Every category where a model named IDrive Business 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
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	12%	4 of 121	21%	14	accepted challenger
Object storage	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	33 of 46	100%	1	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 IDrive Business 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 IDrive Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	1	3
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	2	3
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	0	1

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labels2

Comparative9 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels13

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative5 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 21 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.

“Best overall value with broad coverage: iDrive Business (~$99.50/yr for 250 GB, unlimited devices/servers).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Backup and DR · budget prompt · first choice

“A local Synology/QNAP NAS ($300–1,500) + IDrive Business cloud backup (~$100–500/year)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · budget prompt · first choice

“IDrive Business is the strongest budget pick for general small-business backup” Perplexity Sonar · Backup and DR · budget prompt · first choice

“Favorites from reviews (PCMag, Wirecutter): IDrive (value/reliability)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · negative prompt · first choice

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.

“consumer-grade like IDrive (lacks B2B depth)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Backup and DR · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Budget-Friendly Providers (Wasabi, Backblaze B2, IDrive) ... there are significant "catches" regarding support and policy enforcement.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“Be Cautious About: IDrive (Mixed Reviews Context). ... issues with "hidden" overage charges” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative

“Frequent complaints about slow uploads, confusing/dated interfaces, unexpected overage charges” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IDrive Business, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IDrive Business was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acronis Cyber Protect39 of 5016Not in the top three

Backblaze21 of 500Not in the top three

Axcient x360Recover15 of 500Not in the top three

Veeam12 of 500Not in the top three

Cove Data Protection10 of 501Not in the top three

Backblaze B210 of 500Not in the top three

Datto SIRIS8 of 501Not in the top three

Veeam Data Platform8 of 501Not in the top three

BackupAssist7 of 502Not in the top three

Backblaze Business Backup6 of 501Not 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 IDrive Business. 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 46 of the 50 answers that named IDrive Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hyperconvergence.com38

listicler.com29

axcient.com26

ifeeltech.com26

expertinsights.com18

cybersecurityessential.com16

solutionsreview.com16

consilien.com15

digacore.com14

learn.g2.com13

211 of the 211 domain citations in answers naming IDrive Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs38

listicler.com/best/best-backup-disaster-recovery-small-businesses29

axcient.com/blog/backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions22

ifeeltech.com/blog/best-cloud-backup-small-business19

cybersecurityessential.com/smb-msp/smb-guides/best-smb-backup-solutions-202616

consilien.com/news/best-cloud-backup-solutions-smb-202614

digacore.com/blog/cloud-backup-solutions-for-small-business14

ironorbit.com/disaster-recovery-solutions-for-small-businesses11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as IDrive Business

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

IDrive 6iDrive Business 4iDrive 1

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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 IDrive Business'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 IDrive Business, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at idrive.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.