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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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.4
Nexthink boosts ROI through automation and license optimization, enhancing performance, reducing costs, and improving user satisfaction and productivity.
Sentiment score
6.6
ThousandEyes provides ROI by improving troubleshooting efficiency, enhancing network performance, and delivering results within two to three years.
Over a year, we have saved more than 2 lakh dollars.
System Engineer at Dell Technologies
Nexthink enabled our current support staff to become super users and they have really helped us to expand on our financials.
Analyst at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
I definitely see a return on investment with Nexthink as it helps in the reduction of incidents, thus saving manpower.
Technical Manager at a recreational facilities/services company with 11-50 employees
There has been a great ROI from using ThousandEyes, with significant time saved in troubleshooting as I can quickly pinpoint issues rather than spending time isolating them, alongside enhancing customer feedback and experience.
Senior cloud engineering lead and IT project owner at KDD
I have seen a return on investment by reducing troubleshooting time and having lesser user mapping error issues, in addition to engineering time saved through better observability and reduced organizational MTTR.
Project Manager at Procter & Gamble
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.8
Nexthink's customer support is praised for responsiveness and helpfulness, despite occasional slow responses and unclear SLAs.
Sentiment score
6.8
ThousandEyes customer service is highly praised for quick, effective support and proactive resolutions, earning strong ratings and feedback.
Customer support is one thing which needs to be improved; support team members are slow to respond, and they take a lot of time to get back to us, even if it is an urgent case.
Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
There is also a community available for inquiries.
Senior IT Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They respond instantly whenever we have issues with remote actions or workflows.
Advisor at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We contacted the support team, and they resolved it within a couple of hours.
System Operation Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I would give it a rating of 10 because whenever we have any issues, we can typically reach someone who has the knowledge to help us.
Network Engineer Iii at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The customer support for ThousandEyes is very proactive and supportive.
Project Manager at Procter & Gamble
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Nexthink offers scalability, integration, and flexibility, making it ideal for large enterprises, despite minor independent setup challenges.
Sentiment score
7.0
ThousandEyes offers scalable, adaptable monitoring for various business sizes, praised for its cloud accessibility and seamless integration.
Nexthink's scalability is sufficient; it is scalable enough for wider organizations.
Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It has the capability to manage an increased number of end-user devices, and we can still scale up without encountering issues.
Senior IT Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We can scale it significantly, not just for creating and updating incidents in ServiceNow but many more applications can be integrated.
Assistant consultant at TCS
Scalability with ThousandEyes is straightforward as you don't really need to scale; it's designed to monitor multiple applications, accommodating 50 or 100 applications simultaneously.
Network Assistant Engineer at Staffordshire and Shropshire Health Informatics Service
ThousandEyes's scalability is excellent; it is very scalable and grows with my organization's needs.
Project Manager at Procter & Gamble
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Nexthink is praised for its reliability and stability, though frequent updates can be a minor frustration for users.
Sentiment score
8.0
ThousandEyes is stable and reliable, rated 7-10, with minor bugs, requiring proper configuration for optimal performance.
There are no performance or scalability issues.
Sr. Architect at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Nexthink is very stable; we have not faced any downtime with the products that we are using.
System Engineer at Dell Technologies
Upgrading the agent is much smoother than I thought and smoother than with other agents we have used before.
Analyst at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
From my experience, ThousandEyes has been stable up to 95%; I have not seen any stability issues.
Senior cloud engineering lead and IT project owner at KDD
ThousandEyes is not very stable; sometimes you have to reboot the servers to get actual results.
Network Assistant Engineer at Staffordshire and Shropshire Health Informatics Service
 

Room For Improvement

Nexthink users seek enhanced query handling, API integrations, UI design, automation, AI features, support, documentation, and training resources.
ThousandEyes requires improved integration, automation, and interface enhancements for better user experience, monitoring, and management reliability.
Improving automation and self-healing capabilities would also make a significant impact, as reducing helpdesk tickets with automated fixes is crucial.
Senior IT Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The structure of the data, particularly regarding raw data or outputs and binaries, requires improvement as it is not very clean and demands significant manual effort to sort.
Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The UI is hierarchical, which makes navigation complex and isn't user-friendly for those unfamiliar with it.
Senior SME at Microland Limited
Incidents should be alerted on and traced early, before they escalate to full outages.
Software Developer at The Code
Having a dedicated incident alert system for URL alerts would help manage noise and streamline operations, especially during patch upgrades.
System Operation Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
An area where ThousandEyes can be improved is in providing more in-depth packet analysis; we've found instances where ThousandEyes indicates everything is okay, but it's actually not.
Network Assistant Engineer at Staffordshire and Shropshire Health Informatics Service
 

