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Load balancers · November 2026 Edition
AWS Elastic Load Balancing vs Cloudflare Load Balancing
Zero of fourteen models named AWS Elastic Load Balancing first on the direct prompt; one named Cloudflare Load Balancing. AWS Elastic Load Balancing was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Cloudflare Load Balancing by eleven and AWS Elastic Load Balancing carries 34 labels and Cloudflare Load Balancing 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
accepted challengerNamed in one category this edition.
Named in one category this edition.
First-choice share4%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate9%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#8A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels3429A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AWS Elastic Load Balancing reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.NGINX was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. HAProxy vs AWS Elastic Load Balancing · HAProxy vs Cloudflare Load Balancing · NGINX vs AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the load balancers page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
AWS Elastic Load BalancingFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCloudflare Load Balancing
Direct011 against AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Paraphrase00
Comparative10
Budget-constrained101 against AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Scale-constrained10
Negative001 against AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Cloudflare Load Balancing were named in the same answer forty-eight times, of the 104 answers naming AWS Elastic Load Balancing and the 91 naming Cloudflare Load Balancing. In those answers Cloudflare Load Balancing took the first choice five times and AWS Elastic Load Balancing six.
Every model, every framing
The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Cloudflare Load Balancing stood in it.
| Model | DirectAE | ParaphraseAE | ComparativeAE | Budget-constrainedAE | Scale-constrainedAE | NegativeAE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | AE | AE | ||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | |||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | AE | | AE | |
| Perplexity Sonar | AE | AE | AE | |||
| Grok 4.20 | | | AE | AE | AE | AE |
| Mistral Small | AE | AE | ||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | AE | AE | AE | AE | AE | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | AE | |||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | AE | AE | ||||
| Kimi K2 | | AE | | | ||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | AE | |||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | AE | AE | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | | |||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | AE | AE |
AE AWS Elastic Load Balancing Cloudflare Load BalancingAE first choiceAE named as an alternativeAE argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, AWS Elastic Load Balancing on the left and Cloudflare Load Balancing on the right.
Cloudflare Load BalancingAE first choiceAE named as an alternativeAE argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, AWS Elastic Load Balancing on the left and Cloudflare Load Balancing on the right.The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AWS Elastic Load Balancing and Cloudflare Load Balancing stood in it.
Cloudflare Load Balancing first, AWS Elastic Load Balancing not the choice
1 of 14 modelsAWS Elastic Load Balancing was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Gemini 3.5 FlashCloudflare Load Balancing alternatives: AWS Application Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, GCP Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMaster
Neither was the first choice, one was named
5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.GPT-5.4 miniAWS Application Load Balancer alternatives: AWS Network Load Balancer, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Google Cloud Application Load Balancer
Perplexity SonarProgress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX
Grok 4.20HAProxy alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) – ALB/NLB, Cloudflare Load Balancing, Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC, NGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMaster
GLM 4.7 FlashXProgress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: Cloudflare Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX
Muse Glimmer 30BHAProxy alternatives: AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Azure Load Balancer, NGINX, Progress Kemp LoadMaster
Neither was named
8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5AWS Application Load Balancer, Azure Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer alternatives: Google Cloud Load Balancing, NGINX
Mistral SmallNGINX alternatives: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, Loadbalancer.org Enterprise ADC
DeepSeek V4 FlashHAProxy, Progress Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: NGINX
Llama 4 MaverickNGINX alternatives: Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster
Qwen 3.7 FlashNGINX alternatives: Application Load Balancer, HAProxy
Kimi K2Kemp LoadMaster alternatives: HAProxy
MiniMax M2.5no first choice alternatives: AWS Application Load Balancer, Azure Load Balancer, Citrix ADC, F5 BIG-IP, Google Cloud Load Balancing, HAProxy, NGINX
GPT-6 LunaApplication Load Balancer alternatives: Application Gateway, External Application Load Balancer, Front Door, Network Load Balancer
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
AWS Elastic Load Balancing leads by five points.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing14%#2 of 14
Cloudflare Load Balancing9%#4 of 14Mid-marketThe figures above
AWS Elastic Load Balancing leads by two points.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing4%#5 of 16
Cloudflare Load Balancing2%#8 of 16Enterprise
AWS Elastic Load Balancing leads by three points.
AWS Elastic Load Balancing5%#5 of 16
Cloudflare Load Balancing2%#7 of 16What the models said about AWS Elastic Load Balancing
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.
“Internet-facing AWS ALB/NLB or similar cloud LBs when they should be internal: A very common misconfiguration exposes backend services publicly.” Grok 4.20 · negative prompt · soft negative
“may be overkill unless you're already using those cloud platforms” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · soft negative
“Companies fully committed to AWS (but creates vendor lock-in)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · direct prompt · soft negative
“Fully in AWS/Azure/GCP: Stick to native cloud load balancers (AWS ALB/NLB, Azure ALB, GCP Cloud LB). It minimizes overhead” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“1 | AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB/GWLB) | Cloud-native (AWS) | AWS-centric apps, microservices, containers” Grok 4.20 · comparative prompt · first choice
“often recommended as the top choice for small businesses because it offers a free tier” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
What the models said about Cloudflare Load Balancing
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.
“Cloudflare is often the top recommendation for mid-market tech companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“If you need a fully managed solution with zero maintenance overhead, Cloudflare's free tier is an excellent starting point.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · alternative
“Cloudflare Load Balancing is strong because it supports health checks, intelligent routing, and global traffic management” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · alternative
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Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.