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OPNsense pricing
OPNsense publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, OPNsense pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
OPNsense 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPNsense Community Edition | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| OPNsense Business Edition | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
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.
OPNsense Community Edition
FreeThe entry tier. It covers mit licence with no feature restrictions, all vpn, ids and ha features included, weekly updates and two major releases a year, community forum support.
OPNsense Business Edition
On requestOver OPNsense Community Edition, this tier adds:
- Stabilised update track lagging community releases
- Commercial support from Deciso
- Additional enterprise plugins and configuration backup
- Sold as an annual subscription per installation
Where OPNsense stops being free
OPNsense Community Edition, Free
- MIT licence with no feature restrictions
- All VPN, IDS and HA features included
- Weekly updates and two major releases a year
- Community forum support
No paid tier on record
OPNsense lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full OPNsense 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.
Other
- Stateful firewall on pf
- VPN suite
- Suricata IDS and IPS
- Full configuration API
- High availability
- Weekly update cadence
People bring OPNsense in for replacing a small business firewall appliance whose renewal quote exceeded the cost of the hardware, branch offices where the firewall configuration must be produced by ansible rather than by hand, sites that need wireguard and intrusion prevention on the same box without separate feature licences, a homelab or lab network needing vlan routing, multi-wan and dns filtering on one machine. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to OPNsense are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Networking
Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPNsense (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs OPNsense |
| Cisco Meraki | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | vs OPNsense |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs OPNsense |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs OPNsense |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs OPNsense |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs OPNsense |
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 OPNsense badges page.
Before you pay for OPNsense
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: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
OPNsense runs on x86-64 appliances, virtual machines, deciso hardware, and is published by Deciso B.V. of Middelharnis, South Holland, Netherlands. The full record is on the OPNsense review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
OPNsense pricing questions
- How much does OPNsense cost?
- OPNsense publishes 2 tiers, from Free for OPNsense Community Edition up to On request for OPNsense Business Edition. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does OPNsense have a free plan?
- Yes. The OPNsense Community Edition tier costs nothing and covers mit licence with no feature restrictions, all vpn, ids and ha features included, weekly updates and two major releases a year.
- What is the difference between OPNsense Community Edition and OPNsense Business Edition on OPNsense?
- OPNsense Business Edition costs On request against Free, and adds stabilised update track lagging community releases, commercial support from deciso, additional enterprise plugins and configuration backup, sold as an annual subscription per installation.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside OPNsense have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense.
- What am I actually paying for with OPNsense?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for replacing a small business firewall appliance whose renewal quote exceeded the cost of the hardware, branch offices where the firewall configuration must be produced by ansible rather than by hand, sites that need wireguard and intrusion prevention on the same box without separate feature licences.
- Does OPNsense charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 OPNsense 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 OPNsense against before paying?
- The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, Cisco Meraki, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN. Each has a side-by-side comparison with OPNsense covering price, platforms and features.