

They also come with pfSense Plus included at no charge, whereas pfSense Community Edition is the version used for personal hardware.

While pfSense can be installed on older hardware or even virtualized, Netgate does sell devices that you can purchase which are extremely powerful and come with pfSense preinstalled. pfSense is as customizable as you want it to be, meaning that you can simply use it as a basic firewall and DHCP server, or customize it thoroughly and create VLANs, install packages, and even run WireGuard or OpenVPN on it to ensure you can access your network from anywhere. PfSense is a free, open-source firewall and router based on FreeBSD, created and maintained by Netgate. OpenWrt, we will look at both operating systems to determine the key differences.
