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 12.7% mindshare in O, compared to NI (National Instruments)’s 1.4% 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.

Find out in this report how the two Oscilloscopes solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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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 November 2025, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 12.7%, up from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Oscilloscopes Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Keysight Oscilloscopes	12.7%
National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes	1.4%
Other	85.9%

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"Its 4 port has true differential with quite a few de-embedding features. It goes up to 40 GHz with high performance."

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

"The most valuable features are its quality and reliability... The good thing about the GUI interface which is, of course, software-based, is that you can record and save your test setup."

"The user interface is very good, very graphical. It provides a lot of help in using and operating it."

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

"It's easier to automate and connect with multiple devices, and at the same time with laptops."

"The product's functionality makes things easier for my partner, who is doing the PCIe design. He is able measure the product's usage and bit error rate."

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

"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."

"Most of the features are on the screen itself. The naming convention makes it very easy to understand what is needed."

"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."

"I can automate a lot of testing very quickly. With just a push of a button, I can test hundreds of different scenarios without having to do all that manual testing myself."

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

"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."

"The learning curve was really fast, which was also the reason for saving a lot on the budget."

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Cons

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

"The technical support is okay, but sometimes they are on a different page than us. If it is something wrong with the scope, they are okay. However, if something technical goes wrong, like the calibration, it is hard to get the information that we need because it is hard to share everything and explain all the measurements in real-time."

"While the user interface is good with respect to instrumentation, but with respect to documentation, I do not like it. Its documentation is slightly bad. It was not organized properly. The way it's organized is very difficult to understand, so it takes lot of time to search for one thing in particular."

"The user interface is not that good. It's not very intuitive. It's functional, but it's not designed for ease of operation. It's designed for functionality."

"Everybody is looking for more automation support, so that if they can incorporate more protocols. It makes it easier."

"I would like more customized functions, so we can do the programming and definitions ourselves. There is an automation flow to capture this signal, and we would like to do this ourselves."

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

"There is room for improvement in the upgradeability of the products. When we buy a platform, we would like that platform to survive two or three generations, because it is very expensive. If they could provide a more modular type of design, so if we want to upgrade one functionality then we could upgrade that module, rather than all the equipment, that would be helpful. That modularity is something we would like to see."

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

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

"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."

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

"I would like to have more RF. They're going that way, but still there is some work that they have to do."

"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."

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

"The software has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive, but the quality matters."

"The pricing is very expensive."

"The pricing is good for what they offer."

"Pricing always is very expensive. There's no free lunch."

"It would be good if it were a little bit cheaper, of course."

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

"The pricing is very expensive, but with leading technology, nothing is cheap."

"It's very expensive because this type of equipment is not so common. For a company buying it, this is a big investment."

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

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

"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."

"It's a bit expensive. However, you get the entire package, not just the box. It's a box which supports older releases."

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

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

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	18

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Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	7

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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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