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Keysight Oscilloscopes vs RIGOL Oscilloscopes comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Keysight Oscilloscopes
Ranking in Oscilloscopes
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
RIGOL Oscilloscopes
Ranking in Oscilloscopes
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 12.3%, down from 13.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RIGOL Oscilloscopes is 20.7%, down from 22.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Oscilloscopes Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
RIGOL Oscilloscopes20.7%
Keysight Oscilloscopes12.3%
Other67.0%
Oscilloscopes
 

Featured Reviews

AC
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.
JP
The most valuable feature would be the bandwidth
It is a general purpose scope with 4-channel 300 MHz.  The application space that this solution targets is the embedded system of my products. Typically, the signals that we are measuring are digital, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), wireless, and Zigbee The most valuable feature would be the…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Its 4 port has true differential with quite a few de-embedding features. It goes up to 40 GHz with high performance."
"Its versatility and accuracy are the most valuable features."
"It's accurate, fast, has high bandwidth, and the PLTS is pretty convenient."
"Their software and hardware are integrated, so we don't have to spend a lot of time processing the data."
"It has the highest bandwidth and resolution on the market."
"It's easier to automate and connect with multiple devices, and at the same time with laptops."
"The user interface is nice. It describes the output well, so it's easy to use."
"The user interface is very user-friendly. You can use a lot of functions in their scope and will provide them for you. You can update the scope's software by asking Keysight to update the software when you want."
"The most valuable feature would be the bandwidth."
 

Cons

"I would like more accuracy, particularly for multiport measurements."
"Something I'd like to see is much better documentation and some good examples. That would be very helpful for a new user to get better at using the new test equipment."
"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."
"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."
"Every component has a manufacturing tolerance. I hope Keysight software can help with the tolerance loss in manufacturing variance, which can be ten percent or five percent. In the real world, we cannot fire a really perfect test with very smooth impedance. I would like to see Keysight provide a solution to solve the issue of loss of manufacturing variance."
"Their GUI is not the best. They need to improve on that. I think their software team needs to put in a little bit more work on how they are presenting the application on the scope."
"We are using this product to support connected devices for IoT development, but we need more automation."
"I had to change the probes to higher frequency probes."
"The memory needs improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are looking at $600,000 and it's obviously expensive, but compared to others, everybody is in the same ballpark."
"It's expensive, but the quality matters."
"It's very expensive because this type of equipment is not so common. For a company buying it, this is a big investment."
"It would be good if it were a little bit cheaper, of course."
"The pricing is very expensive, but with leading technology, nothing is cheap."
"If we rented the product, it would be more affordable than buying new."
"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."
"Pricing always is very expensive. There's no free lunch."
"The pricing was good."
"For the 4-channel big display, you have to upgrade to 500 MHz."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Legal Firm
9%
University
9%
Computer Software Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Educational Organization
8%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise18
No data available
 

Also Known As

InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series
7000 Series, MSO5000 Series, 1000Z Series, DS6000 Series, 4000 Series, 2000 Series
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Nokia Bell Labs
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