2 categories · RankedMinIO AIStor
MinIO AIStor is an object storage product from min.io · min.io ↗
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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Amazon S3 is first at 43%.
Why models recommend it
“S3-compatible, high-performance software that can run in the company's own infrastructure or Kubernetes environment.”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose MinIO if you need self-hosted object storage within your own data center or on a private Kubernetes cluster.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for: Companies that want the performance of object storage but want to run it on their own hardware”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Choose MinIO when running object storage on-premises, in Kubernetes, or across multiple clouds.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“For on-premises or self-hosted solutions (like MinIO or Ceph), factor in the engineering overhead required to patch, upgrade, monitor, and scale nodes.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Self-hosted MinIO or similar systems without strong operations expertise: You assume responsibility for capacity planning, upgrades, monitoring”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“The Trap: Licensing enforceability and costs... Commercial pricing starts at high annual minimum commitments.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“requires more ops expertise and hardware—better for very specific AI/edge cases than a standard B2B setup”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as MinIO AIStor, over the 90 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | 30 | View → | |
| 68 | 10 | View → | |
| 67 | 2 | View → | |
| 66 | 3 | View → | |
| 64 | 9 | View → | |
| 53 | 8 | View → | |
| 29 | 1 | View → | |
| 24 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of MinIO AIStor →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on MinIO AIStor's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise AI and analytics workloads
- Free plan or trial
- Try AIStor Free
- Integrations
- 4
- Customers named
- AMD, CoreWeave, Databricks, ClickHouse, NVIDIA
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 67 of the 90 answers that named MinIO AIStor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
204 of the 204 domain citations in answers naming MinIO AIStor 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 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 316 | 42 | 2026-09-29 | Object storage | |
| Glossary or explainer | 37 | undated | IaC, Vector databases | ||
| News or press | 29 | 2 | 2026-08-31 | Object storage | |
| Case study | 21 | 19 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 11 | 2 | 2026-10-07 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | 0 | 2026-02-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 2 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2023-04-13 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Context memory for hybrid model agentic inference blog
- 2026-09-28Ai assisted data reclamation in aistor blog
- 2026-09-28Aistor table sharing with databricks end to end demo blog
- 2026-09-28Aistor tables unifying structured and unstructured data for ai with native iceberg blog
- 2026-09-28Architecting aistor table sharing with databricks for scale and performance blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page min.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.