Comparison
The status quo for a lot of single-router networks isn't a competing product — it's a hand-rolled fail2ban setup that blocks traffic after it already arrives, with no shared intelligence from anyone else's attacks. Shield blackholes upstream, before traffic reaches your router at all, using a feed built from every peer on the network.
| SATIS Shield | Manual Host Firewall Rules | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $59/mo flat, per network | Free (your own time to build and maintain it) |
| Setup | Peer a BGP-capable router over GRE/WireGuard, no public ASN or multihoming required | Hand-roll fail2ban + static null routes yourself, and remember to maintain it |
| Trial | 14 days, no card required | — |
In dollars, yes. In effort and coverage, not really — a self-hosted setup only knows about attacks against your own servers, acts after the traffic already arrived at your host, and depends on you keeping the rules maintained. Shield blocks at the network edge before it reaches you, using attacks the whole peer network has already seen.
Yes — Shield doesn't replace your local firewall, it reduces what reaches it. Keep fail2ban or your existing rules as a second layer; many Shield customers do exactly that.
14 days free, no card • $59/mo only if you add a plan • Cancel anytime, self-service