the-best-disaster-recovery-as-a-service-compa6

expertinsights.com/backup-and-recovery/top-disaster-recovery-dr-software-solutions5

ironorbit.com/disaster-recovery-solutions-for-small-businesses5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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