Find your cloud load balancer

Compare cloud load balancers by monthly base cost, protocol layer, global reach, WAF support, TLS handling, cloud fit, and failover needs.

Find your cloud load balancer

Compare cloud load balancers by monthly base cost, protocol layer, global reach, WAF support, TLS handling, cloud fit, and failover needs.

Showing 9 of 9 vendors that match

1st

Cloudflare Load Balancer

DNS and proxy-based global load balancing with health checks, steering, and failover at Cloudflare’s edge.

$5/mo

Cloudflare lists Load Balancing from $5/month; traffic, health checks, advanced steering, and enterprise features can increase cost.

Strong multi-cloud and origin-agnostic failover story
Pairs naturally with Cloudflare DNS, CDN, DDoS, and WAF
Low published entry price for simple global traffic steering

Not a VPC-native internal load balancer
Advanced controls are tied to Cloudflare’s edge and plan packaging

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2nd

Azure Load Balancer

Azure’s regional Layer 4 load balancer for TCP and UDP workloads, public or internal.

$11/mo

Standard Load Balancer is charged hourly plus rule and data dimensions; rough base planning starts around $10-$25/month by region and tier.

Lowest-complexity Azure option for L4 public and internal traffic
Works well for VM, AKS, and private network load balancing
Cheaper and simpler than Application Gateway when L7 features are unnecessary

No native WAF or HTTP routing features
Regional by design unless paired with another global routing service

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AWS Application Load Balancer

AWS-native Layer 7 load balancing for HTTP and HTTPS applications running on EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and IP targets.

$16/mo

US pricing is commonly about $0.0225/hour plus LCU usage, or roughly $16/month before traffic and AWS WAF charges.

Default choice for AWS HTTP workloads
Good integration with ACM, AWS WAF, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and target groups
Supports host, path, header, method, and query-based routing

Regional service; global failover requires Route 53, Global Accelerator, or another layer
WAF and LCU costs can matter more than the hourly base charge

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AWS Network Load Balancer

High-performance AWS Layer 4 load balancing for TCP, UDP, TLS, static IPs, and extreme connection scale.

$16/mo

Pricing is hourly plus NLCU usage; a continuously running NLB is commonly around $16/month before usage charges.

Best AWS option for non-HTTP protocols and very high throughput
Supports static IPs and TLS listeners
Works well for private, internal, and Kubernetes service use cases

No native AWS WAF attachment like ALB or CloudFront
Layer 7 routing logic belongs elsewhere

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AWS Global Accelerator

Anycast global entry point that routes users over the AWS network to regional load balancers, EC2 instances, or Elastic IPs.

$18/mo

AWS lists $0.025/hour per accelerator, about $18/month, plus data transfer premium charges.

Useful global front door for AWS applications needing static anycast IPs
Improves cross-region failover without moving DNS records
Works with ALB, NLB, EC2, and Elastic IP endpoints

Not a replacement for L7 routing, TLS policy, or WAF by itself
Adds another AWS networking charge on top of regional endpoints

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Azure Application Gateway

Regional Azure Layer 7 load balancer and reverse proxy with optional WAF for web applications.

$18/mo

Azure Application Gateway v2 pricing varies by capacity units and region; budget at least low tens of dollars monthly before traffic, with WAF costing more.

Good regional L7 fit for Azure web apps and AKS ingress
WAF_v2 provides managed web application firewall controls
Supports TLS termination, path routing, and autoscaling

Global routing usually requires Azure Front Door or Traffic Manager
Capacity-unit pricing can be harder to forecast than a simple fixed fee

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7th

Google Cloud Load Balancer (global)

Google Cloud’s global external Application Load Balancer for HTTP and HTTPS apps on Google’s edge network.

$18/mo

Google charges forwarding rules from about $0.025/hour for the first five rules plus regional data processing and egress charges.

Global anycast L7 load balancing is a first-class GCP strength
Integrates with Cloud Armor, managed certificates, Cloud CDN, GKE, and serverless NEGs
Good option for global web applications without separate DNS failover

Cloud Armor and data processing charges need separate budgeting
Most compelling when backends are already in Google Cloud or connected cleanly

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Google Cloud Internal Load Balancer

Regional and cross-region internal Google Cloud load balancing for private services inside VPC networks.

$18/mo

Internal load balancers use forwarding-rule and data-processing pricing; one rule commonly starts around $18/month before traffic.

Good fit for private service-to-service traffic on Google Cloud
Supports internal passthrough and proxy load balancing patterns
Useful for GKE, Compute Engine, and hybrid private connectivity

Not an internet-facing global front door
No built-in WAF for private L4 use cases

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Azure Front Door

Microsoft’s global edge load balancer and CDN front door for web apps, APIs, TLS offload, WAF, and acceleration.

$35/mo

Azure Front Door Standard/Premium has base fees plus request, routing, data transfer, rules, and WAF-related charges; Premium with WAF is materially higher.

Strong global L7 entry point for Azure and hybrid web applications
Premium tier includes WAF and Private Link-oriented security capabilities
Handles global acceleration, TLS, routing rules, and failover in one service

More expensive than regional load balancers for simple apps
Primarily HTTP/HTTPS; not the right tool for generic L4 balancing

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About this comparison

Compare managed cloud load balancing options from Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Filter by base monthly budget, L4 versus L7 routing, global versus regional architecture, built-in WAF, SSL/TLS termination, primary cloud platform, and GSLB or cross-region failover support.