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Datto SIRIS

19Judge labels
6First choices
1Negative labels
6 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.
Best standing
10% in Backup and DR for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 121 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In backup and dr · 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 Datto SIRIS 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Backup and disaster recoveryCloud and infrastructure10%5 of 12110%10accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Datto SIRIS 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 Datto SIRIS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01203
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash11002
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K220013
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct8 labels4
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“I'd recommend starting with Veeam if you have IT resources, or Datto if you prefer an MSP-managed approach” Kimi K2 · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Primary Choice: Datto SIRIS if you want a turnkey solution with minimal IT overhead and predictable costs” Kimi K2 · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice
“If you work with an MSP or want fully managed protection \u2192 Datto SIRIS.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · direct prompt · first choice
“Acronis Cyber Protect and Datto SIRIS are top choices” Mistral Small · Backup and DR · direct 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.

“What to Avoid - Expensive DRaaS appliances (like Datto SIRIS) unless you truly need sub-1-hour failover” Kimi K2 · Backup and DR · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Datto SIRIS, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Datto SIRIS was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Acronis Cyber Protect16 of 196Not in the top three
IDrive Business8 of 192Not in the top three
Veeam Data Platform7 of 191Not in the top three
Rubrik6 of 190Not in the top three
Veeam5 of 192Not in the top three
Commvault5 of 190Not in the top three
Cove Data Protection5 of 190Not in the top three
Backblaze4 of 191Not in the top three
Axcient x360Recover4 of 190Not in the top three
Arcserve UDP3 of 190Not 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 Datto SIRIS. 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 18 of the 19 answers that named Datto SIRIS and are not a share of its labels.

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