National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes vs ScopeMeter comparison

National Instruments and Fluke Corporation are both solutions in the Oscilloscopes category. National Instruments is ranked #7, while Fluke Corporation is ranked #11. National Instruments holds a 0.8% mindshare in O, compared to Fluke Corporation’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of National Instruments users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fluke Corporation users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes and ScopeMeter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

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Ranking in Oscilloscopes

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ScopeMeter

Ranking in Oscilloscopes

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Oscilloscopes category, the mindshare of National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is 0.8%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ScopeMeter is 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Senior Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The integrated lateral view makes it easier to develop your test systems and test software flow

The application space that this solution targets is 5G and high-speed systems. 5G is where we are developing some chips to test whether it prequalifies for a necessary requirement before we embed it into our box. Then, in high-speed systems, we're still figuring out how exactly we're going to test this out, but it should be also on prequalification. We are not using this product to support connected devices for IoT development nor are we planning to going forward. We are measuring millimeter wave signals. My colleague deals with the automation of the test systems. The user interface is okay.

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Aziz Berkin Kocaay

Digital Design Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Maintenance is important with this type of product, and this product's battery life is very good

Adapting to the new products is taking some time, but this is normal procedure. The scopes should be more powerful for our tests. This is extremely important for our products. We need to reach the probing point in our products, and this is extremely hard for us sometimes. The user interface of the scopes could be simpler. Windows-based scopes could also be smaller.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The user interface is very good, easy to understand, and easy to operate."

"Because their view is a graphical user interface (GUI), it's very easy to program the tool."

"It saves me a lot of time. You can click a button and walk away, basically doing a week's worth of work in 20 minutes, it's a pretty good time saver."

"I can automate a lot of testing very quickly. With just a push of a button, I can test hundreds of different scenarios without having to do all that manual testing myself."

"The user interface is very good. Their boards are reliable. We buy boards from them, they are reliable, and we don't have problems with them."

"The integrated lateral view makes it easier to develop your test systems and test software flow."

"It took us less than a week to get integrated into the solution, which is very fast."

"We haven't need technical support yet because all documentation is well done and there."

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"Using the user interface is pretty easy to use. Everybody can use it in engineering area."

"Maintenance is important with this type of product, and this product's battery life is very good."

Cons

"I would like to see more of a tasking user base and documentation inside the instrument itself, rather than having to go online for it."

"There is a learning curve. It might take a year if you're not well-versed with it."

"I would like to see them increase the productivity and auxiliary functions."

"The software has room for improvement."

"It took a good year until I felt proficient using the product, as It is a complex program. Their newest version has a less steep learning curve, but back closer to 15 years ago, it was a lot less user-friendly."

"There is a learning curve. It takes one to two months to get acclimated to the tool."

"National Instruments needs to be focusing on its 5G RF applications. They are aware of this, and that's where most of their R&D is going."

"I would like to have more RF. They're going that way, but still there is some work that they have to do."

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"The customer relationship should be more advanced/developed. Documents on the website should be more accessible and easily understandable."

"The scopes should be more powerful for our tests. This is extremely important for our products. We need to reach the probing point in our products, and this is extremely hard for us sometimes."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like more competitive pricing."

"I have saved almost 50 percent of my total budget for a project by using their products."

"It's a bit expensive. However, you get the entire package, not just the box. It's a box which supports older releases."

"The pricing was good. Compared to the others, it was very good."

"They have an initial investment cost, which is quite high. But, along the way, there is so much behind it that the product is really invaluable."

"The price is a little steep. A lot of people, like our customers, use a different machine because of the price. The price has to come down a bit so we can do other tests without paying the equipment's high costs."

"It's reasonably priced for what we spend our money on in the lab. It's one of the lower-end purchases."

"These products are a very low-cost, effective alternative to traditional Big Iron ATE hardware."

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Also Known As

NI Oscilloscopes

Fluke Oscilloscopes, ScopeMeter Portable Oscilloscopes, Fluke 190 Series II, Fluke 120B Series, Fluke MDA-500 Series

Overview

Turning powerful possibilities into real solutions with our open, software-defined platform for automated test and automated measurement systems.

National Instruments

ScopeMeter Portable Oscilloscopes take you into territory that standard bench oscilloscopes cant readily withstand, harsh, hazardous and dirty industrial environments. These hand-held instruments combine the performance of a bench oscilloscope with a multimeter and paperless recorder for installing, commissioning and maintaining industrial and electronic equipment out in the field. Fluke ScopeMeter test tools use a unique Connect-and-View mode to automatically and continuously setup the oscilloscope making them easy to use even on complex signals.

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