Load balancers for enterprise buyers
Asked as “load balancer”, and as “application delivery controller”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 48 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
40%
Contested · HAProxy 12%
40F5 BIG-IP12HAProxy06Cloudflare Load Balancing42others
40% 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 an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01F5 BIG-IP40%
02HAProxy12%
HAProxy12%03Cloudflare Load Balancing6%
Cloudflare Load Balancing6%04NGINX4%
NGINX4%05Kemp LoadMaster4%
Kemp LoadMaster4%06Citrix ADC0%
07Google Cloud Load Balancing0%
08A10 Thunder ADC0%
A10 Thunder ADC0%09AWS Elastic Load Balancing0%
10Azure Load Balancer0%
What they warned about
Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B 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
23%
12 of 52 labels negative · 10 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“Critical zero-days exist in F5 BIG-IP APM, tracked as CVE-2026-94127, which allows unauthenticated remote code execution” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
32%
11 of 34 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Large enterprises should avoid cloud-native load balancers from hyperscalers for complex, multi-cloud, or hybrid use cases” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Azure Load Balancer
38%
10 of 26 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“Large enterprises should avoid cloud-native load balancers from hyperscalers for complex, multi-cloud, or hybrid use cases” Mistral Small, negative prompt
HAProxy17%
8 of 46 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“open-source or lightweight software proxies (like basic NGINX or HAProxy) that are powerful but risky for enterprise governance ... **Why to Avoid:**” GLM 4.7 FlashX, 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
73 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. 1056 links across 256 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 · Guideflow42 answers · 53 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Loadbalancer.org33 answers · 73 citations · 12 models
vendor site · F532 answers · 69 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Amazon22 answers · 26 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G221 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Xurrent21 answers · 21 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 26 citations · 8 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
vendor site · HAProxy18 answers · 28 citations · 10 models
16 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Radware13 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 17 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.
33 answers · 11 models
23 answers · 11 models
21 answers · 11 models
20 answers · 9 models
19 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 9 models
15 answers · 9 models
12 answers · 8 models
10 answers · 6 models
9 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 | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F5 BIG-IP | 40% | 1,600 | 374 | |||||
| HAProxy haproxy.com HAProxy 12%, HAProxy One 2% | 15% | 140 | 4,400 | 424 | 18,410 | 4 | ||
| Cloudflare parent site Cloudflare Load Balancing 6% | 6% | 64 | 550,000 | 10,897 | ||||
| Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC loadbalancer.org | 6% | 15 | 0 | 4,966 | 57 | 6 | ||
| F5 f5.com F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 4%, F5 2% | 6% | 37 | 27,100 | 17,155 | 178,423 company | $5 | 120 | 1 |
| NGINX nginx.org | 4% | 146 | 33,100 | 4,362 | 38,473 | |||
| Kemp LoadMaster kemptechnologies.com | 4% | 33 | 210 | 9 | 35,090 | $127 | 23 | 3 |
| Progress Kemp LoadMaster | 4% | 50 | 2 | |||||
| NetScaler ADC netscaler.com | 2% | 5 | ||||||
| AWS parent site AWS Application Load Balancer 2%, AWS Elastic Load Balancing 0% | 2% | 77 | 368,000 | 114,001 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (aws.amazon.com, f5.com, g2.com, kemptechnologies.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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which application delivery controller would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade load balancers and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best load balancer for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a load balancer. What should we look at?”Negative“Which load balancers should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5F5 BIG-IPF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic ManagerChangedF5 BIG-IPHAProxy, NGINXagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancingno first choiceagainst: Citrix NetScaler ADC, F5 BIG-IP, Progress Kemp LoadMaster, VMware Avi Load Balancer
Four alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, HAProxy, NGINXThree alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, Kemp LoadMaster, NetScalerThree alternatives
Citrix ADC, HAProxy, NGINXOne alternative
Azure Load BalancerGPT-5.4 miniF5 BIG-IPF5 BIG-IPHeldagainst: Citrix ADCF5 BIG-IPHAProxyagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud’s load balancingno first choiceagainst: Azure Basic Load Balancer, Citrix NetScaler ADC, F5 BIG-IP, Gateway Load Balancer
Seven alternatives
Application Gateway, Application Load Balancer, Azure Load Balancer, Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, Network Load BalancerTwo alternatives
A10, F5 NGINXFour alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, Citrix ADC, HAProxy, NGINXTwo alternatives
F5 BIG-IP, NGINXGemini 3.5 FlashVMware Avi Load BalancerF5 BIG-IPChangedF5 BIG-IPHAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMasteragainst: AWS ALB, Azure Application Gateway, GCP Cloud Load Balancingno first choiceagainst: F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, NGINXagainst: AWS Route 53, Azure Traffic Manager, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, NGINX, VMware Avi Load Balancer
Seven alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Cloudflare Load Balancing, F5 BIG-IP, F5 NGINX, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMasterFour alternatives
Cloudflare Load Balancing, NetScaler, Progress Kemp LoadMaster, Radware AlteonSeven alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure App Gateway, Citrix ADC, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, VMware Avi Load BalancerTwo alternatives
F5 NGINX, Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADCPerplexity SonarHAProxyF5 BIG-IPChangedF5 BIG-IPCloudflare Load Balancingagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load Balancingno first choicenothing named
Four alternatives
