2020-01-09T06:15:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco SD-WAN?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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HL
Real User
Top 20
2023-12-06T09:31:00Z
Dec 6, 2023

The initial cost is quite significant, but the investment is worthwhile.

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HN
Real User
Top 20
2023-08-17T07:07:32Z
Aug 17, 2023

The pricing is neutral. However, there is room for improvement in the licensing model.

SO
Real User
Top 5
2023-05-08T12:40:00Z
May 8, 2023

The product's license is expensive.

Suraj Krishna - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 5
2023-04-20T12:23:14Z
Apr 20, 2023

The price of Cisco SD-WAN is expensive. We pay approximately $50 monthly for the use of the solution. I rate the price of Cisco SD-WAN a two out of ten.

Igor Bobrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-04-20T11:39:32Z
Apr 20, 2023

The price is based on the types of routers being used as well as the product licenses.

John Okunade - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-04-06T05:35:21Z
Apr 6, 2023

Hmmm. From an MPLS perspective, I believe SD-WAN is less expensive. However, the cost of licensing renewal to get some features it brings make is high compared to other products in the industry performing the same function.

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MOHAMEDELSHERIF - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-02-17T11:15:48Z
Feb 17, 2023

The solution is quite expensive so it is important to enhance its cost efficiency.

Alex Shengelevich - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-01-13T12:42:32Z
Jan 13, 2023

We have a subscription and a three-year license.

DeepakSinghal - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-06T09:38:09Z
Dec 6, 2022

The cost is reasonable. I would rate the price as seven out of ten.

SD
Reseller
Top 20
2022-12-05T11:50:22Z
Dec 5, 2022

Cost-wise, Cisco SD-WAN is comparatively high.

Upinder Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-11T10:45:04Z
Nov 11, 2022

The pricing is quite high. There are other vendors that provide relatively low prices as compared to Cisco. The cost depends on the number of devices and the application the customer is using. It is not a fixed price. It depends on the bundle. It varies on what application you wanted to use.

VENKATESHREDDY - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-10T11:18:05Z
Oct 10, 2022

The price varies. They have different products, including routers, some of which are now being removed or deprecated. The new platforms with the CSR 8,000 series have competitive pricing, and the kind of features they're providing justifies the cost - especially when you look at the number of features and support that comes with it. I'd rate the pricing at a four out of five in terms of its competitiveness.

Farhan-Mohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2022-08-03T08:55:57Z
Aug 3, 2022

The licensing cost is slightly on the higher side, but some of the customers are large, so they are willing to pay for it. On a scale of one to five, I would rate Cisco's pricing as a three.

YB
Real User
Top 20
2022-07-06T15:38:05Z
Jul 6, 2022

The solution is costly compared to Aruba. You also have to pay if you want to implement extra features like a VPN.

GulfrazAhmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-06-21T06:03:39Z
Jun 21, 2022

For 600 links, the license for Cisco SD-WAN costs us US$250k a year. In Pakistan, we have the option to get this solution at a more discounted price.

Suresh Vijayen - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5
2022-05-16T13:38:26Z
May 16, 2022

It's one of the more expensive solutions out there. I would rate it two out of five in terms of affordability. All you need to pay is the licensing fee. There are no extra costs.

Magdy Raafat - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2022-04-05T09:57:54Z
Apr 5, 2022

It's costly. The cost is high compared to competitors. There are many different licenses and devices. There's the license and the device itself as hardware, and the license as software. It varies between the hardware and software, and they have many free licensing models. So, there isn't an exact price. There are also many discounts in the middle before they provide it to the customer.

Kishlay Choudhary - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-04-05T08:43:33Z
Apr 5, 2022

There is a monthly subscription to use this solution.

PD
Real User
2022-03-15T09:20:32Z
Mar 15, 2022

Cisco SD-WAN is more expensive than its competitors.

FD
Real User
2022-02-04T16:39:00Z
Feb 4, 2022

This is not a cheap option but if you move from Capex to Opex, I expect you should have lower costs. I am talking specifically about Managed Services License Agreement (MSLA) model.

