Every category where a model named Citrix 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%	91 of 94	48%	27	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Citrix 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 Citrix 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	6	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	1	3
Kimi K2	0	2	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1	2

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase19 labelsNone

Comparative16 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative20 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative74 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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 Citrix NetScaler or Radware. They cost more but give you richer functionality.” MiniMax M2.5 · Load balancers · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“For large enterprises with strict security/compliance needs: F5 BIG-IP or Citrix ADC.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Load balancers · comparative prompt · alternative

“For enterprise features: F5 or Citrix if you need advanced capabilities” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Load balancers · direct prompt · alternative

“For enterprise security and acceleration: Citrix ADC or F5 BIG-IP.” Mistral Small · Load balancers · comparative 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.

“What I'd avoid for mid-sized B2B ... Citrix/NetScaler: More geared toward remote access and large-scale enterprise environments.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Load balancers · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Skip expensive commercial appliances (F5 BIG-IP, NetScaler)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Load balancers · budget prompt · hard negative

“Appliances (e.g., F5, Citrix): The "Enterprise" path... Only necessary if you have strict regulatory requirements” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Load balancers · scale prompt · soft negative

“overkill/expensive for mid-sized unless you need advanced multi-cloud security or have Microsoft-heavy stacks” Grok 4.1 Fast · Load balancers · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Citrix ADC, over the 74 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Citrix ADC was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NGINX59 of 747Not among the top eight

HAProxy53 of 7412Not among the top eight

F5 BIG-IP48 of 7414Not among the top eight

AWS Elastic Load Balancing32 of 744Not among the top eight

Azure Load Balancer25 of 741Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Load Balancing20 of 741Not among the top eight

Traefik18 of 742Not among the top eight

Google Cloud Load Balancing18 of 740Not among the top eight

F516 of 741Not among the top eight

Envoy14 of 740Not 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 Citrix 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 62 of the 74 answers that named Citrix ADC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

loadbalancer.org31

f5.com28

guideflow.com26

devopsschool.com25

g2.com23

kemptechnologies.com20

nomios.com20

linkedin.com18

radware.com18

aws.amazon.com17

226 of the 226 domain citations in answers naming Citrix ADC came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

loadbalancer.org/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-load-balancer22

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-load-balancers-features-pros-cons-comparison20

nomios.com/news-blog/best-load-balancers-202420

guideflow.com/blog/load-balancer-software16

guideflow.com/et-ee/blog/load-balancer-software16

f5.com/products/compare12

pickmysoft.com/blog/best-load-balancing-software11

reportprime.com/application-delivery-controllers-r15343/company11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Citrix ADC stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“citrix adc”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 36 a month
Its own site: It sits on Citrix's site (citrix.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 91 of 94 in load balancers

Segment leader

29%

HAProxy

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 74 answers
Its own site cited: in 62 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 Citrix ADC

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

Citrix 6Citrix NetScaler 5Citrix ADC (formerly NetScaler) 4Citrix ADC (NetScaler) 2Citrix/NetScaler 2Citrix ADC/NetScaler 1Citrix NetScaler (ADC) 1Citrix Netscaler 1

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The company

Citrix is the company behind Citrix ADC.

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On record

Company records

Also from Citrix: Citrix DaaS, Citrix DaaS / Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix DaaS/Citrix Private Cloud, Citrix Endpoint Management, Citrix Enterprise Browser, Citrix Hypervisor, Citrix Hypervisor / XenServer, Citrix Managed Desktops and 14 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: This article provides a correlation of the newnslog NIC counters and its brief description.
support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX125102/citrix-adc-nic-counters.html
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Citrix ADC's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX125102/citrix-adc-nic-counters.html, support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX132779/citrix-adc-ssl-counters.html, support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX133888/citrix-adc-tcp-counters.html, support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX131801/citrix-adc-gslb-counters.html, support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX131803/citrix-adc-http-counters.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Citrix 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 Citrix 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;
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