Every category where a model named IDrive e2 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	3%	6 of 46	17%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IDrive e2 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 e2 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.

“Storj or IDrive e2 are likely the best choices” Mistral Small · Object storage · budget prompt · first choice

“Ultra-low if prepaid yearly | Prepaid blocks (e.g., 1 TB/$30-60/yr), less flexible | Cold/archival, known fixed volume” Grok 4.1 Fast · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose IDrive e2 or Storj if you need larger storage at the absolute lowest per-GB price” Kimi K2 · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative

“providers like Storj and IDrive e2 are frequently cited as the cheapest per TB” Perplexity Sonar · 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.

“Frequent prolonged outages (e.g., 4+ days in Frankfurt region with no ETA)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“had significant reliability issues in 2022 (an outage of several days in Germany)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IDrive e2, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IDrive e2 was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backblaze B221 of 2212Not in the top three

Cloudflare R219 of 228Not in the top three

Wasabi19 of 220Not in the top three

Amazon S317 of 222Not in the top three

Storj13 of 220Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage11 of 220Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces11 of 220Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage10 of 220Not in the top three

MinIO6 of 220Not in the top three

OVHcloud4 of 220Not 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 e2. 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 19 of the 22 answers that named IDrive e2 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com16

dev.to9

frontdeskreview.com9

github.com9

aimultiple.com6

digitalocean.com6

jamespreade.cloud6

leanopstech.com6

reddit.com6

backblaze.com5

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming IDrive e2 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202616

frontdeskreview.com/best/object-storage9

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage9

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage8

dev.to/wimadev/5-cheap-object-storage-providers-5hhh7

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage6

jamespreade.cloud/top-5-cheapest-object-storage-providers-of-july-20246

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as IDrive e2

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as IDrive e2; a claim can dispute any of them.

iDrive e2 3

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Claim this page

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 e2'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 e2, 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.