How Enforza compares — honestly.
Most teams start with their cloud-native firewall. When
the per-GB bill mounts or the controls run short, the usual path is up to
a mega-NGFW platform you will only half use; a few
free-thinkers go the other way and self-manage an
open-source box.
Enforza is the drop-in replacement — the same control at a flat
per-firewall price and $0/GB, with the fleet management, compliance and
GitOps a DIY box can't match, and none of the enterprise bloat. For far
less.
Replacing your cloud-native firewall
The drop-in case. Same egress and east-west control, same FQDN/SNI-based L7 — without the per-GB data-processing tax or the per-hour endpoint fee (which on AWS is duplicated for every Availability Zone) that never stops growing.
- AWS Network Firewall Compare
AWS Network Firewall bills $0.395/hr per Availability Zone — so a 2-AZ deployment is ~$577/month before a byte — plus $0.065/GB forever. Enforza does secure NAT and FQDN/SNI-based L7 egress in one appliance, at a flat per-firewall price and $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 covers the vast majority of core use cases 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 covers the vast majority of core use cases 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
The mega-NGFW vendors — Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point — ship hundreds of features behind a hefty enterprise licence, 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 axes — 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 FQDN/SNI-based 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.