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AI mentions in answers to 3 questions

2025-12-30

129
Brands
193
Sources
3
Questions
5
AI Models

About This Report

This report was generated for brands and citations mentioned in answers about Cloud Storage from 5 AI models (namely: Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest), Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest), OpenAI ChatGPT Latest, Google Gemini Flash (latest), X.AI Grok (latest)). AI models were asked the following questions:

  1. "What are the best Cloud Storage options available today? Please provide a comprehensive overview including: the leading brands and products, top companies and service providers, recognized experts and thought leaders, promising startups and new market entrants, major industry events and conferences, active communities and forums, and influential publications and media covering this space." (view report)
  2. "If I'm looking to get into Cloud Storage, who and what should I know about? Include the most trusted brands, recommended products and services, reputable companies and providers, influential experts and reviewers to follow, helpful communities and resources, important events and conferences, notable startups disrupting the space, and key publications and media channels to stay informed." (view report)
  3. "What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry." (view report)
129 brands and 193 web sources were detected. Top brands detected are: Amazon S3 (100.0%), pCloud (90.1%), Google Cloud Storage (55.8%), Backblaze (52.1%), Google Drive (46.1%). This report was generated on Dec 30, 2025 by AI Content & Web.

Brand Rankings

Brands mentioned by AI models, ranked by share of voice

# Brand Voice Position Mentions AI
1
Amazon S3 organizationproduct
100.0%★
3★ 2.7% (24)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
2
pCloud productorganization
90.1%★
15★ 3.0% (27)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
3
Google Cloud Storage organizationproduct
55.8%★
8★ 3.1% (28)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
4
Backblaze productorganization
52.1%★
17★ 4.0% (36)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
5
Google Drive productorganization
46.1%★
3★ 2.4% (22)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
6
Microsoft Azure organizationproduct
40.5%★
7★ 2.5% (23)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
7
IDrive product
40.0%★
24★ 2.2% (20)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
8
Gartner personorganization
40.0%★
29★ 4.1% (37)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
9
Dropbox productorganization
37.9%★
10★ 2.8% (25)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
10
OneDrive organizationproduct
32.7%★
6★ 2.2% (20)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
11
Wasabi productorganization
30.1%★
18★ 2.7% (24)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
12
Sync.com productorganization
29.0%★
13★ 2.2% (20)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+3
13
IDC personorganization
25.8%★
37★ 2.4% (22)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
14
Box organizationproduct
23.2%★
11★ 2.0% (18)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
15
Internxt productorganization
22.8%★
23★ 2.0% (18)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
16
Proton Drive productorganization
20.9%★
15★ 1.9% (17)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
17
iCloud organizationproduct
18.7%★
8★ 1.4% (13)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
18
18.6%★
33★ 2.1% (19)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
19
Microsoft OneDrive productorganization
17.4%★
5★ 1.0% (9)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
20
16.1%★
37★ 1.9% (17)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
21
r/DataHoarder organization
15.2%★
38★ 1.8% (16)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
22
Storj organizationproduct
15.0%★
25★ 1.7% (15)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
23
r/cloudStorage organization
13.6%★
37★ 1.6% (14)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+4
24
Pure Storage organization
13.0%★
21★ 1.2% (11)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
25
Filecoin organizationproduct
11.4%★
26★ 1.3% (12)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
26
Apple iCloud organizationproduct
11.0%★
7★ 0.8% (7)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
27
Amazon Web Services (AWS) organizationproduct
10.9%★
1★ 0.6% (5)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
28
The Register organizationproduct
9.3%★
45★ 1.2% (11)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
29
InfoWorld organization
8.9%★
43★ 1.1% (10)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
30
MEGA productorganization
8.3%★
16★ 1.3% (12)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+3
31
MinIO product
8.2%★
25★ 1.4% (13)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
32
8.1%★
36★ 1.6% (14)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+3
33
Stack Overflow organization
7.5%★
42★ 1.6% (14)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
34
Icedrive productorganization
7.5%★
19★ 1.1% (10)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+3
35
Werner Vogels person
6.9%★
26★ 0.8% (7)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
36
Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 organizationproduct
6.9%★
2★ 0.6% (5)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
37
6.5%★
34★ 0.8% (7)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
38
Cloudflare R2 productorganization
6.3%★
20★ 1.1% (10)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
39
Blocks and Files organizationproduct
5.4%★
41★ 1.4% (13)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
40
IBM Cloud Object Storage organizationproduct
5.3%★
15★ 0.8% (7)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
41
Spiceworks Community organization
5.0%★
44★ 0.7% (6)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+3
42
VAST Data product
4.4%★
26★ 0.9% (8)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
43
DigitalOcean Spaces productorganization
4.2%★
23★ 0.8% (7)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
44
4.1%★
49★ 0.9% (8)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
45
Tresorit productorganization
3.9%★
12★ 0.7% (6)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
46
Filebase organizationproduct
3.3%★
31★ 0.7% (6)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
47
The New Stack organizationproduct
2.6%★
52★ 0.6% (5)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
48
r/aws organization
2.4%★
45★ 0.6% (5)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
49
Google Cloud Blog organizationproduct
2.3%★
51★ 0.6% (5)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
