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Index › IT › Products › Round-Robin DNS · November 2026 Edition

Load balancers · Named, not ranked

Round-Robin DNS

–Too few to rank

2/14Models named it

0First choices

1Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inLoad balancers #99 mid-market

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Round-Robin DNS has 1.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“Round-Robin DNS (Not recommended for production due to lack of stateful health checks)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Round-Robin DNS, over the 2 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
HAProxy	2	2	View →
NGINX	2	0	View →
Traefik	2	0	View →
AWS Application Load Balancer	1	0	View →
Caddy	1	0	View →
Citrix ADC	1	0	View →
DigitalOcean Load Balancers	1	0	View →
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager	1	0	View →
Google Cloud Load Balancing	1	0	View →
Kemp Free Load Balancer	1	0	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Round-Robin DNS came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 2 of the 2 answers that named Round-Robin DNS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com2

alternativeto.net1

contabo.com1

dev.to1

geekflare.com1

haproxy.org1

itsyndicate.org1

linuxlinks.com1

loadbalancer.org1

pickmysoft.com1

No domain is on file for Round-Robin DNS, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/844n3k/cheap_load_balancing_option2

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/rjy3rf/suggestions_for_a_cheapfree_alternative_for2

alternativeto.net/browse/all1

contabo.com/blog/best-open-source-load-balancers1

dev.to/daviefano/you-probably-do-not-need-a-load-balancer-yet-here-is-how-to-know-when-you1

geekflare.com/software/best-open-source-load-balancer1

haproxy.org/1

itsyndicate.org/blog/load-balancers-and-high-volume-traffic-management1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Round-Robin DNS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0