Every category where a model named A10 Thunder ADC for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Load balancers	Network and edge	0%	25 of 94	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for A10 Thunder ADC yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated A10 Thunder ADC across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Consider A10 Networks if you have significant hybrid cloud requirements” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Load balancers · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Consider A10 Thunder if you have aggressive cloud/hybrid plans” Kimi K2 · Load balancers · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as A10 Thunder ADC, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and A10 Thunder ADC was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

F5 BIG-IP14 of 188Not among the top eight

Citrix ADC13 of 180Not among the top eight

NGINX12 of 180Not among the top eight

HAProxy11 of 181Not among the top eight

AWS Elastic Load Balancing8 of 180Not among the top eight

Google Cloud Load Balancing6 of 180Not among the top eight

Azure Load Balancer5 of 180Not among the top eight

Radware Alteon4 of 180Not among the top eight

Progress Kemp LoadMaster3 of 183Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Load Balancing3 of 180Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named A10 Thunder ADC. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 18 answers that named A10 Thunder ADC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

f5.com10

nomios.com8

aws.amazon.com7

radware.com7

devopsschool.com6

gartner.com6

loadbalancer.org6

reportprime.com6

a10networks.comYour site5

enterprisenetworkingplanet.com5

Sixty-one of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming A10 Thunder ADC came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

f5.com/products/compare7

nomios.com/news-blog/best-load-balancers-20247

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-load-balancers-features-pros-cons-comparison6

reportprime.com/application-delivery-controllers-r15343/company6

enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/data-center/application-delivery-controllers5

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-application-delivery-controllers-adc5

gartner.com/reviews/market/application-delivery-controllers5

guideflow.com/et-ee/blog/load-balancer-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

a10networks.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, A10 Thunder ADC takes 0% of first choices and HAProxy takes 29%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “load balancer”

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not in the top ten

Position for “load balancers”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 40 a month (“a10 thunder adc”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 32,774 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,697 · 321 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,130
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 25 of 94 in load balancers

Segment leader

29%

HAProxy

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 18 answers
Its own site cited: in 16 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on a10networks.com

2,497

subdomains included

Content

1,185

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,205

Product · Integration

49 · 3

Kind	Pages	Latest	Categories named
Blog	592	2025-10-08	DDoS, WAF
News or press	181	2020-02-13	DDoS, WAF
Report or ebook	109	2021-01-26	DDoS, Colocation
Webinar or virtual event	105	2023-08-21	DDoS, Load balancers
Glossary or explainer	103	2026-01-22	Load balancers, WAF
Podcast or video	56	2022-11-11	DDoS
Comparison	14	2026-03-13	Load balancers
Case study	10	2025-06-09	DDoS
Conference or event	10	2023-06-29
Template or tool	5	2025-04-14	Load balancers

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2025-04-14The buyers checklist for api protection solutions template or tool

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page a10networks.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ddos (37); 15 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as A10 Thunder ADC

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as A10 Thunder ADC; a claim can dispute any of them.

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Follow A10 Thunder ADC

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The company

A10 Thunder ADC is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Application Security & Load Balancing
a10networks.com
Customers named: SegpayYahoo! JAPANSoftbank Cloud
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What A10 Thunder ADC's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: a10networks.com, a10networks.com/solutions/security, a10networks.com/solutions/security, a10networks.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for A10 Thunder ADC by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where A10 Thunder ADC is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name A10 Thunder ADC, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.