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1 category · Named, not ranked

Hetzner Object Storage

9Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Hetzner Object Storage was named 7 times in Object storage, where Backblaze B2 led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business23 of 35

under the label threshold

Mid-market39 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Hetzner Object 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%	39 of 46	43%	7	under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Hetzner Object Storage is the standout value.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative

“4. Hetzner Object Storage - $7.30/TB” Llama 4 Maverick · 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.

“A 2026 report of a bucket in NBG1 where files silently disappeared (API worked, but data was missing) and support was unhelpful.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid for production: Hetzner Object Storage (due to frequent outages and reliability concerns)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Reddit users call it "not production-ready" due to instability since launch.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hetzner Object Storage, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hetzner Object Storage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare R28 of 92Not in the top three

Wasabi8 of 90Not in the top three

Backblaze B27 of 92Not in the top three

Amazon S36 of 90Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces5 of 90Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage4 of 90Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage3 of 90Not in the top three

IDrive e23 of 90Not in the top three

Linode Object Storage3 of 90Not in the top three

Scaleway Object Storage3 of 90Not 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 Hetzner Object 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Hetzner Object Storage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com7

g2.com5

reddit.com5

github.com4

dev.to3

frontdeskreview.com3

impossiblecloud.com3

infratally.com3

linkedin.com3

sliplane.io3

Thirty-nine of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Hetzner Object Storage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-20267

g2.com/products/wasabi-object-storage/reviews5

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage4

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage4

frontdeskreview.com/best/object-storage3

linkedin.com/pulse/how-scaleways-object-storage-failed-me-files-lost-lack-di-battista-uvym3

reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1o3fz4a/object_storage_was_unreliable_6_mo_ago_did_it3

trustpilot.com/review/wasabi.com3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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