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Polfence vs Twingate

Zero Trust network access · Twingate Inc., Redwood City, United States

Twingate is a well-designed ZTNA product: resources instead of subnets, connectors that dial out, device policies and a clean admin experience. It replaces a VPN concentrator convincingly and its documentation is good.

Polfence covers the same ZTNA ground, adds site-to-site connectivity on plain WireGuard, an obfuscated per-device tunnel, DNS hosting and filtering, remote desktop and monitoring, and packages the compliance side (DPA, NIS2 readiness, audit export) for European organisations. The vendor is EU-owned and everything is processed in France and the Netherlands.

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Feature by feature

Reviewed September 2026. Twingate details are taken from public documentation; plans and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you decide.

Capability	Polfence	Twingate
EU data residency, EU-owned vendor	Yes Polish company, hosted in Paris and Amsterdam	No US company; check where the control plane runs
GDPR DPA included	Yes Available in the dashboard	Check vendor DPA offered by the vendor; check processing locations
NIS2 readiness report	Yes Article 21 assessment + printable report	No
ZTNA, per-app least privilege	Yes	Yes Resource-level access
Device posture checks	Yes Disk encryption, firewall, screen lock, OS version	Yes Device security policies
Just-in-time access	Yes Request, approve, time-boxed grant	Check vendor Check vendor for current access-request features
SSO + SCIM provisioning	Yes OIDC (Entra ID, Google, Okta) + SCIM 2.0	Yes
DPI-resistant tunnel	Yes Perimeter engine, obfuscated WireGuard	Check vendor TLS-based transport; not marketed as obfuscation
Site-to-site router configs (plain WireGuard)	Yes UniFi, MikroTik, pfSense, OPNsense, OpenWrt	No Connectors (Linux, Docker, VM); no router WireGuard export
DNS filtering resolver	Yes Polfence Shield, DoH, EU upstream	Yes DNS filtering on higher plans
Authoritative DNS + zone kill switch	Yes	No
Dynamic DNS (dyndns2)	Yes	No
Remote desktop	Yes Polfence Connect, consent-gated	No
Uptime monitors + public status pages	Yes HTTP/TCP/DNS, public /s/ pages, badge	No
Public API	Yes REST v1 + OpenAPI	Yes GraphQL admin API
Audit trail + signed webhooks	Yes HMAC-signed, Slack/Teams/JSON, CSV export	Partial Event logs; SIEM export on higher plans
Pricing model	Flat plan per account: Free, Pro and Business monthly. Enterprise on request.	Per user per month; small free tier

available partly or with limits not offered unsure, check vendor— not applicable

Why teams switch to Polfence

EU-owned vendor with EU-only processing and a DPA available without a sales call.
NIS2 Article 21 readiness assessment and a printable report your auditor can file.
Site-to-site on the routers you already have, using plain WireGuard.
Just-in-time grants that expire on their own instead of standing access.
Remote desktop, DNS hosting and uptime monitoring in the same console.
Flat plan pricing.

Where Twingate is stronger

Deeper ZTNA-specific tooling for large organisations, including more granular resource policies and reporting.
More client platforms and MDM deployment guides.
A larger set of pre-built identity provider and security-tool integrations.

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