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Do AI agents pick Backblaze B2?

How often agents choose Backblaze B2 when a developer needs object storage — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Backblaze B2

#3 of 5 object storage
5%Pick Rate
95% CI 3%10%

When developers ask an AI agent for object storage, Backblaze B2 is picked 5% of the time — ranking #3 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 5% Named, not picked 20% Never surfaced 74%

Beaten by Amazon S3 (28%), Cloudflare R2 (13%).

Awareness

20K package downloads / week

Thin presence in the data models learn from — an awareness problem. Get into more code, docs, and developer discussion.

4 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 1.2K URLs in Common Crawl

Present in the raw crawl and the filtered corpus models train on — solid corpus footprint.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

79K installs / month ▲ 37% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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The per-model and per-surface breakdown for Backblaze B2 — where it wins, where it loses, and to whom — plus an alert when the Pick Rate moves.

About Backblaze B2

Backblaze B2 is a cloud object storage service for storing and retrieving files at scale.

Backblaze B2 provides S3-compatible cloud storage organized around buckets, where developers and businesses can upload, manage, and serve files. It supports operations like bucket creation, file uploads with SHA1 integrity verification, versioning, and large file multipart uploads. It's aimed at developers and companies looking for affordable object storage for backups, media, application data, and similar workloads.

Where to start

Sign up for a Backblaze account to obtain an application key ID and application key, then use those credentials to authorize and interact with the B2 API. The official API documentation covers all bucket and file operations.

Install

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