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Quantexa vs Tilt

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Quantexa

Cybersecurity

Entity resolution and network analytics for financial crime investigation

From
On request
Free plan
No
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Tilt

Developer Tools

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

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
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The short version

  • Tilt is free; Quantexa prices on request.
  • Only Quantexa lists entity resolution; only Tilt lists live update.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Quantexa and Tilt actually diverge.

Attributes where Quantexa and Tilt differ
AttributeQuantexaTilt
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelQuoteOpen source, no licence fee
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWeb, LinuxLinux, macOS, Windows
CategoryCybersecurityDeveloper 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 Quantexa

  • Entity resolution
  • Network generation
  • Contextual monitoring
  • Investigation workspace
  • Data fusion
  • Deployment on customer cloud

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.

Quantexa

  • A bank whose AML alert backlog is dominated by false positives and wants network context to close them fasternot Tilt
  • Sanctions investigation where the sanctioned party is not the account holder but a connected director or shareholdernot Tilt
  • Merging customer records across retail, commercial and wealth divisions after an acquisition to see total exposurenot Tilt
  • A tax or benefits agency looking for organised fraud rings rather than individual claimantsnot 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 Quantexa
  • An organisation onboarding new developers who want a single command that stands up the whole stack from a committed Tiltfilenot Quantexa
  • A platform team giving product engineers a consistent local environment against a shared remote development clusternot Quantexa
  • A codebase where one repository contains several services and rebuilding all of them on every edit is the main source of lost timenot Quantexa

Where each one falls short

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

Quantexa

  • Pricing is never published and lands in the seven figure range annually for a tier one deployment, so it is out of reach for mid-sized institutions no matter how well the analytics would fit
  • Output quality is bounded by input data quality, and organisations without governed customer data spend the first phase of the programme fixing feeds rather than catching criminals
  • Implementation typically requires a systems integrator and runs into quarters rather than weeks, so the business case has to survive a long period with no operational benefit
  • The platform augments rather than replaces existing transaction monitoring, so you keep paying for the incumbent system alongside it and total compliance technology spend rises before it falls
  • Skills are scarce; the platform needs people who understand both Spark scale data engineering and financial crime typologies, and those people are hard to recruit and easy to lose

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

Quantexa

On request
  • Quantexa PlatformOn request
    • Entity resolution and network generation
    • Deployed in customer cloud tenancy
    • Priced by data volume and use case count

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 Quantexa if

  • You need entity resolution.
  • You work on Web, Linux.
  • You also want network generation.
Quantexa 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 Quantexa or Tilt better?
Neither clearly leads. Quantexa starts at On request and Tilt at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Quantexa or Tilt?
Tilt has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Quantexa and Free for Tilt.
Does Quantexa or Tilt run on more platforms?
Quantexa runs on Web, Linux. 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. Quantexa starts at On request.
What is Quantexa best used for?
Quantexa is most often used for a bank whose aml alert backlog is dominated by false positives and wants network context to close them faster, sanctions investigation where the sanctioned party is not the account holder but a connected director or shareholder, merging customer records across retail, commercial and wealth divisions after an acquisition to see total exposure, a tax or benefits agency looking for organised fraud rings rather than individual claimants. Of those, a bank whose aml alert backlog is dominated by false positives and wants network context to close them faster and sanctions investigation where the sanctioned party is not the account holder but a connected director or shareholder are not what Tilt is typically brought in for.
What can Quantexa do that Tilt cannot?
Quantexa covers Entity resolution, Network generation, Contextual monitoring, Investigation workspace. Tilt covers Live update, Tiltfile as code, Unified web UI, Selective rebuilds.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Quantexa: Does Quantexa replace our transaction monitoring system?

No. It usually sits alongside it, adding network context to the alerts that system generates and to investigations.

Tilt: Is Tilt free?

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

Quantexa: Where does our data go?

Into your own cloud tenancy in the normal deployment model. Quantexa does not require you to send customer data to a shared multi-tenant service.

Tilt: Who owns Tilt now?

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

Quantexa: How is it priced?

Not publicly. Expect an annual subscription scaled by data volume and number of use cases, plus separate implementation cost.

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.

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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