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Cloudflare Load Balancing is a load balancing product from Cloudflare for steering traffic globally across multiple clouds and servers · cloudflare.com ↗
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%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
F5 BIG-IP is first at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“Cloudflare is often the top recommendation for mid-market tech companies.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“If you need a fully managed solution with zero maintenance overhead, Cloudflare's free tier is an excellent starting point.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Cloudflare Load Balancing is strong because it supports health checks, intelligent routing, and global traffic management”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · alternative
“Suitable for companies that prioritize Internet-facing security and performance and can accept a third-party proxy model.”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudflare Load Balancing, over the 91 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 73 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 48 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 7 | View → | |
| 37 | 2 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 0 | View → | |
| 25 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudflare Load Balancing →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudflare Load Balancing's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Enterprise customers
- Price stated
- Add-on feature
- 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.
- Hosting
- Eastern US, Northeast Asia, South America, Middle East, Southern Africa, Eastern North America, Singapore
- Also from Cloudflare
- Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare AI Gateway, Cloudflare API Gateway, Cloudflare API Security, Cloudflare API Shield, Cloudflare Access and 43 more
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 69 of the 91 answers that named Cloudflare Load Balancing and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
196 of the 220 domain citations in answers naming Cloudflare Load Balancing came from a third party's page. Twenty-four 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |