Keysight Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes comparison

Keysight Technologies and Tektronix are both solutions in the Oscilloscopes category. Keysight Technologies is ranked #4, while Tektronix is ranked #3. Keysight Technologies holds a 11.0% mindshare in O, compared to Tektronix’s 16.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Keysight Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tektronix users who would recommend it.

Keysight Oscilloscopes

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and Tektronix 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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Keysight Oscilloscopes vs. Tektronix Oscilloscopes

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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

Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 11.0%, down from 15.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tektronix Oscilloscopes is 16.0%, down from 18.6% 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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Hor Lam Cheuk

Sr Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

B-scan is its most valuable feature. However, we are looking for an Intel platform with the newest chipset.

Try it if it is within your budget. It is a good product. The learning curve is very quick. It takes about one or two days. While we have plans to use this product to support connect devices, we are not currently doing so. We are currently measuring signals from 3.0 and 4.0, and looking for 5.0.

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

Pros

"It's accurate, fast, has high bandwidth, and the PLTS is pretty convenient."

"The user interface has never been better. They improved it a few years ago with a more modern oscilloscope interface and it's easier to use, even for more junior people in our lab."

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

"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."

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

"While it depends on the field, the learning curve is usually really quick."

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

"It breaks down all the parameters that we need to look at."

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"The Ipath and measurements are fantastic and simple to implement."

"It is easy to handle, so everyone likes to use it."

"When I was looking for a scope for that lab, that five subdivisions per division was important."

"The most valuable features are its ease of use, user interface, and PAM-4. The user interface is good and easy to use."

"The sensitivity of the trigger and the reliability are the most valuable features."

"The most valuable features are everything they do. We primarily use the O-scopes and they help us figure out what's going wrong with our scope out signals."

"The user interface is good, not very complicated. It is very intuitive."

"It takes 35 to 45 minutes to get acclimated to the solution."

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Cons

"There is room for improvement with some of the features of the scope. I would like them to make it a bit more simplistic... For example, if I want to look at what the total jitter is, they should make it simpler to find that, with different tabs."

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

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

"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 like to see better post-processing data utility tools like a de-embedding."

"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."

"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."

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

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"We are looking for an Intel platform with the newest chipset."

"I wish we could turn off the automatic measurement feature of the oscilloscope, for teaching purposes."

"We would like more features for the CAN bus decoding, such as importing DDC files, which allows us to take the raw data and convert it into engineering units."

"I would like to see some WiFi capabilities. I would like to upgrade equipment, and if I was in the U.S., I could do that with WiFi capabilities."

"I use microservices, but you cannot really probe it, since the technology is not really there."

"I know you can get the Bit Masks but it's generally really expensive to get the eye diagrams and Bit Masks with it. I wish they were included or cheaper."

"I want the system to have a wider bandwidth because high-speed continues to move faster, so there is more bandwidth to cover."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to the screen size. I don't really have a lot of complaints but screen size would be the biggest thing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"They're not cheap."

"If we rented the product, it would be more affordable than buying new."

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

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

"The pricing is very expensive."

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"I would like to see a lower price."

"It's available on the low-end scopes for free, but on the higher-end scopes, it is expensive. Therefore, it's a bit more difficult to make stuff work."

"The pricing is not too high and not too low."

"Tektronix Oscilloscopes are really expensive for small businesses. The low-end scopes don't really compare performance-wise to what the other companies provide, like RIGOL . Mostly that just has to do with the software options."

"It is a great price for a great product."

"Isolated probes are good to have, as most of the scopes don't have it. It drives up the cost when you have to buy isolated probes."

"The pricing is okay. It was within our budget."

"It's cost-effective... It might cost a lot of money, but if we need it we buy it."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

18%

University

Legal Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

16%

University

12%

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes vs Keysight Oscilloscopes

Compared 12% of the time

RIGOL Oscilloscopes vs Keysight Oscilloscopes

Compared 12% of the time

National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes vs Keysight Oscilloscopes

Compared 4% of the time

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Siglent vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 33% of the time

Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 17% of the time

Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 13% of the time

RIGOL Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 9% of the time

Yokogawa Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series

TBS Series, TDS Series, MDO Series, MSO Series

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.

Keysight Technologies

8 out of 10 engineers around the world trust Tektronix to help them debug and test tomorrow's designs faster. With the broadest portfolio of digital oscilloscopes available, the richest set of product features, the most extensive analysis capability and our award-winning service and support, Tektronix has the right oscilloscope to meet your needs.

Tektronix

Sample Customers

Nokia Bell Labs

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