Setup Cost

Nexthink is priced higher than competitors, but its comprehensive features justify the cost for medium to large organizations.
ThousandEyes pricing varies by size and needs, seen as both cost-effective and expensive, influenced by flow count and agreements.
Nexthink is about 10% more expensive than SysTrack.
Senior SME at Microland Limited
Pricing is competitive, and the licensing model is straightforward.
Sr. Architect at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
I believe the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Nexthink are reasonable according to the current market prices.
Cloud Soc Design Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been that everything was cost-effective.
Project Manager at Procter & Gamble
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it comes in cheaper than alternatives.
Lead Technical Consultant at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing indicates that licensing is somewhat complicated because of the credits system.
Network Engineer Iii at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Nexthink offers real-time analytics, AI features, and integrations, providing cost-effective device management and quick issue resolution benefits.
ThousandEyes provides user-friendly, scalable monitoring with robust features for optimizing performance and reducing downtime through detailed analysis.
The platform is beneficial as it provides data in real time, whereas alternatives may provide up to twenty-four-hour-old data.
Senior SME at Microland Limited
The most valuable feature of Nexthink is its proactive issue identification, which is part of its unique selling proposition.
Sr. Architect at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Similar to Wireshark, it captures packets, but Nexthink gives me an overview of the whole traffic from the user to the end in the outside network.
Cloud Soc Design Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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.
Senior cloud engineering lead and IT project owner at KDD
ThousandEyes offers the best features including global internet and cloud visibility from distributed vantage points, application and network performance monitoring, real-time outage detection and incident alerts, end-to-end path visualization for rapid troubleshooting, proactive issue demarcation, and historical data.
Project Manager at Procter & Gamble
ThousandEyes has become critical for swift network troubleshooting as well, so anytime that there's potential issues with applications or we want to be proactive in resolving potential issues before they arise, ThousandEyes is really the platform that we're leveraging for WAN monitoring, Wi-Fi, latency, packet loss, etc.
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
 

Categories and Ranking

Nexthink
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ThousandEyes
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Nexthink is 14.8%, down from 25.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ThousandEyes is 11.6%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Nexthink14.8%
ThousandEyes11.6%
Other73.6%
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
 

Featured Reviews

PS
Assistant consultant at TCS
Proactive analytics have improved device performance and optimized disk space and support workflows
Nexthink offers many features, with the best being Flow, which encompasses almost everything. We have Nexthink Workspace and Spark, allowing integration with Teams so users can find solutions without going to the service desk, rectifying issues in chat. Nexthink Infinity has brought a lot of benefits to us. There has been a very good change from integration. Integrating ServiceNow with Nexthink automates problem ticket and incident generation, enabling the team to proactively know the kinds of problem statements we are receiving. For the integration with Teams, we have not completed it yet, but we are in the planning phase, and once done, we will observe the results. Nexthink has the capability of integrating with most third-party applications, which is a great feature. With the remediation actions we have in Nexthink, it has provided great self-heal capabilities along with proactiveness. By looking at the dashboards and identifying problem statements, we can share this information with the end-user computing teams to fix issues. Nexthink has significantly helped us enhance our DEX score from 74 to 80. When I talk about features that led to the improvement of our score from 74 to 80, there were earlier issues with device performance and reliability not being addressed. Noting these, we identified devices lacking free disk space and low RAM capacity contributing to high memory usage or excessive CPU usage. Disabling unnecessary startup applications brought us to a new DEX score of almost 80.
Shreyans Parekh - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
Proactive monitoring has transformed digital experience and now optimizes application delivery
With ThousandEyes, there are some configuration and metric screens that are not entirely intuitive with ThousandEyes, so they can certainly improve in terms of the usability of certain metric screens. ThousandEyes can also offer deeper traffic insights relative to specific applications, so detailed analytics on application-level traffic would help in better understanding and managing our network resources effectively. I would say that ThousandEyes can also, in terms of providing more extensibility with other observability tools, offer more out-of-the-box integrations with other observability tools so that ThousandEyes can serve as that single source of truth, so that we don't necessarily need to go to other tools to be able to be that one-source dashboard. I think there's a lot that ThousandEyes can continue to improve on there. The issues that I've talked about, including extensibility with other platforms and the improvement of accessing specific metric screens in order to be able to provide for fuller access and more detailed access to network-level metrics would make the platform feel less complicated to navigate. It wouldn't require as many manual integration inputs.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Healthcare Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise45
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nexthink?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it was very easy. It was the best option when it comes to costing.
What needs improvement with Nexthink?
The structure of the data, particularly regarding raw data or outputs and binaries, requires improvement as it is not very clean and demands significant manual effort to sort.
What is your primary use case for Nexthink?
When I was working from the service desk front for Nexthink, my main use case involved manual troubleshooting focused on maintaining the compliance of the system. We were able to take out more than...
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 be improved by unifying the GUI with the rest of the Cisco products since it remains legacy from its original state when Cisco acquired it.
What is your primary use case for ThousandEyes?
My main use cases for ThousandEyes are troubleshooting slow speeds and investigating disconnection issues that users report.
 

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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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