Every category where a model named IBM Cloud 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	Since September 2026
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	13 of 51	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, IBM Cloud Object Storage held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Object storage · by segment

Small businessgoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsNot ranked

Mid-market=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 12 of 46, unchanged

Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 12 of 46

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Object storage	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 12 → 13 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 IBM Cloud Object Storage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.

“Choose IBM Cloud Object Storage if you have strict compliance requirements” Kimi K2 · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for hybrid environments, offering enterprise-grade security” Mistral Small · 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.

“IBM Cloud Object Storage – Performance and UI issues.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Cloud Object Storage, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Cloud Object Storage was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon S320 of 2213Not among the top eight

Google Cloud Storage19 of 221Not among the top eight

Azure Blob Storage18 of 221Not among the top eight

Wasabi Object Storage9 of 223Not among the top eight

Cloudian HyperStore9 of 220Not among the top eight

MinIO AIStor8 of 220Not among the top eight

Backblaze B27 of 220Not among the top eight

Cloudflare R26 of 220Not among the top eight

NetApp StorageGRID6 of 220Not among the top eight

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage6 of 220Not among the top eight

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 IBM Cloud Object 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 20 of the 22 answers that named IBM Cloud Object Storage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudian.com10

digitalocean.com10

enterprisestorageforum.com10

ibm.comYour site9

worldmetrics.org9

geekflare.com8

g2.com7

cloudexpat.com6

storagenewsletter.com6

atlantic.net5

Seventy-one of the eighty domain citations in answers naming IBM Cloud Object Storage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data10

enterprisestorageforum.com/cloud/best-object-storage-solutions10

geekflare.com/software/best-object-storage8

ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage6

storagenewsletter.com/2024/07/05/radar-for-enterprise-object-storage6

atlantic.net/managed-services/top-object-storage-providers-2026-a-guide-to-the-best-soluti5

cloudexpat.com/blog/enterprise-cloud-storage-deep-dive-p25

startupik.com/aws-s3-vs-google-cloud-storage-vs-azure-blob-which-one-is-better5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where IBM Cloud Object Storage stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 170 a month (“ibm cloud object storage”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 12 a month
Its own site: It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 13 of 51 in object storage

Segment leader

46%

Backblaze B2

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 22 answers
Its own site cited: in 20 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 IBM Cloud Object Storage

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as IBM Cloud Object Storage; a claim can dispute any of them.

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

IBM is the company behind IBM Cloud Object Storage.

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On record

Company records

Also from IBM: IBM AI Fairness 360, IBM API Connect, IBM Apptio Cloudability, IBM Aspera, IBM Aspera Managed File Transfer, IBM Business Automation Workflow, IBM Cloud Databases, IBM Cloud Kubernetes and 98 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: A highly scalable, resilient service integrated with the IBM Cloud ecosystem.
ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage
For: enterprise workloads
ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage
Price stated: One-Rate Pricing: A single, all-inclusive monthly rate starting as low as USD 10 per TB per month—covering storage, egress, retrieval, and API operations. Standard Pricing: A flexible pay-as-you-go option with no minimum fee. ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage
Starting price: 10 ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage
Free plan or trial: Try IBM Cloud Object Storage for free ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage
Certifications: HIPAA-readySOC 2FIPSISO 27001GDPR
Hosting: SydneyMontrealChennaiMumbaiOsakaTokyoMadrid
Customers named: Kate BartonNetrix GlobalROX Hi‑TechNational Van LinesBlendow Group
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What IBM Cloud Object Storage's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ibm.com/products/cloud-object-storage, research.ibm.com/publications/iostack-software-defined-object-storage, research.ibm.com/publications/aiops-for-a-cloud-object-storage-service, research.ibm.com/publications/taming-the-cloud-object-storage-with-mos, research.ibm.com/publications/qos-differentiation-in-an-advanced-object-store. 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 IBM Cloud Object Storage'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 IBM Cloud Object Storage, 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 IBM Cloud Object Storage by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where IBM Cloud Object 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 IBM Cloud Object 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.