2 categories · RankedHAProxy
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load balancers | Network and edge | 29% | 1 of 94 | 5% | 58 | accepted challenger | |
| API gateways | Developer platform | 0% | 40 of 66 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Kong Gateway at 53% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated HAProxy 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 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you have standard web apps or APIs: Go with HAProxy. It has the broadest adoption, most documentation, and best performance for the price (free).” Kimi K2 · Load balancers · budget prompt · first choice
“The performance leader — handles millions of requests per second with sub-millisecond latency... HAProxy is the performance benchmark.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Load balancers · comparative prompt · first choice
“Fastest and most stable - used by GitHub, Reddit, Stack Overflow ... High-performance, mission-critical | HAProxy” Kimi K2 · Load balancers · comparative prompt · first choice
“My default recommendation is HAProxy Enterprise if you need an ADC that works across on-premises and cloud environments.” GPT-6 Luna · Load balancers · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
“Open‑source solutions that are no longer actively maintained (e.g., very old versions of HAProxy, Nginx...) | Unpatched CVEs” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Load balancers · negative prompt · soft negative
“consider a third-party option like F5 or HAProxy, but that adds more ops overhead” GPT-5.4 mini · Load balancers · direct prompt · soft negative
“running them on under-powered virtual machines (like a $5/mo VPS) creates a bottleneck” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Load balancers · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as HAProxy, over the 174 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HAProxy 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 140 of the 174 answers that named HAProxy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
481 of the 481 domain citations in answers naming HAProxy came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where HAProxy stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“haproxy”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 424 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 18,410 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,029 · 227 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,685
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- Named in
- 174 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 140 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 332 | 5 | 2026-09-21 | API gateways, WAF | |
| Glossary or explainer | 166 | 0 | 2024-11-18 | API gateways, WAF | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 71 | 4 | 2026-10-01 | WAF | |
| Conference or event | 47 | 7 | 2026-11-30 | ||
| News or press | 36 | 9 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 17 | 0 | 2022-10-05 | CDN | |
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2026-02-25 | ||
| Report or ebook | 5 | 1 | 2026-07-28 | API gateways | |
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-11-30Aws reinvent 2026 las vegas conference or event
- 2026-11-10Kubecon cloudnativecon north america 2026 salt lake city conference or event
- 2026-10-01F5 office hours webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-29Haproxy confirmed as the unshakeable standard for enterprise load balancing in g2 winter 2026 reports news or press
- 2026-09-29Haproxy continues winning streak into devops and ai in g2 summer 2026 reports news or press
- 2026-09-29Haproxy holds its perfect score in load balancing for another consecutive quarter in g2 spring 2026 grid reports news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page haproxy.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as HAProxy
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The company
HAProxy is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- High-performance traffic management and next-gen security with multi-cloud management and observability. Built for the enterprise — open source at heart.
- For
- the enterprise
- Free plan or trial
- Request a product trial haproxy.com
- Integrations claimed
- 6 haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-enterprise/integrations
- Customers named
- Booking.comPayPalRobloxLinkedInDartmouth CollegeDockerInfobipLiftoff
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, certifications, hosting
What HAProxy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: haproxy.com, haproxy.com/solutions/security, haproxy.com/solutions/security, haproxy.com/documentation/haproxy-enterprise/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
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 HAProxy'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 HAProxy, 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 HAProxy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where HAProxy 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 HAProxy, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where HAProxy is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
AI models recommend HAProxy first in Load balancers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.