50
Wasabi Technologies organizationproduct
1.9%★
17★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
51
1.8%★
38★ 0.6% (5)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
52
Nextcloud organizationproduct
1.7%★
20★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
53
Tom's Guide organization
1.7%★
33★ 0.4% (4)★
Google Gemini Flash (latest)+1
54
Forrester Research personorganization
1.6%★
29★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
55
1.5%★
46★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
56
1.5%★
39★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
57
ServeTheHome Forums organization
1.4%★
43★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
58
1.4%★
34★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
59
r/AZURE organization
1.4%★
51★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
60
r/googlecloud organization
1.3%★
52★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
61
1.3%★
24★ 0.3% (3)★
Google Gemini Flash (latest)+1
62
1.2%★
47★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+2
63
1.0%★
44★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
64
0.9%★
48★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
65
0.9%★
40★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
66
Microsoft Azure Blog organization
0.9%★
56★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
67
ACM Queue product
0.9%★
55★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
68
Antonio Neri person
0.9%★
22★ 0.2% (2)★
Google Gemini Flash (latest)
69
Chris Mellor person
0.8%★
31★ 0.2% (2)★
Google Gemini Flash (latest)+1
70
Backblaze Blog organization
0.7%★
31★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
71
Synergy Research Group organization
0.6%★
4★ 0.8% (7)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
72
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage organizationproduct
0.4%★
10★ 0.4% (4)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)+2
73
ZDNet organization
0.4%★
68★ 1.2% (11)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
74
0.3%★
77★ 0.9% (8)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
75
ZDNet Cloud product
0.2%★
82★ 0.7% (6)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
76
Cyber Lab person
0.2%★
19★ 0.7% (6)★
Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest)
77
0.2%★
53★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
78
Andy Jassy person
0.1%★
42★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
79
Satya Nadella person
0.1%★
44★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
80
Thomas Kurian person
0.1%★
46★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
81
Filen productorganization
0.1%★
53★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
82
0.1%★
55★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)+1
83
451 Research organization
0.1%★
101★ 0.4% (4)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
84
Cubbit organizationproduct
0.0%★
51★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
85
TechCrunch organization
0.0%★
80★ 0.3% (3)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
86
Oracle Cloud Storage organizationproduct
0.0%★
29★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
87
SpiderOak organizationproduct
0.0%★
34★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
88
0.0%★
38★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
89
Jerome Wendt person
0.0%★
44★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
90
;login: product
0.0%★
16★ 0.1% (1)★
X.AI Grok (latest)
91
Ars Technica organization
0.0%★
82★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
92
Cloud Computing News organization
0.0%★
85★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
93
Tom's Hardware product
0.0%★
96★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
94
r/datacenter organization
0.0%★
89★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
95
r/cloud organization
0.0%★
91★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
96
AWS Blog - Storage organizationproduct
0.0%★
103★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
97
AWS Online Tech Talks organizationproduct
0.0%★
111★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
98
Google Cloud Tech organizationproduct
0.0%★
112★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
99
0.0%★
119★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
100
AWS Podcast product
0.0%★
121★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
101
Azure Friday product
0.0%★
123★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
102
The Cloudcast product
0.0%★
118★ 0.2% (2)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
103
Amazon Drive organizationproduct
0.0%★
11★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
104
NetApp Cloud Storage organization
0.0%★
23★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
105
Dell EMC Cloud Storage organization
0.0%★
24★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
106
0.0%★
35★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
107
Alibaba Cloud OSS organizationproduct
0.0%★
31★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
108
Koofr productorganization
0.0%★
55★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
109
Drew Houston person
0.0%★
45★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
110
Aaron Levie person
0.0%★
47★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
111
David Friend person
0.0%★
49★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
112
Lydia Leong person
0.0%★
50★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
113
0.0%★
53★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
114
0.0%★
65★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
115
AWS Forums organization
0.0%★
75★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
116
0.0%★
74★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
117
Google Cloud Community organization
0.0%★
76★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
118
0.0%★
77★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
119
The Verge organization
0.0%★
81★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
120
CloudTech organization
0.0%★
87★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
121
SiliconANGLE organization
0.0%★
88★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
122
0.0%★
97★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
123
0.0%★
99★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
124
0.0%★
86★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
125
0.0%★
110★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
126
0.0%★
114★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
127
0.0%★
116★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
128
0.0%★
120★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)
129
0.0%★
122★ 0.1% (1)★
Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest)

