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Keysight Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Keysight Oscilloscopes
Ranking in Oscilloscopes
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tektronix Oscilloscopes
Ranking in Oscilloscopes
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 15.1%, up from 11.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tektronix Oscilloscopes is 15.3%, down from 16.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Oscilloscopes Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tektronix Oscilloscopes15.3%
Keysight Oscilloscopes15.1%
Other69.6%
Oscilloscopes
 

Featured Reviews

AC
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.
HC
Sr Engineer at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Because they're such a big industry standard name, their products are standardized across many customers, which is why people own these products."
"But I would highly recommend this product."
"Its 4 port has true differential with quite a few de-embedding features. It goes up to 40 GHz with high performance."
"Its versatility and accuracy are the most valuable features."
"Their software and hardware are integrated, so we don't have to spend a lot of time processing the data."
"The most valuable features are its quality and reliability... The good thing about the GUI interface which is, of course, software-based, is that you can record and save your test setup."
"It can go up to a very high frequency, up to 120 gigahertz. And the user interface is really good. It's really easy to navigate."
"It does everything that I need it to with the PLTS software and the network analyzer software."
"B-scan is its most valuable feature."
"It has digital scopes with a high bandwidth and digitized signal. It can do whatever you want with the signal. Since its user-friendly software allows you to work with the signal, which is pretty cool."
"Technical support is great."
"For this introductory electrical engineering lab, it's pretty well-suited to my needs."
"The Tektronix user interface is like an Apple iPhone, but for oscilloscopes. It is simple to use."
"The user interface is excellent. The GUI is so self-explanatory and there are the same knobs everywhere; the design is a standard design line."
"They provide a great partnership with us."
"I like to use it and it does what I need it to do."
 

Cons

"It needs more flexible probing solutions, especially for the complex ICs."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of additional capabilities, I would like to see more touchscreen and a larger screen. That would help."
"I would like more accuracy, particularly for multiport measurements."
"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."
"I have found it to be very unreliable. It breaks down a lot."
"I would like to see an app from this company for test fixtures."
"I want the system to have a wider bandwidth because high-speed continues to move faster, so there is more bandwidth to cover."
"I would like to see more integration into machine learning because that's what we try to apply it to."
"If they could make the user interface even more intuitive that would help. If they could make it easier to read, to know where the buttons are, that's all I need."
"Tektronix Oscilloscopes are really expensive for small businesses."
"On the source side, their AWGs don't have enough bandwidth. They need to increase the bandwidth of their AWGs, meaning they have to have a faster sample rate."
"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 wish we could turn off the automatic measurement feature of the oscilloscope, for teaching purposes."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They're not cheap."
"It would be good if it were a little bit cheaper, of course."
"The pricing is very expensive."
"The price is affordable for us, but for smaller companies, probably not."
"Pricing always is very expensive. There's no free lunch."
"The pricing is very expensive, but with leading technology, nothing is cheap."
"The cost is always a struggle. We always wish that we could do more for less."
"Pricing can be improved a bit. They try to make the pricing competitive but I think there are times that the competitors have good pricing."
"In the 100 gigabit Ethernet and 400 gigabit Ethernet category, everything is in the multi-hundred thousand dollar range, so it was fair pricing because everything is expensive."
"They're all pretty expensive. If everything costs that much, I suppose the pricing is fair."
"It is a great price for a great product."
"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."
"We demoed the product before purchasing it."
"It's cost-effective... It might cost a lot of money, but if we need it we buy it."
"The cost has room for improvement. Though compared to other companies, it's okay."
"The pricing is okay. It was within our budget."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Retailer
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
15%
University
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise19
 

Also Known As

InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series
TBS Series, TDS Series, MDO Series, MSO Series
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Nokia Bell Labs
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