2 categories · RankedCloudflare R2
Cloudflare R2 is an object storage service from Cloudflare for developers, with no egress fees · cloudflare.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 3 of 72 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Backblaze B2 is first at 49%.
Backblaze B2 is first at 55%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Amazon S3 is first at 43%.
Why models recommend it
“For most mid-market B2B companies, Cloudflare R2 offers the best balance of cost predictability, performance, and modern features.”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
“The best object storage service for a company with a limited budget is Cloudflare R2, which is the cheapest object storage at $0/mo.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Cloudflare R2 — if you need frequent data retrieval or public serving and want to eliminate egress fees.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best for B2B SaaS & High-Traffic Apps: Cloudflare R2 ... Zero egress fees + global edge performance.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Cloudflare's status page logged 13 separate incidents between August 7 and August 14, 2026, spanning R2 storage”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Cloudflare R2 when immutable backups are required: ... flags limitations around versioning and accidental deletion”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Cloudflare says it's for testing and may be rate-limited or throttled; use a custom domain for production.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Cautious if you rely on object versioning, object lock/immutability or lifecycle based retention.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare R2, over the 162 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 139 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 134 | 44 | Compare → | |
| 126 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 92 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 89 | 2 | View → | |
| 53 | 0 | View → | |
| 39 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudflare R2 →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare R2's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- R2 will never charge for egress. The pricing model depends on three factors alone: storage volume, Class A operations (writes, lists) and Class B operations (reads).
- Starting price
- $0.015 / GB, per month
- Free plan or trial
- 10 GB-months of stored data, 1,000,000 Class A operations, per month, 10,000,000 Class B operations, per month
- Hosting
- North America
- Customers named
- Vecteezy, Cloudflare Images
- Also from Cloudflare
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare API Gateway, Cloudflare API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Cloudflare Access and 43 more
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 142 of the 162 answers that named Cloudflare R2 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
353 of the 433 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare R2 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |