Firezone vs WireGuard (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Firezone if

• Fits if you are a team of 6 or fewer that wants access tied to a sign-in
• Works for teams that already use Okta, Entra ID or Google Workspace

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you grow past 6 users, 10 service accounts or, on Team, 500 users
• Pricey if you need directory sync or device posture checks, which are on Business at $80 a seat a year
• Skip it if you want to self-host for production, because the GitHub page says that is not officially supported
• Watch out: the Enterprise trial is 30 days and only on request through sales
• Watch out: prices are for Firezone Cloud US, in dollars, with an EU region announced

Pick WireGuard if

• Fits if you are happy to run your own server and exchange keys by hand
• Works for people building a VPN or a provider's app on top of a small protocol

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a hosted VPN, as there are no provider servers
• Not for you if you want sign-in, users and policy, because those need other tools
• Too light for a team: pushing configuration to many people is outside its scope
• Watch out: the site says the project is under heavy development
• Watch out: the Mac and iPhone apps come from the App Store, and Android from Google Play or an APK

Firezone

• Starter is capped at 6 users and 10 service accounts; Team at 500 users.
• Directory sync and device posture checks need Business at $80 per seat / year.
• The GitHub page says production self-hosting is not officially supported; Firezone Cloud is the supported way to run it.
• Prices are for Firezone Cloud US, in US dollars; a Cloud EU region was announced on the pricing page.

WireGuard

• It is software, not a hosted VPN: there are no provider servers, and you supply the server and keys.
• Key distribution and pushed configuration are outside its scope, so users, sign-in and policy need other tools.
• The site says the project is under heavy development.
• The macOS and iOS apps are installed from the App Store, and the Android app from Google Play or as an APK.

Firezone

WireGuard with a Rust data plane

The site says it combines WireGuard with a Rust data plane tuned per operating system, and lists throughput figures from 2 Gbps on mobile to 7 Gbps and up on Linux, as tested.

Outbound-only gateways

Gateways only make outbound connections and never listen for traffic from the internet, so no firewall ports are opened.

Identity-provider sync

Syncs users and groups from Okta, Entra ID and Google Workspace on Business, so deactivating a person there signs them out of every device.

Device trust and posture checks

Checks a device certificate from an MDM and can use checks such as disk encryption and OS version, drawn from over 380 parameters from supported MDM and EDR tools.

Conditional policies

Policies can require a sign-in provider, location or time of day before a group reaches a resource.

WireGuard

Key-based tunnels

A connection is made by exchanging public keys between peers, and each peer lists the tunnel IP addresses it is allowed to send from.

Modern cryptography

Uses the Noise protocol framework, Curve25519, ChaCha20, Poly1305, BLAKE2, SipHash24 and HKDF.

Small codebase

Designed to be short enough for one person to review, in contrast to the larger IPsec and OpenVPN codebases, the project says.

Roaming

A connection can keep working as a peer's IP address changes.

Wide platform support

The install page lists Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and many Linux and BSD distributions, plus OpenWRT.

Firezone

• Starter$0

  Up to 6 users and 10 service accounts, native clients, email and OpenID Connect sign-in, resource-level policies, audit logs, a REST API and community support.

• Team$50

  per seat / year ($5 per seat / month billed monthly)

  Up to 500 users, full-tunnel routing, conditional access policies, a custom account slug and priority email support. Self-serve, no contract.

• Business$80

  per seat / year ($8 per seat / month billed monthly)

  Directory sync for Google, Entra ID and Okta, device posture checks, log sinks and SIEM integrations; up to 1,000 users, 200 service accounts, 200 sites. Per active seat.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited users, service accounts and sites, SOC 2 and pentest reports, a 99.9% uptime SLA, dedicated Slack or Teams support and white-glove onboarding.

WireGuard

• WireGuard$0

  Free software you set up and host yourself. The kernel components are GPLv2; other projects use MIT, BSD, Apache 2.0 or GPL licenses.

Firezone

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with annual billing

  The pricing page shows $50 per seat a year for Team against $5 a month, and $80 against $8 for Business.

WireGuard

No public discounts listed.