We performed a comparison between OPNsense and Sophos XG based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos XG’s single pane of glass makes it easy for users to manage the entire solution from anywhere. The solution is very light, stable, and provides excellent real-time control. Users feel OPNsense is not a good product for medium to large businesses, as it has some very limited features and needs better reporting and documentation.
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"What I like best about OPNsense is that, as a firewall, it's pretty good. I'm quite impressed with it. I had an excellent experience with OPNsense, which helped me achieve the targets I wanted."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"The technical support is very good."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"Overall the solution works well."
"The solution is easy to set up and configure."
"Sophos XG Firewall is very usable, very easy to install, and very user friendly."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"Most of the features Sophos XG has are valuable. However, if I have two different ISP, I'm able to create an automatic switch between the two ISPs. I can do the same thing for the cloud as well. If I have two subnets coming from the cloud, I'm able to create a type of switch between both of them where if there is traffic on one and has the traffic drop, I'm able to switch to the other ISP without any problems. It's a normal feature and I get to enjoy the ability to switch between services with no issues."
"I've tried out Sophos XG a little. It has a good interface that's very user-friendly, but I haven't used all of its functions because I'm only configuring and running the system."
"It is simple to use."
"Easy to deploy and user friendly."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
"The support for OPNsense is good because we have documents available on the internet. The support could improve a little."
"While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"They should improve IPEs for security in the future."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"The pricing has gotten much higher."
"Lacks improved throughput performance in a box."
"Could have a more simplified functionality for users."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"Sophos XG could improve the connectivity with Microsoft 365 or Azure Active Directory(AD). It doesn't work directly as other solutions do, such as Fortinet FortiGate. The client needs a separate AD server which is a problem."
"I would like to have a more efficient login process."
"Over the last six months, we have noticed that the hardware is slow, especially the VPN connections."
OPNsense is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 14 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 97 reviews. OPNsense is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Supports high availability, good content filtering capabilities, and ability to protect against various types of malware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Secure, duel switch capabilities, and good support". OPNsense is most compared with pfSense, Untangle NG Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox. See our OPNsense vs. Sophos XG report.
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