UR
Real User
2021-12-16T12:25:00Z
Dec 16, 2021

The pricing is fair, and it's on par with the market vendors. But based on the competition, Cisco could work on the pricing, go deep on discounts and provide more commercially viable solutions to customers.

FD
Real User
2021-09-29T19:16:00Z
Sep 29, 2021

It is not the cheapest solution on the market, however, without a doubt, it is one of the options that best handles complex topologies. Therefore there is a need to know more accurately what the client wants to do, what their applications are, what their flows are, and, after this consultation, define the best architecture and then choose the best manufacturer that obviously offers me a cost efficient option.

DR
Real User
2021-08-26T22:03:45Z
Aug 26, 2021

I can't speak to the costs associated with the product. We get involved with just the installations, that's all.

DH
Real User
2021-06-03T10:08:47Z
Jun 3, 2021

The price of the solution is the only negative factor, it is much more expensive compared with the Cisco Meraki SD-WAN solution.

AN
Real User
2021-05-27T05:51:33Z
May 27, 2021

In the Russian market where we operate, this solution is expensive.

DO
Reseller
2021-05-15T06:02:48Z
May 15, 2021

Being embedded with Cisco is a matter of negotiation. Therefore, the pricing depends on the negotiation and if the client is a medium-sized company or a large company. It depends on the geography. We already see different pricing when we deploy in India when we deploy New Zealand or we deploy in the Nordics, in Europe, or even in Southern Europe. Prices are always different and depend on the local offices and how big the deal is. Pricing varies according to requirements, accessory services, and pure hardware. Markets are so hyper-competitive, and pricing is converging for all top providers. If you go to Fortinet, if you go to Palo Alto, it's not that you'll find prices that are so dramatically different. Everyone is completely aligned to compete. Differentiation is not on pricing. When you deploy a system like Cisco, the main selection criteria, is not pricing. Today, even rich companies are very careful on pricing, however, companies are very mature in terms of structuring deals. The price of a system is very well-known in the market. All the differences are made by two essential elements. One is the ability of your sales team to penetrate within a company. Sales channels are making all the difference - not technology, not anything else. The second point is innovation and quality of accessory services delivered on top of the hardware. Hardware today is a given, is like code for a nice screen. Cisco is able to provide some hardware functions and firmware functions, however, all the difference is made by ancillary services, by additional service, by all the service that you build on the top of your products, and adding a very good success manager that is handling the deployment process and can guarantee that the client is extracting true business value from IT investments. People don't spend money to buy hardware, to buy networks. People spend money to execute their corporate functions in a very effective, efficient way, in a very secure way. They don't care about Cisco. They don't care about the firewall or the router. They need to deliver products and successful expediencies and services across the globe.

AG
MSP
2021-05-11T17:39:36Z
May 11, 2021

It's expensive. If you compare Cisco with Fortinet and Juniper, you'll find that Cisco is more expensive than other vendors.

AS
Real User
2021-02-11T14:27:16Z
Feb 11, 2021

The pricing is quite high. Cisco is not cheap.

An Quang Vu Phan Phan - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
2021-02-10T19:18:20Z
Feb 10, 2021

The solution is a bit expensive. There's a big jump from WAN to SD-WAN which customers don't like.

Malith Chandrasekara - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2021-02-03T14:04:25Z
Feb 3, 2021

Cisco's pricing is not entirely satisfactory when you compare the SD-WAN solutions in Asian markets — like the South Asian market in Sri Lanka — because there are several competing brands including Fortinet and Citrix, who provide much the same product for a generally lower price. And when it comes to firewall vendors like Palo Alto and SonicWall, they're also selling here. It's the same with VMware, too; they have much the same features. So when you do a comparative showdown among these giants, you can see that Cisco and their customers could benefit from adjustments in terms of pricing. Fortinet, for one, is much cheaper than Cisco currently.

DK
Real User
2021-01-06T17:14:00Z
Jan 6, 2021

The pricing of this solution is very expensive.

