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Fortinet FortiGate pricing
Fortinet FortiGate publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $500/year
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Fortinet FortiGate plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| FortiGate Entry | $500/year | 4 | Entry tier |
| FortiGate Enterprise | $2500/year | 5 | +$2000/year, 5 more features |
| FortiGate Ultimate | $10000/year | 5 | +$7500/year, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
FortiGate Entry
$500/yearThe entry tier. It covers basic firewall, vpn support, threat protection, web filtering.
FortiGate Enterprise
$2500/yearOver FortiGate Entry, this tier adds:
- Advanced threat protection
- SSL inspection
- Application control
- IPS/IDS
- SD-WAN
FortiGate Ultimate
$10000/yearOver FortiGate Enterprise, this tier adds:
- All Enterprise features
- Zero-trust access
- AI-powered analytics
- 24/7 FortiCare support
- Multi-cloud protection
What the product covers
The full Fortinet FortiGate feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Next-generation firewall
- Intrusion prevention
- SSL/TLS inspection
- Application control
- Web filtering
- SD-WAN
- Zero-trust network access
- AI-powered threat detection
Integrations
- FortiManager
- FortiAnalyzer
- FortiSIEM
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
Security
- NSS Labs Recommended
- ICSA Labs Certified
- Common Criteria
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Hybrid deployment
Platform
- Hardware support
- Virtual support
- Cloud support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
- French language support
- German language support
- Japanese language support
- Chinese language support
People bring Fortinet FortiGate 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. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Fortinet FortiGate are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Security & Cybersecurity
Across the 3 security & cybersecurity tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $19.99/month. Fortinet FortiGate starts at $500/year, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fortinet FortiGate (this page) | $500/year | subscription | - | |
| Keygen | On request | subscription | - | vs Fortinet FortiGate |
| Authy | Free | free | - | vs Fortinet FortiGate |
| Cisco Duo | Free | freemium | - | vs Fortinet FortiGate |
| Bitdefender VPN | On request | subscription | - | vs Fortinet FortiGate |
| Burp Suite | Free, then $449/year | subscription | - | vs Fortinet FortiGate |
| Bitdefender Total Security | $19.99/year | - | - | vs Fortinet FortiGate |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Fortinet FortiGate badges page.
Before you pay for Fortinet FortiGate
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between $500/year and $10000/year, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Fortinet FortiGate against the tools that do have one before committing.
Fortinet FortiGate runs on hardware, virtual, cloud, and is published by Fortinet Inc of Sunnyvale, California, USA. The full record is on the Fortinet FortiGate review, and the rest of the category is under best security & cybersecurity tools.
Fortinet FortiGate pricing questions
- How much does Fortinet FortiGate cost?
- Fortinet FortiGate publishes 3 tiers, from $500/year for FortiGate Entry up to $10000/year for FortiGate Ultimate. The cheapest paid tier is $500/year.
- Does Fortinet FortiGate have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Fortinet FortiGate is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between FortiGate Entry and FortiGate Enterprise on Fortinet FortiGate?
- FortiGate Enterprise costs $2500/year against $500/year, and adds advanced threat protection, ssl inspection, application control, ips/ids.
- Is the FortiGate Ultimate plan on Fortinet FortiGate worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is all enterprise features, zero-trust access, ai-powered analytics, 24/7 forticare support. It costs $10000/year against $500/year for FortiGate Entry. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Fortinet FortiGate expensive for a security & cybersecurity tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 3 security & cybersecurity tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $19.99/month; Fortinet FortiGate starts at $500/year.
- Which security & cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 security & cybersecurity tools listed alongside Fortinet FortiGate have a free tier: Authy, Cisco Duo, Burp Suite, Avast One.
- What am I actually paying for with Fortinet FortiGate?
- The record lists 29 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is 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.
- Does Fortinet FortiGate charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Fortinet FortiGate prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Fortinet FortiGate against before paying?
- The closest security & cybersecurity tools in this directory are Keygen, Authy, Cisco Duo, Bitdefender VPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Fortinet FortiGate covering price, platforms and features.