Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 4 of 34, unchanged
DigitalOcean · 1 category · RankedDigitalOcean Spaces
73Judge labels
4First choices
8Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Object storage for small business buyers
Rank 6 of 51 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 26 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of DigitalOcean Spaces →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 43
5%41 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market6 of 51
2%26 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise49 of 56
0%6 labels
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 6 of 51 | 8% | 26 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, DigitalOcean Spaces held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Object storage · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 18 → 7 of 46
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 52 → 42 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 6 of 51 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated DigitalOcean Spaces across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated DigitalOcean Spaces across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct4 labels1
Paraphrase21 labels1
Comparative18 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels1
Scale-constrained6 labels1
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative73 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 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.
“the best choice is usually Backblaze B2 or DigitalOcean Spaces” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · budget prompt · first choice
“If the company is looking for a cost-effective solution with good performance, providers like DigitalOcean Spaces, B2, or Hetzner could be considered.” Llama 4 Maverick · Object storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Very small fixed budget: DigitalOcean Spaces starts at $5/month for 250GB storage + 1TB outbound transfer” Muse Glimmer 30B · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative
“Use Cloudflare R2 or DigitalOcean Spaces. The lack of egress fees means your bill stays flat” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · 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.
“Reported 5 GB object caps on some providers, and lack of object lock/WORM support on some of these services.” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative
“DigitalOcean Spaces: Watch Out for Size Limits & Concurrency” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Spaces, over the 73 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Spaces, over the 73 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 66 of the 73 answers that named DigitalOcean Spaces and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
solved.scality.com44
digitalocean.comYour site43
github.com35
g2.com31
geekflare.com25
backblaze.com21
edgedelta.com19
mixpeek.com19
aimultiple.com17
us.fitgap.com17
228 of the 271 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Spaces came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where DigitalOcean Spaces stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where DigitalOcean Spaces stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“digitalocean spaces”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 16 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on DigitalOcean's site (digitalocean.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 6 of 51 in object storage
Segment leader
46%
Backblaze B2
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 73 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 66 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
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.
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The company
DigitalOcean is the company behind DigitalOcean Spaces.ShowHide
The company
DigitalOcean is the company behind DigitalOcean Spaces.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- an S3-compatible service for storing and serving large amounts of data
- Price stated
- $5 per month digitalocean.com/pricing/spaces-object-storage
- Starting price
- $5 per month digitalocean.com/pricing/spaces-object-storage
- Free plan or trial
- Try Spaces out now! digitalocean.com/pricing/spaces-object-storage
- Hosting
- all regions
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, customers
What DigitalOcean Spaces's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces, digitalocean.com/pricing/spaces-object-storage, docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details, docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/concepts, docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/reference. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 DigitalOcean Spaces'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 DigitalOcean Spaces, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DigitalOcean Spaces by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where DigitalOcean Spaces is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name DigitalOcean Spaces, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.