# AWS Application Load Balancer alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 224 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where AWS Application Load Balancer holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aws-application-load-balancer/alternatives

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

- HAProxy: 45
- NGINX: 24
- F5 BIG-IP: 23
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: 16
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 15
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: 7

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 69 of 84 answers did not name AWS Application Load Balancer (AWS Application Load Balancer is #5 of 14 at 7%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 14 of those 69
- NGINX: first choice in 13 of those 69
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 10 of those 69
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 5 of those 69
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 4 of those 69
- Traefik: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Azure Application Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 69
- Google Cloud Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 69

**Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name AWS Application Load Balancer (AWS Application Load Balancer is #7 of 16 at 4%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 18 of those 76
- NGINX: first choice in 8 of those 76
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 76
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 76
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 76
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 2 of those 76
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 76
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 76

**Enterprise**: 79 of 84 answers did not name AWS Application Load Balancer (AWS Application Load Balancer is #12 of 16 at 2%).

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 23 of those 79
- HAProxy: first choice in 13 of those 79
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 7 of those 79
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 79
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Citrix ADC: first choice in 3 of those 79
- NGINX: first choice in 3 of those 79
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 79

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.