How Enforza compares — at $0/GB.
Two questions decide this buy. Against the cloud-native firewalls — AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, Google Cloud NGFW — Enforza is the drop-in replacement at a flat per-firewall price, with no per-GB data-processing tax and no per-Availability-Zone double-bubble. Against the open-source self-managed boxes — pfSense, OPNsense — it is the managed fleet, compliance and GitOps a DIY appliance cannot give you. Same firewall job either way — for far less.
Replacing your cloud-native firewall
The drop-in case. Same egress and east-west control, same identity-aware L7 — without the per-GB data-processing tax or the per-Availability-Zone double-bubble that never stop growing.
- AWS Network Firewall Compare
AWS bills $0.395/hr per Availability Zone and $0.065/GB forever — and NAT is a separate metered product. Enforza does secure NAT and identity-aware L7 egress in one appliance, at $0/GB.
- Azure Firewall Compare
Azure Premium L7 means handing Microsoft your TLS keys, with a per-hour floor plus per-GB processing. Enforza filters by SNI and FQDN without decrypting TLS — flat, no key custody.
- Google Cloud NGFW Compare
GCP taxes the same bytes twice — Cloud NAT plus NGFW per-GiB — and Enterprise meters east-west too. Enforza is one flat-priced NVA at $0/GB, on any cloud. (Essentials L3/L4 is genuinely free.)
Beyond the do-it-yourself box
The managed-cloud case. We never argue licence price with a free tool — we win on fleet operations, compliance-as-code and GitOps that a self-built box cannot give you.
- pfSense Compare
A great do-everything box you run yourself, one at a time. Enforza is the managed fleet, compliance packs and GitOps for multi-network cloud — drop-in, not a DIY appliance.
- OPNsense Compare
Genuinely good and free — but you self-build, self-patch and self-monitor every box, with no compliance packs. Enforza is drop-in, fleet-managed and compliance-baked, cloud-native.
The focus story — half used, fully paid for
The right-tool-for-the-job case. Palo Alto, Fortinet and Check Point are genuinely broad, powerful enterprise platforms — and you pay for all of it whether you switch it on or not. Enforza is the ~98% most teams actually use, with no feature-bloat, at a fraction of the price.
- Palo Alto Compare
Genuinely best-in-class threat depth — billed as a base hourly fee plus per-GB traffic plus a per-GB charge for every security add-on you switch on, all quote-gated. Enforza is the ~98% most teams actually use, flat per firewall, no per-GB tax.
- Fortinet Compare
A powerful Security Fabric — but the software fee scales with the instance size you run, stacked on FortiCare and FortiGuard subscriptions, with the real price behind partner quotes. Enforza is one flat per-firewall price, the controls you actually use, no fabric lock-in.
- Check Point CloudGuard Compare
Prevention-first pedigree, with a software fee that climbs with instance size on top of the VM, a separate management licence and bundled blades you may never switch on. Enforza is one appliance, one flat price, compliance baked in — not an upsell.
Replace the cloud-native firewall — without going full enterprise vendor
There is a second axis to this. The mega-NGFW vendors — Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point — ship hundreds of features at a six-figure price, most never switched on. Enforza is the control you actually use, between the cloud tax and the six-figure platform. We are honest about scope on both — and proud of it.
- Cloud-native firewall — managed, but limited and metered by the per-GB tax.
- Enterprise NGFW — deep control, but costly and over-built for cloud.
- Enforza — the overlap: real control at a flat, fair price.
“Half used, fully paid for.”
Pick your comparison. Then leave the meter behind.
Same identity-aware L7 egress filtering, secure NAT in one appliance, on any cloud — at a flat per-firewall price with no per-GB data-processing charges. Start free, no card.