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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudflare-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% | 46 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "Multi-cloud, edge failover: Cloudflare Load Balancing." (Muse Glimmer 30B, 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 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cloudflare Load Balancer, from 3 of the 7 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- g2.com: 2
- haproxy.com: 2
- loadbalancer.org: 2
- civo.com: 1
- cloudwards.net: 1
- contabo.com: 1
- cyfuture.cloud: 1
- devopsschool.com: 1
- dhiwise.com: 1
- diva-portal.org: 1

### Pages cited

- https://g2.com/discussions/which-load-balancing-platforms-have-the-clearest-pricing-and-no-surprise-per-request-or-bandwidth-overage-charges-for-a-company-that-has-been-burned-by-unpredictable-costs-before: 2
- https://haproxy.com/solutions/load-balancing: 2
- https://loadbalancer.org/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-load-balancer: 2
- https://civo.com/public-cloud/load-balancers: 1
- https://cloudwards.net/aws-vs-azure-vs-google: 1
- https://contabo.com/blog/best-open-source-load-balancers: 1
- https://cyfuture.cloud/kb/load-balancer/best-cloud-load-balancing-tools-in-2026: 1
- https://devopsschool.com/forum/d/5599-which-are-the-leading-load-balancers-and-how-do-they-differ: 1

## In its own words

What Cloudflare Load Balancer's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Maximize application performance and availability (https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing)
- For: our customers (https://blog.cloudflare.com/unimog-cloudflares-edge-load-balancer)
- Price stated: Load Balancing starts at $5 per month, and includes 500,000 DNS queries each month (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-load-balancing-intelligent-failover-with-cloudflare)
- Starting price: 5 (https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-load-balancing-intelligent-failover-with-cloudflare)
- Free plan or trial: Enterprise customers can preview this product as a non-contract service, which provides full access, free of metered usage fees, limits, and certain other restrictions. (https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing)
- Hosting: Cloudflare's 110+ datacenters
- Customers named: Crisp

## 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.