pfSense Pricing

“We were using Sophos XG firewall in our environment but when it comes to cost it's more expensive with limited features. … Easy to Configure & Manage Cost effective with bundle of features High availability.”

“Old desktop + free software license, that is unbeatable ROI. … A spare computer + free software license is quite a bit more attractive than Cisco products.”

“[In these] type of organizations there [is] less budget for security so this device provides you all basic features [without the cost.].”

“Low cost to implement with higher performance than expensive enterprise solutions.”

“pfSense is just a more flexible, lower-cost solution—it can be installed (if you wish) on just about any x86 hardware or even virtual machines - the community edition is free and so enables rapid...”

“There are a bunch of addon/packages you can install to add features and they also have "commercial" packages which do cost money but can add features some of the really expensive solutions have. … VPN's - I am not entirely sure if this package was free with pfSense, but it does offer the ability to use OpenVPN which is what I am familiar with.”

“For free, using the homelab license, you can perform many tasks that mimic an enterprise-grade firewall, such as setting up S2S VPN configurations, DHCP, and NAT. … PFSense is not a fully featured and supported enterprise-grade solution; however, it does offer a lot of similar functionality at a fraction of the cost for more minor requirements.”

“Fortinet ROI depends on the reduced administrative effort and the pfSense ROI depends on the lowcost and adaptability to variuous needs.”

“These include features such as better VPN interoperability, non-subscription based pricing, auditability, not relying on the infrastructure of a third party, more transparency of what's actually...”

“For my own use case, the software has been very reliable and updates were smooth.

For very large deployments, you will likely need to go with a larger and more expensive vendor requiring...”

“pfSense itself is free and can be installed on just about any hardware so from a hardware cost perspective it can beat out anybody.”