The effect of Co doping on optical, structural and electrical properties of Ni 1-x Co x O thin films has been successfully deposited on glass substrate by Sol-Gel Sping coating technique. The main objective of this research is to study the Ni 1-x Co x O thin films to determine the optical gap energy by various methods and compare of calculated values. The transmission spectra show that the Ni 1-x Co x O thin films have a good optical transparency in the visible region. The optical gap energy was varied between 3.8 and 4.05 eV, which was determined by various methods and equations. These are found in the drawn of A, A 2 , a, a 2 (Ahm) 2 and (ahm) 2 as a function of the photon energy hm, the suitable method to calculate the optical energy was observed for (Ahm) 2 versus hm, but this method can not be related to the film thickness. The urbach energy of the Ni 1-x Co x O thin films also was determined by the curves of LnA and Lna as a function of photon energy hm. The deduce by LnA versus hm is also suitable to estimate the urbach energy. However, the Ni 0.96 Co 0.04 O thin films have a few defects with minimum value of urbach energy. XRD patterns of the Ni 1-x Co x O thin films indicate that some films are polycrystalline with cubic structure. The electrical conductivity of our films is in the order of 8.2*10-3 (X.cm) 1 .