| Features | 1010 | 1120 | 1140 |
| Throughput: Firewall (FW) + Application Visibility and Control (AVC) (1024B) | 650 Mbps | 1.5 Gbps | 2.2 Gbps |
| Throughput: FW + AVC + Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) (1024B) | 650 Mbps | 1.5 Gbps | 2.2 Gbps |
| Maximum concurrent sessions, with AVC | 100K | 200K | 400K |
| Maximum new connections per second, with AVC | 6K | 15K | 22K |
| Transport Layer Security (TLS) | 150 Mbps | 700 Mbps | 1 Gbps |
| Throughput: NGIPS (1024B) | 650 Mbps | 1.5 Gbps | 2.2 Gbps |
| IPSec VPN throughput (1024B TCP w/Fastpath) | 300 Mbps | 1 Gbps | 1.2 Gbps |
| Maximum VPN Peers | 75 | 150 | 400 |
| Firepower Device Manager (local management) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Centralized management | Centralized configuration, logging, monitoring, and reporting are performed by the Management Center or alternatively in the cloud with Defense Orchestrator | | |
| AVC | Standard, supporting more than 4000 applications, as well as geolocations, users, and websites | | |
| AVC: OpenAppID support for custom, open-source application detectors | Standard | | |
| Security Intelligence | Standard, with IP, URL, and DNS threat intelligence | | |
| Firepower NGIPS | Available; can passively detect endpoints and infrastructure for threat correlation and Indicators of Compromise (IoC) intelligence | | |
| Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Networks | Available; enables detection, blocking, tracking, analysis, and containment of targeted and persistent malware, addressing the attack continuum both during and after attacks. Integrated threat correlation with AMP for Endpoints is also optionally available. | | |
| AMP Threat Grid sandboxing | Available | | |
| URL filtering: number of categories | More than 80 | | |
| URL filtering: number of URLs categorized | More than 280 million | | |
| Automated threat feed and IPS signature updates | Yes: class-leading Collective Security Intelligence (CSI) from the Talos® group | | |
| Third-party and open-source ecosystem | Open API for integrations with third-party products; Snort® and OpenAppID community resources for new and specific threats | | |
| High availability and clustering | Active/standby | | |
