A joint venture of Kirk Byers and Flock9

Enterprise support and AI guardrails for Netmiko.

Netmiko runs network automation at organizations worldwide. Netmiko Enterprise adds the commercial support that teams need today; Netmiko Guardian adds the AI safeguards that networks require tomorrow.

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What Netmiko Enterprise offers

Available now

Enterprise Support

Commercial support, SLAs and expertise for teams running Netmiko.

In development

Netmiko Guardian

The controlled layer between AI clients and your network.

Netmiko Open Source

The MIT-licensed library. Free, and staying that way.

Kirk Byers
Announced 10 September 2026

“The Netmiko open-source library itself will largely be unchanged by all of this. If anything, I am hoping for an improved release cadence, faster issue resolution, and a quicker response on pull requests.”

Kirk Byers · creator and maintainer of Netmiko

● The foundation

Who doesn’t use Netmiko?

Netmiko is the open-source Python library behind network automation at enterprises worldwide. Maintained since 2014, quietly embedded in the scripts, pipelines and tools your team runs every day. It never needed a purchase order, so it never showed up on your radar.

150+

Platforms supported

Across every major vendor, and most of the smaller ones.

28M+

Downloads, and counting

Installed in CI/CD pipelines and automation worldwide.

4.3K

GitHub stars

Plus 1.4K forks. A community that builds on it.

2014

Maintained since

MIT licensed, with regular releases ever since.

Vendor coverage includes Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, HPE, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Mikrotik, Dell, Extreme and Ubiquiti, among many others. Netmiko also sits underneath frameworks like Nornir, so many teams rely on it without ever calling it by name.

Two ways to work with us

Support you can buy today. Guardrails for what comes next.

Both are built on the same open-source foundation, and you can start with either one.

Available now

Netmiko Enterprise Support

Keep your Netmiko-powered automation running with confidence. Maintainer-backed expertise, vendor compatibility support, bug fixes and predictable response times.

  • Expertise from the source
  • Vendor compatibility and new vendor work
  • Bug fixes and security advisories
  • Defined SLAs, up to 24×7 coverage
From $10,000 / yearSee pricing
In development

Netmiko Guardian

The controlled layer between AI clients and your network. Guardian manages access, credentials, connections, and logs AI requests and network actions.

  • Deterministic execution, separated from the AI
  • Access control, credentials and inventory
  • Full audit trail of requests and actions
  • Works with the AI client of your choice
Early access opening soonExplore Guardian

● Engineers talking to engineers

Let’s talk about your network.

Whether you need support on the Netmiko you already run, or you are working out how AI should (and should not) interact with your network, we are happy to think it through with you.

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