Application Gateway
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 0% | 34 of 94 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Application Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Application Gateway handles regional web traffic, with features such as URL routing and TLS termination” GPT-6 Luna · Load balancers · comparative prompt · alternative
“Cloud-native (Azure) | Azure Load Balancer (Standard SKU), Application Gateway” Kimi K2 · Load balancers · negative 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.
“prefer Azure Front Door over Traffic Manager + Application Gateway combinations” Muse Glimmer 30B · Load balancers · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Application Gateway, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Application Gateway was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 8 of the 9 answers that named Application Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Application Gateway, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Application Gateway by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Application Gateway 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 Application Gateway, 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.