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Keysight Oscilloscopes vs RIGOL Oscilloscopes comparison

 

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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

"It's easier to automate and connect with multiple devices, and at the same time with laptops."
"Their software and hardware are integrated, so we don't have to spend a lot of time processing the data."
"Before silicon came back, our customers' performance was affected. Using these tools, we are able to deliver performance to our customers."
"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."
"Its versatility and accuracy are the most valuable features."
"The user interface is simple and straightforward, so I can easily measure frequency, time, and other complex measurements."
"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 breaks down all the parameters that we need to look at."
"The most valuable feature would be the bandwidth."
 

Cons

"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."
"We are using this product to support connected devices for IoT development, but we need more automation."
"I would like to see the possibility of interacting with the software, new features for software post-processing. For example, once you're done measuring, it would be nice to be able to generate some data starting from the measurement data."
"I would like them to build in more high-speed functions, such as FEC or PCIe, built into the array. PERT to be built-in for more specific product call. These would make our lives much easier."
"There is room for improvement in the upgradeability of the products. When we buy a platform, we would like that platform to survive two or three generations, because it is very expensive. If they could provide a more modular type of design, so if we want to upgrade one functionality then we could upgrade that module, rather than all the equipment, that would be helpful. That modularity is something we would like to see."
"We tried to connect multiple computers with a KVM switch but we could not do that using Keysight VNA. Keysight VNA comes with the PC inside it. We have other equipment as well, and we tried to combine it so that we had one monitor to control everything. With Keysight we could not do it. That's something of an inconvenience."
"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."
"The memory needs improvement."
"I had to change the probes to higher frequency probes."
 

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."
"We are looking at $600,000 and it's obviously expensive, but compared to others, everybody is in the same ballpark."
"If we rented the product, it would be more affordable than buying new."
"It's very expensive because this type of equipment is not so common. For a company buying it, this is a big investment."
"Pricing always is very expensive. There's no free lunch."
"The price is affordable for us, but for smaller companies, probably not."
"The cost is always a struggle. We always wish that we could do more for less."
"The major factor influencing the decision-makers is the price."
"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
14%
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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