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 14.2% mindshare in O, compared to NI (National Instruments)’s 2.5% 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 February 2026, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 14.2%, up from 10.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is 2.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Oscilloscopes Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Keysight Oscilloscopes	14.2%
National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes	2.5%
Other	83.3%

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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

"The user interface is simple and straightforward, so I can easily measure frequency, time, and other complex measurements."

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

"Because they're such a big industry standard name, their products are standardized across many customers, which is why people own these products."

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

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

"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."

"The technical support is good, and it has very strong customer support. They sent an engineer to us who gave us some training and tutorials."

"We rely on the data and we make our design calls, risk-assessment, all based on the measurements that we take with the Keysight equipment."

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"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."

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

"It took us less than a week to get integrated into the solution, which is very fast."

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

"We haven't need technical support yet because all documentation is well done and there."

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

"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."

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Cons

"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."

"Some of the models have only two ports. It takes much longer to use a two-port. If they had a four-port, it would be much 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."

"The user interface has a load of features that come with it, which is why it is an eight out of ten."

"Sometimes, it's quite hard to get the technical support to come onsite. If we run into a hardware, measurement, or software issue, we may have to wait a long time for them to come."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"It took a good year until I felt proficient using the product, as It is a complex program. Their newest version has a less steep learning curve, but back closer to 15 years ago, it was a lot less user-friendly."

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

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

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"While I don't have transparency on the pricing, it works within my budget."

"Keysight is on the high side. If they could make the price lower without sacrificing the quality that would be great."

"The pricing is always high."

"They're not cheap."

"The pricing is on the high side."

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

"We are looking at $600,000 and it's obviously expensive, but compared to others, everybody is in the same ballpark."

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"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."

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

"These products are a very low-cost, effective alternative to traditional Big Iron ATE hardware."

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

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

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

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Retailer

11%

Legal Firm

University

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
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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