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Nexthink vs ThousandEyes 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
8.1
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ThousandEyes
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (7th), Cloud Monitoring Software (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Nexthink is 19.4%, down from 27.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ThousandEyes is 12.5%, up from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Nexthink19.4%
ThousandEyes12.5%
Other68.1%
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Makarand-Shrikhande - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Architect at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Real-time monitoring enhances proactive issue identification and boosts productivity
The most valuable feature of Nexthink is its proactive issue identification, which is part of its unique selling proposition. It includes ITSM processes by identifying and resolving issues, thereby improving user experience and productivity enhancements. Real-time analytics is also effective as it involves real-time monitoring for proactive issue identification. Self-healing capabilities within the tool further enhance its value.
Abdalraheem Asha - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior cloud engineering lead and IT project owner at KDD
Has improved collaboration with providers and pinpointed issues across regional networks
ThousandEyes has been the most user-friendly tool I have seen in the past couple of years, making life easier in troubleshooting and helping us find what's happening while offering vivid options on how to use the agents or the server-side tools with multiple options to trace out the issues. The best features ThousandEyes offers include the ability to place two different points or nodes, such as a server or a node in the cloud in my account, then installing agents and tracing the connectivity which helps me build a perfect user experience to check what's happening while users access my resources. I love the dashboards in ThousandEyes and the way I see the results after placing or doing the tests; this is perfect, and I would say this is the best thing. ThousandEyes has positively impacted my organization by raising the customer experience and positive feedback by over 70% due to the complex situation with local service providers, allowing me to resolve user feedback and issues which enhanced the user experience significantly. I measure the 70% improvement in customer experience through customer tickets and feedback after resolving issues, where previously, users faced problems and limited time on the platform, and after using ThousandEyes, the user time reached up to five to six hours a day, even for teams possibly totaling 30 hours a day.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a very stable product with regular security and feature updates."
"All the features of Nexthink are really useful when it comes to providing visibility into the endpoints and the services that we are monitoring, but the most interesting and useful features are the campaign and remote actions."
"Nexthink allows our customers to have visibility into their whole environment and security. And it lets you install the agent as a package for selected users instead of every user. This helps cut down on the delay involved in a bulk installation."
"We have found the combination of analytics and automation in this solution to be very valuable to our organization, as it allows for us to perform auto-resolution on customer issues."
"Real-time analytics is effective as it involves real-time monitoring for proactive issue identification."
"The solution is stable."
"It is useful for managing end-user devices. The insights and the data that you get from end-user devices are most valuable."
"I would rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. It is a good tool for network admins."
"The solution's most valuable feature is network security."
"The company provides excellent service."
"The solution's most valuable feature is the path analyzer, which identifies the node causing the errors."
"The most valuable features are integration and ease of use."
"Overall, I would rate ThousandEyes nine out of ten."
"It's fairly easy to set up."
"The most valuable features of ThousandEyes are the full monitoring capabilities and the ability to identify the exact location of problems in the path between the application and the end-user."
 

Cons

"The initial setup needs technical knowledge."
"Deployment and user interface need improvement."
"It lacks support for IoT and most network equipment."
"Nexthink could have better integration with ITSM tools - at the moment, they only integrate with ServiceNow, so adding other tools, like HP SMAX, would be very useful."
"They can improve the Nexthink action module."
"There could be a streamlined NQL and SQL query functionality, as it can be complex. An easier way to modify queries would be beneficial for the product."
"The solution could provide more training. There should be proper documentation on the solution because even for small issues we have needed to reach out to the support team. The person who is doing all the administration work should have the proper information, but the problem is the documentation is lacking. There is no proper training or documentation available. Nexthink is holding all the information. We want to learn, but you can not without the information."
"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."
"ThousandEyes could improve the dashboards by adding more features."
"We can show the traffic path in some cases, but it's almost impossible to do so in cloud networks like CDN, Akamai, or Microsoft."
"The guest portal is hard to use."
"Once I fully use the tool 100%, I'm sure I would have something to critique, however, for now, I'm happy with it."
"ThousandEyes should expand its application monitoring to monitor some communication applications."
"I feel it needs more holistic integration. It needs more improvement."
"More detailed documentation explaining the metrics and the testing mechanisms would be helpful."
"I would like the product to offer more agility."
 

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 would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a quite expensive solution."
"The solution costs several thousand dollars per year."
"The solution's pricing is cheap; I rate it a five out of ten."
"In our company, we incur a yearly expense in our company for the licensing part. I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten since it is expensive."
"The solution is cheap."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Healthcare Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nexthink?
Pricing is competitive, and the licensing model is straightforward. It is a per-device licensing model charged on a monthly subscription basis.
What needs improvement with Nexthink?
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...
What is your primary use case for Nexthink?
I mainly use Nexthink for end-user device monitoring, which includes desktops, laptops, or any virtual devices, focusing predominantly on virtual desktops. The agent is deployed on these devices to...
What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective. You can check...
What needs improvement with ThousandEyes?
ThousandEyes could focus more on end-users than enterprises, as the solution is powerful, and collaboration with multiple cloud providers should be developed for better test traceability, with the ...
What is your primary use case for ThousandEyes?
My main use case for ThousandEyes is troubleshooting, with a specific example being testing connectivity through IXP to ensure the fastest route in collaboration with service providers over the reg...
 

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Sample Customers

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Wayfair, GitHub, Craigslist, Comcast, SurveyMonkey, Lyft, Box, HP, Zendesk, IO Data Centers, Good Technology, NNTCommunications, Proofpoint, Schneider, Crowdstrike, Avera, Pitney Bowes, InstartLogic, Shutterfly, Shutterstock, Condé Nast, Roche, Jive, Actelion, Brocade, Infor, Okta, JLL, DigitalOcean, Zuora, NetSuite, CloudFlare, One, DemonWare, Quantcast, Carbonite, CareerBuilder, Prosper, Oscar, Slack
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