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Luzmo vs Sisense for embedded analytics

Luzmo helps data-intensive companies put customer-facing analytics in their product, where your product team and your customers change dashboards without a code release, with white-labeling, the embedded editor, and AI in one published plan. Choose Sisense when your developers will own the experience in code, one platform must also serve internal teams, or AI must run on your own LLM today.

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo pricing (opens in new tab), Luzmo embedded analytics (opens in new tab), Sisense plans (opens in new tab), Sisense Compose SDK (opens in new tab), Sisense (opens in new tab).

Short answer

ChooseLuzmoif

  • Most changes should ship without a release.
  • Customers should build their own dashboards.
  • You want a list price before talking to sales.

ChooseSisenseif

  • One platform must serve internal teams too.
  • Developers will code most of the experience.
  • AI must run on your own model provider today.
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The practical differences at a glance

Six buyer-level splits. Scan Luzmo against Sisense in about thirty seconds.

Both platforms cover the embedded analytics checklist. These six rows are where they differ.

To see the difference quickly, list the changes you expect in the first year, then mark who makes each one on each platform and whether it waits for a release.

What Luzmo and Sisense are

Neither is a dashboard tool with embedding bolted on. The useful comparison is what your team must build, what your customers can change, and what it costs to operate. The key differences below follow that order.

Luzmo and Sisense both sell embedded analytics, and both now lead with AI inside your product. Both embed through web technologies and framework SDKs, scope data per tenant, route tenants to their own databases, run an MCP server, and deploy in the cloud or on your own infrastructure on Enterprise. They differ in shape. Sisense is a broad platform for internal and embedded analytics, with Compose SDK for developers and full white-labeling, native multi-tenancy, and column-level security listed under its Enterprise plan. Luzmo is built only for analytics inside your product, with one published plan that includes white-labeling, end-user dashboard editing, and AI conversations. The category is customer-facing analytics in data-intensive products, not SaaS only.

Luzmo
Embedded analytics and AI for data-intensive companies where analytics is part of the product. A managed editor and a semantic layer ground dashboards, APIs, and Luzmo IQ on one metric model, with tenant scope on every surface, delivered through web components, framework SDKs, Flex, or iframe.

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo semantic layer (opens in new tab), Luzmo embedded analytics (opens in new tab), Luzmo developer documentation (opens in new tab).

Sisense
An AI analytics platform for internal and embedded analytics. It models data in ElastiCube, Live, or hybrid data models, and embeds through iframe, the Embed SDK, or Compose SDK, a code-first toolkit for React, Angular, and Vue. Sisense Intelligence adds an assistant, AI Context, and an MCP server.

Last verified:Sources: Sisense (opens in new tab), Sisense Compose SDK (opens in new tab), Sisense data models (opens in new tab), Sisense integration options (opens in new tab).

Key differences in one minute

Five documented differences. Each block is a fact, then why it matters for a buyer, then the source.

  1. 1. Who changes what after launch

    In Luzmo, your product team changes dashboards, formulas, and themes in the editor, and the change reaches customers through the existing embed, without a code release. Customers edit their own dashboards in the embedded editor, within the rights in their embed token. Developers own the token backend, Flex screens, and custom charts. In Sisense, Designers change dashboards in its editor, and embedded dashboards update the same way. Screens built with Compose SDK are application code, so each change ships with your next release.

    Why it matters: List the changes you expect in the first year: new metrics, new charts, a rebrand, customer-specific views. For each one, note who makes it on each platform and whether it waits for your release cycle. That list is your real cost of ownership.

    Last verified:Sources: Luzmo embedded dashboard editor (opens in new tab), Luzmo embedded analytics (opens in new tab), Sisense user roles (opens in new tab), Sisense Compose SDK (opens in new tab).

  2. 2. How far your customers go without your team

    Luzmo’s embedded dashboard editor lets your customers create, edit, duplicate, and save dashboards inside your product, with rights and data set in the embed token from your backend. In Sisense, users with the Designer role build dashboards. Since 2026.3.2, a Viewer Plus role, in Beta and on a Viewer license, lets users compose their own dashboards from widgets created by the assistant or copied from another dashboard.

