# NGINX Open Source: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/nginx-open-source

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Load balancers](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/index.md) | 0% | 27 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

- "NGINX Open Source – best for web / reverse proxy with low cost" (Muse Glimmer 30B, Load balancers)
- "Your team already uses NGINX: use NGINX Open Source" (GPT-6 Luna, Load balancers)
- "NGINX Open Source (Best for Versatility)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named NGINX Open Source, from 5 of the 7 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- spotsaas.com: 3
- cloudflare.com: 2
- freeloadbalancer.com: 2
- g2.com: 2
- gane.ai/index: 2
- haproxy.com: 2
- aws.amazon.com: 1
- capterra.com: 1
- cloudspress.com: 1
- cnicsolutions.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://freeloadbalancer.com/blog/load-balancing-router-what-it-is-and-which-one-to-choose: 2
- https://g2.com/discussions/which-load-balancing-platforms-have-the-clearest-pricing-and-no-surprise-per-request-or-bandwidth-overage-charges-for-a-company-that-has-been-burned-by-unpredictable-costs-before: 2
- https://www.gane.ai/index/it/network/load-balancers/smb: 2
- https://spotsaas.com/list/load-balancing-software/for-small-business: 2
- https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing: 1
- https://capterra.com/load-balancing-software/s/free: 1
- https://cloudflare.com/plans/business: 1
- https://cloudflare.com/static/09ccf261cf341a31f481520ad856b835/Cloudflare_Load_balancing_whitepaper.pdf: 1

## What it publishes

Every page nginx.org exposes, read 2026-09-29: 1295 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 200 pages, 9 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-23
- webinar or virtual event: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-04-09
- conference or event: 12 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-19
- report or ebook: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 8 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-15
- glossary or explainer: 9 pages, 5 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-18
- podcast or video: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-05-14
- news or press: 59 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-09-23 blog: Stop writing authentication checks into every service combine them in your kubernetes gateway https://blog.nginx.org/blog/stop-writing-authentication-checks-into-every-service-combine-them-in-your-kubernetes-gateway
- Recent: 2026-09-21 blog: Nginx control api view in memory configuration and reload via http requests https://blog.nginx.org/blog/nginx-control-api-view-in-memory-configuration-and-reload-via-http-requests
- Recent: 2026-09-15 blog: NGINX Routing on HTTP Request Body https://blog.nginx.org/blog/nginx-routing-on-http-request-body
- Recent: 2026-09-15 comparison: 10982 https://community.nginx.org/t/session-persistence-with-nginx-oss-vs-nginx-plus/10982
- Recent: 2026-09-10 blog: HTTP Strict Transport Security Policy in NGINX Ingress Controller https://blog.nginx.org/blog/http-strict-transport-security-policy-in-nginx-ingress-controller
- Recent: 2026-09-08 blog: Predicate Routing for Native Handling of API Traffic https://blog.nginx.org/blog/predicate-routing-for-native-handling-of-api-traffic

## 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.