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Nexthink vs Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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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
Zscaler Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
9th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Nexthink is 19.2%, down from 27.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is 9.3%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Nexthink19.2%
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)9.3%
Other71.5%
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.
Chella  Chalapathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Program Manager at Infosys
Offers steady access and reliable support but could benefit from better integration and user-friendly insights
Regarding future updates, I would like to see Zscaler prioritize pricing and integrate more with multiple products. Multiple integrations with various platforms would enable some sort of automation. Zscaler provides real-time insights, but it is not reaching the end users properly, which is something Zscaler should improve because it should be user-friendly for understanding what Zscaler is offering. When there is too much technology, people cannot understand it, so it should be very simplified, and there should be some ways for users to gain knowledge about the product themselves. Zscaler's ability to analyze millions of telemetry data points in real-time is still somewhat unclear to me; perhaps that level of knowledge has not been reached by me or the end users, indicating that Zscaler has to focus on that area.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Although limited to 100,000,000 events per engine, it is suffice to do investigations for more than 30 days."
"Real-time analytics is effective as it involves real-time monitoring for proactive issue identification."
"Nexthink is valuable for showing real-time data."
"Nexthink's best features are Engage and Act, which we use in combination for self-healing use cases."
"The most valuable feature of Nexthink is its proactive issue identification, which is part of its unique selling proposition."
"The solution’s visualizations are very good. It's very easy to use them... We can give our senior managers, our directors, and our partners a dashboard at a very high level. They can very easily start to drill down by clicking through the dashboard and find stuff that doesn't look right. And our technical teams can use the same thing to identify problems in specific locations."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"With this solution we are able to link issues to automatic actions that will solve the problem."
"Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) positively impacted my organization by providing Zero Trust Network Access, which many organizations are moving towards."
"Regarding the benefits of Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)'s traffic analysis for my IT operations, I believe it greatly supports our needs."
 

Cons

"Deployment and user interface need improvement."
"The next release could use some improvement in the tools that are provided."
"The stability of this solution could be greatly improved to avoid performance issues."
"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."
"We would like better connectivity with SCCM for on-premises infrastructure and autopilot for cloud deployment."
"I would like it if they could put in some patch deployments and compliances."
"The UI is hierarchical, which makes navigation complex and isn't user-friendly for those unfamiliar with it."
"It lacks a library for standard EXEs to be named automatically."
"I have noticed drawbacks within Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX), as the sales team is too arrogant and too aggressive, playing politics, but the product itself is very good."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Healthcare Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise19
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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 your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)?
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) is comparatively an expensive product. There will not be any cost reductions since it is a new and better secured product. The issue arises when any organization wa...
What needs improvement with Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)?
I have noticed drawbacks within Zscaler, as the sales team is too aggressive bypassing partners, but the product itself is very good. The sales approach is quite aggressive globally, and it is not ...
What is your primary use case for Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)?
I am still working with Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX), and I continue to search for good solutions in the market as an architect.
 

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