Cisco Meraki MX vs. Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco Meraki MX

276 Reviews and Ratings

Fortinet FortiGate

395 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Meraki MX	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Meraki MX Firewalls is a combined UTM and Software-Defined WAN solution. Meraki is managed via the cloud, and provides core firewall services, including site-to-site VPN, plus network monitoring.	$595 per appliance
FortiGate	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco Meraki MX

FortiGate

MX64: $595
per appliance
MX67: $695
per appliance
MX68: $995
per appliance
MX84: $1,995
per appliance
MX100: $4,995
per appliance
MX250: $9,995
per appliance
MX450: $19,995
per appliance

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco Meraki MX	FortiGate
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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FortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Cisco Meraki MX	FortiGate
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX We compared VeloCloud. The product seemed fine. Outside circumstances made us not use VeloCloud. We are currently evaluating FortiGate and FortiAP for specific and unique locations along with Sophos SG Firewall and AP. Although we plan to add a competitor we are not planning on … Incentivized Helpful? Jaime Martínez Central America Technology & Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at Ferretería EPA (Retail, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX is much more simple to configure, deploy and manage. It's very intuitive and it has a lot of options as a firewall, also it has a SD WAN feature as a very important added value. The performance of the Cisco Meraki MX is very good and for these all reasons Meraki … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Fortinet was too complicated for our needs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX easier to deploy. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Moran Network Architect in Engineering at C Spire (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX It shines with simplicity of Operation, but could be looked over in scenarios where more complex features are required. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX The Meraki Dashboard has been a lot more intuitive than CradlePoint NetCloud. We switched from CradlePoint to Cisco Meraki MX because we were already familiar with the interface which allowed us to be familiar with a single dashboard. Incentivized Helpful? João Paulo Chief Information Security Officer in Information Technology at Threatvector (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX The inclusion of unified threat management UTM capabilities were considered a crucial part of the deployment of this solution, which the easy cloud management permitted to build trust in a new solution that no member of the team knew, added that the Cisco is very well known and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX the feature rich unified threat management UTM capabilities were a crucial part of the deployment of this solution that the industry leading cloud management was an pivotal point (previously known by several members of the team), and the Cisco brand is very power full and a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Better wholesome solution Incentivized Helpful? Sridevi Reddy presales consultant in Customer Service at emtech (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX is good and easy to setup. But only drawback we see is that it can take more than 2 active wan links. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Easy setup Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX is easy if you don't need multi-tenancy solutions and if the routing in the network is not so complex. But Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution is more powerful and has more features compared to Meraki. Incentivized Helpful? José Antonio Padilla Telecomunications in Information Technology at Grupo K (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX The main difference is the administration through the Meraki cloud, the ease of access to review the configuration at any time, and the scalability that Meraki provides in terms of the ease of adding new devices, today in addition to how well the devices work is It is important … Incentivized Helpful? Renato Magalhães Presales engineer in Engineering at Td synnex (Wholesale, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Because Cisco Meraki MX scales better. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX It is easier to implement and affordable. If you like Cisco products and you believe in their ecosystem and future, you will not be wrong selecting Cisco Meraki MX or Viptela from their portfolio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Simplicity Incentivized Helpful? Joyal John Peter Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at IQ (Informatica Qatar) (Computer Networking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Ease of setup, portability, subscription cost, and flexibility. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX is still the easiest to use, they constantly update their software and features. Incentivized Helpful? Carlos De freitas Network Architect at Spark NZ (Wholesale, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Meraki is for small business Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Almond Head of Customer Success in Customer Service at Forfusion Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki gives a simple and unified dashboard that allows the configuration and management of all function and features, where some other vendors require additional portals to manage SDWAN as an example. A single pane of glass approach is much the preferred outcome for our … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Hammond Network Engineer in Information Technology at U-Haul International (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Meraki MX Meraki is just easier to use and deploy. It’s not the cheapest option, nor is it the most feature rich or performant firewall platform. But when you need something that works and meets PCI/HIPAA compliance, with very little effort to use, this is the ideal platform for you. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX Cisco Meraki MX is a different product targeted at different markets, not exactly a UTM / NGFW. Centralized management and a single pane of glass add a lot of value. Again there are sites where no MX can replace a PA due to the configuration requirements and performance … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Meraki MX The Meraki may have slightly fewer features, but it does have all the core features and executes them with flying colors. Incentivized Helpful?	Fortinet Michael Singh Network Engineer 3, Enterprise Managed Services in Information Technology at Comcast Business (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose FortiGate FortiGates are more professional and offer a robust command line. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose FortiGate In my opinion, Fortinet Fortigates is an enterprise-level firewall. They are workhorses and perform without a stutter. The WG comes close but lacks many features that the Fortigate has by default, and I needed to implement it into our environment. MX firewalls are good but … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Winter IS Director in Information Technology at City of Hot Springs (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees) Chose FortiGate Compared to the products we have used in the past the FortiGate has been easier to configure, easier to upgrade, and as easy to visualize problems from the logging. The web filter integration allowed us to eliminate the Barracuda. This was something we tried and failed to … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Cisco Meraki MX

FortiGate

Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Meraki MX and Fortinet FortiGate
Feature	Cisco Meraki MX 7.9 109 Ratings	Fortinet FortiGate 8.9 40 Ratings
Identification Technologies	8.3104 Ratings	8.638 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.7102 Ratings	8.538 Ratings
Content Inspection	8.1101 Ratings	9.439 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	7.5100 Ratings	9.040 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	8.090 Ratings	9.039 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	6.4103 Ratings	8.640 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	7.6107 Ratings	7.440 Ratings
VPN	8.8102 Ratings	8.640 Ratings
High Availability	9.1103 Ratings	9.535 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	7.397 Ratings	9.538 Ratings
Proxy Server	6.957 Ratings	10.028 Ratings

User Ratings
	Cisco Meraki MX	FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (145 ratings)	9.0 (67 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (6 ratings)	9.9 (4 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (7 ratings)	9.0 (8 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (15 ratings)	8.6 (26 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.2 (112 ratings)	9.8 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)