The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
HAProxy is first at 19%.
HAProxy is first at 32%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
F5 BIG-IP is first at 23%.
“Best for Cloud-Native Infrastructure: AWS ALB / Azure Application Gateway / GCP Load Balancing”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Cloud-native (AWS ALB/NLB, GCP LB, Azure LB) | Cheap, integrated, no ops overhead”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Stick to native cloud load balancers (AWS ALB/NLB, Azure ALB, GCP Cloud LB)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“often incur charges for data transferring across different Availability Zones (AZs)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
The products named in the same answers as GCP Cloud Load Balancing, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 7 | View → | |
| 24 | 4 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 3 | View → | |
| 18 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of GCP Cloud Load Balancing →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on GCP Cloud Load Balancing's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 17 of the 28 answers that named GCP Cloud Load Balancing and are not a share of its labels.
No domain is on file for GCP Cloud Load Balancing, so its own site is not marked. Five were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| 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 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |