Load balancers · RankedDigitalOcean Load Balancers
DigitalOcean Load Balancers is a managed load balancing service from DigitalOcean that distributes traffic across servers running on its cloud · digitalocean.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%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“a simple, predictable option for small cloud deployments, starting around $12/month”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose DigitalOcean ($12/mo)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DigitalOcean Load Balancers, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 11 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on DigitalOcean Load Balancers's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- production apps
- Price stated
- Simple, predictable pricing
- Starting price
- 12 per month
- Customers named
- NoBid, Origin
- Also from DigitalOcean
- DigitalOcean App Platform, DigitalOcean CSPM, DigitalOcean Container Registry, DigitalOcean Droplets, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, DigitalOcean Kubernetes – DOKS and 6 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 5 of the 13 answers that named DigitalOcean Load Balancers and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming DigitalOcean Load Balancers came from a third party's page.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |