Cloudflare · 1 category · Named, not rankedCloudflare Load Balancer
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 2% | 12 of 94 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cloudflare 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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.
“HAProxy (free) or Cloudflare (low-cost with extra features) are the best choices” Mistral Small · Load balancers · budget prompt · first choice
“consider cloud-agnostic solutions (like HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP, or Cloudflare Load Balancer) to avoid vendor lock-in” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Load Balancer, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudflare 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 6 of the 9 answers that named Cloudflare Load Balancer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Load Balancer came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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The company
Cloudflare is the company behind Cloudflare Load Balancer.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Maximize application performance and availability
- For
- our customers
- Price stated
- Load Balancing starts at $5 per month, and includes 500,000 DNS queries each month blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-load-balancing-intelligent-failover-with-cloudflare
- Free plan or trial
- Enterprise customers can preview this product as a non-contract service, which provides full access, free of metered usage fees, limits, and certain other restrictions. developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing
- Hosting
- Cloudflare's 110+ datacenters
- Customers named
- Crisp
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications
What Cloudflare Load Balancer's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing, blog.cloudflare.com/unimog-cloudflares-edge-load-balancer, blog.cloudflare.com/high-availability-load-balancers-with-maglev, blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-hardware-with-load-balancing-and-cloudflare-one, blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-load-balancing-intelligent-failover-with-cloudflare. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cloudflare Load Balancer's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cloudflare Load Balancer, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudflare Load Balancer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cloudflare 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 Cloudflare 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.