Best Captive Portal Software in 2026: 10 Tools Compared

VoqadoWiFi is a captive portal platform and appears as entry number one below; the order follows positioning, not merit. We have a commercial interest in you choosing us, and our founder, Pierre Subeh, has a direct financial interest in VoqadoWiFi. To make this list worth reading anyway, we quote competitor prices only as shown on each vendor's own page and link it, we list real strengths for every competitor, and we name the situations where VoqadoWiFi is the wrong product. The headline one: we support TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti UniFi only.

VoqadoWiFi is a guest WiFi login for venues on TP-Link Omada or Ubiquiti UniFi. You design the login in the portal builder, guests land in a guest list you can export, review requests go to every guest alike once guest email is live at your venue, and Growth adds Mailchimp sync and email campaigns, which are not live yet. We publish this list, so weigh this entry as the interested party it is. Full plan detail is on the pricing page, and supported controllers are listed under hardware integrations.

Beambox sells guest WiFi marketing per venue at $40, $60 or $80 a month billed yearly, works with several network vendors, and includes a Plug & Play Beambox in the 30 day trial if your hardware is not supported. Growth adds email journeys, segmentation and Mailchimp, Zapier and Twilio integrations; Pro adds SMS, an API and its Review Automator.

Social WiFi prices per venue by visitor country (a US food and beverage venue was shown $69 a month) and prices hotels by room count. It lists 21 hardware integrations, CRM integrations, an API and a white label service, with a 14 day free trial and no card. See our VoqadoWiFi vs Social WiFi comparison for detail.

Purple says it is "Trusted by enterprises in 90+ countries". Its free Connect tier gives a branded captive portal and network analytics; guest data capture, CRM integration and email verification are listed in Capture, which is priced by quote with Engage. It lists 25 hardware integrations and also offers staff WiFi, Passpoint and xPSK.

Zenreach now trades as Adentro. Its homepage leads with ad attribution: "Walk-Through Rate proves which ads drove real in-store visits". It says "No new hardware. Live in days." and sells through a demo with no published prices.

StayFi is built for short term and vacation rentals. Its pricing page says "starting at just $19/month" through a calculator, sells its own access points and a StayFi Express device, and offers email marketing free up to 200 contacts with an active access point or PMS integration.

Tanaza calls itself a "hardware-agnostic", "cloud-based" platform for managed Wi-Fi services: centralised configuration, monitoring, APIs, and apps including Social Login and Wi-Fi monetization. Its pricing page lists Basic, free for up to 3 devices, and Pro at $1.99 per device a month or $19.99 per device a year, with unlimited devices.

Cloudi-Fi presents guest access as a security problem: a cloud captive portal with social logins, SAML and corporate identity providers, plus Zero Trust access, Cloud NAC and 802.1X. It says it is "Infrastructure agnostic" and sells by quote.

MyWiFi Networks is "The white-label WiFi marketing platform resellers actually own". It publishes reseller tiers from $49 a month (Starter) to $1,799 (Summit), lists 22 hardware vendors and offers a 14 day free trial.

Spotipo is cloud only ("We do not offer self-hosted versions"). Starter is $59 per location a month or $49 billed annually, with up to 2,000 unique guests a month; Pro is $79. Its pricing page names nine router brands "+20 more", lists Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo and Zapier sync on Starter, and sells timed WiFi through Stripe on Pro.

Start with your hardware, not the feature list

The single fastest way to eliminate options is to name your access points first. Portal software that does not speak to your controller cannot be fixed with features. If you run Omada or UniFi your shortlist is wide. If you run anything else, several products on this page are already out, including ours.

Match the pricing model to your growth curve

Per-location pricing is honest and simple at one site and painful at twenty. Per-access-point pricing suits stable networks and punishes dense deployments. Per-account tiers are cheapest for small multi-site groups but hit ceilings. Model your cost at the size you expect to be in two years, not the size you are today.

Decide whether reviews are the point

If your real objective is Google review volume, a platform with native review request timing will beat a network tool plus a separate email service. If your objective is network control across mixed vendors, the reverse is true. Very few teams need both equally.

