# Azure Basic Load Balancer: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 5 judge labels across 1 category by 5 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-basic-load-balancer

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 0% | 107 | 100% | 5 |

## And against it

- "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, Load balancers)
- "Retired on September 30, 2025, and should be upgraded to the Standard Load Balancer." (Llama 4 Maverick, Load balancers)
- "Retired September 30, 2025 ... No SLA guarantees, unsupported, lacks modern features" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Load balancers)
- "Microsoft has officially retired the Basic Load Balancer as of September 30, 2025." (Mistral Small, 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 | 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 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Azure Basic Load Balancer, from 9 of the 9 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- learn.microsoft.com: 7
- github.com: 5
- docs.azure.cn: 4 (its own site)
- dlt.com: 3
- gane.ai/index: 3
- kemptechnologies.com: 3
- aws.amazon.com: 2
- aws.github.io: 2
- cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com: 2
- designgurus.io: 2

### Pages cited

- https://dlt.com/sites/default/files/resource-attachments/2025-12/Progress_Load-Balancing-in-a-Hybrid-Multi-Cloud-World_co-branded.pdf: 3
- https://docs.azure.cn/en-us/load-balancer/load-balancer-best-practices: 3
- https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers: 3
- https://github.com/aws/aws-networking-best-practices/blob/main/content/application-networking/load-balancing.md: 3
- https://kemptechnologies.com/blog/load-balancing-best-practices: 3
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/secure-load-balancer: 3
- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs: 2
- https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/7siMQh0goJJnH4PYbAzOxC/f4a66ebdf20cca2ec85c2b9261fb8a38/Optimize-Web-Performance.pdf: 2

## 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.