Enterprise storage systems
Asked as “enterprise storage array”, and as “primary storage for on-prem and hybrid cloud”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the November 2026 Edition.
Standing · first-choice share
28%
Contested · NetApp AFF 15%
28Dell PowerStore15NetApp AFF13HPE MSA Storage43others
28% of first choices, contested.
Since October 2026▲+10Since October 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Dell PowerStore held the lead, +10 points on 18%, inside the 11-point floor.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessHPE MSA Storage26%Contested↗new leaderNew leader since October 2026: HPE MSA Storage (26%) replaces Dell PowerStore (14% then, 14% now), 12 points clear, past the 11-point floor.Standing →Mid-market
Dell PowerStore28%Contested▲+10Since October 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageEnterprise
Pure Storage FlashArray36%Contested▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →
Dell PowerStore28%Contested▲+10Since October 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageEnterprisePure Storage FlashArray36%Contested▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Dell PowerStore28%13%30accepted challenger▲+10Since October 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.18% → 28%
Dell PowerStore28%13%30accepted challenger▲+10Since October 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.18% → 28%02
NetApp AFF15%16%57accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 11% → 15%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 15%
NetApp AFF15%16%57accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 11% → 15%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 15%03Pure Storage FlashArray13%11%45accepted challenger▲+1Since October 2026: 12% → 13%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 13%
Pure Storage FlashArray13%11%45accepted challenger▲+1Since October 2026: 12% → 13%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 13%04HPE MSA Storage13%0%10accepted challenger▲+6Since October 2026: 7% → 13%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 13%
05HPE Alletra2%10%39accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10IBM FlashSystem0%21%14accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
08Hitachi Vantara VSP0%20%15accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
09
Infinidat InfiniBox0%18%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Infinidat InfiniBox0%18%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%06
Dell Technologies0%17%18accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%
Dell Technologies0%17%18accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%07
IBM0%11%18accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
IBM0%11%18accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to head
All ten head-to-head pages: the top five products, each against each
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
Key
01Dell PowerStore28%
Dell PowerStore28%02NetApp AFF15%
NetApp AFF15%03Pure Storage FlashArray13%
Pure Storage FlashArray13%04HPE MSA Storage13%
05HPE Alletra2%
06Dell Technologies0%
Dell Technologies0%07IBM0%
IBM0%08Hitachi Vantara VSP0%
09Infinidat InfiniBox0%
Infinidat InfiniBox0%10IBM FlashSystem0%
What they warned about
Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
NetApp AFF16%
9 of 57 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“some enterprise storage systems to avoid or be cautious about are: 1. NetApp AFF” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
Pure Storage FlashArray11%
5 of 45 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“4. Pure Storage FlashArray” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
Dell PowerStore13%
4 of 30 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“3. Dell PowerStore” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
HPE Alletra
10%
4 of 39 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Legacy monolithic arrays (EMC/DELL, HPE primaries) with dated licensing and higher admin overhead” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
66 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 13 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 773 links across 209 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 1 model searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition. 47 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
34 answers · 50 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Dell24 answers · 45 citations · 9 models
vendor site · HPE24 answers · 38 citations · 11 models
21 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
vendor site · NetApp20 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
16 answers · 23 citations · 6 models
16 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Dell14 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
12 answers · 25 citations · 7 models
12 answers · 21 citations · 5 models
11 answers · 14 citations · 5 models
vendor site · Infinidat11 answers · 12 citations · 8 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
19 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 8 models
10 answers · 5 models
10 answers · 7 models
9 answers · 8 models
9 answers · 8 models
8 answers · 6 models
8 answers · 7 models
7 answers · 6 models
7 answers · 5 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best enterprise storage array”, “enterprise storage array”, “enterprise storage systems”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell PowerStore dell.com Dell PowerStore 28%, Dell PowerVault ME5 7%, Dell Technologies 0% | 35% | 75 | 22,200 | 278 | 13,697,880 | $10,867 | 63 | 7 |
| NetApp AFF netapp.com NetApp AFF 15%, NetApp ONTAP 2%, NetApp ASA 0% | 17% | 117 | 590 | 60 | 137,356 | $1 | 79 | |
| HPE parent site HPE MSA Storage 13%, HPE Alletra 2% | 15% | 68 | 27,100 | 5,522 | ||||
