GlassWire
by GlassWire · Personal firewall and network monitor for PCs
BenchRank score
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Overview
GlassWire is a personal firewall and network monitor for PCs. It graphs current and past network activity broken down by app, IP/host and traffic type, warns about new apps reaching the network, unknown devices joining the WiFi and changes to system files or proxy settings, and lets you block connections. An Android version is also offered.
- Best for
- PC users who want to see which apps are connecting out and block them individually.
- Pricing
- Free tier at £0 forever; Premium starts at £2.99 per month for one licence when paid annually, with bundles up to 20 licences.
- Runs on
- Android
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free tier with no time limit for basic network monitoring
- Graph of current and past activity by app, IP/host and traffic type
- Ask to Connect and click-to-block firewall control
- Alerts when an unknown device joins the WiFi network
Trade-offs
- Free tier caps network history at 24 hours and usage data at 1 day
- Only the annual per-month rate is published; no monthly-billing price
- Pages cover PC and Android only; no macOS or iOS version shown
- Premium is sold for up to 20 licences, so not aimed at larger fleets
How GlassWire markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on GlassWire’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Detect hidden threats with GlassWire's Traffic Monitor and Firewall”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from GlassWire’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Customer sentiment
Third-party ratings, shrunk toward the catalogue mean by review volume and corroborated across independent sources.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
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Where this comes from
The GlassWire pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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