Open-source alternative  ·  Networking / Firewall

Replace Cisco Meraki MX with pfSense CE / OPNsense.

Enterprise-grade open source firewalls. Stateful inspection, VPN, IDS/IPS, traffic shaping. All free.

You'd keep~R14 496 to ~R95 004/year

Current licence  ·  Networking / Firewall

Cisco Meraki MX

~R14 496 – ~R95 004/yr

10-user estimate

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pfSense CE / OPNsense

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R95 004/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Cisco Meraki MX's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

MX67/68

R14 496/yr

R1 208/month

Flat rate

With pfSense CE / OPNsense

Keep R14 496/yr

MX85/95

R30 996/yr

R2 583/month

Flat rate

With pfSense CE / OPNsense

Keep R30 996/yr

MX250/450

R95 004/yr

R7 917/month

Flat rate

With pfSense CE / OPNsense

Keep R95 004/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Cisco Meraki MX grows around 10% per year on average. pfSense CE / OPNsense hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR42kR84kR126kR168kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R153kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.66M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Cisco Meraki MXpfSense CE / OPNsense, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other networking / firewall migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Cisco Meraki MX.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.