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Cisco Duo vs Qdrant comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
Cisco Duo provides strong ROI by enhancing security, reducing costs, and simplifying access with multifactor authentication and seamless integration.
Sentiment score
5.1
Qdrant reduces costs and enhances productivity with efficient integration, open-source benefits, and improved pipeline processing, despite database issues.
We were able to implement zero trust extremely quickly because of the platform and its ongoing developments, including Cisco Duo Network Gateway, which enabled that transition to zero trust extremely quickly.
Global Associate Director, Services at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Not having MFA means you cannot put a price tag on that because you will be hit with ransomware immediately.
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The biggest return on investment was the ease of use for the end users to have that secondary authentication when logging into the critical systems.
Manager, Data Center at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees
Thanks to Qdrant's open-source nature, our initial licensing and setup costs were nearly zero, allowing for swift testing and launch of our RAG prototype.
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The time saved is substantial, with nearly three weeks or more for projects deployed with Qdrant Cloud in no-code platforms.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
I have seen a significant return on investment from using Qdrant because it is very easy to integrate and highly efficient, saving a lot of time in my day-to-day operations, which ultimately saves money as well.
Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
Cisco Duo's customer service is efficient and well-rated, though response consistency varies; excellent documentation aids self-resolution.
Sentiment score
4.3
Qdrant's open-source nature fosters effective community-driven support, with well-rated online resources addressing most user queries efficiently.
They got back to us quickly, were nice, and gave us what we needed.
Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees
I would rate their support 10 out of 10.
Senior Network Engineer Specialist at Zenith Comp Co.,Ltd.
I would rate support for Cisco Duo a 10, as I have never had a negative experience.
Information Technology Contractor at Insight global
It's open source, so we house it on our server.
Chief Ai Scientist at Predictive Systems
The documentation provided by Qdrant covers most queries effectively.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
I rate the technical support of Qdrant as a nine because I think we have never reached out to them directly, but Qdrant has good support available online, and I can get answers from forums.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cisco Duo efficiently scales for organizations, offering seamless user expansion and system integration without performance issues.
Sentiment score
5.3
Qdrant offers efficient scalability and performance, effectively managing increased workloads and easily integrating with custom database services.
In my last contracting position, it was a large one for a major worldwide airline that had hundreds of thousands of devices that could use Cisco Duo, and it scaled very well.
Information Technology Contractor at Insight global
You would not need many more engineers to manage Cisco Duo even if we scale up to 500 employees because it is so simple to manage.
Manager, Customer Success at SRC.SI sistemske integracije d.o.o.
Cisco Duo is scalable for organizational growth.
Technical Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In the recruiting agency project, the reliance on the vector database has expanded from storing hundreds of resumes to thousands.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
When Qdrant is deployed in Docker, it scales really fast, and you can assign multiple CPUs to enhance performance.
Analyst at Synergy Connect
Qdrant handles growing workloads and data volumes well for me, which was a significant reason for my shift from other popular alternatives to Qdrant.
Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Cisco Duo is praised for its high reliability, minimal downtime, and quick issue resolution, despite occasional external disruptions.
Sentiment score
7.8
Qdrant is praised for stability and ease of use, with minor update needs and efficient file lock system.
We have not had any Cisco Duo outages across all the companies I have worked for that utilize Cisco Duo.
Senior Engineer at Frontline Fighter Ltd
The stability has been excellent.
Manager, Customer Success at SRC.SI sistemske integracije d.o.o.
I did not notice any downtime or crashes with Cisco Duo.
CTO at Red IT Solutions
You need to patch Qdrant as soon as patches are released.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
It is easy to use whether on LangChain or on its own.
Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Qdrant is stable, except for the limitation concerning the termination of inactive clouds after a week.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cisco Duo faces integration and pricing challenges, with improvement potential in user interface, authentication, and identity management.
Qdrant could improve with UI updates, better integration, simplified setup, enhanced clustering, and support for analytics and image vectorization.
If you don't have internet access, you can't access your computer, only local access is available.
Security and Network Team Lead
It lacks some dynamic identity management features compared to other products such as SailPoint.
Senior Iam Associate at Cognizant
Not only has the product been very good and we have done fewer support cases, but I think support overall has been very fast.
Network Engineer at a university with 10,001+ employees
Fast large-scale filtering operations could be implemented, such as automatic index suggestions, adaptive query planning, and smart indexing of metadata fields, which would make Qdrant even more efficient.
Product Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
While it has clustering functionality, it is not easy to set up, and not everyone can configure the clustering, so there is room for improvement in the clustering configuration.
Co Founder & CEO at SaYukth Private Limited
Incorporating embedding features directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cisco Duo offers reasonable, flexible licensing for enhanced security, seen as cost-effective despite some higher costs versus alternatives.
Qdrant's open-source model minimizes setup costs, though developer time and paid plans can increase expenses; Supabase offers savings.
The pricing is acceptable to them.
Vice President at Next Info Tech Solutions Inc
Their website lists $3 per month per user for the Essential license.
Senior Network Engineer Specialist at Zenith Comp Co.,Ltd.
One of my customers recently received a billing statement charging 3,600 US dollars for 100 users for one year.
Sr. Network Security Engineer at Topnet Internet Services Provider. Riyadh, Saudi A
Using Qdrant is free.
Chief Ai Scientist at Predictive Systems
Regarding pricing, setup costs, and licensing, since I am using only the free tier of Qdrant Cloud, there are no setup costs involved.
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Licensing posed no issues, as Qdrant is open-source software with no upfront fees.
Automation Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Cisco Duo offers user-friendly multifactor authentication, extensive integrations, and robust security features for flexible and efficient management.
Qdrant excels with hybrid search, cost-efficient cloud, Python support, high-speed queries, and no-code deployment for user satisfaction.
From a management perspective, I appreciate that we can enroll or control devices on the back end for people who get a new phone and forget to handle Cisco Duo properly and need to add a new device.
Network Engineer at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
Our company benefits from all those features of Cisco Duo with confidence, and we feel very secure with it in terms of authentication of our logins.
Vice President at Next Info Tech Solutions Inc
The benefit of having a complete passwordless environment in our organization is that it's gotten people away from using the sticky note under their keyboard - which is a huge problem.
Director, Technology at Deer Creek High School
The ability of Qdrant to handle high-dimensional vectors for my AI projects is pretty fast, and I think it's the best we have used so far.
Chief Ai Scientist at Predictive Systems
An accuracy boost was definitely observed from 45 to 50% using Faiss to around 85 to 95% using Qdrant, and the users are really happy as they are getting suggested really good schemes that would take a lot of time to find.
Analyst at Synergy Connect
Qdrant supports high-dimension vectors and cosine similarity, which any vector database should have, and it is pretty fast.
CTO at HoneyComb AI
 

