Core firewall, routing, and VPN capability is free on any hardware, permanently — not a trial, not a bait-and-switch. Pro adds multi-site scale, advanced security, and official support.
The Community Edition isn't released yet — it's on our roadmap, planned as a genuinely free, permanently-supported tier, not a crippled trial. This page shows what's planned once it ships.
Go to Download Page →Everything below in the Pro column is what you get today when you buy a Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced NTPSense appliance — full feature set, no waiting.
See Pricing →| Feature | CE | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| NETWORK | ||
| Interfaces (WAN/LAN/DMZ/GUESTNET zones) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-WAN failover | Basic (2 WAN) | ✓ Unlimited |
| Dedicated/shared WAN-aware preference | — | ✓ |
| SD-WAN quality-based routing | — | ✓ |
| NAT | ✓ | ✓ |
| High Availability (clustering) | — | ✓ |
| FIREWALL & PROXY | ||
| Firewall rules, all zones | ✓ | ✓ |
| Squid proxy, blocklists, filtering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Proxy report export (CSV/XLSX) | Last 7 days | ✓ Full history |
| SECURITY | ||
| Threat Intelligence feed | — | ✓ |
| VPN | ||
| WireGuard / IPsec / OpenVPN | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site Mesh VPN | — | ✓ Unlimited sites |
| DERP relay tuning & node health dashboard | — | ✓ |
| SERVICES & SYSTEM | ||
| DHCP / DNS / NTP | ✓ | ✓ |
| System Logs | Recent, short retention | ✓ Long retention + export |
| Package Manager | ✓ (core packages) | ✓ + Premium packages (e.g. Suricata IDS/IPS) |
| Admin accounts | 1 admin | ✓ Multi-admin, custom roles, 2FA |
| Official support | Community only | ✓ |
Every feature marked "CE" above is free forever, on any hardware you own — not a time-limited trial. We won't move a feature from CE to Pro after you've come to depend on it. If our plans ever change here, we'll announce it well in advance, with a real reason, not overnight. That's a deliberate choice — we'd rather you trust NTPSense enough to build on it than squeeze short-term revenue out of a feature you already assumed was free.
Every hardware tier ships with the full Pro feature set — no separate upgrade needed.