Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 34, unchanged
Google Cloud · 2 categories · RankedGoogle Cloud Storage
138Judge labels
5First choices
43Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Object storage for enterprise buyers
Rank 7 of 51 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 47 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Google Cloud Storage →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 43
3%39 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market7 of 51
2%47 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 56
4%48 labels
accepted challenger
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 Google Cloud Storage 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% | 7 of 51 | 21% | 47 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Enterprise storage systems | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 166 of 167 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Dell PowerStore at 16% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Google Cloud Storage held within the floor in all two categories: 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 8 → 6 of 46
Enterprise▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 13 → 5 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 8 → 7 of 51 |
| Enterprise storage | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 166 of 167, unchanged |
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 Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage 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 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 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
Direct35 labels2
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative34 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels2
Scale-constrained19 labels1
Negative31 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative138 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 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 default choice is usually Google Cloud Storage” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · direct prompt · first choice
“Known for high-performance internal networking and strong support for large-scale data analytics and machine learning pipelines” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative
“If the company is already using or planning to use Google Cloud services, Google Cloud Storage is a seamless choice.” Llama 4 Maverick · Object storage · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Data analytics / ML pipelines | Google Cloud Storage | Best integration with BigQuery, AI/ML tools” Kimi K2 · Object storage · direct 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.
“"avoid or be cautious about ... those with high egress fees or minimum retention periods, such as GCS and Azure Cold"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure) on tight budgets due to egress/API add-ons.” Grok 4.20 · Object storage · budget prompt · hard negative
“public cloud object storage (AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage) as an infinite dumping ground” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative
“Outages: Frequent minor incidents; e.g., Google Cloud had prolonged regional degradations” Grok 4.20 · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Storage, over the 137 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud Storage was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Storage, over the 137 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage. 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 119 of the 137 answers that named Google Cloud Storage and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
digitalocean.com55
solved.scality.com50
cloudian.com40
g2.com40
geekflare.com39
github.com39
backblaze.com37
enterprisestorageforum.com32
mixpeek.com28
atlantic.net27
387 of the 387 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud Storage came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cloud.google.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud Storage takes 2% of first choices and Backblaze B2 takes 46%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cloud.google.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud Storage takes 2% of first choices and Backblaze B2 takes 46%.
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Google, US estimatesPosition for “object storage service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “object storage services”
4
- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“google cloud storage”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 680 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 7,405,347 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 70,320 · 16,032 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 201,334
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 7 of 51 in object storage
Segment leader
46%
Backblaze B2
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 137 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 119 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cloud.google.com
79
subdomains included
Content
67
counted in the table below
Documentation
6
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 37 | 14 | 2026-09-28 | API management | |
| Case study | 19 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloud.google.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Google Cloud Storage
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Google Cloud Storage; a claim can dispute any of them.
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) 7GCP 4Google Cloud 2GCP Cloud Storage 1GCS 1Google 1
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The company
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The company
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Cloud Storage by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage, 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.