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Two categories · what the models named instead

Alternatives to Envoy, as AI models named them

In the November 2026 Edition, 479 of the 504 answers collected in the two categories where Envoy holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
Kong Gateway82
HAProxy47
Zuplo31
Amazon API Gateway24
Apigee24
F5 BIG-IP24
First choices in the 479 answers that did not name Envoy, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Load balancers

Network and edge. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Envoy is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessEnvoy holds 6 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-four of the eighty-four answers did not name Envoy; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-four answers, twenty-two products in all, the eight most named:

HAProxy17 of 84
NGINX15 of 84
AWS Elastic Load Balancing10 of 84
Cloudflare Load Balancing10 of 84
AWS Application Load Balancer5 of 84
Progress Kemp LoadMaster5 of 84
Caddy3 of 84
Traefik3 of 84
14 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketEnvoy is #13 of 16 here at 0% of first choices, 16 labels.

Seventy-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Envoy; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-three answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

HAProxy17 of 73
NGINX8 of 73
Kemp LoadMaster6 of 73
Progress Kemp LoadMaster6 of 73
A10 Thunder ADC2 of 73
AWS Application Load Balancer2 of 73
HAProxy Community Edition2 of 73
AWS Elastic Load Balancing1 of 73
7 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseEnvoy holds 4 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Envoy; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-three answers, twenty-six products in all, the eight most named:

F5 BIG-IP24 of 83
HAProxy13 of 83
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager8 of 83
Progress Kemp LoadMaster5 of 83
AWS Elastic Load Balancing3 of 83
Citrix ADC3 of 83
F5 BIG-IP LTM3 of 83
Application Load Balancer2 of 83
18 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

API gateways

Developer platform. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Envoy is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessEnvoy holds 5 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-three of the eighty-four answers did not name Envoy; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-three answers, thirteen products in all, the eight most named:

Zuplo28 of 83
Kong Gateway22 of 83
Amazon API Gateway18 of 83
Tyk9 of 83
KrakenD4 of 83
Apache APISIX2 of 83
Cloudflare Workers2 of 83
Caddy1 of 83
5 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketEnvoy is #11 of 15 here at 0% of first choices, 13 labels.

Seventy-five of the eighty-four answers did not name Envoy; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those seventy-five answers, thirteen products in all, the eight most named:

Kong Gateway43 of 75
Amazon API Gateway5 of 75
Tyk5 of 75
Apache APISIX4 of 75
Azure API Management2 of 75
Cloudflare API Gateway2 of 75
Amazon API Gateway's HTTP API1 of 75
Gravitee1 of 75
5 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseEnvoy holds 8 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-one of the eighty-four answers did not name Envoy; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those eighty-one answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

Apigee24 of 81
Kong Gateway17 of 81
Gravitee3 of 81
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform3 of 81
Zuplo3 of 81
Amazon API Gateway1 of 81
Axway Amplify Platform1 of 81
Azure API Management1 of 81
6 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Envoy neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Envoy only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Envoy's side.

The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Envoy was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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