Load balancers
Asked as “load balancer”, and as “application delivery controller”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
29%
Contested · Progress Kemp LoadMaster 27%
29HAProxy27Progress Kemp LoadMaster15NGINX29others
29% of first choices, contested.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
02Progress Kemp LoadMaster27%0%20accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 27% now.
04AWS Elastic Load Balancing6%12%33accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 6% now.
05
Cloudflare Load Balancing4%0%25accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now.
Cloudflare Load Balancing4%0%25accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now.07Azure Load Balancer2%14%29accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
08
Azure Application Gateway2%0%10accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
Azure Application Gateway2%0%10accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11GCP Cloud Load Balancing0%25%12criticized challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
09Google Cloud Load Balancing Lab in the set0%0%18accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Google Cloud Load Balancing is made by Google, whose model Gemini 3.5 Flash is in the set. On the four share prompts that model made it the first choice zero times of 4; the other thirteen models zero times of 52. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.
For buyers
Head to head
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each
HAProxy vs Cloudflare Load BalancingHAProxy vs TraefikHAProxy vs Azure Load BalancerHAProxy vs Azure Application GatewayProgress Kemp LoadMaster vs NGINXProgress Kemp LoadMaster vs AWS Elastic Load BalancingProgress Kemp LoadMaster vs Cloudflare Load BalancingProgress Kemp LoadMaster vs TraefikProgress Kemp LoadMaster vs Azure Load BalancerProgress Kemp LoadMaster vs Azure Application GatewayNGINX vs AWS Elastic Load BalancingNGINX vs Cloudflare Load BalancingNGINX vs TraefikNGINX vs Azure Load BalancerNGINX vs Azure Application GatewayAWS Elastic Load Balancing vs Cloudflare Load BalancingAWS Elastic Load Balancing vs TraefikAWS Elastic Load Balancing vs Azure Load BalancerAWS Elastic Load Balancing vs Azure Application GatewayCloudflare Load Balancing vs TraefikCloudflare Load Balancing vs Azure Load BalancerCloudflare Load Balancing vs Azure Application GatewayTraefik vs Azure Load BalancerTraefik vs Azure Application GatewayAzure Load Balancer vs Azure Application Gateway
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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03A04
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
Key
01HAProxy29%
HAProxy29%02Progress Kemp LoadMaster27%
03NGINX15%
NGINX15%04AWS Elastic Load Balancing6%
05Cloudflare Load Balancing4%
Cloudflare Load Balancing4%06Traefik2%
Traefik2%07Azure Load Balancer2%
08Azure Application Gateway2%
Azure Application Gateway2%09Google Cloud Load Balancing0%
10Envoy0%
11GCP Cloud Load Balancing0%
12Citrix ADC0%
13F5 BIG-IP0%
What they warned about
Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and GPT-6 Luna changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
F5 BIG-IP
55%
17 of 31 labels negative · 10 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“What I'd avoid for mid-sized B2B - **F5 BIG-IP**: ... over-engineered, expensive, and feature-heavy for mid-market needs” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
Citrix ADC
48%
13 of 27 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“What I'd avoid for mid-sized B2B ... **Citrix/NetScaler**: More geared toward remote access and large-scale enterprise environments.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt
Azure Basic Load Balancer100%
6 of 6 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 6 hard negative
“Microsoft retired the Basic Load Balancer on September 30, 2025... It's strongly recommended to upgrade to the Standard Load Balancer” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Azure Load Balancer
14%
4 of 29 labels negative · 4 of 14 models
“Cloud-native load balancers (AWS ELB, Azure LB, GCP LB) ... may lack deep packet inspection, advanced routing rules, or cross-cloud consistency” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
68 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 865 links across 201 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
vendor site · Loadbalancer.org31 answers · 45 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G227 answers · 45 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Guideflow25 answers · 32 citations · 11 models
24 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
vendor site · F517 answers · 26 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Microsoft17 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G217 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
vendor site · ZipDo.co16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Amazon15 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Radware14 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
14 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
23 answers · 11 models
16 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 10 models
14 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 7 models
12 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 9 models
10 answers · 6 models
10 answers · 8 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best load balancer”, “load balancer”, “load balancers”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAProxy haproxy.com | 29% | 140 | 4,400 | 424 | 18,410 | 4 | |
| Progress Kemp LoadMaster | 27% | 50 | 2 | ||||
| NGINX nginx.org NGINX 15%, NGINX Open Source 0% | 15% | 146 | 33,100 | 4,362 | 38,473 | ||
