⚡ Load Balancers in China

Load balancers are software components or network devices that distribute incoming traffic across multiple backend servers, improving application availability, scalability, and fault tolerance by preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are detected on 1.4% of websites from China.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top load balancers in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Varnish with a share of 22.7%, followed by Envoy with 17.7% and F5 BIG-IP with 13.2%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top load balancers that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 15 load balancers used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Varnish
Stockholm, Sweden

An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

FreeOpen source$1,500+/year
2
Envoy
San Francisco, California, United States

A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.

FreeOpen source
3
F5 BIG-IP
Seattle, Washington, United States

An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

$3,200+/year
4
Application Request Routing
Redmond, Washington, United States

A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.
5
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
Seattle, Washington, United States

Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.

Free$$$
6
Google Cloud Load Balancer
Mountain View, California, United States

Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.
7
Kong Gateway
San Francisco, California, United States

An API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture.

FreeOpen source$105+/month
8
Azure Application Gateway
Redmond, Washington, United States

A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure.

$0.0255+/hour
9
Azure Front Door
Redmond, Washington, United States

A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

$35+/month
10
Apache Traffic Server
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network.

FreeOpen source
11
Squid
Westminster, Colorado, United States

A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

FreeOpen source
12
Sucuri CloudProxy
Tempe, Arizona, United States

A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.
13
HAProxy
Newton, Massachusetts, United States

A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications.

FreeOpen source$$$
14
Ivanti vADC
South Jordan, Utah, United States

A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall.

$$$
15
NetScaler
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

An application delivery and security platform that provides high-performance load balancing, application delivery, and security solutions.

$11,000+/year

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