# HAProxy alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 127 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where HAProxy holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/haproxy/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 13
- F5 BIG-IP: 11
- AWS Application Load Balancer: 4
- Application Load Balancer: 4
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: 4
- Kemp LoadMaster: 4

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 33 of 84 answers did not name HAProxy (HAProxy is #1 of 13 at 20%).

- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 33
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 4 of those 33
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 3 of those 33
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 33
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 33
- NGINX: first choice in 2 of those 33
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Akamai Connected Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 33

**Mid-market**: 42 of 84 answers did not name HAProxy (HAProxy is #1 of 13 at 29%).

- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 8 of those 42
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 42
- Radware Alteon: first choice in 2 of those 42
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 42
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 42
- Azure Standard Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 42
- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 1 of those 42
- F5 NGINX One: first choice in 1 of those 42

**Enterprise**: 52 of 84 answers did not name HAProxy (HAProxy is #2 of 10 at 12%).

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 10 of those 52
- Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC: first choice in 3 of those 52
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 52
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 2 of those 52
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 52
- Citrix NetScaler ADC: first choice in 1 of those 52
- DigitalOcean Regional Load Balancers: first choice in 1 of those 52
- F5: first choice in 1 of those 52

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