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GoodData vs Luzmo

GoodData logo

GoodData

Business Intelligence

Analytics platform for data products

From
On request
Rated
-
Luzmo logo

Luzmo

Business Intelligence

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

From
€995/month
Rated
-

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: GoodData pricing scales per workspace as customer base grows, increasing costs with scale; 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: GoodData covers Headless BI, 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 GoodData and Luzmo actually diverge.

Attributes where GoodData and Luzmo differ
AttributeGoodDataLuzmo
Starting priceOn request€995/month
Pricing modelUnknownPer month by monthly active user count
PlatformsWeb, Cloud AWS, Cloud AzureWeb
Founded2007Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), 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 GoodData

  • Headless BI
  • Semantic Layer
  • Embedded Analytics
  • Multi-tenancy
  • White-labeling
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Redshift

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.

GoodData

  • Self-service analyticsnot Luzmo
  • Data explorationnot Luzmo
  • Ad-hoc reportingnot Luzmo
  • Collaborative analysisnot Luzmo
  • Embedded analyticsnot Luzmo

Luzmo

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

Where each one falls short

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

GoodData

  • Pricing scales per workspace as customer base grows, increasing costs with scale
  • Advanced security features like audit logging and HIPAA compliance only on Enterprise plan

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

GoodData

On request
  • Professional$undefined/mo
    • Core BI and analytics
    • Full embedding with whitelabeling
    • Multi-tenancy support
  • Enterprise$undefined/mo
    • All Professional features
    • Custom agents and Agent Builder
    • 99.5% guaranteed uptime SLA

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 GoodData if

  • You need headless bi.
  • You work on Web, Cloud AWS, Cloud Azure.
  • You also want semantic layer.

Choose Luzmo if

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

Questions people ask

Is GoodData or Luzmo better?
Neither clearly leads. GoodData starts at On request and Luzmo at €995/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, GoodData or Luzmo?
GoodData starts at On request and Luzmo at €995/month.
Does GoodData or Luzmo run on more platforms?
GoodData runs on Web, Cloud AWS, Cloud Azure. Luzmo runs on Web.
What is GoodData best used for?
GoodData is most often used for self-service analytics, data exploration, ad-hoc reporting, collaborative analysis. Of those, self-service analytics and data exploration are not what Luzmo is typically brought in for.
What can GoodData do that Luzmo cannot?
GoodData covers Headless BI, Semantic Layer, Embedded Analytics, Multi-tenancy. Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

GoodData: Does GoodData offer a free tier?

No, GoodData does not offer a free tier. The platform has Professional and Enterprise pricing tiers that require sales contact for quotes.

Source
Luzmo: Is Luzmo the same as Cumul.io?

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

GoodData: What data warehouses can GoodData connect to?

GoodData supports direct connections to Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Databricks, and PostgreSQL through a direct-query-only integration model.

Source
Luzmo: How is it priced?

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

GoodData: Can you self-host GoodData?

Self-hosted deployment is only available on the Enterprise plan. Professional plan customers are limited to the managed SaaS offering.

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.

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