# MinIO AIStor alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 205 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where MinIO AIStor holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/minio-aistor/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Backblaze B2: 61
- Cloudflare R2: 35
- Amazon S3: 32
- Wasabi Object Storage: 17
- Azure Blob Storage: 4
- DigitalOcean Spaces: 4

## Object storage

**Small business**: 80 of 84 answers did not name MinIO AIStor (MinIO AIStor is #6 of 8 at 0%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 34 of those 80
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 23 of those 80
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 9 of those 80
- Amazon S3: first choice in 6 of those 80
- DigitalOcean Spaces: first choice in 4 of those 80
- IDrive e2: first choice in 1 of those 80

**Mid-market**: 67 of 84 answers did not name MinIO AIStor (MinIO AIStor is #7 of 8 at 0%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 24 of those 67
- Amazon S3: first choice in 10 of those 67
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 8 of those 67
- IDrive e2: first choice in 1 of those 67
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 1 of those 67

**Enterprise**: 58 of 84 answers did not name MinIO AIStor (MinIO AIStor is #8 of 11 at 2%).

- Amazon S3: first choice in 16 of those 58
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 7 of those 58
- Azure Blob Storage: first choice in 4 of those 58
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 4 of those 58
- Google Cloud Storage: first choice in 4 of those 58
- Backblaze B2: first choice in 3 of those 58
- Cloudian HyperStore: first choice in 2 of those 58
- IBM Cloud Object Storage: first choice in 1 of those 58

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