    Why it matters: If self-service is part of what you sell, run the same task on both: a customer adds a chart, saves a dashboard, and shares it. Check which role or license each step needs, and which steps still need your team.

    Last verified:Sources: Luzmo embedded dashboard editor (opens in new tab), Sisense user roles (opens in new tab), Sisense 2026.3 release notes (opens in new tab).

  3. 3. What your developers own

    Compose SDK lets developers build queries, charts, filters, dashboards, and AI components in React, Angular, or Vue, without a predefined dashboard. It ships about every two weeks, and its plugin model for custom widgets is in Beta. Luzmo gives developers Flex for charts in your own layout, web components and React, Angular, Vue, and React Native SDKs, and custom charts. Luzmo full dashboards embed through a web component that hosts the dashboard in an iframe. Flex charts and Luzmo IQ components render directly in your page.

    Why it matters: Both have real code-first depth. The question is how much of the experience you want developers to own and maintain. Build the same screen on both, a customer account view with a few KPIs, a trend, and a filter, then make one change to it and compare the code, the time, and the release.

    Last verified:Sources: Sisense Compose SDK (opens in new tab), Compose SDK changelog (opens in new tab), Luzmo Flex , Luzmo embed package (opens in new tab), Luzmo custom charts (opens in new tab).

  4. 4. AI: uninterrupted access or hard spending limits

    Luzmo IQ is part of Embedded Everywhere, with 500 AI conversations a month included. Beyond that, answers continue and usage is billed. It runs on OpenAI today, and AI context can be set on dashboards, datasets, columns, and formulas. Sisense offers a managed LLM, now on Anthropic Claude through AWS Bedrock, or your own LLM. Admins set monthly AI credit budgets per tenant and user group, and when a tenant’s credits run out, the assistant is unavailable to its users until they reset. Sisense AI Context is labelled Beta.

    Why it matters: Neither model is more predictable by default. One protects continuity, the other caps spend. Decide which risk matters more for your customers, an interruption or an overspend, and estimate AI use per tenant on both. If you need your own model provider today, Sisense supports it. Luzmo enables other providers on customer request.

    Last verified:Sources: Luzmo pricing (opens in new tab), Luzmo AI context (opens in new tab), Sisense assistant and AI credits (opens in new tab), Sisense AI Context (opens in new tab), Sisense 2026.3 release notes (opens in new tab).

  5. 5. What the plan includes, and where it runs

    Luzmo sells one plan, Embedded Everywhere, with white-labeling, the embedded dashboard editor, multi-tenant embedding, and AI conversations included, on EU and US clouds, dedicated cloud in any public AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud region, or on-premises on Enterprise. Sisense publishes Self-Serve and Enterprise. Its plans page lists full white-labeling, native multi-tenant architecture, column-level security, and on-premises under Enterprise, and its documentation says “White Labeling is available for Grow and Scale tiers only.” Both route each tenant to its own database.

    Why it matters: Customer-facing analytics depends on these parts. Ask Sisense which of them are in the plan you were quoted, and ask both for the same architecture in writing, with the plan it requires.

    Last verified:Sources: Luzmo pricing (opens in new tab), Luzmo trust portal (opens in new tab), Luzmo multi-tenant data (opens in new tab), Sisense plans (opens in new tab), Sisense embedding and white labeling (opens in new tab), Sisense dynamic connections (opens in new tab).

Feature comparison

Documented capabilities, not product quality. Partial means the capability is supported under a plan, embedding mode, framework, or other documented constraint, not that it is inferior. Beta and pre-release follow the vendor’s own labels. Not documented means we found no first-party documentation, not that the capability is absent.

Showing 5 AI capabilities.

Detailed feature comparison of Luzmo and Sisense.
Feature LuzmoSisense Conditions / scope
Embedded conversational AI

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo IQ (opens in new tab), Compose SDK AI features (opens in new tab).

Yes

Luzmo IQ in the host application, on the same model and token as the dashboards.

