Every category where a model named Wasabi 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	5%	5 of 46	38%	50	criticized challenger
Backup and disaster recovery	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	36 of 121	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%
Cloud hosting	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	40 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Wasabi 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 Wasabi 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	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	1	3	8
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	2	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	3	6
Mistral Small	0	0	1	2	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	1	2	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	2	4
Kimi K2	0	5	0	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	2	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1	2	4

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

Direct22 labels5

Paraphrase27 labels2

Comparative21 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained34 labels8

Scale-constrained20 labels3

Negative27 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative151 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 20 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.

“I'd recommend starting with Amazon S3 or Wasabi depending on budget and complexity needs” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · direct prompt · first choice

“Wasabi is widely considered the best choice for mid-market companies.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Object storage · direct prompt · first choice

“Wasabi gives a simple flat ~$7/TB and no separate egress or request charges — but note the 1 TB minimum and 90-day retention commitment.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · direct prompt · alternative

“Wasabi: *Best for Highly Predictable "Write-Once" Storage*... The Catch: Wasabi has a 90-day minimum storage duration” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · direct 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.

“Data corruption incidents ... 90-day minimum retention (charged for deleted data), slow support” Grok 4.1 Fast · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Multiple user complaints: Data loss, backup issues, deletion problems” MiniMax M2.5 · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Wasabi (due to minimum retention)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · hard negative

“G2 reviews include recurring complaints about data-deletion issues, backup problems, and slow support, though overall rating is still decent (~4.4).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Object storage · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Wasabi, over the 151 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wasabi was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backblaze B2127 of 15141Not in the top three

Amazon S3114 of 15117Not in the top three

Cloudflare R2104 of 15126Not in the top three

Google Cloud Storage75 of 1511Not in the top three

Azure Blob Storage71 of 1510Not in the top three

DigitalOcean Spaces62 of 1512Not in the top three

MinIO50 of 1510Not in the top three

Storj21 of 1511Not in the top three

IDrive e219 of 1511Not in the top three

Linode Object Storage14 of 1510Not 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 Wasabi. 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 107 of the 151 answers that named Wasabi and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mixpeek.com68

solved.scality.com50

digitalocean.com44

backblaze.com40

github.com31

worldmetrics.org31

cloudian.com30

lowcloud.io29

g2.com26

wasabi.comYour site26

349 of the 375 domain citations in answers naming Wasabi came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mixpeek.com/blog/object-storage-comparison-202656

mixpeek.com/curated-lists/best-s3-compatible-object-storage41

digitalocean.com/resources/articles/object-storage-solutions-cloud-data36

solved.scality.com/object-storage-solutions-small-business31

github.com/mixpeek/awesome-object-storage29

lowcloud.io/en/blog/s3-compatible-object-storage29

aimultiple.com/cloud-object-storage25

worldmetrics.org/service/object-storage24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Wasabi

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Wasabi; a claim can dispute any of them.

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage 3

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