Keysight Oscilloscopes vs National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes comparison

Keysight Technologies and NI (National Instruments) are both solutions in the Oscilloscopes category. Keysight Technologies is ranked #4, while NI (National Instruments) is ranked #7. Keysight Technologies holds a 11.7% mindshare in O, compared to NI (National Instruments)’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Keysight Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of NI (National Instruments) users who would recommend it.

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Keysight Oscilloscopes

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

National Instruments (NI) O...

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 11.7%, down from 14.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Amit Chowdhry

Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The technical support ecosystem is what really makes it good.

Because they're such a big industry standard name, their products are standardized across many customers, which is why people own these products. The customer support is very good. If you need an application to do any measurement, you can easily get a hold of people to help you with it. This is a whole ecosystem. The user interface is top-notch in the industry.

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Armando Arenai

Senior Technical Officer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have saved almost 50 percent of my total budget for a project by using their products

The use of this solution does require a specific mindset. Some people are not tailored for it. Try it. The learning curve is really fast, so it's easy to use. We are measuring RF signals, one-sided analog signals, and control loops for system controls. We are not using this product to support connected devices nor are we planning to going forward.

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Pros

"The technical support is good, and it has very strong customer support. They sent an engineer to us who gave us some training and tutorials."

"The Keysight Ecal feature has made it very easy for me to do calibrations."

"It's a one-stop solution. It does everything we need. The combined functionality is the biggest benefit."

"The customer support is very good. If you need an application to do any measurement, you can easily get a hold of people to help you with it. This is a whole ecosystem."

"It can go up to a very high frequency, up to 120 gigahertz. And the user interface is really good. It's really easy to navigate."

"It has the highest bandwidth and resolution on the market."

"We rely on the data and we make our design calls, risk-assessment, all based on the measurements that we take with the Keysight equipment."

"Their software and hardware are integrated, so we don't have to spend a lot of time processing the data."

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"The integrated lateral view makes it easier to develop your test systems and test software flow."

"The user interface is very good, easy to understand, and easy to operate."

"It makes programming simpler."

"It saves me a lot of time. You can click a button and walk away, basically doing a week's worth of work in 20 minutes, it's a pretty good time saver."

"The user interface is very good. Their boards are reliable. We buy boards from them, they are reliable, and we don't have problems with them."

"We haven't need technical support yet because all documentation is well done and there."

"The user interface is absolutely great. It creates an easy working environment because it has well-integrated hardware and software. So, it is easy to use."

"Because their view is a graphical user interface (GUI), it's very easy to program the tool."

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Cons

"I would like more accuracy, particularly for multiport measurements."

"Some of the models have only two ports. It takes much longer to use a two-port. If they had a four-port, it would be much better."

"We are using this product to support connected devices for IoT development, but we need more automation."

"I would like to see the possibility of interacting with the software, new features for software post-processing. For example, once you're done measuring, it would be nice to be able to generate some data starting from the measurement data."

"I would also like to see a more detailed change-notice from version to version, what changed. If they had a more detailed description of what is changing and the reason for it, rather than just releasing, that would be good for us so we know whether or not to upgrade."

"The integration between different software and hardware panels could be improved. In the software, it's not as strong as the other solutions."

"If the simulation runs for a long time, it will suddenly crash. If they can debug that, the product would be better."

"I would like be able to measure multi-lane simultaneously. Right now, the high-performance jitter solution measures one signal. I would like to capture many at the same time."

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"I would like to see them increase the productivity and auxiliary functions."

"There is a learning curve. It takes one to two months to get acclimated to the tool."

"I would like to see more of a tasking user base and documentation inside the instrument itself, rather than having to go online for it."

"I would like more speed and a reduction in size."

"It took a good year until I felt proficient using the product, as It is a complex program. Their newest version has a less steep learning curve, but back closer to 15 years ago, it was a lot less user-friendly."

"The software has room for improvement."

"There is a learning curve. It might take a year if you're not well-versed with it."

"National Instruments needs to be focusing on its 5G RF applications. They are aware of this, and that's where most of their R&D is going."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is affordable for us, but for smaller companies, probably not."

"The pricing is on the high side."

"Our solution is upgradable. However, upgrading depends on how much money the company is willing to spend, because each upgrade will take a million dollars."

"The pricing is good for what they offer."

"The pricing is very expensive."

"While I don't have transparency on the pricing, it works within my budget."

"The major factor influencing the decision-makers is the price."

"They're not cheap."

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"It's reasonably priced for what we spend our money on in the lab. It's one of the lower-end purchases."

"I have saved almost 50 percent of my total budget for a project by using their products."

"I would like more competitive pricing."

"The price is a little steep. A lot of people, like our customers, use a different machine because of the price. The price has to come down a bit so we can do other tests without paying the equipment's high costs."

"The pricing was good. Compared to the others, it was very good."

"These products are a very low-cost, effective alternative to traditional Big Iron ATE hardware."

"They have an initial investment cost, which is quite high. But, along the way, there is so much behind it that the product is really invaluable."

"The cost of the equipment has room for improvement. The pricing could improve."

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Also Known As

InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series

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Overview

More engineers are switching to Keysight oscilloscopes because they help you:

Get your products to market faster with award-winning oscilloscopes that offer the fastest update rates, the deepest memory, the industry’s only capacitive touch screen, and the most oscilloscope software options.
Produce the highest-performing products with measurements you can trust thanks to oscilloscopes with industry-leading signal integrity and the largest selection of oscilloscope probes.
Achieve the lowest cost of ownership with multiple instruments in one mainframe and easy upgrades.
Get a compact instrument with zero compromise in functionality with the Keysight Streamline Series USB oscilloscopes.

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Turning powerful possibilities into real solutions with our open, software-defined platform for automated test and automated measurement systems.

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