# Cloudflare Load Balancing alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 182 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Cloudflare Load Balancing 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/cloudflare-load-balancing/alternatives

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

- HAProxy: 35
- F5 BIG-IP: 22
- NGINX: 15
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: 10
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 8
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: 6

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare Load Balancing (Cloudflare Load Balancing is #4 of 14 at 9%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 11 of those 53
- NGINX: first choice in 6 of those 53
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 5 of those 53
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 53
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 3 of those 53
- Azure Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Application Gateway v2 with WAF: first choice in 1 of those 53

**Mid-market**: 61 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare Load Balancing (Cloudflare Load Balancing is #8 of 16 at 2%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 14 of those 61
- NGINX: first choice in 7 of those 61
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 3 of those 61
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 3 of those 61
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 2 of those 61
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 61
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 61
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 61

**Enterprise**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Cloudflare Load Balancing (Cloudflare Load Balancing is #7 of 16 at 2%).

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 22 of those 68
- HAProxy: first choice in 10 of those 68
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 6 of those 68
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 68
- Citrix ADC: first choice in 3 of those 68
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 3 of those 68
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 68
- NGINX: first choice in 2 of those 68

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