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Cisco Meraki pricing
Cisco Meraki publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the networking tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Cisco Meraki pricing is on request. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Cisco Meraki plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meraki hardware plus licence | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
What the product covers
The full Cisco Meraki feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Cloud dashboard management
- Zero-touch provisioning
- Co-termination licensing
- Unified hardware line
- API and integrations
People bring Cisco Meraki in for a multi-site retail or education organisation that wants one dashboard to manage networking hardware across many locations without local it staff at each site, an it team that values zero-touch provisioning for rapid rollout of new sites over local configuration control, an organisation that has already standardised on cisco and wants meraki's simplified cloud management alongside existing cisco infrastructure, a managed service provider running meraki across client sites who bills the licence cost through to clients as part of a managed contract. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Cisco Meraki are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Networking
Too few networking tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Meraki (this page) | On request | quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence | - | |
| MikroTik RouterOS | On request | One-time purchase, per licence level | - | vs Cisco Meraki |
| PRTG Network Monitor | On request | Per sensor tier, billed monthly on an annual contract | - | vs Cisco Meraki |
| OpenVPN | Free | Open source core is free; Access Server billed per simultaneous connection | - | vs Cisco Meraki |
| Icinga | Free | Open source core, with paid repository, module and support subscriptions sold separately | - | vs Cisco Meraki |
| pfSense | Free | Open source Community Edition, free; commercial Plus edition sold separately by Netgate | - | vs Cisco Meraki |
| Auvik | On request | quote, per managed device | - | vs Cisco Meraki |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cisco Meraki badges page.
Before you pay for Cisco Meraki
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at On request. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Cisco Meraki against the tools that do have one before committing.
Cisco Meraki runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Cisco Systems of San Jose, California, United States. The full record is on the Cisco Meraki review, and the rest of the category is under best networking tools.
Cisco Meraki pricing questions
- How much does Cisco Meraki cost?
- Cisco Meraki publishes a single tier, Meraki hardware plus licence, at On request.
- Does Cisco Meraki have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Cisco Meraki is listed as quote, hardware plus mandatory recurring licence. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- Which networking tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 networking tools listed alongside Cisco Meraki have a free tier: OpenVPN, Icinga, pfSense, ZeroTier.
- What am I actually paying for with Cisco Meraki?
- The record lists 5 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a multi-site retail or education organisation that wants one dashboard to manage networking hardware across many locations without local it staff at each site, an it team that values zero-touch provisioning for rapid rollout of new sites over local configuration control, an organisation that has already standardised on cisco and wants meraki's simplified cloud management alongside existing cisco infrastructure.
- Does Cisco Meraki charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cisco Meraki prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cisco Meraki against before paying?
- The closest networking tools in this directory are MikroTik RouterOS, PRTG Network Monitor, OpenVPN, Icinga. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cisco Meraki covering price, platforms and features.