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MinIO Object Storage

2Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
1 / 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.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. MinIO Object Storage was named 1 time in Enterprise storage, where Dell PowerStore led with 16%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In enterprise 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 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Enterprise storage systemsCloud and infrastructure2%27 of 1670%1under 10 labels · led by Dell PowerStore at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for MinIO Object Storage yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated MinIO Object Storage across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Paraphrase2 labels1
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“Some of the top recommendations include DataCore SANsymphony, MinIO Object Storage, and Komprise Intelligent Data Management.” Llama 4 Maverick · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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 MinIO Object Storage, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MinIO Object Storage was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
DataCore SANsymphony2 of 20Not among the top eight
Komprise Intelligent Data Management2 of 20Not among the top eight
Dropbox1 of 20Not among the top eight
Egnyte1 of 20Not among the top eight
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 Object Storage. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named MinIO Object Storage and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

min.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MinIO Object Storage takes 2% of first choices and Dell PowerStore takes 16%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “enterprise storage array”
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not in the top ten
Position for “enterprise storage systems”
–
not in the top ten
Its company's site
min.io shared with MinIO's other products; the figures are the site's
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
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
88 ads · 84 text, 3 image, 1 video · 26 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2025, as MinIO, Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 40 in the year, 48 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 27 of 167 in enterprise storage
Segment leader
16%
Dell PowerStore
First choices
1 across its categories
Named in
2 answers
Its own site cited
in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

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The company

MinIO is the company behind MinIO Object Storage.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
the enterprise object storage platform built for AI, analytics, and multi-environment data at scale
For
Enterprise architects, infrastructure engineers, and technology executives evaluating unified data storage platforms for AI workloads, data lakehouses, and multi-cloud environments
Customers named
Global Digital Payments Provider
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What MinIO Object Storage's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: min.io/resources/minio-aistor-enterprise-data-foundation-overview, min.io/resources/building-high-performance-splunk-smartstores-with-minio-aistor, min.io/resources/f5-solution-overview-scaling-ai-data-ingestion-with-minio-red-hat-and-f5, min.io/resources/supermicro-minio-storage-solution-delivers-high-performance-object-storage-for-ai-data-flow, min.io/customer-stories/how-minio-aistor-helped-transform-a-global-digital-payments-providers-s3-private-cloud. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • 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 Object Storage, 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;
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