# A10: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/a10

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 0% | 77 | 33% | 3 |

## And against it

- "hardware appliances (e.g., from Barracuda or A10), as they often start at thousands of dollars" (Grok 4.20, Load balancers)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named A10, from 5 of the 8 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- cloudflare.com: 3
- kemptechnologies.com: 3
- g2.com: 2
- gane.ai/index: 2
- learn.microsoft.com: 2
- loadbalancer.org: 2
- reddit.com: 2
- acuative.com: 1
- aerospike.com: 1
- assets.adgm.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://cloudflare.com/resources/assets/slt3lc6tev37/6Zi2bQJH7BpzFYllfuGt41/2b57a6065def99257d6759845067d212/BDES-2849_Cloudflare_White_Paper_Load_Balancing_Letter.pdf: 3
- https://acuative.com/blog/ultimate-guide-network-hardware: 1
- https://aerospike.com/blog/load-balancers-enterprise-scale-architectures: 1
- https://assets.adgm.com/download/assets/20241018+Cyber+Security+Council+Alert+550.pdf/637cbe7a91dc11efb101026bedcc9f2e: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/reviews/reviews-list/prodview-pl3bajfqqk5qq: 1
- https://aws.github.io/aws-networking-best-practices/application-networking/load-balancing: 1
- https://capterra.ca/directory/30813/load-balancing/software: 1
- https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024-084/pdf: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.