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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 5 judge labels across 1 category by 5 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/network-load-balancer

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 2% | 12 | 0% | 5 |

## What the models said for it

- "I'd recommend starting with AWS ALB or Azure Load Balancer (depending on your cloud provider)" (Claude Haiku 4.5, Load balancers)
- "use Network Load Balancer (NLB) for TCP/UDP or client source-IP preservation" (GPT-6 Luna, Load balancers)
- "Migrate to Application Load Balancer (ALB) or Network Load Balancer (NLB)" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Load balancers)
- "AWS NLB (for Layer 4 / ultra-high throughput TCP/UDP)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Load balancers)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 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 Network Load Balancer, from 5 of the 7 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- docs.aws.amazon.com: 4
- learn.microsoft.com: 4
- cloud.google.com: 2
- aws.amazon.com: 1
- aws.github.io: 1
- bleepingcomputer.com: 1
- blog.securelayer7.net: 1
- capacitas.co.uk: 1
- cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com: 1
- cloudburn.io: 1

### Pages cited

- https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing: 2
- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/faqs: 1
- https://aws.github.io/aws-networking-best-practices/application-networking/load-balancing: 1
- https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-critical-progress-loadmaster-flaw-exploited-in-attacks: 1
- https://blog.securelayer7.net/cve-2026-8037-progress-loadmaster-rce: 1
- https://capacitas.co.uk/insights/blogs/top-5-load-balancer-issues: 1
- https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/7siMQh0goJJnH4PYbAzOxC/78428d0b86cf15df201009e70d33b26e/BDES-4505_New-template-Optimize-web-performance_A4.pdf: 1
- https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/7siMQh0goJJnH4PYbAzOxC/f4a66ebdf20cca2ec85c2b9261fb8a38/Optimize-Web-Performance.pdf: 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.