# NGINX alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 361 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where NGINX holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/nginx/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Kong Gateway: 77
- Zuplo: 29
- Apigee: 24
- Amazon API Gateway: 19
- Tyk: 14
- F5 BIG-IP: 12

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 33 of 84 answers did not name NGINX (NGINX is #3 of 14 at 12%).

- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 33
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 4 of those 33
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 2 of those 33
- HAProxy: first choice in 2 of those 33
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 2 of those 33
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 1 of those 33
- Application Gateway v2 with WAF: first choice in 1 of those 33
- HAProxy Community: first choice in 1 of those 33

**Mid-market**: 42 of 84 answers did not name NGINX (NGINX is #2 of 16 at 16%).

- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 4 of those 42
- HAProxy: first choice in 3 of those 42
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 2 of those 42
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 42
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 2 of those 42
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 42
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 42
- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 1 of those 42

**Enterprise**: 55 of 84 answers did not name NGINX (NGINX is #6 of 16 at 2%).

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 11 of those 55
- HAProxy: first choice in 7 of those 55
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 6 of those 55
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 3 of those 55
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 3 of those 55
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 55
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Application Load Balancer: first choice in 1 of those 55

## API gateways

**Small business**: 76 of 84 answers did not name NGINX (NGINX is #8 of 12 at 0%).

- Zuplo: first choice in 26 of those 76
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 19 of those 76
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 16 of those 76
- Tyk: first choice in 9 of those 76
- KrakenD: first choice in 4 of those 76
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 2 of those 76
- Cloudflare Workers: first choice in 2 of those 76
- GCP API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 76

**Mid-market**: 75 of 84 answers did not name NGINX (NGINX is #9 of 15 at 0%).

- Kong Gateway: first choice in 41 of those 75
- Apache APISIX: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Tyk: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Cloudflare API Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 75
- Amazon API Gateway's HTTP API: first choice in 1 of those 75
- Gravitee: first choice in 1 of those 75

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name NGINX.

- Apigee: first choice in 24 of those 80
- Kong Gateway: first choice in 17 of those 80
- Gravitee: first choice in 3 of those 80
- MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Zuplo: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Amazon API Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 80
- Axway Amplify Platform: first choice in 1 of those 80
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 80

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