Enterprise storage systems for enterprise buyers
Asked as “enterprise storage array”, and as “primary storage for on-prem and hybrid cloud”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the November 2026 Edition.
Standing · first-choice share
36%
Contested · NetApp AFF 21%
36Pure Storage FlashArray21NetApp AFF11NetApp ONTAP32others
36% of first choices, contested.
Since October 2026▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Pure Storage FlashArray held the lead, −6 points on 42%, 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.Standing →Enterprise
Pure Storage FlashArray36%Contested▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This page
Dell PowerStore28%Contested▲+10Since October 2026: 18% → 28%, +10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterprisePure Storage FlashArray36%Contested▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageThe standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Pure Storage FlashArray36%3%58endorsed leader▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.42% → 36%
Pure Storage FlashArray36%3%58endorsed leader▼−6Since October 2026: 42% → 36%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.42% → 36%02
NetApp AFF21%10%51accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 21% → 21%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.21% → 21%
NetApp AFF21%10%51accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 21% → 21%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.21% → 21%03
NetApp ONTAP11%0%12accepted challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 12% → 11%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 11%
NetApp ONTAP11%0%12accepted challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 12% → 11%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.12% → 11%04HPE Alletra4%3%35accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 4%
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Dell Technologies4%5%21accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 4%
Dell Technologies4%5%21accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 4%06Dell PowerStore2%9%22accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 7% → 2%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 2%
Dell PowerStore2%9%22accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 7% → 2%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.7% → 2%Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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IBM0%17%12accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
IBM0%17%12accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%09Hitachi Vantara VSP0%14%14accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
08IBM FlashSystem0%9%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
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Infinidat InfiniBox0%0%11accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%
Infinidat InfiniBox0%0%11accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 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
Dell PowerStore vs NetApp AFFDell PowerStore vs Pure Storage FlashArrayDell PowerStore vs HPE MSA Storage
Head-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.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 →
010203H04
050607I08
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10Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01Pure Storage FlashArray36%
Pure Storage FlashArray36%02NetApp AFF21%
NetApp AFF21%03NetApp ONTAP11%
NetApp ONTAP11%04HPE Alletra4%
05Dell Technologies4%
Dell Technologies4%06Dell PowerStore2%
Dell PowerStore2%07Infinidat InfiniBox0%
Infinidat InfiniBox0%08IBM FlashSystem0%
09Hitachi Vantara VSP0%
10IBM0%
IBM0%What they warned about
Zero of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, 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 AFF10%
5 of 51 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Deploying NetApp AFF if the AI-driven recommendation index shows a high negative-label rate.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Ceph
100%
3 of 3 labels negative · 3 of 14 models
“Ceph and similar SDS platforms can scale well but may impose substantial deployment, tuning, upgrade, and troubleshooting demands; avoid them unless the organization can staff those responsibilities” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
Dell PowerMax33%
3 of 9 labels negative · 3 of 14 models
“Some AI models directly advise avoiding PowerMax for anything but the largest deployments, as it may be overkill for many organizations.” Mistral Small, negative prompt
QNAP100%
2 of 2 labels negative · 2 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“High-end SMB/Mid-market NAS appliances (e.g., Synology, QNAP, or low-end white-label arrays) used for Tier-1 enterprise workloads.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative 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
71 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. 898 links across 232 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.
