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Product

Commercial pfSense Plus firewall/VPN software for third-party hardware, virtual machines and the AWS and Azure marketplaces. pfSense Plus software is available on Netgate desktop and rack appliances - factory loaded, tested, and with selectable support options. A remarkably powerful, robust, and easy to use solution, pfSense software delivers edge firewall, router, and VPN functionality to homes, businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies - literally across every continent - making networks more robust and secure. Educational institutions from K-12 to colleges and universities - always with tight budgets - depend upon pfSense Plus to manage complex student, faculty and administrative secure networking needs. It is available as a cloud instance and a virtual appliance.

Current Version
26.07
Market
EnterpriseSMB
Licence
Paid
Price
USD 129 / annual
Record Created
2026-09-20
Last Updated
2026-10-10

Vendor

Netgate develops and sells pfSense, one of the most widely deployed open-source firewalls in the world. The project began as a fork of m0n0wall in 2004; Netgate is the company behind it, and its business is the same shape as several others in this index — give away the software, sell the hardware, the support and the hardened edition. pfSense CE is the free Community Edition, pfSense Plus is the commercial version with additional features and a support contract, and Netgate Appliances are its own hardware with pfSense Plus preinstalled, from small desktop units to rack-mounted firewalls. TNSR is its higher-throughput routing product. It is worth knowing that pfSense and OPNsense, also listed here, are relatives: OPNsense was forked from pfSense in 2015 after a disagreement between the projects, and the two have developed separately since. Choosing between them is a choice between two lineages of the same original code. Vendor page →

Country
United States
Headquarters
Austin, United States
Year Established
2004
Customers
20K organisations
Users
13M deployments
Revenue
$20.0M (2026)

Platforms

Cloudnative
Virtual Appliancenative

Target Market

Enterprise secondarySMB primary

Capabilities

Stateful Inspectionkeynative
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)keyoptional module
Intrusion Detection (IDS)optional module
SSL/TLS InspectionkeyNot known
VPN Gatewaykeynative
SD-WANNot known
Application Controlkeyoptional module
High Availabilitynative
Deep Packet Inspectionoptional module
Central Management Consolenative

2 of 10 not yet known — not recorded, which is not the same as not supported.

Specifications

Firewall TypeNetwork (NGFW / UTM)

4 other specifications for this category not yet known.

Pricing

PlanLicencePriced perBilledPrice
SummarySubscriptionnot statedyearlyUSD 129

Versions

  • 26.07platform not recordedreleased 2026-08-13

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

Not tested This product does not appear in any test run CSI holds. That is not a low score.

Certifications

Not known

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-20. Everything below is what has changed since.

  • 2026-10-09Pricing plan addedPrice: USD 129 yearlyevidence
  • 2026-10-08New versionNew version: 26.07evidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedApplication Control: optional moduleevidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedDeep Packet Inspection: optional moduleevidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedIntrusion Prevention (IPS): optional moduleevidence
  • 2026-10-08Capability addedIntrusion Detection (IDS): optional moduleevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedHigh Availability: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-07Capability addedStateful Inspection: built inevidence
  • 2026-10-06Capability addedVPN Gateway: built inevidence
  • 2026-09-20Platform addedRuns on Cloudevidence
  • 2026-09-20Product createdNew product, listed in Network Firewallevidence
  • 2026-09-20Platform addedRuns on Virtual Applianceevidence
  • 2026-09-20Product updatedAlso sold to: Enterpriseevidence
  • 2026-09-20Product updatedSold to: SMBevidence

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