--- title: Arista Networks Reviews meta_title: 'Arista Networks Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 23 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Arista Networks works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 23 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Arista Networks Reviews **Vendor:** Arista Networks **Category:** [Data Center Networking Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-center-networking) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 23 ## About Arista Networks Arista Networks has championed the guiding cloud principles of cloud leaders with network designs serving private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, enterprise and high-performance network use cases. These include the use of open APIs, cloud automation features, and self service provisioning and deployment – coupled with an open approach to network integration, customer programmability, and simplified standards-based deployment architectures. ## Arista Networks Reviews ### 1. Incredibly fast & inovative **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff G. | Senior AI/HPC Account Executive, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Speed, security, innovation. Great alternative to Infinaband. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Cost, some use cases are not ideal. Customer perception is still lower than Infiniband. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** High speed East West network fabric. ### 2. Arista Networks Product reviews **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayur S. | Sr. Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** We are using Arista Network Switches and Wireless Solution. The best thing about these I products is they have zero-touch deployment, easy to manage and very effective capabilities. Also Arista support is comparitively good. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** One of the negative thing that I found is its costing. The solution is quite expensive. Also they need to work on few enhancements like cloud based soultion and API based services. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our prime goal was to have stable network, easy management and security requirements. So with Arista solution, we are able to achieve our requirements and overall, I am pretty happy with the product functionalities as well as its capabilities. ### 3. Arista- for clients to cloud networking **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanchit M. | DDI/f5 SME, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Arista gives uper hand as compared to other vendors out in the market in terms of programmabilty and scripting via advance event management and event monitor. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Complexity in handling device via there CLI **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mutilayer switching, spline network, high performance network box which support upto 100 Gbe. Option ### 4. Efficient and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krishna Tej M. | Senior Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** The good thing i experienced while working on arista platform is the ease of use and clear display of different components of its GUI / Cloud portal displaying all of its services in one place **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** The product provides services along with major market competitors although Arista is new in the market i feel there is much room for improvement in terms of its global reach **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Arista platform seems pretty simple and robust, compared to its market competitors that rely on heavy operating systems followed by complex and routine maintenance ### 5. Top Notch Enterprise Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Quality is king. I think the software stability and quality is the main thing that highlights the Arista software. The hardware systems are being commoditized so the software must remain stable to ensure success. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** The cloud management of the Arista systems is behind. In general, the management at these network equipment systems are generally lacking and Arista is no different. The emergence of the campus portfolio is promising where this matters more **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deep tie in between enterprise network between the datacenter. The cloud management is rather weak but the support and software quality is absolutely top notch. ### 6. Arista Networks cloud based tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abhishek s. | network engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** eaee to use, automation and combination of artificial intelligence makes arista open ended programmable switching possible with less human interaction **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** more commercial tool used for big data centers and campus but not available for small to medium sized campus **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** less overhead of doing manual configuration and automation makes it best choice for cloud based technologies ### 7. Arista Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Arista is famous for there switches, as most of the industry uses the arista switches. Now Arista is also moving towards the cloud and also introducing lots of products like 7800 series switches, 7500 series, and all **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Dislike is only one thing that I have noticed: most of the industry is moving towards the cloud, so switches use is down, but yes, it will increase for private and public cloud. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly it resolves the switch issues in Data Centre because, without the switch, networking cant is possible. ### 8. Arista WM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satyaprakash S. | Antivirus Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** The Arista WM have intrusion prevention technology, which is work very well if unauthorized devices try to connect in our iternal network. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** The old GUI much better and simple as compare new CVP **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Arista network block unauthorized access in your Wireless network. ### 9. Complete solution for Data Centre networking **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** It provides Data Centre infrastructure solution by connecting multiple branch sites through Arista network routers and switches **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** TAC support is slow and time to resolve for any issues takes longer than expected time **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting multiple retail, manufacturing, etc offices by using Arista network devices and provides enterprise networking data communication ### 10. New DC Network Solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** I like the way the DC solution is being implemented in the Arista Networks **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Implementation Complexity, command line interface. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** In growing technology industry, managing the DC networks is highly challenging one, Arista is providing greater solution to make that easier for the Network Adminsitrator ### 11. Amazing network stability and performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Flexibility and feature set was amazing! **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Cost of the product could have been more competitive **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replaced Cisco Nexus and provides great next level stability and performance. ### 12. Software driven cloud networking solution with fully automated functionalities. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subash N. | Lead Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Arista platforms are very much intelligent, and the self-healing mechanism is lovely. You can view network traffic using Arista cloud vision portal, you have shell access and you can automate network functions as per the need. I would say Arista devices very much intelligent and cisco + feature. We have moved some of our customers from Cisco to Arista due to the smart network function and feature set that Arista offers, developed spine - Leaf architecture and added core fabric module to Arista. The Technical support team have been a very helpful to work with and also it is easy to submit a service request through email. They are very much professional and expert on the product families. We have got end to end support during the migration becauase the Implementation was bit tough when you move from other vendor to Arista. There were few minor challanges seen but the Arista technical team has helped to fix the hardware level issues immediately. Its been more than 1.5 years we are running arista platform and planning to grab more products for the customers DC environment. Network management and feature set is significantly better then other vendors. I have built custom automation sripts for network functions monitoring and alerts and also implemented CloudVision for network Telemetry which is great added value for network automation and Management. Good Job Arista ! Fantastic Team ! Vendors to the Future ! **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** There is no dislike about Arista Networks. One click Vendor support / engineering access, Hardware stability.. everything looks good. **Recommendations to others considering Arista Networks:** Smart network functions Platform easy for network automation Strong customer focus Expertise Good Technical support Future vision Product performance and function **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smart and budget friendly platform in the market. I have deployed Arista networks in many customer's environments like SDDC migration, DC transformation etc. Starting from Zero touch provisioning, configuration, automation and network telemetry are wonderful. Network management and feature set is significantly better then other vendors. I have built custom automation sripts for network functions monitoring and alerts and also implemented CloudVision for network Telemetry which is great added value for network automation and Management. ### 13. Great service makes Arista a best ISP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahendra M. | Network Operations Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** great service makes Arista a best ISP. rare link failures. quick recovery. on call support. and reasonable prices. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** link failures can be minimized. and service can be improved. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** global connectivity is been optimized by connection and link from Arista. Infra support and customer service till satisfaction is provided. rare SLA breaches. ### 14. Arista Networks Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Software defined fabric. Automated provisioning. Wireless APs are also SDN enabled **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Interop with other vendors. Wireless guest access giving problems with handhelds **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wireless access. DC core networking ### 15. One of the most stable network hardware. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** The networking device is most stable & service is also best. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Nothing so far to dislike the products..!! **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Same features & CAPEX is low as compared to other players. ### 16. Arista Networks Pros and Cons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandip S. | Senior Network Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** The company culture is to do the right things and that is true in every aspect of the job, **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** because of the flat organization there is an enormous amount of email, mostly due to automated tooling **Recommendations to others considering Arista Networks:** we recommend to the organizations to come forward and enjoy the service.. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** learning is the biggest things here everyday we work with new learning ### 17. Arista - Industry Leader in Cognitive Market **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nasir B. | Senior Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Rich and extensive history in networking and innovation.The most valuable feature is the Linux shell, which is useful for troubleshooting or capturing traffic. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** The CVP management platform needs to be improved. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** learning is the biggest things here everyday we work with new learning and that helps us and organisations both to grow together ### 18. Really good concept **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Very informative snd love the latest news sections **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Not easy to navigate at first like what the platform is intended for **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Non at the moment as I’m closed ### 19. my main issue with Arista it doesn't Provide full Data center prodtfilo **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** They are a great vendor but not the best **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** my main issue that they don't provide everything that you need for Data center **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** You don't see an integration between them and Servers ### 20. Quality and endurance of product very good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yonatan O. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** Open API support for SDN totally help me **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** its about pricing this device expensivee **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving configuration about LAG design on arista. because we dont have many config with spanning tree its auto sensing handle by arista. ### 21. Easy to use - Stable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** How much easier the cli is to use compared to competitors. How fast the devices are(latency wise). The metamako family of devices. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Lack of commit like functionality. something that allows me to revert back a change after an amount of time in case i made a mistake that cost me connectivity to the device **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** low latency traffic because of the low latency nature of the arista devices ### 22. Low latency and and look up is very fast. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Cosmetics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** The ease of automation, we can code anything as per our requirement.Moreover the telemetry feature is very helpful. **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Only challenge we faced with cvx controller while integrating with NSX. Very often we faced issues with control plane. **Recommendations to others considering Arista Networks:** Very good product, everyone should give it a try for cloud centric data center deployment. **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have saved huge amount of time by automating Deployment and operation. ### 23. DevOps/Lab admin **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Arista Networks?** The tech team is very good, they are very helpful. Even for Vendors (contract ) engineer treat as same team members **What do you dislike about Arista Networks?** Converting outsourced member into permanent **Recommendations to others considering Arista Networks:** easy to implement and easy to manage via DevOps eco system like Ansible **What problems is Arista Networks solving and how is that benefiting you?** As Lab admin (DevOPs) I building Lab to the team to use for their Dev/QA team ## Arista Networks Discussions - [What do you call Arista OS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-do-you-call-arista-os) - [Which are the key tenants to the Arista approach to networking?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-are-the-key-tenants-to-the-arista-approach-to-networking) - [Which is better Cisco or Arista?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-is-better-cisco-or-arista) - [What does Arista network do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-arista-network-do) - [What new product line Arista plan to bring in 2021](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35534-what-new-product-line-arista-plan-to-bring-in-2021) - 1 upvote - [View Arista Networks pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/arista-networks-arista-networks/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-03+22%3A25%3A51+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5c629a76-8dcf-409b-9dac-65b0734776a0&secure%5Btoken%5D=b59c8850ca41772802a08bc8b9556e460486e171962151e65fe67ce2a345703c&format=llm_user) ## Top Arista Networks Alternatives - [Extreme Networks](https://www.g2.com/products/extreme-networks/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (24 reviews) - [OpManager Nexus](https://www.g2.com/products/opmanager-nexus/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (223 reviews) - [VMware NSX](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-nsx/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (74 reviews)