2 categories · RankedAzure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway is a load balancer and reverse proxy from Azure, placed in front of web applications and APIs · azure.cn ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
HAProxy is first at 19%.
HAProxy is first at 32%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
F5 BIG-IP is first at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“Azure is worth considering if you're building primarily on AKS, VMSS or want close Microsoft integration”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · alternative
“Best if your applications already run on Azure and you prefer a managed service.”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Azure Application Gateway (with WAF) or Azure Front Door for global traffic.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Cloud-Native Option: AWS ELB / Azure Application Gateway”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Azure Application Gateway, over the 33 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 6 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 5 | View → | |
| 17 | 3 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 4 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Azure Application Gateway's own site, not checked by Gane.
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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
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 24 of the 33 answers that named Azure Application Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-six of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming Azure Application Gateway came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |