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Nexthink vs Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Nexthink
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zscaler Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
7th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Nexthink is 11.4%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is 5.4%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nexthink11.4%
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)5.4%
Other83.2%
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
 

Featured Reviews

PS
Assistant consultant at TCS
Proactive analytics have improved device performance and optimized disk space and support workflows
Nexthink offers many features, with the best being Flow, which encompasses almost everything. We have Nexthink Workspace and Spark, allowing integration with Teams so users can find solutions without going to the service desk, rectifying issues in chat. Nexthink Infinity has brought a lot of benefits to us. There has been a very good change from integration. Integrating ServiceNow with Nexthink automates problem ticket and incident generation, enabling the team to proactively know the kinds of problem statements we are receiving. For the integration with Teams, we have not completed it yet, but we are in the planning phase, and once done, we will observe the results. Nexthink has the capability of integrating with most third-party applications, which is a great feature. With the remediation actions we have in Nexthink, it has provided great self-heal capabilities along with proactiveness. By looking at the dashboards and identifying problem statements, we can share this information with the end-user computing teams to fix issues. Nexthink has significantly helped us enhance our DEX score from 74 to 80. When I talk about features that led to the improvement of our score from 74 to 80, there were earlier issues with device performance and reliability not being addressed. Noting these, we identified devices lacking free disk space and low RAM capacity contributing to high memory usage or excessive CPU usage. Disabling unnecessary startup applications brought us to a new DEX score of almost 80.
VikasTiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at Anthology
Unified monitoring has improved SaaS troubleshooting and reduces MTTR for remote users
In my opinion, the best features Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) offers are Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) Insights and scoreboards for quick health visibility. I can analyze the path to identify what the bottleneck of the application is, and I can also diagnose the endpoint for device-level root cause analysis, which is very helpful. Scoreboards and root cause analysis have helped my team significantly, as a scoreboard represents a 100% healthy application and connection, meaning no issues can be identified. During troubleshooting, I definitely need to visit the Insights and scoreboard to understand the level of connectivity the user is experiencing. Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) has positively impacted my organization by being beneficial for me as a troubleshooter and administrator, as I can identify all types of network performance-related issues, leading to faster resolutions of user complaints, improved collaboration between network, desktop, and security teams, and more productivity in identifying issues before they affect users. The outcome shows a 40 to 50% reduction in MTTR for SaaS applications and better SLA reporting for critical apps like Zoom and Salesforce, among many more applications which can be integrated with tenant authorization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Nexthink is a great tool for device analytics, providing complete insight into devices and great solutions with many integrations that simplify work."
"From my perspective as someone supporting the environment, I have definitely seen Nexthink improve our ability to identify, troubleshoot, and respond to end-user endpoint issues more efficiently."
"Number of service incidents dropped by more than 20%."
"Nexthink is valuable because it's enabled us to reduce the time it takes to resolve any issues."
"Nexthink has positively impacted our organization by giving us more control over the users, more understanding of any live actions, and more visibility to our network."
"It is useful for managing end-user devices. The insights and the data that you get from end-user devices are most valuable."
"Nexthink's best features are Engage and Act, which we use in combination for self-healing use cases."
"It has AI capabilities that automatically detect problems before the end user becomes aware of them."
"Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) has positively impacted my organization by being beneficial for me as a troubleshooter and administrator, as I can identify all types of network performance-related issues, leading to faster resolutions of user complaints, improved collaboration between network, desktop, and security teams, and more productivity in identifying issues before they affect users."
"Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) positively impacted my organization by providing Zero Trust Network Access, which many organizations are moving towards."
"Regarding the benefits of Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)'s traffic analysis for my IT operations, I believe it greatly supports our needs."
 

Cons

"There could be improvements in monitoring user sentiments. Currently, user sentiment is not being monitored, meaning if a user faces multiple issues, their sentiments cannot be captured through the tool."
"The stability of this solution could be greatly improved to avoid performance issues."
"It would be good to have a more controlled way to access their cloud environment."
"Nexthink can improve by incorporating multiple tools."
"I would like it if they could put in some patch deployments and compliances."
"It would be helpful if Nexthink could maintain a library for some of the standard EXEs to be named automatically."
"The initial setup needs technical knowledge."
"Their release management processes could be improved to release the updates in a more confined and process-oriented way."
"Support responses are excellent, but for more complex cases, it sometimes takes longer."
"Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is comparatively an expensive product."
"I have noticed drawbacks within Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX), as the sales team is too arrogant and too aggressive, playing politics, but the product itself is very good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."
"With this implementation of the Act and Engage module, I believe that there is a one-time fee for a two-month period, which is for the support team to make additional customizations."
"Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases. The tool can do so much that to purely compare the price in a static way to other tools in your arsenal would be a mistake. If you do a more dynamic comparison that’s based on the overall functionality and use cases possible then it comes out cheaper. You need to consider it a relative measurement against potential use cases, size of the organization, maturity of organization, etc."
"There are certain layers when it comes to pricing. The product has three layers and these layers are associated with certain sources. For example, the top layer have the premium services and the bottom layer has the basic services."
"I have seen it help improve the user experience scores. This helped clients to save costs on another tool that they were trying to deploy in order to improve the user experience by just deploying some scripts. We were able to identify the issues and help them remediate those using our help. The process does not take much time and it provided background on end user performance. Therefore, they were able to save a lot, e.g., for approximately 50,000 endpoints at two dollars per machine per year, that is about $100,000 in savings."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Healthcare Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise47
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nexthink?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it was very easy. It was the best option when it comes to costing.
What needs improvement with Nexthink?
Nexthink has a very strong feature set, and I am still continuing to expand my experience with some of its more advanced capabilities. One area I would like to explore more deeply is Flow and the m...
What is your primary use case for Nexthink?
My main use case for Nexthink is supporting the digital employee experience and proactively identifying and resolving endpoint issues. I use it to investigate device performance, troubleshoot issue...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)?
I consider the pricing reasonable for the value delivered, and the setup is straightforward with good onboarding support.
What needs improvement with Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)?
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) can be improved with more detailed mobile device support, better integration with third-party ITSM platforms, and enhanced reporting customizations. I can easily in...
What is your primary use case for Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)?
My main use case for Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is to monitor end-user experience for SaaS applications, and I can also integrate all those applications within the tenant and troubleshoot net...
 

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