Every category where a model named Storj 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	3%	7 of 46	27%	11	criticized challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 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.

“Storj and IDrive e2 are often cited as the cheapest options” Mistral Small · Object storage · budget prompt · first choice

“providers like Storj and IDrive e2 are frequently cited as the cheapest per TB in 2026” Perplexity Sonar · Object storage · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose IDrive e2 or Storj if you need larger storage at the absolute lowest per-GB price” Kimi K2 · Object storage · 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.

“some users report ongoing issues with large backups (~8TB) not working correctly, plus a more complex pricing model” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“Downloading data can be significantly slower... If you need instant access... this is not suitable.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

“Complex Implementation ... Unpredictable Service Quality” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Storj, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Storj was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backblaze B222 of 248Not in the top three

Wasabi21 of 241Not in the top three

Cloudflare R220 of 248Not in the top three

Amazon S319 of 246Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces16 of 240Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage14 of 240Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage13 of 240Not in the top three

IDrive e213 of 240Not in the top three

MinIO10 of 240Not in the top three

Linode Object Storage5 of 240Not 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 Storj. 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 22 of the 24 answers that named Storj and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com18

solved.scality.com11

digitalocean.com10

github.com10

aimultiple.com7

frontdeskreview.com7

geekflare.com7

impossiblecloud.com7

backblaze.com6

dev.to6

Eighty-nine of the eighty-nine domain citations in answers naming Storj came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202618

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage10

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage10

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

solved.scality.com/object-storage-solutions-small-business8

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage7

frontdeskreview.com/best/object-storage7

geekflare.com/software/best-object-storage7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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