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Application Load Balancer

–Too few to rank
7/14Models named it
3First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inLoad balancers #11 mid-market
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Application Load Balancer has 5.

Why models recommend it

“AWS: Application Load Balancer (ALB) for HTTP/HTTPS”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“If you are primarily on AWS, the Application Load Balancer (ALB) is unbeatable.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Migrate to Application Load Balancer (ALB) or Network Load Balancer (NLB)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · alternative
“Migrate to: Application Load Balancer (ALB) for HTTP/HTTPS”Kimi K2 · Negative question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Application Load Balancer, over the 9 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Application Load Balancer came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 7 of the 9 answers that named Application Load Balancer and are not a share of its labels.

By model

How each model answered on Application Load Balancer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna10001
Muse Glimmer 30B00000