Azure Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Load Balancer Enterprise ADC, Progress Kemp LoadMasterThree alternatives
Citrix ADC, NetScaler ADC, Radware AlteonSeven alternatives
AWS, Akamai Connected Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Google Cloud, HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMasterGrok 4.1 FastF5 BIG-IP, HAProxyF5 BIG-IPChangedagainst: A10 Thunder ADC, Radware AlteonF5 BIG-IPLoadbalancer.org Enterprise ADCagainst: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IPno first choiceagainst: AWS Classic Load Balancer, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer/Application Gateway, Community HAProxy, GCP Cloud Load Balancing
Four alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, Google Cloud Load Balancing, NGINXOne alternative
Citrix ADCEight alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer/Application Gateway, Citrix ADC, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, Radware AppWallThree alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, GCPFive alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancing, NGINXMistral SmallF5 BIG-IP, Kemp LoadMasterF5 BIG-IPChangedno first choiceLoadbalancer.org Enterprise ADCagainst: AWS ALB, Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud Load Balancingno first choiceagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancer
Three alternatives
Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxyFive alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, Citrix ADC, NGINXDeepSeek V4 FlashF5 BIG-IPF5 BIG-IP PlatformChangedF5 BIG-IPHAProxy Oneagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, F5 BIG-IPno first choiceagainst: F5 BIG-IPagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP iSeries, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, Legacy Kemp LoadMaster Hardware Models, Microsoft Network Load Balancing
Five alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMasterThree alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, Fortinet FortiADC, NetScalerFour alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, Citrix NetScaler ADC, HAProxy, NGINXOne alternative
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADCFive alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, NGINXLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceCloudflare Load Balancingno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, HAProxy, NGINXQwen 3.7 FlashF5 BIG-IP, F5 Distributed CloudF5 BIG-IPChangedF5 BIG-IPHAProxy, Kemp LoadMasteragainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud HTTP LBno first choiceagainst: A10 Thunder ADC, AWS Application Load Balancer, Azure Load Balancer, Cisco ACE, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, NetScaler
Four alternatives
Amazon Web Services, HAProxy, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINXThree alternatives
AWS: Application Load Balancer (ALB) + Global Accelerator, Azure: Azure Front Door + Load Balancer, NGINXFive alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINXOne alternative
F5 BIG-IPKimi K2F5F5 BIG-IPChangedF5 BIG-IPLoadbalancer.org Enterprise ADCagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, F5 BIG-IP, GCP native load balancers, HAProxy, NGINXno first choiceagainst: AVI Networks, AWS Classic Load Balancer, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Citrix NetScaler ADC, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, Snapt
Six alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, VMware Avi Load BalancerTwo alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, Citrix ADCSeven alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer/Application Gateway, Citrix ADC, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINXTwo alternatives
American Cloud Load Balancing, Civo Load BalancersGLM 4.7 FlashXF5 BIG-IPagainst: AWSF5 BIG-IPHeldCitrix ADC, F5 BIG-IPNGINXagainst: AWS ALBno first choiceagainst: AWS, Azure, F5 BIG-IP, GCP, HAProxy, NGINX
Three alternatives
Citrix ADC, HAProxy, NGINXTwo alternatives
Citrix NetScaler ADC, Radware AlteonFour alternatives
AWS Application Load Balancer, AWS Network Load Balancer, HAProxy, NGINXOne alternative
F5 BIG-IPMiniMax M2.5F5 BIG-IPCitrix NetScaler ADC, F5 BIG-IPChangedF5 BIG-IPF5 BIG-IPagainst: Citrix NetScaler ADCno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
AWS Elastic Load Balancing, F5 NGINXOne alternative
A10 Thunder ADCThree alternatives
Citrix ADC, HAProxy, NGINXTwo alternatives
HAProxy, Kemp LoadMasterGPT-6 LunaAWS Application Load Balanceragainst: F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, NGINXF5 BIG-IP Local Traffic ManagerChangedno first choiceProgress Kemp LoadMasterno first choiceagainst: A10, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, BIG-IP, Citrix ADC, Community Kubernetes Ingress NGINX
Three alternatives
AWS Network Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Google Cloud Application Load BalancerThree alternatives
Azure Application Gateway, Citrix ADC, NetScalerFive alternatives
A10 Thunder ADC, F5 BIG-IP LTM, HAProxy, NGINX, NetScaler ADCOne alternative
Application Load BalancerMuse Glimmer 30BF5 BIG-IPNetScaler ADCChangedF5 BIG-IPagainst: Citrix NetScaler ADCCloudflare Load Balancing, DigitalOcean Regional Load Balancersagainst: AWS Elastic Load Balancingno first choiceagainst: AWS, Application Gateway, Azure, GCP, Traffic Manager
Two alternatives
HAProxy, NGINXOne alternative
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic ManagerSeven alternatives
A10 Networks Thunder, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster / Progress Kemp, Microsoft Azure, NGINX Plus from F5Two alternatives
