5 categories · RankedCisco Meraki
Cisco Meraki is a network security product from Cisco, offered as firewalls and as a SASE offering that combines branch and remote-user connectivity with cloud security · cisco.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Portnox Cloud is first at 41%.
Portnox Cloud is first at 46%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“my top recommendation is Cisco Meraki”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Ease of use priority: SolarWinds or Cisco Meraki Dashboard”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Best Pick for Operational Simplicity: Cisco Meraki MX Series”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid or be very cautious with ... Cisco Meraki”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Meraki lacks advanced enterprise security deep-dive features”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Meraki, over the 65 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 9 | View → | |
| 15 | 11 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 10 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cisco Meraki's own site, not checked by Gane.
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
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Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 37 of the 65 answers that named Cisco Meraki and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-two of the 136 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Meraki came from a third party's page. Twenty-seven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |