Cisco Open Pay provides consumption-based financing enabling you to pay for Cisco technologies including Data Center compute and storage, as you use it.Open Pay combines the privacy of on-premise data centers with the elasticity of cloud. You pay for the portion consumed and simply dial capacity up or down as needed. You retain control and can plan ahead with confidence as your organization grows.With Cisco Open Pay, we share the risk and offer cloud-like pricing and flexibility where you can purchase on a per Terabyte, per server, per port and per virtual machine basis.
Cisco Open Pay mindshare
As of October 2025, the mindshare of Cisco Open Pay in the IT Infrastructure Consumption Services category
stands at 7.7%, down from 15.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Consumption Services Market Share Distribution
