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F5 BIG-IP LTM

2Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
2 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. F5 BIG-IP LTM was named 1 time in Load balancers, where HAProxy led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In load balancers · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named F5 BIG-IP LTM 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Load balancersNetwork and edge0%74 of 94100%1under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 F5 BIG-IP LTM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“if budget allows; more enterprise but fits upper mid-market” Grok 4.1 Fast · Load balancers · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as F5 BIG-IP LTM, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and F5 BIG-IP LTM was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HAProxy2 of 21Not among the top eight
NGINX2 of 21Not among the top eight
A10 Thunder ADC1 of 20Not among the top eight
AWS ALB1 of 20Not among the top eight
AWS Elastic Load Balancing1 of 20Not among the top eight
Azure Application Gateway1 of 20Not among the top eight
Azure Load Balancer1 of 20Not among the top eight
Cloudflare Load Balancing1 of 20Not among the top eight
GCP Cloud Load Balancing1 of 20Not among the top eight
Google Cloud Load Balancing1 of 20Not 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 F5 BIG-IP LTM. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named F5 BIG-IP LTM and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

f5.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, F5 BIG-IP LTM takes 0% of first choices and HAProxy takes 29%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “load balancer”
1
Position for “load balancers”
–
not in the top ten
Its company's site
f5.com shared with F5's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 178,423 a month
Searches its site ranks for
34,068 · 1,976 in the top three
Sites linking to it
36,879
Paid Google search
2 searches its ads show for, about 136 clicks and $5 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 94 text, 14 video, 12 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2024, as F5, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 115 in the year, 5 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 74 of 94 in load balancers
Segment leader
29%
HAProxy
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
2 answers
Its own site cited
in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.

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The company

F5 is the company behind F5 BIG-IP LTM.
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  • where F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 F5 BIG-IP LTM, 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.
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