Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Pricing

“Palo is definitely a premium product and is much more expensive than other firewalls, but the value is realized immediately.”

“Overall, even though the device is very expensive (both hardware and licensing), the product does produce a decent ROI, given that one (or HA pair) of devices can do so many things, such as... … Though note these devices are not cheap, and can be especially expensive with all of the licenses added on.”

“Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series devices generally are on the higher price point; however, I have found the benefits to vastly outweigh the purchase price.”

“IT leaders rarely include the cost of clean-up and preventative scanning of computers and networks in the ROI of a product purchase. … For instance, we wanted a firewall that had the ability to use Active & Passive fault tolerance, and only the very advanced models (more expensive) do this.”

“PA Series firewalls provides good value for the price spent on them. … Application level filtering and use of User-ID feature with least privilege helps in saving the cost of getting multiple zero trust security solutions.”

“Subscription costs have not fluctuated much over the past ten years, making it easier to budget from year to year.”

“If you need to put multiple Appliances in remote sites maybe you'll have an issue with the price: it's not cheap.”

“To properly use the firewall, subscription packages are needed, and licensing can be confusing and/or expensive. … FortiGates are capable UMTs and also less expensive than Palo Altos.”

“Price License. … PA firewall provide best in class NextGen protection Price are too high - depends on what subscription you deployed.”

“The redundancy of the PAs is well worth the extra cost.”

“Cost, these firewalls are awesome, but not cheap.”