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Index › IT › Products › F5 BIG-IP LTM · November 2026 Edition

Load balancers · Named, not ranked

F5 BIG-IP LTM

f5.com ↗

–Too few to rank

6/14Models named it

3First choices

4Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inLoad balancers #104 mid-market

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. F5 BIG-IP LTM has 2.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“the learning curve, iRules complexity and price are typically overkill for a mid-sized B2B budget”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · warning

“it's pricier, more complex, and overkill for many mid-sized setups”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as F5 BIG-IP LTM, over the 8 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
HAProxy	4	1	View →
NGINX	4	1	View →
A10 Thunder ADC	3	0	View →
Citrix ADC	3	0	View →
NetScaler ADC	3	0	View →
Kemp LoadMaster	2	2	View →
AWS Application Load Balancer	2	1	View →
Azure Load Balancer	2	1	View →
Cloudflare Load Balancing	2	1	View →
AWS Elastic Load Balancing	2	0	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on F5 BIG-IP LTM's own site, not checked by Gane.

Also from F5: F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager, F5 BIG-IP VE, F5 Bot Defense, F5 Distributed Cloud API Security, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense and 1 more

Visit f5.com ↗

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

The sites and pages the answers that named F5 BIG-IP LTM came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 8 of the 8 answers that named F5 BIG-IP LTM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

f5.comIts own site4

expertinsights.com3

trustradius.com3

a10networks.com2

capterra.co.uk2

devopsschool.com2

docs.aws.amazon.com2

docs.netscaler.com2

g2.com2

haproxy.com2

Twenty of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming F5 BIG-IP LTM came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/network-security/the-top-application-delivery-controllers-adc3

trustradius.com/categories/application-delivery-controllers-adc3

a10networks.com/products/thunder-adc2

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-load-balancers-features-pros-cons-comparison2

docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/choosing-the-right-aws-service-for-your-m2

marketsandmarkets.com/ResearchInsight/application-delivery-controller-market.asp2

nomios.nl/en/news-blog/best-load-balancers-20242

radware.com/cyberpedia/application-delivery/best-fast-secure-application-delivery-solution2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on F5 BIG-IP LTM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.20	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1