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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 208 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Traefik 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/traefik/alternatives/

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

- F5 BIG-IP: 30
- HAProxy: 29
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 21
- NGINX: 18
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: 12
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: 11

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 59 of 84 answers did not name Traefik (Traefik is #10 of 13 at 1%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 13 of those 59
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 7 of those 59
- NGINX: first choice in 7 of those 59
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 7 of those 59
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 6 of those 59
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 59
- Azure Load Balancer: first choice in 4 of those 59
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 3 of those 59

**Mid-market**: 66 of 84 answers did not name Traefik (Traefik is #6 of 13 at 2%).

- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 14 of those 66
- HAProxy: first choice in 9 of those 66
- NGINX: first choice in 8 of those 66
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 5 of those 66
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 66
- Radware Alteon: first choice in 2 of those 66
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 66
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 66

**Enterprise**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Traefik.

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 30 of those 83
- HAProxy: first choice in 7 of those 83
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 83
- F5: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC: first choice in 3 of those 83
- NGINX: first choice in 3 of those 83
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 2 of those 83

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