Keysight Oscilloscopes vs Tektronix Oscilloscopes comparison

Keysight Technologies and Tektronix are both solutions in the Oscilloscopes category. Keysight Technologies is ranked #4, while Tektronix is ranked #3. Keysight Technologies holds a 11.7% mindshare in O, compared to Tektronix’s 16.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Keysight Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Tektronix users who would recommend it.

Keysight Oscilloscopes

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and Tektronix 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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Keysight Oscilloscopes vs. Tektronix Oscilloscopes

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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

Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of Keysight Oscilloscopes is 11.7%, down from 14.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tektronix Oscilloscopes is 16.6%, down from 18.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Hor Lam Cheuk

Sr Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

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.

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

Pros

"Its versatility and accuracy are the most valuable features."

"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."

"While it depends on the field, the learning curve is usually really quick."

"The user interface is nice. It describes the output well, so it's easy to use."

"The user interface is very simple. Everyone can use it."

"The Keysight Ecal feature has made it very easy for me to do calibrations."

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

"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."

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"The most valuable features are everything they do. We primarily use the O-scopes and they help us figure out what's going wrong with our scope out signals."

"The most valuable feature is the automation component in setting up some of these measurements."

"When I was looking for a scope for that lab, that five subdivisions per division was important."

"It provides you the best way to view information without opening multiple applications, like a single solution."

"The user interface is good."

"This solution provides high confidence in the data being presented in the measurement to inform a design decision going forward."

"B-scan is its most valuable feature."

"It has a good user interface. It's easy to use, easy to read. It's intuitive."

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Cons

"There is room for improvement with some of the features of the scope. I would like them to make it a bit more simplistic... For example, if I want to look at what the total jitter is, they should make it simpler to find that, with different tabs."

"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 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."

"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."

"The user interface can be buggy at times. But I'm an engineer, I figure out how to get around them pretty easily so that's not that much of a concern."

"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."

"I would also like to see a more detailed change-notice from version to version, what changed. If they had a more detailed description of what is changing and the reason for it, rather than just releasing, that would be good for us so we know whether or not to upgrade."

"While the user interface is good with respect to instrumentation, but with respect to documentation, I do not like it. Its documentation is slightly bad. It was not organized properly. The way it's organized is very difficult to understand, so it takes lot of time to search for one thing in particular."

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"They need to add more memory to this machine."

"There was a learning curve, which was a little tricky at times. Getting used to the GUI took time because we had to learn the different features."

"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."

"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 want the system to have a wider bandwidth because high-speed continues to move faster, so there is more bandwidth to cover."

"I use microservices, but you cannot really probe it, since the technology is not really there."

"I would like to see an app from this company for test fixtures."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is good for what they offer."

"The pricing is very expensive."

"The pricing is very expensive, but with leading technology, nothing is cheap."

"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."

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

"Pricing always is very expensive. There's no free lunch."

"It would be good if it were a little bit cheaper, of course."

"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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"The pricing is very expensive."

"Tecktronix pricing tends to be pretty fair and reasonable with current market trends. They don't usually bump up the price too much."

"It costs a quarter of a million. This technology is not cheap."

"Pricing could be lower. I would want to buy it for an extremely, low price, but Tektronix is a high-end product."

"It's available on the low-end scopes for free, but on the higher-end scopes, it is expensive. Therefore, it's a bit more difficult to make stuff work."

"The pricing is not too high and not too low."

"We demoed the product before purchasing it."

"The cost has room for improvement. Though compared to other companies, it's okay."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

18%

University

Legal Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

16%

University

12%

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Compared 33% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

InfiniiVision Series, Infiniium Series

TBS Series, TDS Series, MDO Series, MSO Series

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.

Keysight Technologies

8 out of 10 engineers around the world trust Tektronix to help them debug and test tomorrow's designs faster. With the broadest portfolio of digital oscilloscopes available, the richest set of product features, the most extensive analysis capability and our award-winning service and support, Tektronix has the right oscilloscope to meet your needs.

Tektronix

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Nokia Bell Labs

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