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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 199 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Traefik 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/traefik/alternatives

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

- HAProxy: 30
- F5 BIG-IP: 24
- NGINX: 16
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: 16
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: 10
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: 7

## Load balancers

**Small business**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Traefik (Traefik is #10 of 14 at 2%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 10 of those 53
- NGINX: first choice in 7 of those 53
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 6 of those 53
- Cloudflare Load Balancing: first choice in 5 of those 53
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 53
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 4 of those 53
- Azure Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 53
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 53

**Mid-market**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Traefik (Traefik is #12 of 16 at 0%).

- HAProxy: first choice in 8 of those 65
- Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 65
- NGINX: first choice in 6 of those 65
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 6 of those 65
- A10 Thunder ADC: first choice in 2 of those 65
- AWS Application Load Balancer: first choice in 2 of those 65
- HAProxy Community Edition: first choice in 2 of those 65
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 1 of those 65

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Traefik.

- F5 BIG-IP: first choice in 24 of those 81
- HAProxy: first choice in 12 of those 81
- F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager: first choice in 7 of those 81
- Progress Kemp LoadMaster: first choice in 5 of those 81
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Citrix ADC: first choice in 3 of those 81
- F5 BIG-IP LTM: first choice in 3 of those 81
- NGINX: first choice in 3 of those 81

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