| Pure Storage FlashArray purestorage.com | 13% | 99 | 320 | 18 | 4,251 | 0 | ||
| Nutanix Unified Storage nutanix.com | 2% | 13 | 61,735 | 40 | ||||
| Nimble | 2% | |||||||
| Dell Technologies PowerStore 9200T | 2% | |||||||
| HPE MSA (Microserver Array) Series | 2% | |||||||
| HPE MSA (Modular Smart Array) Storage system | 2% | |||||||
| HPE MSA family | 2% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (dell.com, enterprisestorageforum.com, gartner.com, reddit.com). The first result for “best enterprise storage array” is reddit.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best enterprise storage array for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which primary storage for on-prem and hybrid cloud would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise storage systems and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best enterprise storage array for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an enterprise storage array. What should we look at?”Negative“Which enterprise storage systems should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldEverpure FlashArrayno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Five alternatives
Dell EMC, Dell PowerFlex, Dell VxRail, NetApp AFF, Nutanix Unified StorageGPT-5.4 miniDell PowerStoreagainst: Pure Storage FlashArrayNetApp ONTAPChangedno first choiceHPE MSA family, NetApp's AFF C-Seriesno first choiceagainst: HPE Alletra, Lenovo ThinkSystem
One alternative
NetApp AFFTwo alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE AlletraOne alternative
TrueNAS-based enterprise appliance/softwareGemini 3.5 FlashPure Storage FlashArrayPure Storage FlashArrayHeldno first choiceDell PowerVault ME5against: Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Ceph, GlusterFS, Google Cloud Storage, MinIO AIStor, VMware vSAN
Four alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFFThree alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFFSix alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayFive alternatives
HPE MSA 2060 / 2062, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Synology Enterprise Series, iXsystems TrueNAS EnterprisePerplexity SonarNetApp AFFagainst: IBM FlashSystemDell PowerStoreChangedDell Technologies, NetApp AFFagainst: Huawei OceanStorHPE MSA Storageagainst: NetApp AFF, Pure FlashArray, Synology enterprise NASno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Dell PowerStore, NetApp E-Series, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTen alternatives
Cloudian HyperStore, DDN, HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM, IBM Storage, Nutanix Unified Storage, Pure Storage FlashArray, VAST, WekaOne alternative
Dell PowerVault MD3Grok 4.20Pure Storage FlashArrayNetApp's AFF (All-Flash FAS) series with ONTAPChangedDell TechnologiesHPE MSA Storageagainst: Infinidat InfiniBox, QNAP, Synology NASno first choiceagainst: Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, Huawei OceanStor, IBM, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFF, Nutanix Files, Pure Storage FlashArray, Qumulo, legacy EMC/Dell lines
Four alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFFThree alternatives
Dell PowerStore or PowerMax, HPE Alletra, Pure Storage FlashBlade//S or FlashArray with Cloud Block StoreFive alternatives
HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayFour alternatives
Dell EMC PowerVault ME Series, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp ASA (All-Flash) or FAS (Hybrid) Entry-Level Models, TrueNASTwo alternatives
NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayMistral SmallDell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, Nimbleno first choiceChangedDell TechnologiesHPE MSA (Modular Smart Array) Storage systemno first choiceagainst: Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray
Two alternatives
Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E Series, NetApp All-Flash FASFour alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayOne alternative
Lenovo ThinkSystem DG SeriesDeepSeek V4 FlashDell PowerStorePure Storage FlashArrayChangedagainst: Dell Technologies, EMC, HPE AlletraDell TechnologiesDell PowerVault ME5no first choiceagainst: Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM FlashSystemagainst: Dell PowerStore, Dell SC Series, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM Storage, Synology NAS
Two alternatives
NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
FlashArray, NetApp AFFSix alternatives
HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
HPE MSA Storage, NetApp AFF C190Four alternatives
Dell PowerStore/PowerMax, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayLlama 4 MaverickDell PowerStoreDell PowerStoreHeldno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray
Two alternatives
NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayQwen 3.7 FlashDell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArrayNetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayChangedPure Storage FlashArrayHPE MSA (Microserver Array) Seriesagainst: NetApp AFFNutanix Unified Storageagainst: Dell EMC PowerVault, HPE SimpliVity, HPE StoreOnce, Hitachi, NetApp AFF, QNAP, Synology NAS, TrueNAS
Two alternatives
Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFFOne alternative
HPE AlletraFive alternatives
Dell Technologies, Fujitsu, HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFFTwo alternatives
Dell Unity XT, Lenovo ThinkSystem DG SeriesTwo alternatives
Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArrayKimi K2Dell PowerStoreDell PowerStore, NetApp AFF with ONTAPChangedDell Technologies, Pure Storage FlashArrayHPE MSA Storageagainst: Infortrend EonStor GSe Prono first choiceagainst: Dell EMC, EqualLogic, SolidFire by NetApp, Tegile / Tintri
Three alternatives
HPE Alletra / Primera, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
