# HAProxy Community Edition: 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/haproxy-community-edition

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 4% | 8 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "HAProxy Community Edition is usually the best choice if you can manage it yourself: it is free, highly efficient" (Perplexity Sonar, Load balancers)
- "For a company with a tight budget, I'd start with HAProxy Community Edition" (GPT-6 Luna, 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named HAProxy Community Edition, from 4 of the 4 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- aws.amazon.com: 2
- costbench.com: 2
- guideflow.com: 2
- haproxy.com: 2 (its own site)
- learn.g2.com: 2
- nginx.org: 2
- rankite.com: 2
- softwareadvice.com: 2
- spotsaas.com: 2
- cloudflare.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing: 2
- https://costbench.com/best/load-balancers-for-small-business: 2
- https://costbench.com/software/load-balancers/compare-all: 2
- https://guideflow.com/blog/load-balancer-software: 2
- https://haproxy.com/glossary/what-is-haproxy: 2
- https://learn.g2.com/best-load-balancing-software: 2
- https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/load_balancing.html: 2
- https://rankite.com/blog/best-load-balancer-software: 2

## What it publishes

Every page haproxy.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 1415 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 332 pages, 5 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-21
- case study: 17 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-10-05
- webinar or virtual event: 71 pages, 4 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-10-01
- conference or event: 47 pages, 7 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-11-30
- report or ebook: 5 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-28
- comparison: 8 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-02-25
- template or tool: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 166 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2024-11-18
- news or press: 36 pages, 9 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-29
- Recent: 2026-11-30 conference or event: Aws reinvent 2026 las vegas https://www.haproxy.com/events/aws-reinvent-2026-las-vegas
- Recent: 2026-11-10 conference or event: Kubecon cloudnativecon north america 2026 salt lake city https://www.haproxy.com/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-salt-lake-city
- Recent: 2026-10-01 webinar or virtual event: F5 office hours https://www.haproxy.com/content-library/webinars/f5-office-hours
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Haproxy confirmed as the unshakeable standard for enterprise load balancing in g2 winter 2026 reports https://www.haproxy.com/company/news/haproxy-confirmed-as-the-unshakeable-standard-for-enterprise-load-balancing-in-g2-winter-2026-reports
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Haproxy continues winning streak into devops and ai in g2 summer 2026 reports https://www.haproxy.com/company/news/haproxy-continues-winning-streak-into-devops-and-ai-in-g2-summer-2026-reports
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Haproxy holds its perfect score in load balancing for another consecutive quarter in g2 spring 2026 grid reports https://www.haproxy.com/company/news/haproxy-holds-its-perfect-score-in-load-balancing-for-another-consecutive-quarter-in-g2-spring-2026-grid-reports

## 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.