Google Cloud Load Balancing
Google Cloud Load Balancing is a fully managed load balancing service from Google for applications running on Google Cloud · google.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
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%.
Why models recommend it
“Pros: Excellent global routing, tight GCP integration, fast scaling. Cons: Cloud-locked to GCP.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“AWS ALB, Azure Application Gateway, Google Cloud Load Balancing | Fully managed, auto-scaling”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · alternative
“Other options include AWS Elastic Load Balancing, NGINX Plus, and Google Cloud Load Balancing”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best For: Workloads on Google Cloud, requiring global routing and tight GCP integration.”Mistral Small · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“When should you avoid Google Cloud Load Balancing? ... Cloud Load Balancing is a managed-only service with no self-hosting option.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Load Balancing, over the 55 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 19 | View → | |
| 49 | 5 | View → | |
| 42 | 3 | View → | |
| 33 | 6 | View → | |
| 32 | 2 | View → | |
| 26 | 3 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 2 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Google Cloud Load Balancing →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Google Cloud Load Balancing's own site, not checked by Gane.
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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.
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Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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 35 of the 55 answers that named Google Cloud Load Balancing and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-one of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud Load Balancing came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |