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
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	8 of 46	24%	45	accepted challenger
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	86 of 121	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google Cloud Storage 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 Google Cloud Storage 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	2	3	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	2	2	1	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	2	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	2	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	2	1	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	2	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	1	3
Kimi K2	1	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	2	0	4

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

Direct22 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative26 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained15 labelsNone

Scale-constrained24 labels1

Negative28 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative118 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Google Cloud Storage uses Google's global network infrastructure to provide consistently fast data access” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose Google Cloud Storage if your primary workload involves heavy data analytics, machine learning” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative

“Big 3 (AWS S3, GCP GCS, Azure Blob) have higher costs/egress but 99.99%+ SLAs, fewer complaints” Grok 4.1 Fast · Object storage · negative prompt · alternative

“Choose Google Cloud Storage if you're already on GCP or want strong global infrastructure” GPT-5.4 mini · 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.

“not budget-friendly for most use cases ... ~$20/TB/month plus ~$120/TB egress” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · budget prompt · hard negative

“Choose AWS S3, Google, or Azure only if you're already committed to that cloud ecosystem ... otherwise you'll pay 2–3× for the same storage.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · direct prompt · soft negative

“Hyperscaler "Cold" Tiers (AWS S3 Glacier, Google Archive, Azure Archive) ... massive financial hazard if misunderstood” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“be cautious if egress cost is a major factor... highest egress fees of major providers” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Storage, over the 115 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon S3112 of 11534Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage107 of 1154Not in the top three

Wasabi75 of 1159Not in the top three

Backblaze B271 of 11522Not in the top three

Cloudflare R263 of 11515Not in the top three

MinIO46 of 1150Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces37 of 1151Not in the top three

IBM Cloud Object Storage26 of 1151Not in the top three

Scality RING15 of 1152Not in the top three

Linode Object Storage15 of 1150Not 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 Google Cloud Storage. 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 80 of the 115 answers that named Google Cloud Storage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

solved.scality.com37

mixpeek.com36

digitalocean.com27

gartner.com27

enterprisestorageforum.com26

cloudexpat.com23

github.com23

worldmetrics.org21

cloudian.com19

solutionsreview.com19

258 of the 258 domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud Storage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202634

gartner.com/reviews/market/file-and-object-storage-platforms27

enterprisestorageforum.com/cloud/best-object-storage-solutions26

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data24

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage22

cloudexpat.com/blog/enterprise-cloud-storage-comparison-202519

solutionsreview.com/data-storage/the-best-object-storage-solutions19

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage18

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 3GCS 2GCP GCS 1Google Archive 1Google Cloud 1Google Cloud Storage Nearline / Coldline / Archive 1Google Cloud Storage Standard 1

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