Is Exa or Luzmo better?

Neither clearly leads. Exa starts at Free and Luzmo at €995/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Exa or Luzmo?

Exa has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Exa and €995/month for Luzmo.

Does Exa or Luzmo run on more platforms?

Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

Can I use Exa for free?

Yes. Exa has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Luzmo starts at €995/month.

What is Exa best used for?

Exa is most often used for web search and research apis, content extraction and analysis, real-time monitoring and alerts. Of those, web search and research apis and content extraction and analysis are not what Luzmo is typically brought in for.

What can Exa do that Luzmo cannot?

Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs.

Business Intelligence · head to head

Exa vs Luzmo

Exa

Business Intelligence

Web search, built for AI agents

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Luzmo

Business Intelligence

Embedded analytics for SaaS products, billed by monthly active dashboard users

From: €995/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only Exa has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Exa usage-based pricing can be unpredictable without volume discounts upfront; Luzmo billing by monthly active users means commercial success is punished: getting every one of your customers into the dashboard weekly is exactly the outcome that pushes you into the next tier.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Exa and Luzmo actually diverge.

Attributes where Exa and Luzmo differ
Attribute	Exa	Luzmo
Starting price	Free	€995/month
Pricing model	usage-based	Per month by monthly active user count
Free tier	Yes	No

Identical on both: platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Business Intelligence).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Exa

Nothing recorded that Luzmo does not also cover.

Only in Luzmo

Multi-tenant row-level security
Embeddable editor
Theming and white labelling
SDKs and APIs
Luzmo IQ
Scheduled exports

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Exa

Web search and research APIsnot Luzmo
Content extraction and analysisnot Luzmo
Real-time monitoring and alertsnot Luzmo

Luzmo

A B2B SaaS product that needs customer-facing dashboards without hiring a front-end data visualisation teamnot Exa
A vertical software vendor that wants to sell an analytics module as a paid add-onnot Exa
A product where each customer must only see their own rows and the security boundary has to be provable to an auditornot Exa
A team that wants end customers to build their own charts rather than filing feature requests for every new reportnot Exa

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Exa

Usage-based pricing can be unpredictable without volume discounts upfront
Enterprise customers need to contact sales for custom volume discount plans

Luzmo

Billing by monthly active users means commercial success is punished: getting every one of your customers into the dashboard weekly is exactly the outcome that pushes you into the next tier.
The entry price of EUR 995 per month billed annually rules it out for early-stage products, so the realistic buyer already has meaningful revenue.
It is built for embedding rather than internal analysis, so most customers still pay for a second BI tool for their own staff, doubling the analytics line item.
The semantic modelling layer is lighter than a dedicated one such as dbt or Cube, so complex metric definitions often have to be pre-computed in the warehouse before Luzmo sees them.
As a smaller European vendor it has less connector breadth and a smaller partner ecosystem than the US incumbents, and unusual data sources frequently need an intermediate warehouse hop.

Pricing, plan by plan

Exa

Free

Free TierFree
- $20 in free credits (approximately 2,800 searches)
- $10 in monthly credits after first month
Search$7/per 1000 requests
- Standard search functionality
Deep Search$12/per 1000 requests
- In-depth search results
Contents$1/per 1000 pages
- Content extraction

Luzmo

€995/month

Starter$995/month
- Embedded dashboards with white labelling
- Custom charts
- APIs and SDKs
Premium$2495/month
- Everything in Starter
- End-customer self-service dashboard building
- Luzmo IQ conversational insights
Enterprise$undefined/year
- Dedicated VPC option
- Flexible hosting region
- OIDC single sign-on

Which should you pick?

Choose Exa if

You want to start without paying.

Exa review

Choose Luzmo if

You need multi-tenant row-level security.
You also want embeddable editor.

Luzmo review

Questions people ask

Is Exa or Luzmo better?: Neither clearly leads. Exa starts at Free and Luzmo at €995/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Exa or Luzmo?: Exa has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Exa and €995/month for Luzmo.
Does Exa or Luzmo run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Exa for free?: Yes. Exa has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Luzmo starts at €995/month.
What is Exa best used for?: Exa is most often used for web search and research apis, content extraction and analysis, real-time monitoring and alerts. Of those, web search and research apis and content extraction and analysis are not what Luzmo is typically brought in for.
What can Exa do that Luzmo cannot?: Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Exa: How much does Exa API cost?

Exa uses pay-as-you-go pricing with no subscription or minimum spend required. Search costs USD$7 per 1000 requests, Deep Search costs USD$12-15 per 1000 requests, and Contents costs USD$1 per 1000 pages. Users load credits and are charged at these published rates.

Source

Luzmo: Is Luzmo the same as Cumul.io?

Yes. Cumul.io rebranded to Luzmo; it is the same company and product line.

Exa: Is there a free tier for Exa?

Yes, new accounts receive USD$20 in free credits (approximately 2,800 searches) plus USD$10 in additional credits every month. This allows developers to test the API before committing to paid usage.

Source

Luzmo: How is it priced?

By monthly active users of your embedded dashboards, from EUR 995 per month on Starter billed annually.

Exa: What other costs are associated with Exa?

Beyond the main API costs, Exa charges USD$1 per 1000 results beyond the first 10 returned, USD$1 per 1000 pages for AI summaries, and USD$0.10 per Agent Compute Unit for autonomous agent usage. Contact enrichment features cost USD$0.02 per email and USD$0.07 per phone number.

Source

Luzmo: Is there a free tier?

No, only a trial. There is no perpetual free plan.

Luzmo: Can our customers build their own dashboards?

Yes, but the embeddable editor for end-customer self-service sits on the Premium tier.

Exa vs Luzmo

Exa

Luzmo

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Exa

Only in Luzmo

What people use each for

Exa

Luzmo

Where each one falls short

Exa

Luzmo

Pricing, plan by plan

Exa

Luzmo

Which should you pick?

Choose Exa if

Choose Luzmo if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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