Which plan do I need? Monitor, Plus, Family or Pro

Which NetSecWall plan you need depends on one question first: do you want to block things, or only see them? Monitor ($50 a year) and Plus ($100 a year) watch and warn but cannot block anything. Family ($150 a year) adds blocking and parental controls, and Pro ($200 a year) adds a second blocking engine plus phone and webhook alerts. Every plan starts with the same 7-day trial with everything unlocked, so you can try the lot before choosing.

What each plan includes

Each plan includes everything in the plan before it.

Tabs your plan doesn't include stay visible but greyed out, with a tooltip saying what they do. The pricing page also lists the always-on background service under Pro's Alerts & 24/7 service.

Which NetSecWall plan fits you

Monitor: you want to see what your PC talks to

Every program with a connection, where it connects, how much it sends, and a searchable history of all of it. Monitor suits anyone who wants to understand their PC's traffic, for example to find what is using the connection in the background or which countries your apps talk to. It cannot block anything.

Plus: you want to be warned about suspicious traffic

Plus checks every address against public threat-intelligence lists and scores programs on 21 behavioral signals mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, such as a program checking in on a steady timer or a document opening a command shell. It tells you; it doesn't block. Choose it if you want the warnings and prefer to act on them yourself, and remember it is not an antivirus. See threat intelligence and detection.

Family: you want to block, or set limits for children

Family is the first plan that can block: an app with one click, a country, a website category, or everything at once, and Learning mode, which asks before a new program goes online. It includes parental controls: a content filter, an internet bedtime, a daily time limit and always-blocked apps, behind a password. It enforces through Windows Firewall. See parental controls: an overview.

Pro: you want everything, or you run another firewall manager

Pro adds the Packet filter (WFP) engine, NetSecWall's own filter in the Windows Filtering Platform, and Both engines together. That matters if another firewall manager already controls Windows Firewall: in Companion mode NetSecWall creates no Windows Firewall rules, so only the WFP engine can still block. Pro also adds phone alerts through ntfy and webhook alerts for when nobody is watching. See Windows Firewall rules or the WFP packet filter.

Prices, billing and devices

• Billed yearly. The app and some pages also show monthly figures ($5, $10, $15 and $20 a month), but only yearly plans can be bought today.
• Paid in cryptocurrency. USDC or USDT on several networks, a single payment for the year with no automatic renewal. Crypto orders are final, which is why the trial exists. See paying with USDC or USDT.
• Priced per device. A plan licenses the PC it is activated on.
• Introductory prices. These are launch prices; the current ones are always on the pricing page.
• No free tier. After the trial, NetSecWall locks until a plan is active.

Enterprise is separate

Organizations that want to manage NetSecWall across many PCs from their own server can use the NetSecWall Management Server. It is in beta, sold through sales rather than online, and priced by seats, from $299 a year for 25 seats, with every desktop feature on every seat. See the Enterprise page.