Categories and Ranking

Cisco Duo
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
3rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
157
Ranking in other categories
Single Sign-On (SSO) (3rd), Authentication Systems (2nd), Access Management (4th), ZTNA as a Service (2nd), Cisco Security Portfolio (1st), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) (1st)
Qdrant
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), Vector Databases (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cisco Duo is 0.2%. The mindshare of Qdrant is 0.4%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cisco Duo0.2%
Qdrant0.4%
Other99.4%
AI Data Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

Charles Slaustas - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Contractor at Insight global
Supports seamless authentication for users across multiple organizations and personal portals
The features I use in Cisco Duo include Duo Pushes to confirm my identity to the device, and eventually as MFA security was increased, I actually had to use exchange passcodes. Sometimes, I have to go into the site and get into Cisco Duo to retrieve the passcode, and many of them have been two-factor, where the sites send a passcode that I have to enter into Cisco Duo. It has been more of the latter. I have not seen issues with lagging or crashing on Cisco Duo's end; it was usually on the client end, often because someone set up a bad upgrade or there were connection issues with the Cisco Duo cloud through the administrative site.
Chirag Morajkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Ai Tech And Tech Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 11-50 employees
Building accurate no-code resume screeners has saved weeks in document search workflows
I see room for improvement in Qdrant based on what another platform called Weaviate offers. Qdrant provides an excellent vector database with a solid searching method. However, it could elevate its offering by integrating embedding features. Currently, for the workflow automation I build, I rely on other platforms for embedding, so incorporating this feature directly in Qdrant Cloud would eliminate the need to depend on external solutions. A pain point I have encountered was the inactive expiration of the cloud created for certain projects. If the cloud is not used for a week, it gets terminated, which is frustrating. I think increasing that inactivity window in the free tier would be beneficial, as I have faced limitations due to this seven-day inactivity rule, requiring me to reset up the cloud after its termination.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business62
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise79
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
 

Questions from the Community

How does Duo Security compare with Microsoft Authenticator?
We switched to Duo Security for identity verification. We’d been using a competitor but got the chance to evaluate Duo for 30 days, and we could not be happier. Duo Security is easy to configure a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Duo Security?
My experience with the pricing, the setup cost, and the licensing of Cisco Duo is that it is really inexpensive in the first place, but the value that I get in return is hard to beat, especially wh...
What needs improvement with Duo Security?
For the next release, Cisco Duo could be improved by adding touchless authentication and biometric features.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qdrant?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Qdrant is that it is quite straightforward.
What needs improvement with Qdrant?
I would want Qdrant to support image vectorization, as I personally have that need within our organization, and since we have been using Qdrant for a while, it seems like a relevant feature to add....
What is your primary use case for Qdrant?
My main use case for Qdrant is as a vector database. As a vector database, I use Qdrant in a sequence and pipeline automation software that needs to look up information about certain items, each of...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

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1. Airbnb 2. Amazon 3. Apple 4. BMW 5.Cisco 6. CocaCola 7. Dell 8. Disney 9. Google 10. HP 11. IBM 12. Intel 13. JPMorgan Chase 14. Kraft Heinz 15. L'Oreal 16. McDonalds 17. Merck 18. Microsoft 19. Nike20. Oracle 21. PG 22. PepsiCo 23. Procter and Gamble 24. Samsung 25. Shell 26. Sony 27. Toyota 28. Visa 29. Walmart 30. WeWork
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