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Luzmo vs Visual Studio

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Luzmo

Business Intelligence

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

From
€995/month
Free plan
No
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Visual Studio

Developer Tools

IDE for .NET and C++ development on Windows

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
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The short version

  • Visual Studio is free; Luzmo starts at €995/mo.
  • Where Visual Studio falls short: A standalone perpetually licensed Visual Studio Professional 2022 costs $499 as a one-time purchase, separate from the subscription tiers.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 13 November 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Luzmo and Visual Studio actually diverge.

Attributes where Luzmo and Visual Studio differ
AttributeLuzmoVisual Studio
Starting price€995/monthFree
Pricing modelPer month by monthly active user countFreemium
Free tierNoYes
CategoryBusiness IntelligenceDeveloper Tools

Identical on both: platforms (Web).

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 Visual Studio

Nothing recorded that Luzmo does not also cover.

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 Visual Studio
  • A vertical software vendor that wants to sell an analytics module as a paid add-onnot Visual Studio
  • A product where each customer must only see their own rows and the security boundary has to be provable to an auditornot Visual Studio
  • A team that wants end customers to build their own charts rather than filing feature requests for every new reportnot Visual Studio

Visual Studio

  • Managing complex, large-scale projects across multiple platformsnot Luzmo
  • Commercial development in small businessesnot Luzmo
  • DevOps and automated deployment workflowsnot Luzmo
  • Windows/SQL Server developer and tester rolesnot Luzmo
  • Short-term or month-to-month IDE access needsnot 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

Visual Studio

  • Community edition is free only for individual developers, classroom use, academic research and open-source contribution, not general commercial use
  • Monthly subscriptions are $45 per user per month for Professional and $250 per user per month for Enterprise, and do not include perpetual use rights the way annual Standard subscriptions do
  • A standalone perpetually licensed Visual Studio Professional 2022 costs $499 as a one-time purchase, separate from the subscription tiers

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

Visual Studio

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the Visual Studio review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Luzmo if

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

Choose Visual Studio if

  • You want to start without paying.
Visual Studio review

Questions people ask

Is Luzmo or Visual Studio better?
Neither clearly leads. Luzmo starts at €995/month and Visual Studio at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Luzmo or Visual Studio?
Visual Studio has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at €995/month for Luzmo and Free for Visual Studio.
Does Luzmo or Visual Studio run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Visual Studio for free?
Yes. Visual Studio 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 Visual Studio is typically brought in for.
What can Luzmo do that Visual Studio cannot?
Luzmo covers Multi-tenant row-level security, Embeddable editor, Theming and white labelling, SDKs and APIs.

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.

Visual Studio: What are the pricing differences between subscription types?

Standard subscriptions include access to more benefits, such as Azure dev/test pricing, monthly Azure individual credit, software and download access, services, training, and support. Monthly subscriptions offer flexibility but fewer benefits.

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Luzmo: How is it priced?

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

Visual Studio: Are discounts available for startups?

There aren't any discounts available to start-ups, however an unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for specific scenarios like open source work.

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Luzmo: Is there a free tier?

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

Visual Studio: Who can use Visual Studio Community for free?

In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use it. Enterprise organizations (greater than 250 PCs or greater than $1M annual revenue) cannot use it beyond academic/open-source scenarios.

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Luzmo: Can our customers build their own dashboards?

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

Visual Studio: What's the renewal pricing structure?

Enterprise standard renews at $214.09/month (after initial $499.92); Professional at $66.59/month (after $99.99).

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