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Index › Products › Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go

2Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative 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. Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go was named 1 time in Object storage, where Backblaze B2 led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business37 of 43

under the label threshold

Mid-market43 of 51

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go 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%	43 of 51	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Backblaze B2 at 46%

Movement

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

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	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-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“That can make it a poor fit for short-lived data or heavily downloaded public content.” GPT-6 Luna · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon S32 of 20Not among the top eight

Backblaze B22 of 20Not among the top eight

Cloudflare R2 Infrequent Access2 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 Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go. 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 Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aws.amazon.com2

backblaze.com2

developers.cloudflare.com2

wasabi.comYour site2

cisa.gov1

Seven of the nine domain citations in answers naming Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing2

backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing2

developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing2

cisa.gov/stopransomware/ransomware-guide1

wasabi.com/pricing/faq1

wasabi.com/product-terms1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

wasabi.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go takes 0% of first choices and Backblaze B2 takes 46%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “object storage service”

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not in the top ten

Position for “object storage services”

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not in the top ten

Organic visits to its site: about 13,526 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 9,882 · 229 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,626
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

85+ ads · 76 text, 6 image, 3 video · 76 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as Wasabi Technologies LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 10 in the year, 75 before. 35 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 43 of 51 in object storage

Segment leader

46%

Backblaze B2

First choices: 0 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 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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Addresses on wasabi.com

1,495

subdomains included

Content

896

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

15 · 54

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	350	4	2026-09-24	Object storage
News or press	256	undated		CDN, Backup and DR
Case study	117	6	2026-09-22
Podcast or video	95	undated
Glossary or explainer	37	0	2024-03-27	Object storage
Comparison	18	1	2026-09-09
Report or ebook	11	undated
Conference or event	6	0	2023-07-13
Template or tool	6	0	2023-09-20	Object storage

Most recent

2026-09-24Ai is changing public sector data strategy and exposing new storage risks blog
2026-09-23Why an independent storage layer helps build sovereignty architecture blog
2026-09-22Mcp for cloud storage a real world example from wasabi and performance hub blog
2026-09-22Aptean case study
2026-09-16Bachmann group case study
2026-09-09On premises vs cloud storage comparison

Events in person

Last twelve months

June 2, 2026 to June 4, 2026Infosecurity Europe 2026ExCel, London · exhibited

As the event pages on wasabi.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page wasabi.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. 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.

Follow Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: enterprise-class hot cloud storage at a fraction of the cost of legacy providers
wasabi.com
For: enterprise
wasabi.com
Price stated: With Wasabi, you pay only for what you store. wasabi.com
Starting price: 7.99 wasabi.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Try it free for 30 days. wasabi.com
Certifications: SOC2HIPAAGDPRISO 27001PCI-DSSFIPS-197 certified AES-256 bit encryptionMFASOC 2
Hosting: 16 storage regions across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific
Customers named: The Hotchkiss SchoolAIRoAPerformance Hub / UBXBlack.AI
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: wasabi.com, wasabi.com/pricing, wasabi.com/cloud-object-storage/security, wasabi.com/solutions/ai, wasabi.com/it/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go 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 Wasabi Pay-as-You-Go, 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.