# Citrix ADC alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 218 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Citrix ADC 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/citrix-adc/alternatives

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

- HAProxy: 49
- NGINX: 24
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: 16
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 16
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: 10
- F5 BIG-IP: 9

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Citrix ADC (Citrix ADC is #13 of 14 at 0%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 17 of those 84
- NGINX: first choice in 15 of those 84
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 10 of those 84
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 10 of those 84
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Caddy: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Traefik: first choice in 3 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Citrix ADC (Citrix ADC is #16 of 16 at 0%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 19 of those 73
- NGINX: first choice in 6 of those 73
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 73
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 73
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 73
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 73
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 73
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 1 of those 73

**Enterprise**: 61 of 84 answers did not name Citrix ADC (Citrix ADC is #8 of 16 at 2%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 13 of those 61
- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 9 of those 61
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 61
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 4 of those 61
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 61
- NGINX: first choice in 3 of those 61
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 61
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 2 of those 61

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