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1 category · Named, not ranked

Impossible Cloud

7Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Impossible Cloud was named 3 times in Object storage, where Backblaze B2 led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business13 of 35

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprise23 of 61

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 Impossible Cloud 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%	15 of 46	0%	3	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 Impossible Cloud 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 Impossible Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

“Strict data sovereignty (EU) | EU-based providers (e.g., Impossible Cloud)” Kimi K2 · Object storage · scale 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Impossible Cloud, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Impossible Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cloudflare R27 of 73Not in the top three

Amazon S37 of 72Not in the top three

Wasabi7 of 70Not in the top three

MinIO6 of 70Not in the top three

Backblaze B25 of 71Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage5 of 70Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage5 of 70Not in the top three

Tigris4 of 71Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces3 of 70Not in the top three

Storj3 of 70Not 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 Impossible Cloud. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Impossible Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

impossiblecloud.comYour site5

mixpeek.com5

github.com4

solved.scality.com4

cloudian.com3

datastorage.com3

aimultiple.com2

aws.amazon.com2

blog.n0p.me2

cloudbs.dev2

Twenty-seven of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Impossible Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-20264

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage4

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage3

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage2

aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing2

blog.n0p.me/2025/10/2025-10-25-s3-compatible-storage-comparsion2

cloudbs.dev/research/cloud-object-storage-dubious-savings2

cloudexpat.com/compare/s3-vs-blob-storage-vs-cloud-storage2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 impossiblecloud.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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