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Cisco Cloud Services Router vs MikroTik Routers and Switches comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Cloud Services Router
Ranking in Routers
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MikroTik Routers and Switches
Ranking in Routers
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
67
Ranking in other categories
Ethernet Switches (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Routers category, the mindshare of Cisco Cloud Services Router is 3.5%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MikroTik Routers and Switches is 24.3%, down from 31.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

VENKATESHREDDY - PeerSpot reviewer
Manageable, provides excellent support, and easily integrates with other products
One central area for improvement in Cisco is its product line offering. Cisco has ISE and other products, such as DNS Center and other components. Instead of small to medium-sized customers purchasing devices and maintaining the devices, it would be great if customers could have subscriptions. A CAPEX/OPEX model instead of that Cisco code, where the pricing model is subscription-based, would give much better flexibility for the customers. The pricing and model for Cisco Cloud Services Router and other Cisco products could be improved. One good example of what I want to be added to the Cisco Cloud Services Router in its next version is for it to be more of a plug-and-play product. For example, Juniper has developed QR codes, so if you need to plug in a device, you scan from your phone and connect to the internet. That's it. You can provision the device remotely through the cloud orchestrator, so I want to see a similar function or feature in Cisco Cloud Services Router.
AnikIslam - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effective protocol support and a straightforward setup with room for login enhancements
In the network operations center, I manage our client's bandwidth. We connect with our clients through BGP and OSPF based on client demands. We also manage routing protocols, policies, internal firewalls, and other details like QE bandwidth, client manage bandwidth management, PoE, PPPoE, and DNS…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of the Cisco Cloud Services Router are the integration with Amazon and Oracle cloud."
"AWS has a reference architecture to enable the Cisco routers in high availability and Transit VPC. This is a very powerful router and can enable us to use Transit VPC in AWS, and this is a very powerful feature that we use."
"It provides peace of mind because it is a stable product that you aren't going to lose sleep over at night wondering if it will be running or not."
"The most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence assessment models."
"It handles stress very well. We have not reached a point of needing to worry about its capabilities."
"It is definitely scalable. It can handle a lot more traffic and group work compared to any other products that I've evaluated. It could easily scale a lot more than what I'm doing right now."
"The routing service for NPLS called Layer 3-IP is fantastic."
"It allowed us to create a more secure VPN than we would have been able to do without it."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the combination of value for money. They're extremely cost effective, yet they provide you with an extensive feature set of things you can do across the board. Also, they're pretty reliable, as far as equipment goes."
"I rate MikroTik Routers and Switches nine out of ten overall."
"The solution offers very good multi-routing."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The features of the equipment fit all the needs of the customers."
"It has a lot of features. I haven't explored them all yet."
"We use the product for VPN."
 

Cons

"It is too complex. It is not easy to set up, even with the documentation that they provided. It is a little confusing."
"I would like the ability to moderate between devices on-premise to off-premise. This would be a vast improvement."
"Cisco Cloud Services Router could improve by having more features. It is lacking features, such as virtualization and containerization. Additionally, there should be increased security and connectivity between routers."
"The configuration is difficult."
"You can use this router in a scalable solution but it has its limitations."
"It could grow or adapt to changes in the cloud. For example, cloud does not support autoscaling. When people want to grow, they have to do manual activities."
"The initial setup is easy for one device but is more complex when numerous devices need to be configured."
"They have an online registration that happens after they pick up block months. If they could decrease to yearly or something, sometimes the device is not cell phone accessible. That becomes an issue or challenge for us. If that can be improved, that would be really great."
"The user interface allows you to do a lot of things, but it is not user-friendly."
"Improvements could be made in terms of SD-WAN capabilities and zero-touch provisioning."
"The CPU load is too high. This causes the Internet to lag."
"A central management platform would be great."
"Technical support could be better. They don't have good support like Cisco. It can also be more stable and scalable."
"If the reporting functionality of the solution is considered, I think it is not good."
"The biggest thing that needs improvement is the support."
"In the Israeli market, we are in need of Hebrew support."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cost is a big factor. We would like to see the price reduced."
"We would prefer to go through the vendor instead of AWS, as we have a relationship with the vendor and can get discounts directly from them. Going through the vendor, it is much cheaper for us. Though, we would still keep it hosted on AWS."
"Purchasing the product on the AWS Marketplace was very simplistic. Our organization was trying to centralize our billing costs, and simplicity was best."
"We never buy the product on the AWS Marketplace. We only download it. We always use BYOL. We never buy the license in the AWS Marketplace, because it's very expensive."
"You do need to pay a licensing fee to use the solution. You can do a yearly or three-year subscription. The product itself is quite expensive. It would be ideal if they offered the product at a cheaper price."
"Purchasing through the AWS Marketplace was easy; click a button and you have it."
"Purchasing it through the AWS Marketplace was very simple. We went through the AWS Marketplace because it was the easiest way to get the product up and running very quickly."
"The price is a little high, more than what we wanted to pay. This is one area where we would like to understanding how the price could be brought down a bit more."
"MikroTik's equipment is very cheap compared to Cisco and Huawei."
"MikroTik has very aggressive and competitive pricing."
"No fees are required for licensing."
"The price-performance is great."
"The tool offers a one-time buying option."
"It's definitely worth the investment."
"There is a lifetime subscription already embedded when you buy the product."
"In our last project, we used two hundred units and the price was approximately 500 Shekels ($140 USD)."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Hospitality Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

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The price is a big factor. They are very affordable, and the quality is high.
 

Also Known As

Cisco CSR, Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000v, Cisco CSR 1000v
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Sample Customers

Under Armour, HealthSparq, Adobe
ABB, Boingo Wireless, JPL, HP, Allied Telesis, iPass, Mips Technologies, MicroAge, Matsushita, Telia, undp, WFP, NASA
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