Cloudflare vs. Fortinet FortiGate

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudflare
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Cloudflare, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, provides DDoS and bot mitigation security for business domains, as well as a content delivery network (CDN) and web application firewall (WAF).
$20
per month
FortiGate
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.N/A
Pricing
CloudflareFortinet FortiGate
Editions & Modules
Pro
$20
per month
Business
$200
per month
Free
Free
Enterprise
Contact sales team
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudflareFortiGate
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.
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Features
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Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Cloudflare
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Ratings
Fortinet FortiGate
9.0
37 Ratings
6% above category average
Identification Technologies00 Ratings9.235 Ratings
Visualization Tools00 Ratings8.535 Ratings
Content Inspection00 Ratings8.636 Ratings
Policy-based Controls00 Ratings9.137 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings9.436 Ratings
Firewall Management Console00 Ratings9.237 Ratings
Reporting and Logging00 Ratings8.337 Ratings
VPN00 Ratings9.637 Ratings
High Availability00 Ratings9.332 Ratings
Stateful Inspection00 Ratings9.135 Ratings
Proxy Server00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
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User Ratings
CloudflareFortinet FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(133 ratings)
9.3
(63 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(4 ratings)
9.9
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(6 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(111 ratings)
8.7
(49 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(2 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudflareFortinet FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudflare
We've had cases where our company was under cyber attack and received phising emails which contained links to malicious and credential stealing websites, impersonating trusted pages, or hosting malicious files to be downloaded. These malicious links were all blocked 95% of the time due to various methods used by CF to detect malicious pages and/or content. We have had a few minor cases where legit pages were blocked, but this was mainly due to domain age, and pages/domains created specifically for joint ventures or projects.
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Fortinet
For FortiGate Firewall, the basic functionality and requirement is met easily as Fortigate is among market leaders in NGFW. There are some extra points that inclined us to use Fortigate as our main Firewall. [Fortinet]Fortigate has a very well refined and functional SD-WAN solution when it comes to load balancing for normal Internet Traffic. SD-WAN - Load balancing of Internet traffic is a USP of Fortigate and makes it stand tall in the competition. Be it 3 or more Internet Links, multiple Subnets/segments of users to distribute and bandwidth load balancing for links and users. SLA based monitoring of Internet Links / MPLS links, makes it even better to choose the links on the basis of performance (Latency, packet loss, Jitter etc). SSL VPN configuration - The deep CLI-level debugging is also very helpful in troubleshooting. Type of tunnel can be easily configured - Full Tunnel or Split Tunnel for SSL. Though, I think Fortigate is one of the best options for small and mid-sized organizations, there are some areas for improvement. First, the CLI interface is very hard to adapt as the commands and directory hierarchy is very different for common syntax and standards.
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Pros
Cloudflare
  • DNS is quick to set up and seems to propagate quicker than other DNS name servers. Page rules are very convenient for quickly setting up redirects with wildcards.
  • Setting up a proxy with Cloudflare Workers for my API, which runs on Google Cloud Functions was much simpler than any solution I came across using Google Cloud Platform itself. It also doesn't cost us a lot of money for this use case.
  • Web Analytics are privacy-focused, so it is nice to get insights into our application without worrying about the data being sold. The interface is very clean. I like being able to query page views by bot score, to see how many bots are viewing pages compared to actual users. Querying this data is also very quick and simple when compared to Google Analytics API.
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Fortinet
  • It is the most reliable NGFW that we have ever been touch with it.
  • You can easily upgrade the firewall cluster firmware without user attention!!!
  • User IDentity based feature is fantastic and intrusion prevention just works with least false-positive possible.
  • Very reachfull and intuitive GUI, just love it
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Cons
Cloudflare
  • Their UI is notable for simplicity but has room for improvement indeed, both in UX and especially for cohesiveness across feature sets
  • It would be nice to have better linkage between some of the more complex things in the UI and the documentation
  • Documentation can always be improved
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Fortinet
  • When we switched to Fortinet Fortigate, it took some time getting used to and become familiar with the new interface. Being used to strictly command-line interfaces, a full GUI-based firewall was something brand new. Careful planning had to be done when creating rules to ensure we didn't miss anything. However, once we got used to the new GUI interface, going from one Fortinet product to another was simple, as Fortinet used the same interface for all of its devices.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cloudflare
Cloudflare features are an integral part of my website, as of now I can’t think about doing without it. It would require an unimaginable time and effort to find and implement alternatives for every feature, considered how large and diverse Cloudflare feature set is
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Fortinet
Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve.
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Usability
Cloudflare
Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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Fortinet
The user interface shared among many simultaneous users is very easy to get around. With shared favorites among users, most tasks are easily bookmarked and can quickly be found and edited. Their strategy for web filter integration is easy to understand and manage as well. With some general direction, setup and maintenance were easy to do and easy to teach others in the organization to do as well.
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Reliability and Availability
Cloudflare
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Fortinet
We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years
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Performance
Cloudflare
Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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Fortinet
Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD.
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Support Rating
Cloudflare
Because of Cloudflare Zero trust network security services, Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is the technology that makes it possible to implement a Zero Trust security model. "Zero Trust" is an IT security model that assumes threats are present both inside and outside a network. Consequently, Zero Trust requires strict verification for every user and every device before authorizing them to access internal resources.
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Fortinet
We live in Turkey. Fortinet's Turkey office [dealt] constantly with us in our every problem or our experience. In addition, global support teams also supported every ticket we opened in every problem we encountered. They support innovative approaches and evaluate and offer solutions. In this context, they were very supportive of the problems we encountered in previous versions.
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In-Person Training
Cloudflare
No answers on this topic
Fortinet
I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool.
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Implementation Rating
Cloudflare
Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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Fortinet
Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version
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Alternatives Considered
Cloudflare
All except the greatest DDoS attempts are stopped by Cloudflare's security. Cloudflare is a worldwide cloud network that can safeguard and speed up any website. Cloudflare is ahead of the competition because of its global reach and cutting-edge tools for speeding up and optimizing both static and dynamic web traffic.
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Fortinet
[Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the dashboard as per your requirement if you have multiple VDOMs within a single firewall.
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Scalability
Cloudflare
So far it has been very reliable
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Fortinet
My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here.
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Return on Investment
Cloudflare
  • It has allow us to use the free plan in several small sites
  • For medium/big sizes, the plans they offer adjust properly to the needs we require; saving money and making the most of the spent one
  • Considering we manage several clients; we were able to centralize all of our client's accounts in our own; allowing us to save time in their management and giving them the security that we will only access the parts they require us to access
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Fortinet
  • Fortigates have an interesting bundle model for support and subscription services that make it an attractive option to deploy Firewall, IDS, Ant-virus, anti-SPAM in a single device. The cost of the bundle is pretty much what you pay for the device, not requiring huge expenditures on it's time to renew the hardware.
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