No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Ekahau AI Pro vs RedSeal comparison

Why PeerSpot?
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Ekahau AI Pro
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Network Modeling and Simulation (1st)
RedSeal
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (21st), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Ekahau AI Pro and RedSeal aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Ekahau AI Pro is designed for Network Modeling and Simulation and holds a mindshare of 6.7%, down 18.3% compared to last year.
RedSeal, on the other hand, focuses on Risk-Based Vulnerability Management, holds 1.7% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
Network Modeling and Simulation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Ekahau AI Pro6.7%
EVE-NG9.1%
GNS38.0%
Other76.2%
Network Modeling and Simulation
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RedSeal1.7%
Qualys Exposure Management9.7%
Tenable Security Center6.9%
Other81.7%
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
 

Featured Reviews

Lakshmi  Narayan - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at PCa Lumens
Efficient mobile surveys with a simple setup but room for cloud improvements
As of now, almost everything is there and suitable for site requirements. However, the cloud takes a lot of time to upload the site survey, and we regularly face issues with syncing to the optimizer. There needs to be improvement in this area. Additionally, the product can be very expensive.
reviewer1339494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Enhancing network visibility with competitive pricing but needs better OT and 5G integration
The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas RedSeal helps in optimizing the cost for the customer based on different use cases. If the solution caters to a particular use case,…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I would highly recommend going to the Ekahau training class."
"Ekahau Site Survey can be crucial for troubleshooting our Wi-Fi network."
"Channel planning, access points' auto position, and the size of the spectrum are valuable to me."
"The product is mature and provides ease of use regarding large-scale planning and reporting."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like that our users can send us a floor map. Sometimes it's not feasible to travel to another country where the users are based. So, the floor map is very useful. It's a fantastic product."
"Planning design allows us to provide faster quotes to the customer, we take a safety margin but in the end we are very close to the quote and we save time and travel."
"The spectrum analysis capability is very good. It provides deep insights into the Wi-Fi environment. It's not just about troubleshooting interference but also optimizing access points and modifying power levels and channels."
"The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."
"RedSeal has different modules, such as the Analyzer module, which can be leveraged."
"Overall, I am very happy with the way the product is working."
"RedSeal helps you prioritize and allocate your scarce human and capital resources where they have the biggest impact to protect your most-valuable digital assets."
"The most valuable feature of the product to me is being able to ask what-if questions about traffic flows, which is a great ability to have for security and incident response."
"This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score."
"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out."
"This solution is amazing! The most important part is the way it gives access information to the entire infrastructure, the network most importantly."
 

Cons

"One area would be to allow several files to be opened and the ability to close only one of the files."
"I wish there were a competitor to keep Ekahau Site Survey's pricing in line, but there's none."
"Batch reporting for large projects with many project files."
"Sometimes there is a cancellation between two signals that the solution is not able to monitor correctly, this could improve in the future."
"The information regarding the clients and signal strengths is missing in the Ekahau console."
"Ekahau would benefit by making improvements to lag time."
"Today, ESS doesn't support mixed outdoor-indoor environments."
"I would say that the indoor site accuracy is pretty good but the outdoor one should be improved. I would say if there was a way to put trees in there and canopies, that would be great."
"There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal."
"The network mapping/visualization could be improved significantly."
"Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved."
"One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."
"There is room for improvement regarding customization and automation of reports."
"Although we are talking about a very robust platform, I would like to see the Windows compatible VM version come back."
"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus."
"The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I believe that it is approximately $2,000 per year for us. I know we pay for it on an annual basis."
"The pricing is high."
"We pay $6,000 yearly for the licensing, but each piece of hardware, the Ekahau Sidekick, is $5,000."
"The pricing is quite expensive. Not all companies can afford it"
"We pay a licensing fee."
"Ekahau Site Survey is a really expensive solution."
"That's a tricky thing. When it started off, we had one three-year license and one one-year license because we have two devices. Now, from my understanding, we can only renew every year or get a one-year license, and that cost varies. Being a government organization, we get a different cost than commercial. We have deployed it on Surface Pro tablets. So, the only other cost would be the hardware cost."
"Since we are an academic institute, we get better prices and discounts from Cisco, but not Ekahau."
"The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Network Modeling and Simulation solutions are best for your needs.
914,109 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
7%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Government
8%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise15
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ekahau Site Survey?
Things to consider when choosing Ekahau Sidekick2: you need to add another 10% to the purchase price to buy Apple ipads as the Android version of the Ekahau survey app does NOT support APOS surveys...
What needs improvement with Ekahau Site Survey?
Ekahau could be improved by adding three-dimensional modeling, as we currently cannot view APIs in a three-dimensional perspective. They need to include backhaul features and improve the ease of in...
What is your primary use case for Ekahau Site Survey?
I use Ekahau for Wi-Fi designs and other services. It is used for troubleshooting and for analyzing the network. Additionally, we analyze each and every API, FSID, power transmission, bitrates, and...
What needs improvement with RedSeal?
There is room for improvement in integrating the OT security part and the private 5G security part in RedSeal.
What is your primary use case for RedSeal?
The primary use cases for RedSeal are lifecycle management, vulnerabilities, and change management. Customers might look up or use these solutions for these areas.
 

Also Known As

Ekahau Site Survey
No data available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Presidio, Planet Earth, Ruckus
United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International
Find out what your peers are saying about Ekahau, Cisco, iBwave and others in Network Modeling and Simulation. Updated: September 2026.
914,109 professionals have used our research since 2012.