HPE Alletra 6000 Series, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFFTwo alternatives
Dell PowerVault, NetApp ASAGLM 4.7 FlashXDell PowerStoreNetApp AFFChangedno first choiceagainst: MinIO AIStorHPE MSA Storageno first choiceagainst: Broadcom, Cisco Firepower Appliances, Dell EMC, Dell VxRail, EMC, HPE Nimble Storage, HPE SAS SSD, NetApp AFF, Nutanix Unified Storage, QNAP Enterprise NAS
Three alternatives
HPE Alletra, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFFFour alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, PowerMax, Pure Storage FlashArraySeven alternatives
Ceph, Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, WasabiTwo alternatives
Dell PowerVault ME424, Infortrend EonStor GSe ProMiniMax M2.5Dell Technologies PowerStore 9200T, NetApp AFFNetApp AFFChangedagainst: Hitachi VSP One Block, IBM FlashSystemDell TechnologiesHPE MSA Storageno first choiceagainst: EMC VNX, NetApp FlashRay
Three alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, Pure Storage FlashArrayEight alternatives
HPE Alletra, HPE Aruba, Hitachi Vantara VSP, Huawei OceanStor, IBM, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Infortrend EonStor GSe Pro, NetApp ASAGPT-6 LunaDell PowerStoreNetApp AFFChangedno first choiceDell PowerVault ME5no first choiceagainst: Dell EMC VNX1 and VNX2, VNXe3200, EqualLogic PS, and XtremIO X1, HPE 3PAR, IBM Storwize V7000 Unified, NetApp AFF, XtremIO X2
Three alternatives
Everpure FlashArray, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFFTwo alternatives
AFF A-Series, Dell PowerStoreTwo alternatives
HPE Alletra, NetApp ASA A20Muse Glimmer 30BDell PowerStoreNetApp AFFChangedno first choiceDell PowerStore, HPE MSA Storageno first choiceagainst: Atmos, Centera Systems, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) EX500 Gen 3, EXF900 Gen 3, Dell Technologies, Dell Unity XT, EqualLogic PS, FluidFS, HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFF, Storage Center Dell Compellent
Two alternatives
NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Dell Technologies, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Dell SC Series, NetApp ASABold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:20 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:36 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:41 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:33 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:24 | yes | 13 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:19 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:32 | yes | 23 | 49 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:03 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:08 | yes | 10 | 48 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 17:17 | yes | 15 | 45 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:53 | yes | 22 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:42 | yes | 5 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:29 | yes | 4 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:08 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 17:03 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:39 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 18:18 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:46 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:39 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:28 | no | 0 | 1 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:55 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 10:34 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:42 | yes | 10 | 44 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:07 | yes | 23 | 56 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:21 | yes | 25 | 91 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:27 | yes | 5 | 67 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 17:50 | yes | 2 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:43 | yes | 15 | 23 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 14:44 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:11 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:34 | no | 0 | 19 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:21 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:07 | yes | 14 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:33 | yes | 8 | 8 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:32 | yes | 25 | 49 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:15 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:55 | yes | 5 | 25 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 15:33 | yes | 15 | 68 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:27 | yes | 20 | 43 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:25 | yes | 23 | 107 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:27 | yes | 6 | 26 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:24 | yes | 15 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 13:14 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 11:37 | yes | 2 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 14:32 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:00 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:21 | yes | 5 | 42 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 13:24 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:59 | yes | 24 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 11:08 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 12:40 | yes | 5 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:03 | yes | 19 | 47 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:11 | yes | 24 | 35 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:12 | yes | 5 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:26 | yes | 2 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 12:53 | yes | 15 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:16 