IPFire

Free open-source Linux firewall distribution for the user's own hardware or a VM, also sold as AWS and Exoscale cloud appliances. IPFire DBL (Domain Blocklist) is a community-powered, constantly updated blocklist that closes the gap between DNS filtering and deep packet inspection — blocking malicious, ad, and tracking domains across every protocol, not just port 53. From packet inspection to encrypted tunnels, IPFire delivers enterprise-grade protection through a management console that actually makes sense. IPFire creates hardened DMZs, isolated guest networks, and clearly separated trust zones — limiting blast radius before an incident ever occurs. It is available as a cloud instance and a virtual appliance.

Current Version

2.29 Core Update 204

Product Page

ipfire.org

Market

ConsumerEnterpriseGovernmentSMB

Licence

Open source

Price

Free

Record Created

2026-09-20

Last Updated

2026-10-28

IPFire is not a company. It is an open-source firewall distribution — a hardened Linux system built specifically to be a firewall — developed by a community of volunteers and given away, with the source available to anyone. It has been in continuous development since 2005 and is maintained by a core team in Germany. What is listed here is the software itself and the hardware it is sold on: IPFire runs on ordinary x86 machines, on ARM boards and in virtual machines, and preinstalled appliances are available from partners for buyers who want supported hardware rather than a self-build. Its feature set is what a commercial UTM offers — stateful firewalling, an intrusion prevention system, web proxy and content filtering, VPN, quality of service — with add-on packages for the rest. The trade is the usual one for open-source infrastructure: no licence cost and full visibility of the code, in exchange for configuring and maintaining it yourself. There is no vendor to submit it to a testing laboratory, so its columns here will stay empty. Vendor page →

Website

ipfire.org

Country

🇩🇪Germany

Headquarters

🇩🇪Datteln, Germany

Year Established

2004

Customers

—Not known

Users

100K deployments

Revenue

$100.0K (2025)