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Index › IT › Products › F5 BIG-IP › Alternatives · November 2026 Edition
One category · what the models named instead

Alternatives to F5 BIG-IP, as AI models named them

In the November 2026 Edition, 202 of the 252 answers collected in the one category where F5 BIG-IP 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
HAProxy42
NGINX23
Progress Kemp LoadMaster14
AWS Elastic Load Balancing13
Cloudflare Load Balancing10
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager8
First choices in the 202 answers that did not name F5 BIG-IP, 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 F5 BIG-IP is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessF5 BIG-IP is #14 of 14 here at 0% of first choices, 23 labels.

Eighty-two of the eighty-four answers did not name F5 BIG-IP; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those eighty-two answers, twenty-two products in all, the eight most named:

HAProxy17 of 82
NGINX15 of 82
Cloudflare Load Balancing10 of 82
AWS Elastic Load Balancing9 of 82
AWS Application Load Balancer5 of 82
Progress Kemp LoadMaster4 of 82
Caddy3 of 82
Traefik3 of 82
14 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketF5 BIG-IP is #11 of 16 here at 2% of first choices, 43 labels.

Sixty-eight of the eighty-four answers did not name F5 BIG-IP; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those sixty-eight answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

HAProxy16 of 68
NGINX6 of 68
Progress Kemp LoadMaster6 of 68
Kemp LoadMaster5 of 68
AWS Application Load Balancer2 of 68
AWS Elastic Load Balancing2 of 68
HAProxy Community Edition2 of 68
A10 Thunder ADC1 of 68
6 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseF5 BIG-IP is #1 of 16 here at 23% of first choices, 46 labels.

Fifty-two of the eighty-four answers did not name F5 BIG-IP; it was the first choice in twenty-four. The first choices in those fifty-two answers, twenty products in all, the eight most named:

HAProxy9 of 52
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager8 of 52
Progress Kemp LoadMaster4 of 52
F5 BIG-IP LTM3 of 52
AWS Elastic Load Balancing2 of 52
NGINX2 of 52
Akamai Edge1 of 52
Application Load Balancer1 of 52
12 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 F5 BIG-IP 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 F5 BIG-IP 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 F5 BIG-IP's side.

The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of F5 BIG-IP was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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