Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber vs Fortinet FortiGate 400G: Specs & Price Comparison

Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber

★ 5.0 Value Score

Firewall Throughput: Not published by Ubiquiti; 5 Gbps IDS/IPS-secured routing throughput is the only headline figure (reviewer and retailer listings)
Threat Prevention Throughput: 5 Gbps IDS/IPS
IPsec VPN Throughput: Not published
Max Sessions: Not published; 500+ simultaneous users and 4,000-entry MAC address table
New Sessions/sec: Not published
Interfaces: 2x 10G SFP+; 1x 10GbE RJ45 (10G/2.5G/1G); 4x 2.5GbE RJ45 (2.5G/1G/100M/10M); 2 of the 6 WAN-capable ports are default WAN (1x 10G SFP+ and 1x 10GbE RJ45), with the other ports selectable as WAN
Form Factor: Compact desktop; 212.8 x 127.6 x 30 mm; 675 g without SSD
CPU / RAM: Quad-core ARM Cortex-A73 at 2.2 GHz / 3 GB RAM
Storage: Optional NVMe SSD up to 2 TB (NVR storage)
PoE Budget: 30W total from one PoE+ port (port 4)
Max Power Consumption: 29.4W excluding PoE output

✔ Pros: Lowest-cost Ubiquiti gateway with 5 Gbps IDS/IPS, rated above the UDM-SE's 3.5 Gbps at a lower launch price ($279 MSRP vs. $499); Multi-gig flexibility with 10GBASE-T, dual SFP+ and four 2.5GbE ports; Compact desktop design with optional NVMe storage for UniFi Protect/NVR use; Supports site-to-site VPN plus OpenVPN, WireGuard and L2TP server functions, with integrated PoE+ for one device; Managed through the UniFi Network controller with 500+ simultaneous user capacity
✘ Cons: No official routing, IPsec or WireGuard throughput figures published by Ubiquiti; community WireGuard numbers (around 400-500 Mbps) are unverified; Only one PoE+ output port (30W total) versus eight PoE ports on the UDM-SE; Lower device and user capacity and less storage expansion than the UDM-SE; No published IPsec tunnel or concurrent session limits; Reseller prices now often run above the launch MSRP (about $320-$346 USD at US resellers)
Est. Price: $279 - $346

Fortinet FortiGate 400G

★ 4.8 Value Score

Firewall Throughput: 164 Gbps (reseller-sourced; verify against Fortinet datasheet)
Threat Prevention Throughput: 13 Gbps (NGFW 14 Gbps, IPS 25 Gbps)
IPsec VPN Throughput: 55 Gbps (512-byte packets)
Max Sessions: 28,000,000 concurrent TCP sessions
New Sessions/sec: 580,000 new TCP sessions per second
Interfaces: 4 x 25GbE SFP28, 4 x 10GbE SFP+, 16 x GbE SFP, 8 x 5GbE RJ45, 1 x 2.5GbE HA, 1 x GbE management
Form Factor: 1U rackmount
Power Supply: Dual AC PSU (1+1 redundancy)
Variant Note: FG-401G adds 960 GB onboard SSD storage (2 x 480 GB)

✔ Pros: High firewall and IPsec VPN throughput for a 1U appliance; 25GbE uplink ports suit modern data center and edge aggregation; 28M concurrent sessions and 580K new sessions/sec handle large user and IoT populations; Dual AC power supplies provide hardware redundancy; Mixed port density (SFP28, SFP+, GbE SFP, 5GbE RJ45) supports multi-speed deployments; FG-401G variant offers onboard SSD storage for logging and reporting
✘ Cons: Threat prevention throughput (about 13 Gbps) is well below the 164 Gbps firewall figure, so real-world inspection performance needs careful sizing; No official bare-unit list price was found; quoted prices are reseller bundles that include multi-year FortiCare and FortiGuard licensing; Recurring subscription licensing significantly raises total cost of ownership; Specs were gathered from reseller and third-party sources and not verified against Fortinet's primary datasheet; Port counts and interface breakdown vary between sources, so confirm before purchasing
Est. Price: $29,538 - $80,924

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