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
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	11 of 46	12%	8	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 IBM Cloud 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 IBM Cloud 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	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“If you need a hybrid or private cloud solution, IBM Cloud Object Storage or Scality may be more suitable.” Mistral Small · Object storage · direct prompt · alternative

“IBM Cloud Object Storage and MinIO offer strong options for hybrid or on-premises deployments” Mistral Small · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose IBM Cloud Object Storage if you need a stronger *hybrid* fit” Perplexity Sonar · 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.

“being deprecated; support ends Aug 2027 and remaining data will be deleted” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Cloud Object Storage, over the 29 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon S328 of 2919Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage26 of 291Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage25 of 292Not in the top three

Cloudflare R213 of 292Not in the top three

Wasabi13 of 292Not in the top three

Backblaze B213 of 290Not in the top three

MinIO10 of 290Not in the top three

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage10 of 290Not in the top three

NetApp StorageGRID9 of 291Not in the top three

Cloudian HyperStore9 of 290Not 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 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 25 of the 29 answers that named IBM Cloud Object Storage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com17

enterprisestorageforum.com16

solved.scality.com15

worldmetrics.org13

mixpeek.com12

solutionsreview.com12

digitalocean.com11

cloudexpat.com9

aimultiple.com8

backblaze.com8

121 of the 121 domain citations in answers naming IBM Cloud Object Storage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/file-and-object-storage-platforms17

enterprisestorageforum.com/cloud/best-object-storage-solutions16

solutionsreview.com/data-storage/the-best-object-storage-solutions12

worldmetrics.org/service/object-storage12

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data11

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202611

solved.scality.com/best-object-storage-solutions-for-enterprises11

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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.

IBM 1IBM Cloud Object Storage (Classic Infrastructure) 1

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