Fortinet FortiSASE vs Palo Alto Prisma Access

Fortinet FortiSASE and Palo Alto Prisma Access are both sase & zero trust solutions. Fortinet FortiSASE converged SASE platform powered by FortiOS with competitive pricing and integrated SD-WAN, while Palo Alto Prisma Access enterprise SASE platform extending Palo Alto's next-gen firewall to cloud-delivered security. The best choice depends on your organization's size, technical requirements, and budget.

Choose Fortinet FortiSASE if most competitive pricing makes enterprise SASE accessible to mid-market is your priority and mid-market and large enterprises with existing Fortinet infrastructure that want SASE with integrated SD-WAN at competitive pricing. Choose Palo Alto Prisma Access if seamless policy extension for existing Palo Alto NGFW customers matters most and enterprises already invested in Palo Alto Networks firewalls that want to extend their security policies to a cloud-delivered SASE architecture.

Palo Alto Prisma Access starts at Custom enterprise pricing / Per-user or per-Mbps models (per-user or bandwidth-based annual subscription). Fortinet FortiSASE starts at Custom pricing / Per-user tiers starting lower than Zscaler (per-user annual subscription with tiered bundles). As always, the sticker price only tells part of the story. Factor in add-ons, implementation costs, and what's actually included at each tier.

It depends on how deeply Fortinet FortiSASE is embedded in your stack. Most teams run both in parallel for a few weeks before cutting over. Check whether Palo Alto Prisma Access supports importing your existing configs or policies. That's usually the biggest time sink.