Open-source alternative  ·  Networking / Firewall

Replace FortiGate NGFW with pfSense CE / OPNsense.

Enterprise-grade open source firewalls. Stateful inspection, VPN, IDS/IPS, traffic shaping. All free.

You'd keep~R10 500 to ~R81 996/year

Current licence  ·  Networking / Firewall

FortiGate NGFW

~R10 500 – ~R81 996/yr

10-user estimate

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Replace with  ·  Networking / Firewall

pfSense CE / OPNsense

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R81 996/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. FortiGate NGFW's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Small Office

R10 500/yr

R875/month

Flat rate

With pfSense CE / OPNsense

Keep R10 500/yr

Branch (100F)

R27 996/yr

R2 333/month

Flat rate

With pfSense CE / OPNsense

Keep R27 996/yr

Enterprise

R81 996/yr

R6 833/month

Flat rate

With pfSense CE / OPNsense

Keep R81 996/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

FortiGate NGFW grows around 10% per year on average. pfSense CE / OPNsense hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR36kR73kR109kR145kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R132kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.56M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

FortiGate NGFWpfSense CE / OPNsense, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other networking / firewall migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate FortiGate NGFW.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.