Small business=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 7 → 8 of 34
1 category · RankedIDrive e2
22Judge labels
1First choices
2Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Object storage for small business buyers
Rank 9 of 51 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business8 of 43
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market9 of 51
2%9 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise50 of 56
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 9 of 51 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46% | =heldSince September 2026: 3% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, IDrive e2 held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Object storage · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 3% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 3% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 6 → 9 of 46
Enterprise=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 34 → 41 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | 3% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 3% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 9 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 IDrive e2 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated IDrive e2 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| 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 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative6 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.
“Absolute lowest storage price + no egress | IDrive e2 ... best overall balance of price, no egress, and feature set” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Object storage · budget prompt · first choice
“Strong Alternatives (All S3-Compatible): IDrive e2 (Often the outright cheapest for low volumes)” Grok 4.20 · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative
“IDrive e2 aggressively undercuts the market with the lowest storage rates.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for ultra-low budgets (heavy first-year discounts)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.
“users frequently caution against their billing practices” Gemini 3.5 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.ShowHide
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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 IDrive e2. 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 22 of the 22 answers that named IDrive e2 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
github.com14
solved.scality.com14
backblaze.com13
g2.com10
geekflare.com8
wasabi.com8
jamespreade.cloud7
mixpeek.com6
obsideo.io6
toolweight.com6
Ninety-two of the ninety-two domain citations in answers naming IDrive e2 came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
idrive.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, IDrive e2 takes 2% of first choices and Backblaze B2 takes 46%.ShowHide
Search and answers
idrive.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, IDrive e2 takes 2% of first choices and Backblaze B2 takes 46%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “object storage service”
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not in the top ten
Position for “object storage services”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 720 a month (“idrive e2”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 11 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 198,720 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,820 · 563 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 8,219
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 9 of 51 in object storage
Segment leader
46%
Backblaze B2
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 22 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 22 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on idrive.com
2,822
subdomains included
Content
559
counted in the table below
Documentation
32
Product · Integration
0 · 2
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 505 | 10 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Comparison | 30 | 0 | 2024-08-01 | ||
| News or press | 18 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 0 | 2026-03-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2019-01-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2013-02-01 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2011-05-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Idrive to showcase cloud to cloud backup solutions for academic institutions at educause 2026 blog
- 2026-09-14Idrive launches direct to cloud backup for microsoft entra id blog
- 2026-08-27Driver assist layer you can license and ship blog
- 2026-08-10Neoclouds need more than gpus why storage matters blog
- 2026-08-04Remotepc named best remote access software for small businesses by pcmag blog
- 2026-08-04Join idrive at educause demo day virtual infrastructure solutions to learn about cloud backup for education blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page idrive.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow IDrive e2
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
IDrive e2 is its own company.ShowHide
The company
IDrive e2 is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Hot Cloud Object Storage
- For
- Veeam-Ready cloud object storage
- Price stated
- Save 50% Starts at ~$59.50~ $29.75 first year, 1 TB idrive.com
- Starting price
- 29.75 idrive.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2GDPRHIPAA Compliance
- Hosting
- Worldwide locations
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, integrations, customers
What IDrive e2's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: idrive.com, idrive.com/pricing, trust.idrive.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IDrive e2 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where IDrive e2 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 IDrive e2, 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.