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Alternatives to Fortinet FortiGate
24 cybersecurity tools sit alongside Fortinet FortiGate in this directory. Below is what separates each from Fortinet FortiGate on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 24
- With a free tier
- 2
- Cheaper to start
- 5
- Fortinet FortiGate starts at
- $500/year
Why people look past Fortinet FortiGate
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Fortinet FortiGate entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
It costs more than the category median
Fortinet FortiGate starts at $500/year. Across the 5 cybersecurity tools listed beside it that publish a price, the median entry point is $4.99/month.
There is no free tier
The record for Fortinet FortiGate carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 2 of the 24 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
The world's most-loved password manager
- Starts $497.01 a month cheaper, at $2.99/month.
The world's #1 rated antivirus
- Starts $480.01 a year cheaper, at $19.99/year.
Simplify online life with LastPass password manager
- Can be used without paying; Fortinet FortiGate cannot.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than subscription.
Powerful protection against evolving threats
- Starts $464 a year cheaper, at $36/year.
Free TOTP two-factor authentication app that gained optional cloud sync in 2023
- Can be used without paying; Fortinet FortiGate cannot.
- Sold on a Free, no in-app purchases model rather than subscription.
- 1 tier to Fortinet FortiGate's 3.
Real-time transaction fraud and financial crime detection for banks and payment processors
- Sold on a quote model rather than subscription.
- 1 tier to Fortinet FortiGate's 3.
Every Fortinet FortiGate alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Fortinet FortiGate badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (2)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- LastPass , Free
- Google Authenticator , Free
Cheaper than Fortinet FortiGate (5)
Entry price under Fortinet FortiGate's $500/year. The record does not say what unit that price is charged in, so confirm per-seat versus flat rate before comparing budgets.
- 1Password , $2.99/month
- Bitdefender Total Security , $19.99/year
- Norton 360 , $36/year
- Entrust Identity as a Service , $2/month
- Camio , $4.99/month
What you would be giving up
Fortinet FortiGate is most often brought in for next-generation firewalling at data centre, campus and branch scale, secure sd-wan across distributed sites, zero trust network access to internal applications, virtual firewalls in aws, azure, google cloud and oracle, ruggedised deployments in industrial environments. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Fortinet FortiGate is broadly right and the question is cost, the Fortinet FortiGate pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Cybersecurity category lists everything the directory holds, and best cybersecurity tools ranks them.
Fortinet FortiGate runs on hardware, virtual, cloud. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Fortinet FortiGate alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Fortinet FortiGate?
- 24 other cybersecurity tools are listed in this directory, led by 1Password, Bitdefender Total Security, LastPass, Norton 360. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Fortinet FortiGate?
- 2 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: LastPass, Google Authenticator.
- Is there a cheaper alternative to Fortinet FortiGate?
- Yes. 5 of the alternatives below start under Fortinet FortiGate's $500/year: 1Password at $2.99/month, Bitdefender Total Security at $19.99/year, Norton 360 at $36/year, Entrust Identity as a Service at $2/month.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Fortinet FortiGate?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: it costs more than the category median; there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Fortinet FortiGate?
- Fortinet FortiGate is most often brought in for next-generation firewalling at data centre, campus and branch scale, secure sd-wan across distributed sites, zero trust network access to internal applications, virtual firewalls in aws, azure, google cloud and oracle, ruggedised deployments in industrial environments. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Fortinet FortiGate?
- None of the cybersecurity tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Fortinet FortiGate alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Cybersecurity, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Fortinet FortiGate against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Fortinet FortiGate covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every cybersecurity tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Cybersecurity category, 24 tools beside Fortinet FortiGate. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.