Backup and disaster recovery · RankedAzure Backup
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Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Acronis Cyber Protect is first at 30%.
Veeam Data Platform is first at 40%.
Veeam Data Platform is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“native backups are dependable (but remember the "don't put all eggs in one cloud" warning)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Mostly Microsoft? Start with Azure Backup + Azure Site Recovery.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
“native cloud tools like AWS/Azure Backup”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“For Cloud-First: AWS/Azure native tools.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Azure Backup, over the 19 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 4 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Azure Backup →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Azure Backup's own site, not checked by Gane.
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 18 of the 19 answers that named Azure Backup and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Azure Backup came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |