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Load balancers · October 2026 Edition

AWS Elastic Load Balancing vs Azure Load Balancer

Two of fourteen models named AWS Elastic Load Balancing first on the direct prompt; one named Azure Load Balancer. AWS Elastic Load Balancing was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Azure Load Balancer by thirteen and AWS Elastic Load Balancing carries 33 labels and Azure Load Balancer 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Azure Load Balancer

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share6%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate12%14%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#4#7A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.

Labels3329A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AWS Elastic Load Balancing reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.HAProxy was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. HAProxy vs AWS Elastic Load Balancing · HAProxy vs Azure Load Balancer · Progress Kemp LoadMaster vs AWS Elastic Load Balancing

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; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the load balancers page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.

AWS Elastic Load BalancingFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAzure Load Balancer

Direct21

Paraphrase00

Comparative30

Budget-constrained102 against AWS Elastic Load Balancing · 2 against Azure Load Balancer

Scale-constrained00

Negative202 against AWS Elastic Load Balancing · 2 against Azure Load Balancer

Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Azure Load Balancer were named in the same answer fifty-one times, of the 93 answers naming AWS Elastic Load Balancing and the 83 naming Azure Load Balancer. In those answers Azure Load Balancer took the first choice zero times and AWS Elastic Load Balancing five.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Azure Load Balancer stood in it.

Model	DirectAEAL	ComparativeAEAL	Budget-constrainedAEAL	Scale-constrainedAEAL	NegativeAEAL
Claude Haiku 4.5	AEAL	AE	AE
GPT-5.4 mini	AL
Gemini 3.5 Flash	AE	AE		AE	AL
Perplexity Sonar	AE
Grok 4.1 Fast	AL	AE	AE	AEAL	AE
Mistral Small		AEAL	AE		AL
DeepSeek V4 Flash		AE	AL	AL	AEAL
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash	AE				AL
Kimi K2		AE	AE
GLM 4.7 FlashX					AE
MiniMax M2.5	AEAL		AEAL		AEAL
GPT-6 Luna	AL	AEAL
Muse Glimmer 30B	AEAL		AL

AE AWS Elastic Load BalancingAL Azure Load BalancerAE first choiceAE named as an alternativeAE argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, AWS Elastic Load Balancing on the left and Azure Load Balancer on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Azure Load Balancer stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.

Claude Haiku 4.5AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, NGINX alternatives: Citrix ADC, F5, HAProxy

AWS Elastic Load Balancing first, Azure Load Balancer not the choice

1 of 14 modelsAzure Load Balancer was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

Qwen 3.7 FlashAWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, NGINX alternatives: Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.

GPT-5.4 miniApplication Load Balancer alternatives: Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud's Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer

Gemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare Load Balancing alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, NGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMaster

Perplexity SonarHAProxy alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway

Grok 4.1 FastHAProxy, NGINX alternatives: AWS ALB, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, Progress Kemp LoadMaster

MiniMax M2.5Progress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, NGINX

GPT-6 LunaAWS Application Load Balancer alternatives: Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Google Cloud Application Load Balancer, Google Cloud Network Load Balancer

Muse Glimmer 30BProgress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX

Neither was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Mistral SmallCloudflare Load Balancing alternatives: HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMaster, VMware Avi Load Balancer

DeepSeek V4 FlashProgress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: AWS Application Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX

Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Kimi K2HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: F5 NGINX

GLM 4.7 FlashXNGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.

Small business

AWS Elastic Load Balancing leads by four points.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing#4 of 13

Azure Load Balancer#6 of 13

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

AWS Elastic Load Balancing leads by four points.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing#4 of 13

Azure Load Balancer#7 of 13

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Level: the same share of first choices.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing#9 of 10

Azure Load Balancer#10 of 10

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Avoid cloud-native load balancers (like AWS ALB/ELB) if your budget is tight” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative

“Cloud-native load balancers (AWS ELB, Azure LB, GCP LB) excel in their ecosystems but may lack deep packet inspection” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative

“Relies on CloudWatch; tuning timeouts/limits needed.” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cloud-native load balancers (AWS ALB, Azure LB) are often the best fit - they scale automatically, integrate with your infrastructure, and have predictable costs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice

“For very small budgets: Start with cloud-native load balancers (AWS ALB, etc.) as they eliminate upfront costs” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice

“Prefer managed cloud-native: AWS ALB/NLB, GCP Premium/Global, Azure Standard—high reliability scores” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · first choice

What the models said about Azure Load Balancer

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“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 · soft negative

“Traefik is rated higher for value, with reviewers expressing greater satisfaction with its pricing compared to Azure Load Balancer.” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · soft negative

“excellent within their ecosystems but can lead to vendor lock-in” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cloud-native load balancers (AWS ALB, Azure LB) are often the best fit” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice

“Azure Load Balancer for network-layer distribution, especially in Azure-native environments.” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · alternative

“AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, or Google Cloud Load Balancing” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · alternative

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Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.