Civo, Loadbalancer.org Enterprise PrimeBold 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 | 2026-10-05 01:52 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:21 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:50 | yes | 11 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 15 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:57 | yes | 21 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:29 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:40 | yes | 21 | 37 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:36 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:37 | no | 0 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 10 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:04 | yes | 19 | 103 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:15 | yes | 10 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:56 | yes | 4 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:49 | yes | 15 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:51 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:53 | yes | 6 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:50 | yes | 6 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 17 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:11 | yes | 23 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:17 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:36 | yes | 24 | 38 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:36 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:27 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 17 | 33 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:16 | yes | 9 | 51 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:12 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:38 | yes | 3 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 01:21 | yes | 19 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:30 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:57 | yes | 6 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:56 | yes | 27 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:31 | yes | 18 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:06 | yes | 20 | 13 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:19 | yes | 14 | 13 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:27 | yes | 23 | 72 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:38 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:15 | yes | 10 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 18 | 32 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:14 | yes | 15 | 132 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:45 | yes | 10 | 33 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:43 | yes | 6 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:38 | yes | 14 | 28 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:19 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:50 | yes | 2 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 25 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:49 | yes | 13 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:22 | yes | 10 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:14 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:32 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:10 | yes | 10 | 88 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:50 | yes | 21 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 21 | 58 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:56 | yes | 17 | 57 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:20 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:21 | yes | 21 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 19 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:00 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:54 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:17 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:37 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:50 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:24 | yes | 25 | 44 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:15 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:23 | yes | 5 | 41 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:17 | yes | 25 | 31 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:59 | yes | 24 | 42 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:18 | no | 0 | 58 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:59 | yes | 4 | 23 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:53 | yes | 25 | 29 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 23:06 | yes | 38 | 15 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:40 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:44 | yes | 19 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:20 | yes | 19 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:36 | yes | 21 | 12 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:30 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:10 | yes | 22 | 70 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:27 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 00:15 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 00:59 | yes | 24 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:24 | yes | 22 | 48 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 20 | 59 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:14 | yes | 4 | 19 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:23 | yes | 21 | 28 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
A10 Networks read as A10 Thunder ADC
A10 Networks Thunder ADC read as A10 Thunder ADC
AWS ALB/ELB read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS ALB/ELB (Elastic Load Balancing) 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 read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB/ALB/NLB) read as AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Akamai read as Akamai Connected Cloud
Azure LB read as Azure Load Balancer
Citrix NetScaler read as Citrix ADC
Citrix NetScaler (Cloud Software Group) read as Citrix ADC
Cloudflare read as Cloudflare Load Balancing
Cloudflare (Enterprise) read as Cloudflare Load Balancing
Cloudflare Enterprise read as Cloudflare Load Balancing
DigitalOcean 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
Google Cloud LB read as Google Cloud Load Balancing
Kemp read as Kemp LoadMaster
Loadbalancer.org read as Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise read as Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC
Loadbalancer.org's Enterprise ADC read as Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC
Radware read as Radware Alteon
Unresolved, counted raw
AWS: Application Load Balancer (ALB) + Global Accelerator
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
American Cloud Load Balancing
Azure App Gateway
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure: Azure Front Door + Load Balancer
BIG-IP
Civo Load Balancers
Cloudflare LB
Community HAProxy
Community Kubernetes Ingress NGINX
Consul Connect
DigitalOcean Regional Load Balancers
F5 BIG-IP Platform
F5 BIG-IP iSeries
GCP native load balancers
Google Cloud HTTP LB
Google Cloud’s load balancing
HAProxy One (HAProxy Enterprise)
Kemp Technologies
Legacy Kemp LoadMaster Hardware Models
Load Balancer Enterprise ADC
Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise Prime
Loadbalancer.org enterprise appliances/software
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway
Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB / WNLB)
NGINX Plus from F5
Progress Kemp
Radware's Application Delivery Solutions
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.