# Gateway Load Balancer: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/gateway-load-balancer

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 0% | 78 | 50% | 2 |

## And against it

- "GWLB adds complexity and is intended for inserting third-party network appliances, not as a general-purpose load balancer." (Perplexity Sonar, Load balancers)

## By model

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

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Gateway Load Balancer, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- alivedise.github.io: 1
- aws.github.io: 1
- cloudandsre.com: 1
- docs.aws.amazon.com: 1
- docs.cloud.google.com: 1
- docs.umbraco.com: 1
- learn.microsoft.com: 1
- loadbalancer.org: 1
- rankite.com: 1
- scmgalaxy.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://alivedise.github.io/backend-engineering-essentials/networking-fundamentals/load-balancers: 1
- https://aws.github.io/aws-networking-best-practices/application-networking/load-balancing: 1
- https://cloudandsre.com/blog/load-balancing-and-health-checks: 1
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/migrate-classic-load-balancer.html: 1
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/choosing-load-balancer: 1
- https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/19.latest/run-in-production/infrastructure-and-ops/server-setup/load-balancing/common-load-balancing-pitfalls: 1
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-best-practices: 1
- https://loadbalancer.org/blog/whats-the-best-cloud-load-balancer: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.