OPNsense

Reader supplied reviews for OPNsense Average rating 9.4 from 9 review(s) What are your thoughts on OPNsense? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 25.124.723.122.7.1021.7.820.7.719.7.1018.7.1017.7.1216.7.1315.7.18 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 25.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-30 Votes: 1 It is a very good software for Firewalls and Ruters, simple, versatile, efficient, solid and stable. The only detail I have with this software is that it requires more power to manage certain services. Thing that in purchase with Pfsense does not require as much power to handle these packages. They have improved a lot over time, I remember trying it in 2017 until 2019 and it was really frustrating, as stability weakened with each update and therefore slowed, which I never spent with Pfsense in those years. I honestly don't offer a 10 for what I said before, it's not for modest cpu. Greetings and thank you all. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 24.1 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-02-10 Votes: 32 I have used a lot of FW OS's throughout the years but these days i stick with OPNsense Its been running very well for both on dedicated hw and in VMs. Previously i was using PFsense which is just as good but slightly different, mostly in the UI/features where OPNsense is fresh/uptodate and PFsense is more minimalistic and focused on total reliability. I switched over because OPNsense supported the newer tech which is what i needed, its not totally without issues though.. currently its undergoing some updates and its spitting quite some error logs for no reason. Everything works well though, i've not experienced any breaking changes but thats exactly why many people prefer PFsense. At the end of the day they are both great. Try either and stick with what you enjoy using. OPNsense's biggest weakpoint is easy IDS configuration, PFsense has a great plugin which is easy to setup... but aside the IDS config .. evrything else feels more intuitive and easier to setup/manage. OPNsense has more plugins, PFsense very few in comparison. OPNsense has a great UI, while PFsense has menus that are a mess but its do able. ... agh just try both and see what you like My vote goes to OPNsense Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 23.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-10-15 Votes: 11 I have used a lot of FW OS's throughout the years but these days i stick with OPNsense Its been running very well for both on dedicated hw and in VMs. Previously i was using PFsense which is just as good but slightly different, mostly in the UI/features where OPNsense is fresh/uptodate and PFsense is more minimalistic and focused on total reliability. I switched over because OPNsense supported the newer tech which is what i needed, its not totally without issues though.. currently its undergoing some updates and its spitting quite some error logs for no reason. Everything works well though, i've not experienced any breaking changes but thats exactly why many people prefer PFsense. At the end of the day they are both great. Try either and stick with what you enjoy using. OPNsense's biggest weakpoint is easy IDS configuration, PFsense has a great plugin which is easy to setup... but aside the IDS config .. evrything else feels more intuitive and easier to setup/manage. OPNsense has more plugins, PFsense very few in comparison. OPNsense has a great UI, while PFsense has menus that are a mess but its do able. ... agh just try both and see what you like My vote goes to OPNsense Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 9 reader reviews of OPNsense...