NGFW Cost Estimator
Estimate 3-year total cost of ownership for a distributed enterprise NGFW deployment, built from the published hardware, subscription, and professional-services figures in our NGFW pricing guide. Every branch and hub site is assumed to run a redundant HA pair, since that is the minimum for a production deployment. All calculations run client-side.
Each site gets a redundant HA pair of branch-tier appliances.
Adds one mid-range appliance HA pair (FortiGate 600F / PA-3420 tier) for campus core or data center perimeter.
Fortinet FortiGate
| Hardware (22 units, HA pairs) | $115,000 |
| Subscriptions (3 years) | $49,500 |
| Centralized management (3 years) | $8,000 |
| Professional services | $16,500 |
Palo Alto Networks
| Hardware (22 units, HA pairs) | $310,000 |
| Subscriptions (3 years) | $132,000 |
| Centralized management (3 years) | $15,000 |
| Professional services | $27,500 |
Where these numbers come from: branch and hub hardware figures use FortiGate 100F/600F and Palo Alto PA-450/PA-3420 average list pricing; subscription figures use blended threat-prevention bundle averages; professional services scale linearly from the worked 500-user, 10-site example in our NGFW pricing guide. Check Point Quantum pricing is comparable at the hub tier ($10,000-$15,000 per gateway) but has no published branch-tier figure, so it is not included in this estimator — see the Fortinet vs Check Point comparison for a feature-level breakdown. Actual quotes vary with reseller discounting (commonly 20-45% off list) and specific subscription bundle selection — treat this as a planning estimate, not a vendor quote.
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