Skip to content
InfratoApp
InfratoApp / Resources / Open-source alternatives / Sophos Firewall

Open-source alternatives to Sophos Firewall

2 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Sophos Firewall. pfSense is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

1 / 2
Pushed in the last 90 days
0 / 2
With a container command
2 / 2
Permissive licence
Sophos Firewall’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Sophos Firewall
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
pfSense5,757SlowingPermissive○PHP
Opnsense4,741ActivePermissive○PHP

Each one, briefly

  • pfSense5,757 stars · permissive · slowing

    Main repository for pfSense

    Also replaces UniFi Security Gateway

  • Opnsense4,741 stars · permissive · active

    OPNsense GUI, API and systems backend

    Also replaces UniFi Security Gateway

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Sophos Firewall comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Sophos Firewall. Browse every open-source alternative.