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1 category · Named, not ranked

QNAP

5Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

5 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. QNAP was named 4 times in Backup and DR, where Veeam led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business63 of 110

under the label threshold

Mid-market59 of 121

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In backup and dr · 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 QNAP 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
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	59 of 121	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for QNAP 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 QNAP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“A local Synology/QNAP NAS ($300–1,500)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Backup and DR · budget 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.

“like a Synology or QNAP... Default NAS configurations are ransomware magnets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Backup and DR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QNAP, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QNAP was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Acronis Cyber Protect4 of 50Not in the top three

Synology4 of 50Not in the top three

IDrive Business3 of 51Not in the top three

Axcient x360Recover2 of 50Not in the top three

Backblaze B22 of 50Not in the top three

Datto2 of 50Not in the top three

Macrium Reflect Free2 of 50Not in the top three

Veritas Backup Exec2 of 50Not in the top three

Veeam1 of 51Not in the top three

Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition1 of 51Not 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 QNAP. 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 4 of the 5 answers that named QNAP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hyperconvergence.com4

listicler.com4

ifeeltech.com3

apollotechnical.com2

cybersecurityessential.com2

ironorbit.com2

mdrepairs.com2

acronis.com1

backuptoolpick.com1

bestbackupreviews.com1

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming QNAP came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hyperconvergence.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-smbs4

listicler.com/best/best-backup-disaster-recovery-small-businesses4

apollotechnical.com/best-backup-and-disaster-recovery-solutions-for-small-businesses2

cybersecurityessential.com/smb-msp/smb-guides/best-smb-backup-solutions-20262

ifeeltech.com/blog/small-business-disaster-recovery-guide2

ironorbit.com/disaster-recovery-solutions-for-small-businesses2

mdrepairs.com/blog/disaster-recovery-plan-small-business2

acronis.com/en/products/cyber-protect/small-business1

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

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