Cisco ThousandEyes alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Cisco ThousandEyes, shown against it.

Cisco ThousandEyes Catchpoint Kentik Auvik
Vendor Cisco Systems LogicMonitor Kentik, Inc. Auvik Networks (Kaseya)
Pricing model Quote only Quote only Usage-based Quote only
Free tier No No No No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Network and SRE teams who need outside-in visibility into internet, ISP and SaaS dependency performance. Enterprises needing outside-in internet and digital experience monitoring at large agent-network scale. Network engineering teams who need traffic-flow visibility and peering/capacity analytics inside their own network. MSPs and multi-site IT teams needing automated discovery and device monitoring across many networks.
Pricing

Priced on consumption of monitoring units by cloud/enterprise agent tests plus per-seat endpoint agent fees; sold through a Cisco sales contract, no public price list.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Enterprise subscription sized by test volume and vantage points; no public price list, quote via sales (now under LogicMonitor's go-to-market).

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Annual-contract subscription scaled by flow volume and features; Pro tier has a published starting price, Premier is negotiated.

Pro from $2,000/month
Premier custom

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Priced per managed device (many device types monitored for free); no public price list, quote via sales.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features
  • Synthetic tests from global cloud, ISP and enterprise vantage points
  • BGP route monitoring and path visualization
  • End-user/endpoint agent monitoring from real devices
  • Internet Insights aggregate outage detection
  • HTTP, network, DNS, voice and page-load tests
  • Alerting with root-cause path analysis
  • API for embedding test data into other systems
  • Synthetic monitoring from a large global agent network
  • BGP route monitoring
  • Real user monitoring (RUM)
  • Employee/endpoint experience monitoring
  • DNS and CDN performance testing
  • Internet Stack outage detection
  • API and dashboard for embedding test data
  • NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX ingestion at scale
  • BGP route and peering analytics
  • Cloud VPC flow log analytics (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • DDoS detection and mitigation triggers
  • Synthetic and agent-based path testing
  • Capacity planning and traffic forecasting
  • SQL-like ad hoc query interface
  • Automated network discovery and topology mapping
  • Device configuration backup and change tracking
  • Traffic flow analysis (NetFlow/sFlow)
  • Multi-tenant dashboards for MSPs
  • Wireless network monitoring
  • SaaS management (SaaS Management add-on)
  • Alerting and automated remediation actions

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