Open Source Prisma Access Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Prisma Access.
The best open source alternative to Prisma Access is Pangolin. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Prisma Access alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Prisma Access alternatives are mainly Network Security but may also be Networking & Connectivity. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Prisma Access.
Self-hostable SASE platform built on WireGuard that unites a zero trust VPN, reverse proxy and identity aware AI gateway.
Pangolin connects users to private resources and decides what each may reach, in one system. The large commercial platforms got that pairing right but shipped it as a heavyweight closed stack locked to their cloud. Pangolin unifies the same way in the open, on infrastructure you choose.
It is built on WireGuard. Site connectors open outbound tunnels with NAT traversal, so a network behind a restrictive firewall becomes reachable without public IPs or open ports, from a user space binary light enough for modest hardware. Sites, proxy, client access, role based control and the AI gateway share one identity and policy model.
Access reaches resources along several paths.
- Browser based proxy: HTTPS apps plus VNC, RDP and SSH sessions open in a browser with single sign-on and no client to install.
- Client tunnels: peer to peer access to SSH servers, databases, RDP and whole network ranges, with DNS aliases for friendly names.
- Zero trust policy: access is granted per resource, not per network, with identity provider sync, role based access control and audit logs.
- AI gateway: an identity aware proxy fronts cloud and self-hosted model servers, with budgets, session history and usage analytics on each call.
- Traffic handling: routing, load balancing, health checks and automatic SSL certificates are handled for you.
The Community Edition is free under AGPL-3. An open core Enterprise Edition adds more features and stays free for personal use and for businesses under 100,000 dollars of annual revenue, while Pangolin Cloud is hosted for you. Self-hosting starts from the quick install guide or a DigitalOcean image.
