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Cisco Meraki vs PDQ Deploy & Inventory Comparison (2026)

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Cisco Meraki

PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Overview

Cisco Meraki offers the only solution that provides unified management of mobile devices, Macs, PCs, and the entire network from a centralized dashboard. Enforce device security policies, deploy software and apps, and perform remote, live troubleshooting on thousands of managed devices.

PDQ Deploy is the best way to automate your IT management. Update third-party software, deploy custom scripts, and make impactful configuration changes in minutes. With 200+ ready-to-deploy applications right out of the box.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

1657.5

Per year

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

130

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

75%

would recommend this app

4.8

341

276

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

94%

would recommend this app

Pros

“Our Meraki dashboard is our lifeline for knowing what is going on across our network from power outages to wireless health and bandwidth utilization. ”

Jacqueline T.

Director of Technology

“Being able to manager and overview all the network devices is just amazing”

Will M.

Manager

“The limitation with integrating other brands to the dashboard.”

Alex C.

IT MANAGER

Pros

“I would like the ability to connect 2 instances of PDQ Inventory to create a baseline configuration of each machine so that I can track and report changes.”

Randy W.

Corporate Director of IT

“Inventory, with it's customisable reports gives me an insight of my fleet of devices.”

Daniel H.

IT Manager

“It's supposed to detect when a PC is online and then deploy the package. ”

Steve I.

IT Support Supervisor

Cons

“The licenses are expensive and you have this blended license things when you add more to your account.”

Miranda C.

Director of IT

“Strongly not recomended for budinesses if you care about stable network”

ALEXANDRA R.

It manager

“This limitation has posed challenges for me in network design and deployment scenarios.”

Ye L.

Network Security Engineer

Cons

“Without an efficient way to gather software and hardware info, then act upon it with relevant software deployments, we would need to add another staff member.”

Justin C.

IT Manager

“I think pdq need to use clients in the machines for better results in the deployment, sometimes the pdq have trouble finding the machine and freezes in the status "conecting" or return the error "The network path was not found" Maybe a client help mitigate this problem.”

Renan R.

Analista de Infra

“The only thing i d like to change would be a possibility to have a function so i can decide which downloads i d like to. As we are german users sometimes its annoying to manually add german software downloads for deployment.”

Pascal B.

IT-Administrator