I'm using the free version of OPNsense. I didn't check the pricing for the solution because I still need to test it before getting the approval to purchase OPNsense, and it isn't easy to get approval from the higher-ups.
The price is good and is better than other computer solutions. The licensing cost is zero because you only have to buy the support. I believe that costs between $900 to $1000 a year.
Its pricing is unbeatable in comparison to other firewalls. You can have a small instance that could be €80 a month with the hardware underneath. Azure Firewall and FortiGate are out of the question at this price. If you are on a public cloud, you need the underlying infrastructure. Other than that, there is no additional cost. If you have it on-prem, you have to buy the server or the appliance. The hardware cost is replaced with the infrastructure cost in the cloud. You also have costs for the public IPs and underlying VMs, but that's not related to OPNsense. It would be the same for a FortiGate deployment on Azure. You need a FortiGate license, and you need the underlying infrastructure that scales up depending on your needs.
Hello community,
I work at an educational organization and I am currently researching firewalls.
Which solution do you prefer: pfSense or OPNsense? Why is pfSense's firewall better than OPNsense's?
Thank you for your help.
Hi community,
I'm working with OPNsense NGINX plug-in's WAF rules.
Can you recommend any good documentation on this topic (as there is very little documentation I was able to find)?
For example, how whitelist rules are created in the web interface that will work on one specific site and will not work on others.
Thanks for your help.
Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Jul 25, 2022
Hi @Murat Gultekin, @Chirosca Alecsandru, @Hermann Potgieter, @Ralf Wenzel, @Neil Wurzel and @Mauro Ponze,
Can you possibly chime in here and help @Igor Parmon with their question?
Tnx.
I'm using the free version of OPNsense. I didn't check the pricing for the solution because I still need to test it before getting the approval to purchase OPNsense, and it isn't easy to get approval from the higher-ups.
The price is good and is better than other computer solutions. The licensing cost is zero because you only have to buy the support. I believe that costs between $900 to $1000 a year.
The price of OPNsense is good. I rate the price of OPNsense a five out of five.
It is open source and free.
OPNsense is an open-source solution and it does not require a license.
Its pricing is unbeatable in comparison to other firewalls. You can have a small instance that could be €80 a month with the hardware underneath. Azure Firewall and FortiGate are out of the question at this price. If you are on a public cloud, you need the underlying infrastructure. Other than that, there is no additional cost. If you have it on-prem, you have to buy the server or the appliance. The hardware cost is replaced with the infrastructure cost in the cloud. You also have costs for the public IPs and underlying VMs, but that's not related to OPNsense. It would be the same for a FortiGate deployment on Azure. You need a FortiGate license, and you need the underlying infrastructure that scales up depending on your needs.
We're a customer and an end-user. We are using the telemetry-free version of the solution. Overall, the solution is quite affordable.
The main cost is the hardware. We don't pay anything for the software.
As an appliance, it's in the medium price range.
The choice of a license on a yearly or monthly basis is optional. The solution is not expensive.
OPNsense is an open-source solution and it is free to use. You need only purchase the hardware.
It is not an expensive product. Basically, I deployed it because it was the fastest solution to satisfy our needs in open source.
OPNsense is a well known open-source tool.
We are using a free version of the solution.
OPNsense is open source software so at this time it is free for us to use.
There are no licensing costs for OPNsense.
It costs about $1000.
We are not paying any licensing fees. OPNsense is completely free for us.