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Linode Object Storage

16Judge labels

0First choices

15Negative labels

8 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Linode Object Storage was named 7 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 business34 of 35

under the label threshold

Mid-market46 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprise61 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 Linode 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%	46 of 46	100%	7	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 Linode 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 Linode Object Storage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“cap individual object sizes at 5 GB ... these are not suitable” Mistral Small · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“These are non-starters for many modern workloads” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid if: You store video files, database backups, ML model checkpoints, or any large unstructured data.” Kimi K2 · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“be cautious if you need Object Lock/WORM compliance, since these do not support it” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Linode Object Storage, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Linode Object Storage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

DigitalOcean Spaces16 of 161Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage15 of 160Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage14 of 160Not in the top three

Wasabi14 of 160Not in the top three

Amazon S313 of 163Not in the top three

Backblaze B210 of 161Not in the top three

Cloudflare R210 of 161Not in the top three

Vultr10 of 160Not in the top three

Storj5 of 160Not in the top three

Vultr Object Storage5 of 160Not 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 Linode 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 15 of the 16 answers that named Linode Object Storage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com15

digitalocean.com10

github.com9

linkedin.com8

solved.scality.com8

impossiblecloud.com7

cloudbs.dev6

techtarget.com5

g2.com4

globalitresearch.com4

Seventy-six of the seventy-six domain citations in answers naming Linode Object Storage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202615

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data9

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage9

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage9

cloudbs.dev/research/cloud-object-storage-dubious-savings6

solved.scality.com/object-storage-solutions-small-business5

techtarget.com/searchstorage/tip/Evaluate-object-storage-advantages-and-disadvantages5

g2.com/products/wasabi-object-storage/reviews4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Linode Object Storage

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

Linode 4Linode/Akamai Object Storage 1

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