DM
Real User
2020-11-16T19:21:59Z
Nov 16, 2020

It is expensive. The license limitation is there in terms of bandwidth. Basically, Cisco is always good in terms of performance and related things. However, if you want to have a license, for example, for 100 Mbps, they charge you because of their 100 Mbps. If you want to go without the license of 300 Mbps, it is a bandwidth license as well. This is not happening with other vendors. That is the reason why we moved away from Cisco. The bill gets a little bit high. I do remember that one time we were trying to increase the bandwidth for at least five devices, and the license got as high as 20-grand for five devices, only for the license. It was expensive for us at the time. Our company is not a big company, but it is a solid company. The price was very high, and we moved away from Cisco because of the price.

Kristof Spriet - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-11-03T16:26:33Z
Nov 3, 2020

The license model is too complex with too many flavors and options. You might not be able to see it from an end user's point of view, but from a telco point of view, their license model is too complex. They should have a flexible license model. If you want to have good pricing, you need to buy it for a two-year, four-year, or five-year license immediately. Some other vendors have much more flexible license models.

SP
Real User
2020-11-03T10:37:57Z
Nov 3, 2020

It is going to be on a yearly basis. There are no additional costs.

SK
Real User
2020-10-20T04:19:21Z
Oct 20, 2020

Our clients have made decisions related to pricing, but we are not involved at this stage.

Tharanga SKP - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2020-10-11T08:58:19Z
Oct 11, 2020

The costs are a bit on the high side.

JD
MSP
2020-10-11T08:58:00Z
Oct 11, 2020

It is much cheaper than other solutions. Most of our clients are the top 500 companies, and they all have a corporate contract.

ER
Real User
2020-09-23T06:09:54Z
Sep 23, 2020

Depending upon the speed and depending upon the vendor, if you are getting SD-WAN as a service, it is probably something in the neighborhood of $100 to $200 a month per location. That is the cost of the SD-WAN. Then, of course, you need your business broadband connections. Business broadband with like 50 megs symmetrical or 100 megs symmetrical and may cost something like $100 a month or so. But at any rate, the services are not very expensive and they are widely available.

PA
Real User
2020-09-23T06:09:00Z
Sep 23, 2020

Cisco is more expensive than some competing products.

NP
Real User
2020-03-16T06:56:20Z
Mar 16, 2020

We pay for the Cisco Customer Care support, which is a couple of hundred dollars. There are no fees in addition to this.

PK
Real User
2020-03-16T06:56:11Z
Mar 16, 2020

I don't know much about the pricing because, at present, we used some simulators to test the software for clients. The pricing does not always match up with what our lab predictions are. We give information to the customers, and we give them some knowledge about the products and we explain the differences between the different vendors, like Juniper, and other vendors small vendors like Altera Technology. Ultimately, the client decides which vendor they will go with.

MY
Reseller
Top 20
2020-03-16T06:56:08Z
Mar 16, 2020

The pricing of the solution is okay. Previously we used Cisco Prime and found we were wasting a lot. This is much better for us and our clients. However, it's still expensive.

DA
Real User
2020-03-05T08:39:48Z
Mar 5, 2020

Typically, we work to offer our customer autonomy, however, we do offer maintenance packages. Typically, we'll sell co-management packages to clients whereby they choose the priority of the application on the network and we will manage all of what is programmed on the customer's behalf.

OM
Real User
2020-02-23T06:17:04Z
Feb 23, 2020

The solution is subscription-based. It is quite pricy, as compared to its competitors, for example, Fortinet. You can see the pricing on the Cisco site, and my understanding is that it's the same pricing across Europe. There are extra costs involved, however, because if you have an on-premises model, you have to buy the equipment. There are also costs associated with technical support.

SS
Real User
2020-02-02T10:42:00Z
Feb 2, 2020

The solution is not cheap. Most customers are now moving from an APEX spending model to an OPEX spending model. The licenses are pretty expensive. There are additional support costs which is not inexpensive. Licensing, support, product, technology, and everything in the Cisco SD-WAN solution costs. I think it's the most expensive solution on the market.

AJ
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2020-01-09T06:15:00Z
Jan 9, 2020

Setup cost is reasonably standard as it gives a complete WAN link utilization with perfomance of QoS

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