1 category · RankedNetApp AFF
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise storage systems | Cloud and infrastructure | 9% | 3 of 167 | 6% | 36 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated NetApp AFF across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“NetApp AFF A-Series, typically AFF A250 for entry mid-market or AFF A50 for midrange growth, is the most consistently recommended primary storage today” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise storage · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best budget-friendly enterprise storage array: a TrueNAS enterprise appliance or a small NetApp hybrid array” GPT-5.4 mini · Enterprise storage · budget prompt · first choice
“Products like Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, or Pure Storage FlashArray//X are well-suited for your scale” MiniMax M2.5 · Enterprise storage · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with a proof-of-concept between NetApp AFF A250 and Pure FlashArray //E” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.
“many long-time NetApp users have expressed anxiety about long-term innovation priorities and vendor reliability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative
“NetApp's entry-level E-series (E2800/E5700) are classic examples... limited scale-out capability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise storage · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as NetApp AFF, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NetApp AFF was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 100 of the 114 answers that named NetApp AFF and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
324 of the 364 domain citations in answers naming NetApp AFF came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
netapp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, NetApp AFF takes 9% of first choices and Dell PowerStore takes 16%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 110 a month (“netapp aff”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 94 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 137,356 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 16,087 · 1,601 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 19,628
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 24 clicks and $1 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 18 across its categories
- Named in
- 114 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 100 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 556 | undated | Object storage, Infra monitoring | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 43 | undated | |||
| Case study | 17 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 11 | 0 | 2022-03-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 3 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2023-03-28 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page netapp.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as NetApp AFF
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The company
NetApp AFF is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- All-Flash
- Certifications
- CCPACommon CriteriaCyber EssentialsDORAEcoVadis 2025 - GoldEU CRAEU Data ActFIPS 140-3
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What NetApp AFF's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: netapp.com, trust.netapp.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for NetApp AFF by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where NetApp AFF 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 NetApp AFF, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where NetApp AFF is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
NetApp AFF is among the products AI models recommend first in Enterprise storage systems this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.