Per-Question Reports

View detailed rankings for each individual question

1

What are the best Cloud Storage options available today? Please provide a comprehensive overview including: the leading brands and products, top companies and service providers, recognized experts and thought leaders, promising startups and new market entrants, major industry events and conferences, active communities and forums, and influential publications and media covering this space.
2

If I'm looking to get into Cloud Storage, who and what should I know about? Include the most trusted brands, recommended products and services, reputable companies and providers, influential experts and reviewers to follow, helpful communities and resources, important events and conferences, notable startups disrupting the space, and key publications and media channels to stay informed.
3

What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this AI Mentions Report about?
This report analyzes how AI chatbots like Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest), Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest), OpenAI ChatGPT Latest, Google Gemini Flash (latest), X.AI Grok (latest) respond to questions related to Cloud Storage. It identifies which brands, products, and organizations are mentioned most frequently and measures their share of voice in AI responses.
What questions were analyzed in this report?
This report analyzed answers to 3 questions:
  1. "What are the best Cloud Storage options available today? Please provide a comprehensive overview including: the leading brands and products, top companies and service providers, recognized experts and thought leaders, promising startups and new market entrants, major industry events and conferences, active communities and forums, and influential publications and media covering this space." (view report)
  2. "If I'm looking to get into Cloud Storage, who and what should I know about? Include the most trusted brands, recommended products and services, reputable companies and providers, influential experts and reviewers to follow, helpful communities and resources, important events and conferences, notable startups disrupting the space, and key publications and media channels to stay informed." (view report)
  3. "What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry." (view report)
How many brands were analyzed in this report?
This report analyzed 129 unique brands mentioned across 5 AI models.
How many web sources were detected?
AI models cited 193 unique web sources (domains) when answering questions.
Which brands are mentioned most by AI models?
The top 3 most mentioned brands are Amazon S3 (organization,product), pCloud (product,organization), Google Cloud Storage (organization,product), based on analysis of 5 AI model responses.
How many AI models were analyzed?
This report analyzed responses from 5 AI models: Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest), Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest), OpenAI ChatGPT Latest, Google Gemini Flash (latest), X.AI Grok (latest).
What does "Share of Voice" mean and how is it calculated?
Share of Voice (Voice %) measures brand prominence across AI models.

Formula: Share of Voice = Model Coverage × Quality Score

Where:
• Model Coverage = Sum of normalized weights for models mentioning the brand
• Quality Score = Prominence / Max Prominence in dataset
• Prominence = Mentions × (1 / log₂(Position + 1))

Model weights (based on Monthly Active Users):
• OpenAI ChatGPT Latest: 900M MAU (~54.1% weight)
• Google Gemini Flash (latest): 650M MAU (~39.1% weight)
• Perplexity Sonar (with search) (latest): 45M MAU (~2.7% weight)
• X.AI Grok (latest): 39M MAU (~2.3% weight)
• Anthropic Claude Sonnet (latest): 30M MAU (~1.8% weight)

Brands appearing in top positions across high-traffic models achieve higher Share of Voice.

Questions Analyzed

  1. 1. What are the best Cloud Storage options available today? Please provide a comprehensive overview including: the leading brands and products, top companies and service providers, recognized experts and thought leaders, promising startups and new market entrants, major industry events and conferences, active communities and forums, and influential publications and media covering this space. view report
  2. 2. If I'm looking to get into Cloud Storage, who and what should I know about? Include the most trusted brands, recommended products and services, reputable companies and providers, influential experts and reviewers to follow, helpful communities and resources, important events and conferences, notable startups disrupting the space, and key publications and media channels to stay informed. view report
  3. 3. What does the Cloud Storage industry look like right now? Identify the dominant market leaders and brands, best products and services, key companies and providers, influential figures and thought leaders, emerging startups and trends, major conferences and events, active professional communities, and the top publications and media that cover this industry. view report