3 categories · RankedHAProxy
Strongest at mid-market, contested with NGINX. Ranked 2 of 113 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: AWS Elastic Load Balancing has 14%.
Ranked first, contested: NGINX has 16%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
F5 BIG-IP is first at 23%.
Why models recommend it
“Consistently the fastest performer in benchmarks with lowest latency and memory footprint; battle-tested in production for decades.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“The best load balancer for a company with a limited budget is HAProxy, as it is a cost-efficient, open-source deployment option.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“HAProxy is the best overall load balancing software for most teams because its open-source core is free and production-grade”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · first choice
“Best Overall Value: HAProxy – No cost, battle-tested, and handles massive scale with minimal resources.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Older or unpatched self-hosted solutions (e.g., legacy HAProxy, Apache, or custom LVS setups): These can suffer from single points of failure”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“HAProxy\u2019s official docs label some releases EOL; don\u2019t assume an old install is still receiving fixes”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Running a single NGINX or HAProxy instance as your load balancer creates a single point of failure”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“outdated F5/HAProxy/NGINX builds, or anything no longer receiving security updates”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as HAProxy, over the 191 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 152 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 93 | 15 | View → | |
| 92 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 79 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 69 | 3 | View → | |
| 68 | 3 | View → | |
| 61 | 3 | View → | |
| 54 | 2 | View → | |
| 43 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 3 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of HAProxy →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on HAProxy's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- the enterprise
- Free plan or trial
- Request a product trial
- Integrations
- 6
- Customers named
- Booking.com, PayPal, Roblox, LinkedIn, Dartmouth College, Docker, Infobip, Liftoff
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
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 142 of the 191 answers that named HAProxy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
324 of the 365 domain citations in answers naming HAProxy came from a third party's page. Forty-one 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 cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 332 | 5 | 2026-09-21 | API gateways, WAF | |
| Glossary or explainer | 166 | 0 | 2024-11-18 | API gateways, WAF | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 71 | 4 | 2026-10-01 | WAF | |
| Conference or event | 47 | 7 | 2026-11-30 | ||
| News or press | 36 | 9 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 17 | 0 | 2022-10-05 | CDN | |
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2026-02-25 | ||
| Report or ebook | 5 | 1 | 2026-07-28 | API gateways | |
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Haproxy confirmed as the unshakeable standard for enterprise load balancing in g2 winter 2026 reports news or press
- 2026-09-29Haproxy continues winning streak into devops and ai in g2 summer 2026 reports news or press
- 2026-09-29Haproxy holds its perfect score in load balancing for another consecutive quarter in g2 spring 2026 grid reports news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page haproxy.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.