Every category where a model named DigitalOcean Load Balancers 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%	21 of 94	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labels1

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 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.

“You want a managed service with minimal setup and no expertise required → DigitalOcean Load Balancers ($12/mo)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Load balancers · budget prompt · alternative

“a cloud-native or managed load balancer (like DigitalOcean's at $12/month) is the best low-effort option” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Load balancers · budget prompt · alternative

“Simple UI, predictable flat-rate pricing, and automatic SSL setup.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Load balancers · budget prompt · alternative

“~$10/mo flat. Simple, affordable for small setups.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Load balancers · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Load Balancers, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DigitalOcean Load Balancers was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HAProxy17 of 189Not among the top eight

NGINX15 of 184Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Load Balancing11 of 183Not among the top eight

Traefik10 of 181Not among the top eight

Azure Load Balancer6 of 180Not among the top eight

AWS Application Load Balancer5 of 181Not among the top eight

AWS Elastic Load Balancing5 of 181Not among the top eight

Caddy5 of 180Not among the top eight

Citrix ADC5 of 180Not among the top eight

Google Cloud Load Balancing5 of 180Not 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 DigitalOcean Load Balancers. 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 16 of the 18 answers that named DigitalOcean Load Balancers and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

digitalocean.comYour site11

pickmysoft.com11

g2.com9

loadbalancer.org9

aws.amazon.com8

geekflare.com8

learn.g2.com8

guideflow.com7

xurrent.com7

contabo.com6

Seventy-three of the eighty-four domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Load Balancers came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

digitalocean.com/products/load-balancers9

geekflare.com/software/best-open-source-load-balancer8

learn.g2.com/best-load-balancing-software8

loadbalancer.org/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-load-balancer8

aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing7

xurrent.com/blog/top-load-balancers7

contabo.com/blog/best-open-source-load-balancers6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where DigitalOcean Load Balancers 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: 70 a month (“digitalocean load balancers”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Its own site: It sits on DigitalOcean's site (digitalocean.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 21 of 94 in load balancers

Segment leader

29%

HAProxy

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 18 answers
Its own site cited: in 16 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 DigitalOcean Load Balancers

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

DigitalOcean Load Balancer 1

Follow DigitalOcean Load Balancers

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

DigitalOcean is the company behind DigitalOcean Load Balancers.

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On record

Company records

Also from DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean App Platform, DigitalOcean CSPM, DigitalOcean Container Registry, DigitalOcean Droplets, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes – DOKS, DigitalOcean Load Balancer, DigitalOcean Managed DB and 4 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: A must-have for production apps, Load Balancers spread traffic across your compute resources to improve availability, performance, and scalability.
digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers
For: production apps
digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers
Price stated: Simple, predictable pricing digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers
Starting price: 12 per month digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers
Customers named: NoBidOrigin
Not stated on the pages read: Free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What DigitalOcean Load Balancers's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: digitalocean.com/pricing/load-balancers, digitalocean.com/products/load-balancers, docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers, docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/how-to, docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/details. 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 DigitalOcean Load Balancers'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 DigitalOcean Load Balancers, 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 DigitalOcean Load Balancers by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where DigitalOcean Load Balancers 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 DigitalOcean Load Balancers, 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.