# F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 240 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager 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/f5-big-ip-local-traffic-manager/alternatives

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

- HAProxy: 49
- NGINX: 26
- F5 BIG-IP: 24
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: 15
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 15
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: 10

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

- 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**: 81 of 84 answers did not name F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is #10 of 16 at 2%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 20 of those 81
- NGINX: first choice in 8 of those 81
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 81
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 81
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 81
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 81
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 81
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 1 of those 81

**Enterprise**: 75 of 84 answers did not name F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is #3 of 16 at 10%).

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 24 of those 75
- HAProxy: first choice in 12 of those 75
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Citrix ADC: first choice in 3 of those 75
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 3 of those 75
- NGINX: first choice in 3 of those 75
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 75

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