Load balancers · Named, not rankedAzure Basic Load Balancer
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Azure Basic Load Balancer has 5.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Basic Load Balancer was retired on September 30, 2025... If you still have Basic Load Balancer in production you need to migrate.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Retired on September 30, 2025, and should be upgraded to the Standard Load Balancer.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“Retired September 30, 2025 ... No SLA guarantees, unsupported, lacks modern features”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Microsoft has officially retired the Basic Load Balancer as of September 30, 2025.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Azure Basic Load Balancer, over the 9 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
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| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
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| 1 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Azure Basic Load Balancer'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.
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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 9 of the 9 answers that named Azure Basic Load Balancer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-six of the thirty-three domain citations in answers naming Azure Basic Load Balancer came from a third party's page. Three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |