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 8 → 9 of 34
1 category · RankedMinIO AIStor
70Judge labels
0First choices
10Negative labels
12 / 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 mid-market buyers
Rank 10 of 51 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 22 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of MinIO AIStor →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 43
0%16 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market10 of 51
0%22 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise12 of 56
0%31 labels
accepted challenger
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 MinIO AIStor 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 | 0% | 10 of 51 | 14% | 22 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, MinIO AIStor held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Object storage · by segment
Mid-market=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 9 → 10 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 11 of 46, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 10 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 MinIO AIStor 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 MinIO AIStor 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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct8 labelsNone
Paraphrase13 labelsNone
Comparative22 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained14 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative70 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.
“Look at MinIO or SeaweedFS: Highly performant, self-hosted options that are very popular among engineering-focused mid-market companies.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · scale prompt · alternative
“Other options to consider are DigitalOcean and MinIO, which offer S3-compatible access and self-hosted, open-source solutions” Llama 4 Maverick · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative
“the absolute gold standard for private clouds, hybrid clouds, or strict compliance requirements” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you need data sovereignty/on-prem: MinIO (self-hosted, S3-compatible) or Cloudian.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.
“you should avoid building your own on-premise or self-hosted object storage unless compliance dictates it” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative
“its open-source track is now over: the GitHub README reads "THIS REPOSITORY IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Object storage · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Requires operational overhead, not suitable for most organizations” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Object storage · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as MinIO AIStor, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MinIO AIStor was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as MinIO AIStor, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MinIO AIStor 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 MinIO AIStor. 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 52 of the 69 answers that named MinIO AIStor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
solved.scality.com34
digitalocean.com33
cloudian.com29
backblaze.com24
mixpeek.com21
worldmetrics.org20
g2.com19
github.com16
enterprisestorageforum.com14
geekflare.com13
223 of the 223 domain citations in answers naming MinIO AIStor came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
min.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MinIO AIStor takes 0% of first choices and Backblaze B2 takes 46%.ShowHide
Search and answers
min.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MinIO AIStor takes 0% 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
- 140 a month (“minio aistor”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 7,152 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 940 · 105 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,190
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 10 of 51 in object storage
Segment leader
46%
Backblaze B2
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 69 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 52 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 min.io
650
subdomains included
Content
426
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
48 · 6
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 316 | 42 | 2026-09-29 | Object storage | |
| Glossary or explainer | 37 | undated | IaC, Vector databases | ||
| News or press | 29 | 2 | 2026-08-31 | Object storage | |
| Case study | 21 | 19 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 11 | 2 | 2026-10-07 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | 0 | 2026-02-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 2 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2023-04-13 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-07Db data ai world tour conference or event
- 2026-09-29Context memory for hybrid model agentic inference blog
- 2026-09-28Ai assisted data reclamation in aistor blog
- 2026-09-28Aistor table sharing with databricks end to end demo blog
- 2026-09-28Aistor tables unifying structured and unstructured data for ai with native iceberg blog
- 2026-09-28Architecting aistor table sharing with databricks for scale and performance blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page min.io 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.
Names read as MinIO AIStor
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as MinIO AIStor; a claim can dispute any of them.
MinIO 20MinIO (Open Source) 1MinIO (Self-hosted) 1
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The company
MinIO AIStor is its own company.ShowHide
The company
MinIO AIStor is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Enterprise AI Data Store
- For
- enterprise AI and analytics workloads
- Free plan or trial
- Try AIStor Free min.io/product/aistor
- Integrations claimed
- 4 min.io/product/aistor
- Customers named
- AMDCoreWeaveDatabricksClickHouseNVIDIA
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, certifications, hosting
What MinIO AIStor's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: min.io/product/aistor, min.io/category/aistor, docs.min.io/aistor/operations, min.io/resources/minio-aistor-tables, min.io/resources/aistor-hyperscale-object-storage. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for MinIO AIStor by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where MinIO AIStor 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 MinIO AIStor, 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.