# Cloudflare Load Balancer: how AI models rank it, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 categories by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/cloudflare-load-balancer/

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancers | 2% | 12 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

- "HAProxy (free) or Cloudflare (low-cost with extra features) are the best choices" (Mistral Small, Load balancers)
- "consider cloud-agnostic solutions (like HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP, or Cloudflare Load Balancer) to avoid vendor lock-in" (MiniMax M2.5, Load balancers)

## In its own words

What Cloudflare Load Balancer's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Maximize application performance and availability (https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing)
- For: our customers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/unimog-cloudflares-edge-load-balancer)
- Price stated: Load Balancing starts at $5 per month, and includes 500,000 DNS queries each month (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-load-balancing-intelligent-failover-with-cloudflare)
- Starting price: 5 (https://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. (https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing)
- Hosting: Cloudflare's 110+ datacenters
- Customers named: Crisp

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.