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.
Nexus vs Geckoboard, asked and answered.
Is there a self-hosted alternative to Geckoboard?
Yes — Nexus. It runs on your own server from one Docker command (or as a managed private instance) and reads your helpdesk directly, so ticket and customer data never leaves your infrastructure. Geckoboard is cloud-only: your data is processed and stored in their platform.
How does Nexus pricing compare with Geckoboard's?
Nexus is flat — £29, £59 or £119 a month with unlimited agents and screens. Geckoboard’s published plans start around $119 a month and climb with dashboards, TVs and editors. For a ten-agent desk that is roughly £590 a year on the Nexus Pro annual plan against about $1,428 a year on Geckoboard’s entry plan.
Can Nexus replace Geckoboard for a support team?
If the support floor is the point, yes. Nexus reads Zendesk Support and Talk natively — SLA breach countdowns, CSAT, a live call queue on a 20-second refresh, leaderboards and goals — and the same board also reads Freshdesk, Freshservice, Jira Service Management, HaloPSA, SuperOps, NinjaOne, ConnectWise PSA, Zoho Desk, Help Scout and Front. If you need Salesforce, HubSpot and spreadsheets on one screen instead, Geckoboard is the better fit.
Does Nexus put dashboards on a TV the way Geckoboard’s Send to TV does?
Yes, and the wall is the design centre rather than an add-on: 4K scaling, board rotation and scheduling, kiosk and lock modes, eleven themes, and a full-screen SLA war-room. Because you host it there is no per-TV metering — drive as many screens as you own.
Where does Geckoboard still win over Nexus?
Two places, honestly. Breadth of sources: 90+ cloud connectors and spreadsheets against Nexus’s helpdesk-and-monitoring depth. And it is fully managed — if running a container is not your team’s thing, a cloud product is a fair call.
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.