vendor site · Dell31 answers · 65 citations · 10 models
29 answers · 43 citations · 11 models
vendor site · NetApp26 answers · 54 citations · 12 models
24 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
21 answers · 24 citations · 8 models
17 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · HPE16 answers · 26 citations · 8 models
publisher (Gane)16 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
15 answers · 18 citations · 7 models
15 answers · 16 citations · 9 models
15 answers · 15 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
17 answers · 9 models
15 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 9 models
13 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 models
10 answers · 4 models
9 answers · 6 models
9 answers · 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pure Storage FlashArray purestorage.com | 36% | 99 | 320 | 18 | 4,251 | 0 | ||
| NetApp AFF netapp.com NetApp AFF 21%, NetApp ONTAP 11%, NetApp ASA 0% | 32% | 117 | 590 | 60 | 137,356 | $1 | 79 | |
| Dell PowerStore dell.com Dell Technologies 4%, Dell PowerStore 2%, Dell PowerScale 2%, Dell PowerMax or PowerStore 2% | 11% | 75 | 22,200 | 278 | 13,697,880 | $10,867 | 63 | 7 |
| HPE parent site HPE Alletra 4%, HPE GreenLake 2% | 6% | 68 | 27,100 | 5,522 | ||||
| Infinidat InfiniBox infinidat.com Infinidat's InfiniBox 2%, Infinidat's InfiniBox SSA G4 All-Flash System 2%, Infinidat InfiniBox 0% | 4% | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1,623 | |||
| Dell Technologies – PowerMax | 2% | |||||||
| Evergreen//One | 2% | |||||||
| IBM – FlashSystem 9500 | 2% | |||||||
| NetApp's ONTAP-based solutions | 2% | |||||||
| Pure Storage FlashArray with Evergreen Storage | 2% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (dell.com, everpuredata.com, gartner.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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which primary storage for on-prem and hybrid cloud would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade enterprise storage systems and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best enterprise storage array for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating an enterprise storage array. What should we look at?”Negative“Which enterprise storage systems should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceNetApp AFFChangedno first choiceEvergreen//One, HPE GreenLakeno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Dell VxRail, Nutanix Unified Storage, VMware vSANThree alternatives
Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFFGPT-5.4 miniNetApp AFFNetApp ONTAPChangedno first choiceHPE Alletrano first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Lenovo DM / DG series powered by ONTAP, NetApp ASA, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
Azure NetApp Files, FSx for NetApp ONTAP, NetApp VolumesEight alternatives
Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerScale, Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Pure Storage FlashBladeTwo alternatives
NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayGemini 3.5 FlashPure Storage FlashArrayNetApp AFFChangedDell TechnologiesPure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Ceph, GlusterFS, Google Cloud Storage, OpenZFS, QNAP, Synology NAS
Four alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, NetApp AFFThree alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, Pure Storage FlashArrayFive alternatives
HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM Storage, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFFPerplexity SonarNetApp AFFNetApp ONTAPChangedno first choicePure Storage FlashArrayagainst: Infinidat InfuzeOS/InfiniBoxno first choiceagainst: Ceph
Four alternatives
Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerStore, PowerScale, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
Cloudian HyperStore, Dell PowerScale, Pure Storage FlashArraySeven alternatives
Cloudian HyperStore, Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, VAST DataTwo alternatives
Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFFGrok 4.20Dell PowerMax or PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArrayagainst: Huawei OceanStorNetApp's ONTAP-based solutionsChangedagainst: AWS FSx, Azure NetApp FilesNetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayInfinidat's InfiniBoxno first choiceagainst: Ceph, Dell Technologies, GlusterFS, HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM, Nutanix Unified Storage, Tintri
Three alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp AFF (All-Flash FAS) or ASA SeriesFour alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, IBM, Pure Storage FlashArrayFour alternatives
Dell PowerMax, HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, Infinidat InfiniBoxTwo alternatives
Dell PowerMax or PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArrayMistral SmallInfinidat's InfiniBox SSA G4 All-Flash SystemDell PowerScale, NetApp ONTAPChangedagainst: Cohesity, HPE Nimble Storageno first choicePure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: Dell PowerMax, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray
Three alternatives
Dell PowerStore, NetApp's AFF A-Series, Weka WEKApodTwo alternatives
IBM Storage, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Dell's SC9000, NetApp's AFF seriesDeepSeek V4 FlashPure Storage FlashArrayNetApp AFFChangedDell TechnologiesPure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: DS8886, Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerVault ME5, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM Storwize V7000 / V7000F / FlashSystem 900, Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, TrueNAS, VMware vSAN
Two alternatives
Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFFFour alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, IBM, Pure Storage FlashArrayFour alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Dell PowerStore, NetApp KeystoneLlama 4 MaverickPure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceChangedno first choicePure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF
Two alternatives
NetApp AFF, NetApp ONTAPTwo alternatives
