# Firezone review (2026): is the free plan enough? > WireGuard-based zero-trust remote access for teams Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Firezone is a remote-access product for teams that builds on WireGuard and replaces a traditional VPN with identity-based access to servers and apps. Gateways make only outbound connections, access is tied to an identity provider, and policies can check device and location conditions. The code is on GitHub under an Apache-2.0 license. - **Category:** VPNs - **Made by:** Firezone - **Website:** https://www.firezone.dev - **Runs on:** macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you grow past 6 users, 10 service accounts or, on Team, 500 users. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Firezone has a free plan, and paid plans start at $50 per seat / year ($5 per seat / month billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Starter plan: free for up to 6 users and 10 service accounts, no credit card required. - **Free trial:** 30-day trial of Enterprise on request through sales. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | | Enterprise | Custom | 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. | Read from https://www.firezone.dev/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Firezone before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 17% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows $50 per seat a year for Team against $5 a month, and $80 against $8 for Business. Source: https://www.firezone.dev/pricing ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Small teams and homelabs on the free plan for up to 6 users - IT teams replacing a legacy VPN with identity-based access - Companies that need device checks before granting access ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Firezone builds on WireGuard so a team can reach servers and apps through its identity provider, with outbound-only gateways. The free Starter plan stops at 6 users, and directory sync and device posture checks need Business at $80 a seat a year. - **Value for money: C.** Team is $50 a seat a year, about $4.17 a month, in the middle of a category that runs $3.99 to $8. Business is $80 a seat a year. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Starter is free for 6 users and 10 service accounts with no card. A very small team could live on it. - **Features: C.** WireGuard with outbound-only gateways, identity sign-in, resource policies and audit logs. The gaps: directory sync and device posture checks are Business only, and production self-hosting is not officially supported. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You connect an identity provider, gateways and policies before anyone can use it. - **Platforms and integrations: A.** Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android clients, a REST API, and links to Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Intune, Splunk and Datadog. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Firezone's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among VPNs - Firezone's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 31 of the 50 other VPNs we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 46 of 50) and worst on features (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $4.17 a month when paid by the year for each person, against a middle price of $4.99 for the category: 13 of the 40 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/vpn ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Firezone you would be making servers in dozens of countries, kept fast and private. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $50 a year. Firezone is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: Servers in dozens of countries, kept fast and private. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Okta, Entra ID and Google Workspace among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Intune, Splunk, Datadog, Elastic **Tags:** VPN, Open source, Public API ## Alternatives - [OpenVPN](https://toolgpa.com/tools/openvpn): Open-source VPN protocol plus business VPN products built on it. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firezone-vs-openvpn) - [WireGuard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wireguard): Free, open-source VPN protocol and tunnel software. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firezone-vs-wireguard) - [NordLayer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nordlayer): Business VPN and network access control from Nord Security. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firezone-vs-nordlayer) - [SoftEther VPN](https://toolgpa.com/tools/softether-vpn): Free multi-protocol VPN server and client from a Japanese university. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firezone-vs-softether-vpn) - [Outline VPN](https://toolgpa.com/tools/outline-vpn): Open-source software for running your own VPN server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firezone-vs-outline-vpn) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.firezone.dev/pricing - https://www.firezone.dev - https://github.com/firezone/firezone Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/firezone Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).