Object storage · RankedDigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces is an S3-compatible object storage service for storing and serving large amounts of data · digitalocean.com ↗
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.
Backblaze B2 is first at 49%.
Backblaze B2 is first at 55%.
Amazon S3 is first at 43%.
Why models recommend it
“Simpler and developer-friendly at ~$0.02/GB/month ... Less ideal for very large scale or strict compliance”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Simple $5/month plan including 250 GB of storage, 1 TB outbound transfer, and CDN access.”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Developer-friendly S3-compatible on a budget? → DigitalOcean Spaces”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Simple, straightforward pricing ($6/month for 250GB)”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“5 GB object size cap masquerading as “unlimited.””GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“its docs note several practical limits: no built-in backups, no direct bucket transfer between regions/teams, some cold-storage feature gaps, and billing quirks”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
“DigitalOcean Spaces, Vultr, and Linode Object Storage for very large objects: These services may impose a 5 GB maximum object size”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“may also have limitations and risks, such as supporting only a subset of S3 features”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Spaces, over the 52 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | 6 | View → | |
| 44 | 15 | View → | |
| 44 | 6 | View → | |
| 39 | 14 | View → | |
| 30 | 2 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of DigitalOcean Spaces →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on DigitalOcean Spaces's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- web apps
- Price stated
- $5 per month
- Starting price
- $5 per month
- Free plan or trial
- Try Spaces out now!
- Hosting
- all regions
- Also from DigitalOcean
- DigitalOcean App Platform, DigitalOcean CSPM, DigitalOcean Container Registry, DigitalOcean Droplets, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes – DOKS and 6 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 43 of the 52 answers that named DigitalOcean Spaces and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
137 of the 149 domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Spaces 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 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |