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Luzmo vs Tilt

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Luzmo

Business Intelligence

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

From
€995/month
Free plan
No
Visit LuzmoFull review
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Tilt

Developer Tools

Local Kubernetes development loop that rebuilds and live-updates containers on save

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Visit TiltFull review

The short version

  • Tilt is free; Luzmo starts at €995/mo.
  • Only Luzmo lists multi-tenant row-level security; only Tilt lists live update.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Luzmo and Tilt actually diverge.

Attributes where Luzmo and Tilt differ
AttributeLuzmoTilt
Starting price€995/monthFree
Pricing modelPer month by monthly active user countOpen source, no licence fee
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebLinux, macOS, Windows
CategoryBusiness IntelligenceDeveloper Tools

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 Luzmo

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

Only in Tilt

  • Live update
  • Tiltfile as code
  • Unified web UI
  • Selective rebuilds
  • Local and remote clusters
  • Resource dependencies
  • Extensions registry
  • Custom buttons and triggers

What people use each for

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

Luzmo

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

Tilt

  • A team of ten or more engineers whose application is fifteen microservices on Kubernetes and who currently wait on CI to test a changenot Luzmo
  • An organisation onboarding new developers who want a single command that stands up the whole stack from a committed Tiltfilenot Luzmo
  • A platform team giving product engineers a consistent local environment against a shared remote development clusternot Luzmo
  • A codebase where one repository contains several services and rebuilding all of them on every edit is the main source of lost timenot Luzmo

Where each one falls short

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

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

Tilt

  • Docker acquired Tilt in 2022 and the team now splits its time across Compose and Docker Desktop, so feature velocity is modest and the product's long-term priority inside Docker is not guaranteed; treat it as a stable utility, not a growing platform
  • The Tiltfile is Starlark, a Python dialect, so non-trivial setups become real programs that need reviewing and maintaining, and the person who wrote yours becomes a single point of failure
  • Live update only works when the running container can accept synced files and restart the process; compiled languages, distroless images and read-only filesystems often force you back to a full image rebuild, which removes the main benefit
  • It assumes Kubernetes. If your development target is plain Docker Compose or serverless functions, Tilt adds a cluster you did not need and a layer of abstraction with no payoff
  • There is no commercial support contract, no SLA and no paid tier, so when a Kubernetes version upgrade breaks something you are dependent on GitHub issues and a Slack channel rather than a vendor you can escalate to

Pricing, plan by plan

Luzmo

€995/month
  • Starter€995/mo
    • Embedded dashboards with white labelling
    • Custom charts
    • APIs and SDKs
  • Premium€2,495/mo
    • Everything in Starter
    • End-customer self-service dashboard building
    • Luzmo IQ conversational insights
  • EnterpriseOn request
    • Dedicated VPC option
    • Flexible hosting region
    • OIDC single sign-on

Tilt

Free
  • TiltFree
    • Apache 2.0 licensed
    • All features, no paid tier
    • Community support via the Kubernetes Slack #tilt channel

Which should you pick?

Choose Luzmo if

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

Choose Tilt if

  • You need live update.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Linux, macOS, Windows.
  • You also want tiltfile as code.
Tilt review

Questions people ask

Is Luzmo or Tilt better?
Neither clearly leads. Luzmo starts at €995/month and Tilt at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Luzmo or Tilt?
Tilt has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at €995/month for Luzmo and Free for Tilt.
Does Luzmo or Tilt run on more platforms?
Luzmo runs on Web. Tilt runs on Linux, macOS, Windows.
Can I use Tilt for free?
Yes. Tilt has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Luzmo starts at €995/month.
What is Luzmo best used for?
Luzmo is most often used for a b2b saas product that needs customer-facing dashboards without hiring a front-end data visualisation team, a vertical software vendor that wants to sell an analytics module as a paid add-on, a product where each customer must only see their own rows and the security boundary has to be provable to an auditor, a team that wants end customers to build their own charts rather than filing feature requests for every new report. Of those, a b2b saas product that needs customer-facing dashboards without hiring a front-end data visualisation team and a vertical software vendor that wants to sell an analytics module as a paid add-on are not what Tilt is typically brought in for.
What can Luzmo do that Tilt cannot?
Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs. Tilt covers Live update, Tiltfile as code, Unified web UI, Selective rebuilds.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Luzmo: Is Luzmo the same as Cumul.io?

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

Tilt: Is Tilt free?

Yes, entirely. It is Apache 2.0 open source with no paid tier and no licence fee.

Luzmo: How is it priced?

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

Tilt: Who owns Tilt now?

Docker, which acquired it in May 2022. It remains open source and the repository is still actively maintained.

Luzmo: Is there a free tier?

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

Tilt: Do I need a remote cluster?

No. It works against a local cluster such as kind, minikube or Docker Desktop, and also against a shared remote development cluster if your services are too heavy to run locally.

Luzmo: Can our customers build their own dashboards?

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

Tilt: How is it different from Skaffold?

Both automate the build-deploy loop. Tilt puts more weight on the live-update path and a multi-service dashboard; Skaffold is more configuration-driven and closer to Google's tooling.

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