Is Fabi or Luzmo better?

Neither clearly leads. Fabi 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, Fabi or Luzmo?

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

Does Fabi or Luzmo run on more platforms?

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

Can I use Fabi for free?

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

What is Fabi best used for?

Fabi is most often used for a single analyst at a startup fielding ad hoc questions faster than dashboards can be built for them, an operations team that needs python for a one-off analysis but has to hand the result to non-technical colleagues, replacing a set of scheduled jupyter notebooks that nobody outside the data team can read or rerun, exploratory work against a warehouse where building a semantic model first would cost more than the answer is worth. Of those, a single analyst at a startup fielding ad hoc questions faster than dashboards can be built for them and an operations team that needs python for a one-off analysis but has to hand the result to non-technical colleagues are not what Luzmo is typically brought in for.

What can Fabi do that Luzmo cannot?

Fabi covers Smartbooks, Smart Reports, AI analysis, Scheduled runs. Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs.

Business Intelligence · head to head

Fabi vs Luzmo

Fabi

Business Intelligence

AI notebooks combining SQL, Python and no-code for small data teams

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 Fabi has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Fabi fabi is an early-stage company with a small team, so the durability risk is real and there is no obvious migration path for Smartbooks if it stops trading.; 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.
They diverge on capability: Fabi covers Smartbooks, Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Fabi and Luzmo actually diverge.

Attributes where Fabi and Luzmo differ
Attribute	Fabi	Luzmo
Starting price	Free	€995/month
Pricing model	Per user per month	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 Fabi

Smartbooks
Smart Reports
AI analysis
Scheduled runs
Database connectors
Viewer seats

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.

Fabi

A single analyst at a startup fielding ad hoc questions faster than dashboards can be built for themnot Luzmo
An operations team that needs Python for a one-off analysis but has to hand the result to non-technical colleaguesnot Luzmo
Replacing a set of scheduled Jupyter notebooks that nobody outside the data team can read or rerunnot Luzmo
Exploratory work against a warehouse where building a semantic model first would cost more than the answer is worthnot Luzmo

Luzmo

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

Where each one falls short

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

Fabi

Fabi is an early-stage company with a small team, so the durability risk is real and there is no obvious migration path for Smartbooks if it stops trading.
There is no meaningful governance layer: no data catalogue, no certified metric definitions and limited lineage, so it does not scale to an organisation that needs a single agreed number.
The free and Builder tiers cap AI requests, and the daily cap on Starter is reached quickly during genuine exploratory work.
Connector counts are limited by tier, so the Builder plan at 39 dollars connects to exactly one data source, which is rarely enough in practice.
It overlaps heavily with what Snowflake, Databricks and Hex now ship natively, so a company already paying for one of those is buying a fourth notebook interface.

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

Fabi

Free

StarterFree
- One builder seat
- Ten dashboard viewers
- Five Smartbooks
Builder$39/month
- Twenty-five Smart Report viewers
- Ten Smartbooks with workflows
- One data connector
Team$199/month
- Four builder seats, extra seats at 39 USD
- Fifty viewers
- Premium connector
Enterprise$undefined/year
- Unlimited builder seats
- Full connector access
- Custom security review

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 Fabi if

You need smartbooks.
You want to start without paying.
You also want smart reports.

Fabi review

Choose Luzmo if

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

Luzmo review

Questions people ask

Is Fabi or Luzmo better?: Neither clearly leads. Fabi 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, Fabi or Luzmo?: Fabi has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Fabi and €995/month for Luzmo.
Does Fabi or Luzmo run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Fabi for free?: Yes. Fabi has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Luzmo starts at €995/month.
What is Fabi best used for?: Fabi is most often used for a single analyst at a startup fielding ad hoc questions faster than dashboards can be built for them, an operations team that needs python for a one-off analysis but has to hand the result to non-technical colleagues, replacing a set of scheduled jupyter notebooks that nobody outside the data team can read or rerun, exploratory work against a warehouse where building a semantic model first would cost more than the answer is worth. Of those, a single analyst at a startup fielding ad hoc questions faster than dashboards can be built for them and an operations team that needs python for a one-off analysis but has to hand the result to non-technical colleagues are not what Luzmo is typically brought in for.
What can Fabi do that Luzmo cannot?: Fabi covers Smartbooks, Smart Reports, AI analysis, Scheduled runs. Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Fabi: Is there a free plan?

Yes, a Starter tier with one builder, ten viewers, five Smartbooks and ten AI requests a day.

Luzmo: Is Luzmo the same as Cumul.io?

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

Fabi: Do viewers cost money?

Viewers are bundled by tier rather than charged individually; builders are the priced seat.

Luzmo: How is it priced?

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

Fabi: Can I run arbitrary Python?

Yes, Smartbooks include Python cells alongside SQL and no-code steps.

Luzmo: Is there a free tier?

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

Fabi: How many data connectors does the entry paid plan include?

One. Additional and premium connectors come with the Team tier.

Luzmo: Can our customers build their own dashboards?

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

Fabi vs Luzmo

Fabi

Luzmo

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Fabi

Only in Luzmo

What people use each for

Fabi

Luzmo

Where each one falls short

Fabi

Luzmo

Pricing, plan by plan

Fabi

Luzmo

Which should you pick?

Choose Fabi if

Choose Luzmo if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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