NexusCompare → Geckoboard alternative
Geckoboard alternativeThe self-hosted Geckoboard alternative built for support desks.
Geckoboard is a fine cloud dashboard. But if your team runs on a helpdesk — Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira Service Management or a PSA — and you'd rather keep customer data on your own server and pay a flat price, not from ~$119/month, Nexus was built for you.
Why teams pick Nexus over Geckoboard
Your data stays yours
Nexus runs on your server and reads your helpdesk directly. Nothing proxies through our cloud — there isn't one. Geckoboard ingests your ticket data into theirs.
Flat, honest pricing
£29–£119/month flat, every screen included. Geckoboard's published plans start around $119/month and climb with dashboards and seats.
Helpdesk-deep
Native Support + Talk — 20-second call refresh, SLA countdowns, CSAT and leaderboards — with the same board now reading Freshdesk, Jira Service Management and the major PSAs.
Nexus vs Geckoboard, feature by feature.
No spin: where Geckoboard is genuinely better, we say so.
| Feature | Nexus | Geckoboard |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting & your data | Self-hosted — ticket data never leaves your server, and the board keeps running offline | Processed & stored in their cloud |
| Pricing | Flat £29 / £59 / £119 a month — unlimited screens & agents | From ~$119/mo, tiered by dashboards & users |
| Helpdesk depth | Native Support + Talk — SLA countdowns, CSAT, live call queue (20s refresh) | Good core widgets |
| Wallboard & TV | TV rotation, scheduling, full-screen SLA war-room | Send-to-TV |
| Control every screen (Pro+) | Push any board to any screen from one admin | — |
| Gamification | Leaderboards, goals, streaks, Agent of the Week | Lighter |
| Breadth of sources | Helpdesks & monitoring tools, depth-first — plus custom connectors for any JSON endpoint you control | 90+ integrations & spreadsheets |
| Build your own metrics | Calculated KPIs from a formula, live on the board | Custom widgets & datasets |
| Share & embed (Enterprise) | Public & signed-embed dashboards, SSO, named roles & an audit trail | Sharing & embeds on higher tiers |
Pick Geckoboard if you need 90+ cloud connectors — Salesforce, HubSpot, Sheets — on one screen. Pick Nexus if your floor runs on a helpdesk and you'd rather keep customer data on your own server at a flat price.
Comparison reflects each product's published positioning and pricing to the best of our knowledge as at June 2026 — they change, so check each vendor's site. Geckoboard is a trademark of its respective owner; Nexus is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by it. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
A typical 10-agent desk, per year.
Illustrative, using published entry pricing as at June 2026. Rival figures are in their listed currency (USD); Nexus is in £, so the figures aren't a direct currency-for-currency comparison.
Where Geckoboard genuinely wins
Breadth of sources: need Salesforce + HubSpot + Sheets + 90 others on one screen? Geckoboard's connector library is huge — Nexus stays helpdesk-deep instead.
Fully managed: nothing to host. If running a Docker container isn't your team's thing, a cloud product is a fair call — Nexus is self-hosted by design.
See your own desk on the wall.
Demo mode fills the board with realistic sample data in about 30 seconds — no account, no card. Like what you see? Plans start at £29/month flat, with a 14-day free trial — billed only if you keep it.