Every category where a model named DigitalOcean Spaces 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%	17 of 46	38%	24	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct10 labels1

Paraphrase11 labels1

Comparative19 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative19 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative69 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“Choose DigitalOcean Spaces if you want a simpler, smaller-team-friendly product” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for: Mid-market companies needing simple, cost-effective object storage” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · direct prompt · alternative

“a strong option if your team already uses DigitalOcean or wants simple setup” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Startups/Developers: Cloudflare R2 (zero egress) or DigitalOcean Spaces” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · comparative 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.

“5 GB max object size limit... These are non-starters for many modern workloads” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“cap individual object sizes at 5 GB ... these are not suitable” Mistral Small · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Be cautious with: DigitalOcean Spaces, Vultr, and Linode/Akamai Object Storage ... cap individual objects at 5 GB” Kimi K2 · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“be cautious if you need Object Lock/WORM compliance, since these do not support it” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Spaces, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DigitalOcean Spaces was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wasabi62 of 696Not in the top three

Backblaze B259 of 6922Not in the top three

Amazon S354 of 6913Not in the top three

Cloudflare R252 of 6912Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage37 of 690Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage35 of 690Not in the top three

MinIO22 of 690Not in the top three

Storj16 of 691Not in the top three

Linode Object Storage16 of 690Not in the top three

IDrive e211 of 691Not 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 DigitalOcean Spaces. 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 62 of the 69 answers that named DigitalOcean Spaces and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com45

solved.scality.com37

digitalocean.comYour site36

aimultiple.com23

github.com21

worldmetrics.org21

backblaze.com20

lowcloud.io20

g2.com18

geekflare.com17

222 of the 258 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Spaces came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202641

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data29

solved.scality.com/object-storage-solutions-small-business29

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage23

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage23

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage21

worldmetrics.org/service/object-storage21

lowcloud.io/en/blog/s3-compatible-object-storage20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as DigitalOcean Spaces

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

DigitalOcean 1DigitalOcean Space 1

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