# Envoy alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 479 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Envoy 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/envoy/alternatives

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

- Kong Gateway: 82
- HAProxy: 47
- Zuplo: 31
- Amazon API Gateway: 24
- Apigee: 24
- F5 BIG-IP: 24

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Envoy.

- HAProxy: first choice in 17 of those 84
- NGINX: first choice in 15 of those 84
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 10 of those 84
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 10 of those 84
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Caddy: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Traefik: first choice in 3 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Envoy (Envoy is #13 of 16 at 0%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 17 of those 73
- NGINX: first choice in 8 of those 73
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 73
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 73
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 2 of those 73
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 73
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 73
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 1 of those 73

**Enterprise**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Envoy.

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 24 of those 83
- HAProxy: first choice in 13 of those 83
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 8 of those 83
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 83
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Citrix ADC: first choice in 3 of those 83
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 83

## API gateways

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Envoy.

- Zuplo: first choice in 28 of those 83
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 22 of those 83
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 18 of those 83
- Tyk: first choice in 9 of those 83
- KrakenD: first choice in 4 of those 83
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Cloudflare Workers: first choice in 2 of those 83
- Caddy: first choice in 1 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Envoy (Envoy is #11 of 15 at 0%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 43 of those 75
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Tyk: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Cloudflare API Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Amazon API Gateway's HTTP API: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Gravitee: first choice in 1 of those 75

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Envoy.

- Apigee: first choice in 24 of those 81
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 17 of those 81
- Gravitee: first choice in 3 of those 81
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Zuplo: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Axway Amplify Platform: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 81

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