Azure · 1 category · Named, not rankedAzure Basic Load Balancer
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 0% | 94 of 94 | 100% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Azure Basic Load Balancer 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
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.
“Microsoft retired the Basic Load Balancer on September 30, 2025... It's strongly recommended to upgrade to the Standard Load Balancer” Mistral Small · Load balancers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Retired September 30, 2025. Existing ones work but lack SLA support. Upgrade to Standard immediately to avoid reliability gaps” Grok 4.1 Fast · Load balancers · negative prompt · hard negative
“was retired on September 30, 2025. Existing ones remain operational but are unsupported and lack SLA guarantees” MiniMax M2.5 · Load balancers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid any deprecated or unsupported load balancer (e.g., Azure Basic, EOL hardware).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Load balancers · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Azure Basic Load Balancer, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure Basic Load Balancer 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Azure Basic Load Balancer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-five of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming Azure Basic Load Balancer came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Azure Basic Load Balancer stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 10 a month (“azure basic load balancer”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Azure's site (azure.cn), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 10 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 10 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.
Names read as Azure Basic Load Balancer
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The company
Azure is the company behind Azure Basic Load Balancer.ShowHide
The company
On record
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Azure Basic Load Balancer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Azure Basic Load Balancer 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 Azure Basic Load Balancer, 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.