Batfish vs FireWeave
Batfish
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| Figure | Batfish | FireWeave |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Network Security Policy Management Software | 7.9 (#4) | 7.4 (#10) |
| Deployment | The project provides an all-in-one Docker container that includes Batfish and example Jupyter notebooks. | Each customer gets a dedicated instance that can be self-hosted in its environment or run as a managed deployment; disconnected environments can import configuration snapshots. |
| Integrations | The maker documents Ansible modules for extracting and validating configuration facts and asserting network behavior in playbooks. | Listed integrations include Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco FMC, Azure Firewall, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cisco ACI, Juniper, Illumio, F5, Infoblox, ServiceNow, and JIRA. |
| Support | The maker directs users with questions or feature requests to its Slack community or GitHub repository. | Every quote includes onboarding and deployment support. |
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In their own words
Batfish
Batfish is an open-source tool for analyzing network device configurations and validating network behavior. It works from configuration files, so core analysis does not require direct access to network devices. Teams can inspect deployed configurations and check planned changes before deployment. Checks cover undefined references, MTU and AAA settings, template compliance, sensitive-service reachability and expected traffic paths. Batfish can test whether end-to-end reachability survives any single-link or single-device failure, compare current and planned reachability, assess ACL or firewall changes and evaluate functional equivalence across vendors. Pybatfish provides a Python 3 SDK, and example Jupyter notebooks are available. An all-in-one Docker container bundles Batfish and notebooks. It runs on operating systems supporting Docker. Documented support includes Arista, AWS, Azure, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks and SONiC, while Aruba, Dell Force10 and Foundry have limited support.