NetApp AFF, NetApp ONTAPQwen 3.7 FlashPure Storage FlashArrayNetApp AFFChangedPure Storage FlashArrayPure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: Dell EMC EqualLogic PS Series, EMC VMAX Series, PowerMax
Two alternatives
NetApp AFF, VAST DataTwo alternatives
Dell Technologies, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFFThree alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFFKimi K2Pure Storage FlashArrayagainst: Dell PowerMax, PowerStoreNetApp AFFChangedNetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayPure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: Compellent, EqualLogic PS, IBM, Pure Storage FlashArray, Unity AFA / Unity VSA, VNX / VNXe, XtremIO X1, XtremIO X2
Two alternatives
Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFFTwo alternatives
Dell Technologies, Pure Storage FlashArrayFour alternatives
Dell Technologies, HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBMTwo alternatives
Dell PowerStore with PowerStore Elite / APEX, NetApp AFF with Keystone STaaSGLM 4.7 FlashXDell TechnologiesNetApp ONTAPChangedDell Technologies, NetApp AFFPure Storage FlashArray with Evergreen Storageno first choiceagainst: DellEMC, HPE 3PAR, HPE MSA Storage, NetApp AFF, NetApp E-Series, QNAP, Synology NAS, TrueNAS
Six alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArray, Weka WEKApodThree alternatives
HPE Alletra MP, Infinidat InfiniBox, Pure Storage FlashArraySix alternatives
HPE Alletra, Hitachi Vantara VSP, IBM, Lenovo ThinkSystem, Pure Storage FlashArray, VAST DataThree alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, NetApp ONTAPMiniMax M2.5Dell Technologies – PowerMax, IBM – FlashSystem 9500HPE Alletra, NetApp ONTAPChangedDell TechnologiesPure Storage FlashArrayDell PowerStoreagainst: Dell EMC Isilon X210, Dell EqualLogic PS Series, Dell Unity XT, EMC VMAX, HPE 3PAR, NetApp FAS
Five alternatives
Dell Technologies – PowerStore, HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) – Nimble Storage dHCI, Infinidat – InfiniBox SSA G4, NetApp – AFF A‑Series, Pure Storage – FlashArray//XThree alternatives
Dell PowerStore, PowerMax, Pure Storage FlashArrayFour alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Dell APEX, NetApp AFFFour alternatives
HPE Alletra, IBM FlashSystem, NetApp ONTAP, Pure Storage FlashArrayGPT-6 LunaPure Storage FlashArrayNetApp AFFChangedno first choicePure Storage FlashArrayno first choiceagainst: IBM FlashSystem, IBM Storage Virtualize, NetApp AFF
Three alternatives
Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, NetApp AFFFour alternatives
AFF C-Series, Dell PowerStore/PowerMax, HPE Alletra, NetApp ASATen alternatives
Dell PowerStore, Everpure FlashArray, HPE Alletra, Hitachi VSP One, IBM FlashSystem, Infinidat InfiniBox, NetApp AFF, PowerMax, PowerScale, VAST Data PlatformTwo alternatives
HPE GreenLake, NetApp KeystoneMuse Glimmer 30BDell Technologies, NetApp AFFNetApp AFFChangedDell TechnologiesPure Storage FlashArrayagainst: NetApp AFFno first choiceagainst: D-Link
Three alternatives
Everpure FlashArray, HPE Alletra, Pure Storage FlashArrayTwo alternatives
Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArrayThree alternatives
HPE Aruba, NetApp AFF, Pure Storage FlashArrayOne alternative
Dell PowerStoreBold 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 19:38 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 08:46 | 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 15:55 | no | 0 | 14 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 19:41 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:20 | yes | 5 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:31 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 11:26 | yes | 22 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 10:15 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:42 | yes | 5 | 50 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 08:52 | yes | 14 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 18:04 | yes | 14 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 08:44 | yes | 5 | 62 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 17:34 | yes | 4 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 17:59 | yes | 15 | 24 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 14:54 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 17:39 | yes | 3 | 6 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 10:22 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:46 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:38 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:45 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:22 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:58 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 18:35 | yes | 5 | 33 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:26 | yes | 14 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:41 | yes | 22 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:40 | yes | 15 | 133 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:38 | yes | 4 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:29 | yes | 15 | 19 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 18:33 | yes | 19 | 12 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:37 | yes | 6 | 9 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 16:11 | no | 0 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 15:04 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:24 | yes | 14 | 20 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 16:05 | yes | 10 | 11 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:29 | yes | 23 | 44 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:14 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 12:22 | yes | 10 | 49 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:50 | yes | 20 | 65 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 19:28 | yes | 15 | 64 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:06 | yes | 25 | 75 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 13:17 | yes | 9 | 38 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 18:28 | yes | 25 | 40 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:41 | yes | 19 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:01 | yes | 4 | 6 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 