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:28 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:11 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 16:20 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:05 | yes | 5 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:31 | no | 0 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:14 | yes | 24 | 41 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 10:39 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:02 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:19 | no | 0 | 64 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:05 | yes | 18 | 47 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:27 | no | 0 | 77 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:02 | yes | 4 | 14 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 08:37 | yes | 12 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:12 | yes | 19 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 19:39 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 10:52 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:23 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:15 | yes | 15 | 19 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:20 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:49 | yes | 24 | 35 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 11:12 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:25 | no | 0 | 39 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:07 | yes | 24 | 57 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 18:19 | yes | 25 | 63 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:07 | yes | 15 | 47 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 18:49 | yes | 4 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:01 | yes | 24 | 35 s |
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Azure Blob read as Azure Blob Storage
Cloudian read as Cloudian HyperStore
Dell read as Dell Technologies
Dell EMC PowerStore read as Dell PowerStore
Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series read as Dell PowerVault ME5
Dell EMC Unity read as Dell Unity XT
Dell EMC Unity XT (Hybrid) read as Dell Unity XT
Dell EMC Unity XT 480F DC, Unity XT 680F, Unity XT 880F read as Dell Unity XT
Dell PowerVault ME5 Series read as Dell PowerVault ME5
Dell Storage SC series read as Dell SC Series
Dell Technologies PowerStore read as Dell PowerStore
Everpure read as Everpure FlashArray
HPE read as HPE Alletra
HPE (Alletra + GreenLake) read as HPE Alletra
HPE (Alletra, Primera, Nimble) read as HPE Alletra
HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) read as HPE Alletra
HPE Alletra Storage read as HPE Alletra
HPE Alletra Storage MP read as HPE Alletra
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 read as HPE Alletra
HPE MSA read as HPE MSA Storage
HPE MSA (Gen6) read as HPE MSA Storage
HPE MSA 2060 read as HPE MSA Storage
HPE Nimble read as HPE Nimble Storage
Hitachi Vantara read as Hitachi Vantara VSP
Huawei read as Huawei OceanStor
Infinidat read as Infinidat InfiniBox
Lenovo read as Lenovo ThinkSystem
MinIO read as MinIO AIStor
NetApp read as NetApp AFF
NetApp (AFF/ASA) read as NetApp AFF
NetApp (AFF/FAS + Cloud Volumes ONTAP / AWS FSx) read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF (All-Flash FAS) series read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF A-Series read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF A400 read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF C-Series read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF C-Series running ONTAP read as NetApp AFF
NetApp ASA A-Series read as NetApp ASA
NetApp ONTAP-based storage read as NetApp ONTAP
Nutanix read as Nutanix Unified Storage
Pure Storage read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (FlashArray + Cloud Block Store) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (FlashArray//X) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (now Everpure) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray//X read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Scality read as Scality RING
Synology read as Synology NAS
Unresolved, counted raw
AFF A-Series
Atmos
Azure Managed Disks
Brocade
Centera Systems
Cisco Firepower Appliances
DS8000
Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) EX500 Gen 3, EXF900 Gen 3
Dell EMC PowerVault (ME/DE Series)
Dell EMC PowerVault ME Series
Dell EMC PowerVault/PowerMax series
Dell EMC VNX1 and VNX2, VNXe3200, EqualLogic PS, and XtremIO X1
Dell PowerVault MD3
Dell PowerVault ME424
Dell R740xd2
Dell Technologies PowerStore 9200T
Dell Technologies Unity XT 880
EMC VNX
EqualLogic
FlashBlade
FluidFS (8600)
Fujitsu ETERNUS AB2200
Google Cloud Persistent Disk
Google Persistent Disk
HPE Alletra 6000 Series
HPE Alletra or 3PAR arrays
HPE Apollo 4200/4510
HPE MSA (Microserver Array) Series
HPE MSA (Modular Smart Array) Storage system
HPE MSA family
HPE SAS SSD
HPE XP8 Gen2
Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) E Series
Huawei OceanStor Dorado
IBM DS8900F
IBM SAN
IBM Storage FlashSystem with Ceph
IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
Infinidat InfiniBox SSA II
NetApp AFF (all-flash) or FAS (hybrid) systems
NetApp AFF C190
NetApp AFF with ONTAP
NetApp ASA (All-Flash) or FAS (Hybrid) Entry-Level Models
NetApp ASA A20
NetApp ASA AFF
NetApp All-Flash FAS (AFF)
NetApp FlashRay
NetApp's AFF (All-Flash FAS) series with ONTAP
NetApp's AFF C-Series
Nutanix hyperconverged systems
Pure FlashBlade
PureStorage
QNAP Enterprise NAS
QSAN XCubeSAN 3300
Red Hat Ceph
SolidFire by NetApp
StarWind Synchronous Replication
Storage Center Dell Compellent (SC, Storage Center)
Tegile / Tintri (Western Digital/DDM)
TrueNAS-based enterprise appliance/software
VAST
WD Data60 / Data102 JBOD
legacy EMC/Dell lines
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.