Read the exit terms before the feature list

Contract length, data export format, and whether hardware was bundled into the deal determine how expensive it is to change your mind. Ask for a CSV export of guest records during evaluation, not after signature.

A paid product with the meter switched off for a fixed window. Useful for evaluation, useless for a venue that only needs a splash page occasionally. Most vendors on this page offer this; Purple's Connect tier is the other free plan, without guest data capture.

A permanently free plan with hard caps. VoqadoWiFi Starter is free forever with 500 logins per month at one location. That covers the whole flow end to end and most single venues; a second location, or a venue regularly above 500 logins a month, needs Growth.

Open source captive portal projects carry no licence fee. The cost moves to your infrastructure and your engineering hours. That is the cheapest option for a team that already runs servers and the most expensive for a team that does not. None of the ten products above is self hosted.

TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti UniFi are the two we support. Both have documented external portal support, and most platforms on this page list them too. VoqadoWiFi supports these two and only these two, and we do not promise a third.

Enterprise wireless is a different market. Estates on other enterprise vendors should be talking to Purple, Cloudi-Fi, Tanaza or Social WiFi. Do not let a general claim of wide compatibility substitute for a written confirmation of your controller and firmware.

Bundled hardware is convenience bought with lock-in. Vendors that sell you routers alongside the subscription remove the compatibility problem and create a switching cost. That trade is reasonable for a first venue and expensive across a portfolio.

Ask how the integration actually works. External portal redirect, RADIUS, and controller API integrations behave differently under load, during controller upgrades, and when your ISP changes. A vendor that cannot describe which method it uses on your hardware has not tested it on your hardware. Ours: an external portal redirect, then the Omada hotspot API or the UniFi controller API to let the device online. No RADIUS.

Captive portal software controls the branded login page a guest sees when they join a public WiFi network. It authenticates the session, records consent, and usually captures an identifier such as an email address. Marketing oriented platforms then attach a guest list, email and reporting to that capture. Network-oriented platforms focus instead on access control, bandwidth policy, and session logging.

Yes, in two forms. Open source projects are free of licence cost but you pay in hosting and maintenance time. Some commercial products publish a free tier with limits: our Starter plan is free forever with 500 logins a month at one location, and Purple's Connect tier is free but lists guest data capture in its paid Capture tier. Most other vendors on this page offer a time limited trial, which is a different thing.

Usually not, provided your controller is supported. VoqadoWiFi works with TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti UniFi deployments you already own and requires no hardware replacement for those two ecosystems. Other platforms in this list support wider vendor ranges, and a few sell their own routers, which is convenient but creates lock-in. Confirm compatibility against your exact controller version before you buy anything.

Each product is sold as captive portal or guest WiFi software in 2026, serves a buyer we can name, and has public pages we could check. Every competitor line was re-read from the vendor's own site on 9 October 2026 and is linked under its entry; where a page said nothing, we say so instead of guessing. VoqadoWiFi publishes this page and is one of the listed options.

For one venue the deciding factors are usually setup effort and whether you can start without a sales call. A free tier or a turnkey hardware bundle both remove friction. If you already run Omada or UniFi, a per-account platform with a free tier lets you test before committing. If you have no controller at all, a vendor that sells the hardware with the software will get you live faster even though it costs more later.

The terms overlap heavily. Captive portal software emphasises the login and access layer: authentication, session control, consent, and the splash page itself. WiFi marketing software emphasises what happens after capture: segmentation, campaigns, review requests, and attribution. Most commercial products in 2026 do both, but their centre of gravity differs, which is why our comparison of WiFi marketing platforms ranks the same vendors differently.

Purple lists 25 hardware integrations, Social WiFi 21, MyWiFi Networks 22, and Tanaza and Cloudi-Fi describe themselves as hardware or infrastructure agnostic. VoqadoWiFi supports only TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti UniFi and should be ruled out on anything else. Ask any vendor to confirm your exact controller and firmware version in writing.