Every UniFi gateway, side by side.

The gateway is the box the internet plugs into. It is the router, the firewall and the brain that runs the rest of the UniFi gear. The steps up buy you speed, more devices, camera recording, and built-in power for the gear. This page shows which step buys what.

Three gateways cover most jobs.

Every model, every number that matters.

Cheapest on the left. Scroll sideways on a phone. Prices are all-in, the number you pay at checkout, and they update daily.

Model	UniFi Express	Cloud Gateway Ultra	UniFi Express 7	Cloud Gateway Max	Dream Router 7	Cloud Gateway Fiber	Dream Machine Pro	Dream Machine SE	Dream Router 5G Max	Cloud Gateway Industrial	Dream Machine Pro Max	Dream Wall	Dream Machine Beast	Enterprise Fortress Gateway	Enterprise Firewall Core
Price, all in	Ask us	$182 all-in	$307 all-in	$307 all-in	$431 all-in	$431 all-in	$588 all-in	$771 all-in	$771 all-in	$895 all-in	$926 all-in	$1,487 all-in	$2,319 all-in	$2,879 all-in	$5,415 all-in
Best for	One room. A rental, a kiosk, a cabin. Four UniFi devices, no more.	A home or small office with its own access points and no cameras. The floor of the real UniFi line.	A flat or a small office where one Wi-Fi point in the router is enough.	A home or office with up to five cameras and no rack. The sweet spot for most houses.	A small home that wants one box: router, Wi-Fi, and a single camera.	A home or office on a fibre internet line, or one that needs 10 gigabit inside.	A business with a rack. Offices, clinics, shops with up to eight cameras.	A small business that wants the gateway and the PoE switch in one box.	A site with no wired internet, or one that must stay up if the fibre is cut. A construction trailer, a rural house, a shop.	A plant, a yard, an unheated building. Where a normal gateway would freeze or fill with dust.	A business with 10 to 15 cameras, or one that wants a backup drive.	A small office or shop with no rack and no closet. Everything on one wall plate.	A building. A campus. Forty cameras and hundreds of devices from one box.	A large office or a data room where the gateway is only a firewall and cameras live elsewhere.	A campus core. Far beyond any building we would put UniFi in.
Routing speed with security on	n/a	1 Gbps	2.3 Gbps	2.3 Gbps	2.3 Gbps	5 Gbps	3.5 Gbps	3.5 Gbps	2.3 Gbps	5 Gbps	5 Gbps	3.5 Gbps	25 Gbps	12.5 Gbps	79 Gbps
UniFi devices it can run	4	30+	30+	30+	30+	50+	100+	100+	30+	50+	200+	100+	750+	500+	2,250+
Phones and laptops	50+	300+	300+	300+	300+	500+	1,000+	1,000+	300+	500+	2,000+	300+	7,500+	5,000+	22,500+
Records cameras	No	No	No	5 at 4K	1 at 4K	5 at 4K	8 at 4K	8 at 4K	1 at 4K	5 at 4K	15 at 4K	4 at 4K	40 at 4K	No	No
Where video is stored	Does not record	Does not record	Does not record	SSD you add	Does not record	SSD you add	One hard drive bay	One hard drive bay	microSD card	microSD card	Two hard drive bays	Built-in	Two hard drive bays	Does not record	Does not record
Wi-Fi built in	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Powers gear over the cable	No	No	No	No	15.4 W	30 W	No	180 W	15.4 W	Yes, 270 W	No	420 W	No	No	No
Fast ports	Gigabit	2.5 gig	10 gig copper	2.5 gig	10 gig fibre	10 gig fibre, 10 gig copper	10 gig fibre	10 gig fibre	10 gig fibre	10 gig fibre, 10 gig copper	10 gig fibre	10 gig fibre	25 gig fibre, 10 gig fibre, 10 gig copper	25 gig fibre, 10 gig fibre	100 gig, 25 gig fibre, 10 gig copper
Rack or shelf	Shelf	Shelf	Shelf	Shelf	Shelf	Shelf	Rack, 1U	Rack, 1U	Shelf	Shelf	Rack, 1U	Wall panel	Rack, 1U	Rack, 1U	Rack, 1U
Power draw	10 W	6.2 W	22 W	16.1 W	26 W	29.4 W	33 W	50 W	34.5 W	28 W	60 W	532 W	100 W	82 W	171 W

Specs from techspecs.ui.com, checked against the live pages. Prices from the Ubiquiti Canada store including the memory surcharge the product pages hide. Ask us means Ubiquiti has not listed a Canadian price we can verify yet.

What the next dollar buys you.

Read down the list. Each line is what you gain by moving up one model.

1. UniFi Express

   Ask us

   Step up to Cloud Gateway Ultra: Thirty devices instead of four, five ports, and room for a real network. Bring your own access point.

2. Cloud Gateway Ultra

   $182 all-in

   Step up to UniFi Express 7: +$125 Wi-Fi 7 built in and 2.3 gigabit routing, if you would rather not buy a separate access point.

3. UniFi Express 7

   $307 all-in

   Step up to Cloud Gateway Max: Same price A slot for a drive, so five 4K cameras record straight into the gateway. You give up the built-in Wi-Fi.

4. Cloud Gateway Max

   $307 all-in

   Step up to Dream Router 7: +$124 Five gigabit routing, fibre ports, 30 watts of PoE, 50 devices. Same five cameras.

5. Dream Router 7

   $431 all-in

   Step up to Cloud Gateway Fiber: Same price Fibre ports, five gigabit routing, 30 watts of PoE and five cameras instead of one.

6. Cloud Gateway Fiber

   $431 all-in

   Step up to Dream Machine Pro: +$157 A real hard drive bay and eight 4K cameras. A rack box for a business.

7. Dream Machine Pro

   $588 all-in

   Step up to Dream Machine SE: +$183 180 watts of PoE built in. The only rack gateway that powers its own cameras.

8. Dream Machine SE

   $771 all-in

   Step up to Dream Router 5G Max: Same price Two drive bays, 15 cameras, five gigabit routing, 200 devices.

9. Dream Router 5G Max

   $771 all-in

   Step up to Cloud Gateway Industrial: +$124 A rugged box rated to minus 30 with 90 watt PoE ports, for a plant or a yard.

10. Cloud Gateway Industrial

    $895 all-in

    Step up to Dream Machine Pro Max: +$31 Two drive bays and 15 cameras in a rack box.

11. Dream Machine Pro Max

    $926 all-in

    Step up to Dream Wall: +$561 A whole wall panel: gateway, 17 port PoE switch, Wi-Fi and recorder in one unit on the wall.

12. Dream Wall

    $1,487 all-in

    Step up to Dream Machine Beast: +$832 25 gigabit routing, 40 cameras, 750 devices. The top of the camera-capable line.

13. Dream Machine Beast

    $2,319 all-in

    Step up to Enterprise Fortress Gateway: +$560 A firewall with no recorder at all. You have left the camera world.

14. Enterprise Fortress Gateway

    $2,879 all-in

    Step up to Enterprise Firewall Core: +$2,536 79 gigabit routing and 100 gigabit ports. A core for a campus.

15. Enterprise Firewall Core

    $5,415 all-in

    Top of the line on this page.

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