Great routerfirewall platform
April 09, 2025

Great routerfirewall platform

Ansley Barnes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

pfSense Plus (formerly pfSense Enterprise)

Modules Used

  • SG-3100
  • SG-5100
  • XG-7100
  • XG-1537 1U
  • SG-1100
  • 8200
  • 6100

Overall Satisfaction with pfSense

We use pfSense in redundant pairs to service large coworking spaces, and it’s proven reliable and secure for many years. It’s easy to configure, simple, and reliable. We’ve weathered a lot of different events that I’ve seen bring down other firewalls. We apply a significant number of filters to reduce malware C2 and still achieve excellent performance. At this point we’ve deployed these machines to a dozen locations globally and have come to trust it.

Pros

  • Ease of configuration
  • Redundancy
  • Performance
  • Low cost

Cons

  • Multi-instance management
  • Authentication
  • Lowers cost to deploy networks
  • Improves network reputation
It’s easy enough for a novice to configure, secure enough to withstand active punishment by external and internal actors, and highly performant. All this for an exceptionally low cost.
PfSense beats all other solutions at its price point, hands-down. You can get more features with far less performance, or same performance for much higher cost.

Do you think pfSense delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with pfSense's feature set?

Yes

Did pfSense live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of pfSense go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy pfSense again?

Yes

We use pfSense both for public internet access as well as specialized perimeter enforcement. There are some NGFW features it lacks, but I’ve never encountered any NGFW that comes within orders of magnitude of pfSense's affordability.

pfSense Feature Ratings

Visualization Tools
7
Content Inspection
8
Policy-based Controls
6
Active Directory and LDAP
5
Firewall Management Console
9
Reporting and Logging
6
VPN
9
High Availability
9
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
7

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