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Nexthink vs Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Nexthink
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zscaler Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
9th
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 June 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Nexthink is 14.8%, down from 25.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is 7.5%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nexthink14.8%
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)7.5%
Other77.7%
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.
Chella  Chalapathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Program Manager at Infosys
Offers steady access and reliable support but could benefit from better integration and user-friendly insights
Regarding future updates, I would like to see Zscaler prioritize pricing and integrate more with multiple products. Multiple integrations with various platforms would enable some sort of automation. Zscaler provides real-time insights, but it is not reaching the end users properly, which is something Zscaler should improve because it should be user-friendly for understanding what Zscaler is offering. When there is too much technology, people cannot understand it, so it should be very simplified, and there should be some ways for users to gain knowledge about the product themselves. Zscaler's ability to analyze millions of telemetry data points in real-time is still somewhat unclear to me; perhaps that level of knowledge has not been reached by me or the end users, indicating that Zscaler has to focus on that area.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Nexthink has positively impacted our organization as we are diagnosing and monitoring digital scores that are lower than 20 or lower than 50."
"Nexthink helps us improve DEX scores and end-user performance experience on devices, providing strong return on investment."
"I have seen a return on investment, as the time saved by automating processes is significant."
"Once this application was implemented in our organization, we were able to find lots of issues, and we became more proactive and resolve issues proactively in our environment."
"Handling multiple endpoints can be very difficult, and I would say if you have a big organization Nexthink will be a big asset for them."
"Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases."
"Nexthink has positively impacted our organization by enabling us to properly perform OS upgrades and other Windows updates by clearing spaces and being proactive for applications and endpoints."
"When we worked on compliance issues, we reduced incidents related to patching and polling by 70%, amounting to around 4,000 incidents per month."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"Their release management processes could be improved to release the updates in a more confined and process-oriented way."
"It would be good to have a more controlled way to access their cloud environment."
"I would rate Nexthink an eight out of ten because it is truly helpful, and not higher because it needs some improvement in the integration with our products that would benefit me in my work."
"I think Nexthink can be improved in some areas. There are little bugs that one would want to address, but I understand it is not always possible."
"It would be helpful if Nexthink could maintain a library for some of the standard EXEs to be named automatically."
"The tool should improve its pricing and performance. It also have nothing related to patch management."
"The next release could use some improvement in the tools that are provided."
"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."
"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."
"Support responses are excellent, but for more complex cases, it sometimes takes longer."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Healthcare Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise45
No data available
 

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?
The structure of the data, particularly regarding raw data or outputs and binaries, requires improvement as it is not very clean and demands significant manual effort to sort.
What is your primary use case for Nexthink?
When I was working from the service desk front for Nexthink, my main use case involved manual troubleshooting focused on maintaining the compliance of the system. We were able to take out more than...
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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