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1 category · Named, not ranked

NGINX Open Source

8Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

5 / 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. NGINX Open Source was named 3 times 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.

Small business13 of 104

under the label threshold

Mid-market24 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprise71 of 99

under the label threshold

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 NGINX Open Source 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%	24 of 94	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by HAProxy at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NGINX Open Source 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 NGINX Open Source 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	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1
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

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“NGINX Open Source is also a good choice, especially if you already use NGINX as a web server or reverse proxy.” GPT-6 Luna · Load balancers · budget prompt · alternative

“If your team already knows NGINX: Stick with NGINX Open Source to minimize training time.” Kimi K2 · Load balancers · budget prompt · alternative

“For performance-oriented, self-hosted setups: HAProxy or NGINX.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Load balancers · comparative 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 NGINX Open Source, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NGINX Open Source was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HAProxy5 of 83Not among the top eight

Cloudflare Load Balancing4 of 82Not among the top eight

Traefik3 of 81Not among the top eight

AWS Elastic Load Balancing3 of 80Not among the top eight

NGINX3 of 80Not among the top eight

HAProxy Community Edition2 of 82Not among the top eight

Citrix ADC2 of 81Not among the top eight

F5 BIG-IP2 of 81Not among the top eight

Application Load Balancer2 of 80Not among the top eight

Google Cloud Load Balancing2 of 80Not 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 NGINX Open Source. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named NGINX Open Source and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

loadbalancer.org5

g2.com4

cloudflare.com3

geekflare.com3

guideflow.com3

zipdo.co3

aws.amazon.com2

cloudspress.com2

devopsschool.com2

f5.com2

Twenty-nine of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming NGINX Open Source came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

loadbalancer.org/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-load-balancer4

geekflare.com/software/best-open-source-load-balancer3

guideflow.com/et-ee/blog/load-balancer-software3

aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing2

cloudflare.com/plans/business2

cloudspress.com/12-best-free-and-open-source-load-balancers2

devopsschool.com/forum/d/5599-which-are-the-leading-load-balancers-and-how-do-they-differ2

f5.com/company/blog/nginx/aws-alb-vs-nginx-plus2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

nginx.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, NGINX Open Source takes 0% of first choices and HAProxy takes 29%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “load balancer”

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not in the top ten

Position for “load balancers”

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not in the top ten

Organic visits to its site: about 38,473 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 10,028 · 709 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 147,748
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 24 of 94 in load balancers

Segment leader

29%

HAProxy

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 8 answers
Its own site cited: in 8 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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Addresses on nginx.org

1,295

subdomains included

Content

293

counted in the table below

Documentation

713

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	200	9	2026-09-23	APM, CDN
News or press	59	undated
Conference or event	12	1	2026-08-19
Glossary or explainer	9	5	2026-07-18
Comparison	8	1	2026-09-15
Webinar or virtual event	2	0	2026-04-09
Report or ebook	2	undated
Podcast or video	1	0	2025-05-14

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2026-09-08Predicate Routing for Native Handling of API Traffic blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page nginx.org 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.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for NGINX Open Source by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where NGINX Open Source 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 NGINX Open Source, 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.