FortiGate Cloud vs. Control Plane
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | FortiGate Cloud | Control Plane |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.6 | 4.8 |
| Review count | 15 | 18 |
| Ease of use | 9.0 | 9.3 |
| Ease of setup | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| Quality of support | 9.1 | 9.9 |
| Meets requirements | 9.0 | 9.6 |
| NPS | 80 | 94.117647 |
| Small Business | 20.0% | 55.6% |
| Mid-Market | 66.7% | 38.9% |
| Enterprise | 13.3% | 5.6% |
| Total page views | 198 | 226 |
| Total LLM citations | 214 | 125 |
FortiGate Cloud
FortiGate Cloud is a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform designed to streamline the management, reporting, and analytics of FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls and associated devices. It simplifies network operations by offering centralized configuration management, zero-touch provisioning, and comprehensive visibility into the security posture of small to medium-sized businesses.
Control Plane
Control Plane is a cloud virtualization platform that enables devops teams to compose any combination of cloud infrastructure (bare metal, VMs, k8s, AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI) into one or more AI-native virtual clouds. Applications run at 99.999% availability, backed by an SLA, without added infrastructure complexity. Organizations use it to cut infrastructure costs by 30–50%, eliminate vendor lock-in, and securely deploy workloads, VMs, and AI agents across single-cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments from a single AI-enabled interface.