| AWS parent site AWS Elastic Load Balancing 6%, AWS Application Load Balancer 2% | 8% | 77 | 368,000 | 114,001 | |||
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare Load Balancing 4%, Cloudflare Load Balancer 2% | 6% | 64 | 550,000 | 10,897 | |||
| Radware radware.com Radware Alteon 4% | 4% | 20 | 1,900 | 116 | 43,076 company | $21 | 13 |
| Traefik traefik.io | 2% | 41 | 6,600 | 593 | 6,095 | 90 | |
| Azure Load Balancer | 2% | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Azure parent site Azure Application Gateway 2%, Azure Front Door 0% | 2% | 32 | 301,000 | 47,904 | |||
| Application Load Balancer | 2% | 720 | 100 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aws.amazon.com, f5.com, g2.com, kemptechnologies.com, learn.microsoft.com, loadbalancer.org). The first result for “best load balancer” is g2.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best load balancer for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which application delivery controller would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top load balancers and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best load balancer for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a load balancer. What should we look at?”Negative“Which load balancers should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, NGINXno first choiceChangedAWS Elastic Load BalancingNGINXno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Citrix ADC, F5, HAProxySix alternatives
Azure Application Gateway, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancer, HAProxy, NGINX, TraefikFour alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, TraefikGPT-5.4 miniApplication Load Balanceragainst: F5, HAProxyF5 NGINX OneChangedagainst: A10no first choiceHAProxyno first choiceagainst: AWS, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud, NGINX Ingress Controller
Three alternatives
Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud's Application Load Balancer, Network Load BalancerOne alternative
F5 BIG-IPTwo alternatives
NGINX, TraefikGemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare Load BalancingProgress Kemp LoadMasterChangedagainst: F5 BIG-IP, NetScalerAWS Elastic Load BalancingHAProxyagainst: AWS ALB, Google Cloudno first choiceagainst: F5 BIG-IPagainst: AWS Classic Load Balancer, Apache HTTP Server, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, Pure DNS Round Robin, Windows Server Network Load Balancing
Five alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, NGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMasterTwo alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, F5 NGINXEight alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, Envoy, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, NetScaler, TraefikFour alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, Hetzner Cloud Load Balancer, NGINXSeven alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Fastly, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, NGINXPerplexity SonarHAProxyRadware AlteonChangedno first choiceHAProxy, NGINXno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application GatewayTwo alternatives
F5 BIG-IP, NetScalerFive alternatives
AWS, Azure, Cloudflare Load Balancing, GCP, Radware AlteonGrok 4.1 FastHAProxy, NGINXagainst: F5 BIG-IP LTMProgress Kemp LoadMasterChangedagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, NetScalerAWS Elastic Load Balancingagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IPHAProxyagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancingno first choiceagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Basic Load Balancer, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, Google Cloud Classic Application Load Balancer, VMware Avi Load Balancer
Five alternatives
AWS ALB, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, Progress Kemp LoadMasterTwo alternatives
HAProxy, NGINXTwo alternatives
HAProxy, NGINXSix alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, Envoy, Linode NodeBalancer, NGINX, TraefikSeven alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, F5 BIG-IP VE, GCP, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, NGINXMistral SmallCloudflare Load Balancingno first choiceChangedF5 BIG-IP, NGINXCloudflare Load Balancer, HAProxyno first choiceagainst: AWS ALB, Azure Basic Load Balancer, Azure Load Balancer, GCP Cloud Load Balancing
Three alternatives
HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMaster, VMware Avi Load BalancerFour alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, Google Cloud Load BalancingTwo alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load BalancingDeepSeek V4 FlashProgress Kemp LoadMasteragainst: Citrix ADC, F5Progress Kemp LoadMasterHeldagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, NetScalerHAProxyagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IPHAProxyagainst: AWS ALB, Azure Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, F5, NetScalerHAProxy, NGINXagainst: Citrix ADC, F5against: A10, Azure Basic Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, Microsoft Windows Network Load Balancer, Radware Alteon
Four alternatives
AWS Application Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINXFour alternatives
Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy, NGINX, Radware AlteonSix alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer / Front Door, Envoy, Google Cloud Load Balancing, NGINX, TraefikFour alternatives
Caddy, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, NGINX, TraefikFour alternatives
AWS ALB, Azure Load Balancer, Envoy, GCP Cloud Load BalancingLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceProgress Kemp LoadMasterChangedno first choiceRadware Alteonno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
NetScaler ADC, Radware AlteonThree alternatives
Akamai Connected Cloud, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADCQwen 3.7 FlashAWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, NGINXProgress Kemp LoadMasterChangedagainst: F5no first choiceHAProxy, Traefikno first choiceagainst: Citrix ADC, F5against: AWS Classic Load Balancer, DigitalOcean Basic Load Balancer, F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, Microsoft NLB, NGINX
Two alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxyTwo alternatives
Citrix ADC, NGINXTwo alternatives
Caddy, NGINXSeven alternatives
AWS ALB, Ambassador, GCP CLB, HAProxy, Kong, NGINX, TraefikKimi K2HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMasterProgress Kemp LoadMasterChangedagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IPHAProxy, TraefikHAProxyagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Cloud Load Balancersno first choiceagainst: F5 Virtual Editionagainst: AWS Classic Load Balancer, Azure Basic Load Balancer, F5 BIG-IP, Kemp LoadMaster / Progress Kemp, NGINX
One alternative
F5 NGINXTwo alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, NGINXSix alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer/Application Gateway, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Kong, NGINXTwo alternatives
NGINX Open Source, TraefikGLM 4.7 FlashXNGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMasterProgress Kemp LoadMasterChangedagainst: F5 BIG-IPno first choiceHAProxy, NGINXagainst: Envoyno first choiceagainst: Azure Basic Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy
Two alternatives
F5 BIG-IP, HAProxyOne alternative
A10 Thunder ADCTen alternatives
Application Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloudflare Load Balancing, F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, NGINX Open Source, Network Load Balancer, Standard Load Balancer, TraefikThree alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, TraefikMiniMax M2.5Progress Kemp LoadMasterProgress Kemp LoadMasterHeldno first choiceAWS Elastic Load Balancingno first choiceagainst: F5 BIG-IPagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, AWS NLB, Azure Basic Load Balancer, Azure Load Balancer, GCP Cloud Load Balancing
Five alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, NGINXFour alternatives
Azure Application Gateway, Barracuda ADC, Citrix ADC, Radware AlteonFour alternatives
Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud Load Balancing, NGINX, TraefikFour alternatives
A10, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, NGINXGPT-6 LunaAWS Application Load BalancerHAProxyChangedagainst: F5 BIG-IPno first choiceHAProxy Community Editionno first choicenothing named
Five alternatives
Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Google Cloud Application Load Balancer, Google Cloud Network Load BalancerTwo alternatives
AWS Application Load Balancer, Azure Application GatewayNine alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Envoy, Front Door, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINXOne alternative
NGINX Open SourceMuse Glimmer 30BProgress Kemp LoadMasterProgress Kemp LoadMasterHeldagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IPno first choiceHAProxyagainst: Azure Load Balancerno first choiceagainst: Amazon CloudFront, Application Gateway, Application Load Balancer, Basic SKU Load Balancer, Classic Load Balancer - CLB, Route 53 geolocation routing, Traffic Manager
Five alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINXTwo alternatives
NGINX, Radware AlteonTwo alternatives
NGINX, TraefikBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:45 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:31 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 11 | 23 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:15 | yes | 18 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:25 | yes | 21 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:51 | yes | 18 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:05 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:57 | no | 0 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:01 | yes | 19 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:55 | yes | 14 | 41 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:54 | yes | 13 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:55 | yes | 4 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 01:47 | yes | 15 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:40 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:25 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:10 | yes | 8 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:14 | yes | 17 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:15 | yes | 22 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:33 | no | 0 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:41 | yes | 18 | 41 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:17 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:27 | yes | 10 | 35 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:10 | yes | 18 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:16 | yes | 20 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:45 | yes | 5 | 33 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:12 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:32 | yes | 20 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:43 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 6 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:46 | yes | 13 | 20 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:36 | yes | 14 | 4 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:00 | yes | 14 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:58 | yes | 10 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:30 | yes | 25 | 41 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:18 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:38 | yes | 5 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:19 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:59 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:06 | yes | 22 | 51 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:13 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:15 | yes | 15 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:01 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:25 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:47 | yes | 8 | 22 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:27 | yes | 16 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:05 | yes | 15 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:26 | yes | 7 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:53 | yes | 19 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:52 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:57 | yes | 14 | 44 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:10 | yes | 10 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:52 | yes | 18 | 33 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:21 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:34 | yes | 2 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:31 | yes | 12 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:09 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:40 | no | 0 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:12 | no | 0 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:03 | yes | 15 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:36 | yes | 16 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:15 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:13 | yes | 23 | 60 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:19 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:26 | no | 0 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:04 | no | 0 | 89 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:59 | yes | 19 | 40 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:30 | no | 0 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 23:18 | yes | 3 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:10 | yes | 19 | 32 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:05 | no | 0 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:11 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:30 | yes | 6 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:21 | yes | 15 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:49 | yes | 24 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:14 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:51 | yes | 25 | 38 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:30 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:45 | no | 0 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:52 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:58 | yes | 15 | 70 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:14 | yes | 19 | 60 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:30 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 01:26 | yes | 15 | 24 s |
Normalization in this category
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A10 Networks Thunder ADC read as A10 Thunder ADC
AWS ALB/ELB read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS ALB/NLB read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS ELB read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS ELB (ALB/NLB) read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS ELB/ALB read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancer read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ALB/NLB) read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Azure LB read as Azure Load Balancer
Citrix read as Citrix ADC
Citrix NetScaler read as Citrix ADC
Citrix NetScaler (ADC) read as Citrix ADC
Citrix Netscaler read as Citrix ADC
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare Load Balancing
DigitalOcean Load Balancer read as DigitalOcean Load Balancers
GCP Cloud LB read as GCP Cloud Load Balancing
GCP LB read as GCP Cloud Load Balancing
GCP Load Balancer read as GCP Cloud Load Balancing
GCP Load Balancing read as GCP Cloud Load Balancing
Kemp read as Kemp LoadMaster
Loadbalancer.org read as Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC
Loadbalancer.org Free read as Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC
Radware read as Radware Alteon
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AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB)
AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)
AWS NLB
Apache HTTP Server (`mod_proxy_balancer`)
Application Request Routing
Azure Standard Load Balancer
Barracuda ADC
Basic SKU Load Balancer
Classic Load Balancer - CLB
Cloud Load Balancers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
DigitalOcean Basic Load Balancer
F5 NGINX One
F5 Virtual Edition
Front Door
GCP CLB
Gateway Load Balancers (GWLBs)
Google Cloud Classic Application Load Balancer
Google Cloud Network Load Balancer
Google Cloud's Application Load Balancer
Istio Gateway
Keepalived
MetalLB
Microsoft NLB (Native Windows Load Balancer)
Microsoft Windows Network Load Balancer (WNLB)
Network Load Balancers (NLB)
Pure DNS Round Robin
Route 53 geolocation routing
Seesaw
Varnish
Windows Server Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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