# DigitalOcean Spaces alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 206 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where DigitalOcean Spaces holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/digitalocean-spaces/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Amazon S3: 47
- Backblaze B2: 45
- Cloudflare R2: 24
- Wasabi Object Storage: 22
- Azure Blob Storage: 7
- Google Cloud Storage: 6

## Object storage

**Small business**: 55 of 84 answers did not name DigitalOcean Spaces (DigitalOcean Spaces is #4 of 9 at 5%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 26 of those 55
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 10 of those 55
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 7 of those 55
- Amazon S3: first choice in 2 of those 55
- Backblaze Cloud Storage: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Google Cloud Storage: first choice in 1 of those 55

**Mid-market**: 69 of 84 answers did not name DigitalOcean Spaces (DigitalOcean Spaces is #6 of 9 at 2%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 19 of those 69
- Amazon S3: first choice in 14 of those 69
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 10 of those 69
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 4 of those 69
- Azure Blob Storage: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Google Cloud Storage: first choice in 1 of those 69

**Enterprise**: 82 of 84 answers did not name DigitalOcean Spaces.

- Amazon S3: first choice in 31 of those 82
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 11 of those 82
- Azure Blob Storage: first choice in 4 of those 82
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 4 of those 82
- Google Cloud Storage: first choice in 4 of those 82
- Internxt S3: first choice in 2 of those 82
- Amazon Simple Storage Service S3: first choice in 1 of those 82
- Cloudian HyperStore: first choice in 1 of those 82

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.