15:30 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:32 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:10 | yes | 14 | 12 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:19 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 17:58 | yes | 25 | 35 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 16:17 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:02 | no | 0 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 15:49 | yes | 20 | 67 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:34 | yes | 15 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 16:50 | yes | 17 | 64 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 08:59 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:34 | yes | 21 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:57 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:22 | yes | 2 | 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 14:18 | no | 0 | 22 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 16:57 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:16 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 13:56 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:15 | yes | 24 | 44 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:21 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:18 | no | 0 | 32 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:34 | yes | 24 | 37 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:15 | yes | 20 | 100 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:34 | yes | 15 | 61 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:04 | yes | 3 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 17:05 | yes | 20 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 17:56 | yes | 19 | 11 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 17:46 | yes | 4 | 5 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 13:33 | no | 0 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 18:28 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:22 | yes | 14 | 16 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:23 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 13:00 | yes | 25 | 40 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:38 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 12:12 | yes | 10 | 60 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 19:43 | yes | 25 | 64 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:49 | yes | 25 | 81 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:09 | yes | 24 | 46 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:14 | yes | 2 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 18:31 | yes | 23 | 28 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Azure Blob read as Azure Blob Storage
Cloudian read as Cloudian HyperStore
Dell read as Dell Technologies
Dell (including legacy EMC/VNX, Unity, PowerStore, and Isilon lines) read as Dell Technologies
Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) read as Dell PowerScale
Dell EMC PowerStore read as Dell PowerStore
Dell PowerVault ME4/ME5 Series read as Dell PowerVault ME5
HPE read as HPE Alletra
HPE (Alletra Storage + HPE GreenLake) read as HPE Alletra
HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) read as HPE Alletra
HPE (Nimble Storage / Alletra) read as HPE Alletra
HPE Alletra Storage MP read as HPE Alletra
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 read as HPE Alletra
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage read as HPE GreenLake
HPE MSA read as HPE MSA Storage
HPE Nimble read as HPE Nimble Storage
Hitachi Vantara read as Hitachi Vantara VSP
Hitachi Vantara (VSP series) read as Hitachi Vantara VSP
Huawei read as Huawei OceanStor
IBM Storage FlashSystem read as IBM FlashSystem
Infinidat read as Infinidat InfiniBox
Infinidat InfiniBox SSA G4 read as Infinidat InfiniBox
Lenovo read as Lenovo ThinkSystem
NetApp read as NetApp AFF
NetApp (AFF / ASA + ONTAP) read as NetApp AFF
NetApp (AFF A-Series) read as NetApp AFF
NetApp (ONTAP-based solutions - AFF/FAS) read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF A-Series read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF A-Series running ONTAP read as NetApp AFF
NetApp AFF C-Series read as NetApp AFF
NetApp ASA r2 read as NetApp ASA
NetApp ONTAP-based all-flash systems read as NetApp AFF
Nutanix read as Nutanix Unified Storage
Pure Storage read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (Everpure) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (FlashArray + Pure Cloud Block Store) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (FlashArray //X series) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (FlashArray series) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage (FlashArray//XL, FlashArray//X) read as Pure Storage FlashArray
Pure Storage FlashArray with Evergreen//One 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 C-Series
Compellent (SC)
DS8886
Dell CloudIQ
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS Series
Dell EMC Isilon X210
Dell PowerStore with PowerStore Elite / APEX
Dell Technologies – PowerMax
Dell Technologies – PowerStore
Dell's SC9000
DellEMC
EMC VMAX Series
Evergreen//One
Everpure Platform
Everpure formerly Pure Storage
Exascale Storage
FSx for NetApp ONTAP
FlashSystem 5000/7000/9000 series
HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) – Nimble Storage dHCI
HPE Alletra MP
IBM DS8000
IBM Storwize V7000 / V7000F / FlashSystem 900
IBM – FlashSystem 9500
Infinidat InfuzeOS/InfiniBox
Infinidat – InfiniBox SSA G4
Infinidat's InfiniBox
Infinidat's InfiniBox SSA G4 All-Flash System
Lenovo DM / DG series powered by ONTAP
Lenovo ThinkSystem DM Series
NetApp AFF (All-Flash FAS) or ASA Series
NetApp AFF with Keystone STaaS
NetApp Active IQ
NetApp Volumes
NetApp – AFF A‑Series (All‑Flash)
NetApp's AFF A-Series
NetApp's AFF series
NetApp's ONTAP-based solutions
OpenZFS
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance (ZS Series)
PowerStore Elite
Pure Storage FlashArray with Evergreen Storage
Pure Storage – FlashArray//X
Pure1
Qwest
Tintri (now part of DDN)
Unity AFA / Unity VSA
VAST Data Platform
VNX / VNXe
XtremIO X1
iXsystems Enterprise
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.