Yes

Sisense assistant, plus Compose SDK AI components.

See cell notes

Business context for AI

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo AI context (opens in new tab), Sisense AI Context (opens in new tab).

Yes

AI context on dashboards, datasets, columns, and formulas.

Partial

AI Context across models, tables, columns, dashboards, and widgets. Labelled Beta.

Embed mode

Sisense: Beta

MCP server

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo MCP server (opens in new tab), Sisense 2026.3 release notes (opens in new tab).

Yes

Hosted MCP: search datasets, answer questions, create charts, and add them to dashboards.

Yes

Hosted MCP with OAuth 2.1, generally available since 2026.3.2. Dashboard building is announced for 2026.4.

See cell notes

Bring your own LLM

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo IQ model integration (opens in new tab), Sisense 2026.3 release notes (opens in new tab).

Partial

IQ runs on OpenAI today. Other model providers are enabled on customer request.

Yes

OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock today. Google Gemini and Anthropic are announced for 2026.4.

Commercial model

Luzmo: other providers on request

AI in the published package

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo pricing (opens in new tab), Sisense assistant and AI credits (opens in new tab).

Yes

500 governed AI conversations per month included, then usage.

Partial

Managed LLM consumes credits, budgeted per tenant and user group. The assistant stops for a tenant when its credits run out.

Commercial model

Sisense: credits

How a change reaches your customers

Both can deliver the screen. The difference is who handles the next ten changes, and how many of them wait for your release cycle.

Four ordinary changes after launch, on a customer account screen with a few KPIs, a trend, and a filter.

Luzmo

  1. 1 A new metric: a formula in the semantic layer, used by dashboards, APIs, and IQ.

  2. 2 A new chart on the screen: added in the editor, live without a code release.

  3. 3 A customer wants their own view: they build it in the embedded editor, within the rights in their token.

  4. 4 A chart inside a workflow screen: built once by your developers with Flex.

Sisense

  1. 1 A new metric: added to the ElastiCube or Live data model.

  2. 2 A new chart: added by a Designer to an embedded dashboard, or coded if the screen uses Compose SDK.

  3. 3 A customer wants their own view: a Designer role, or Viewer Plus in Beta, composing from existing widgets.

  4. 4 A Compose SDK screen: every change ships with your next application release.

When Luzmo is a better fit, and when Sisense is a better fit

Each item is a real advantage for some teams. Weigh them against what your customers will do with analytics after launch.

When Luzmo is a better fit

  • The customer-facing parts in one published plan

    White-labeling, the embedded dashboard editor, multi-tenant embedding, and AI conversations are all in Embedded Everywhere. Sisense lists full white-labeling and native multi-tenancy under Enterprise.

  • Self-service your customers can use today

    The embedded editor lets customers create, edit, and save dashboards, with rights set in the embed token. Sisense Viewer Plus composes from existing widgets and is in Beta.

  • Changes without a code release

    Dashboards, formulas, and themes change in the editor, and customers edit their own dashboards inside your product. In Sisense, screens built with Compose SDK change with your application code.

  • A list price before the first call

    Embedded Everywhere starts from €1,995 per month in Europe and $2,495 in the Americas, billed annually, plus usage. It shows the entry point, not your total cost. Sisense requires a quote.

  • Built only for analytics in your product

    Editing rights, data scope, and branding are set per customer in the embed token, not through platform roles built for internal analysts. Sisense also serves internal analytics teams, which shapes its roles and licensing.

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When Sisense is a better fit

  • Compose SDK

    A mature code-first SDK for React, Angular, and Vue that builds queries, charts, filters, and AI components without a predefined dashboard. It ships about every two weeks.

  • Bring your own LLM

    OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock today, with Google Gemini and Anthropic announced for 2026.4. Bring-your-own models do not consume Sisense credits. Luzmo IQ runs on OpenAI and adds other providers on request.

  • One platform for internal and embedded analytics

    If your own teams need the same platform for internal analytics, Sisense covers both.

  • ISO/IEC 42001 for its AI management system

    Sisense holds ISO/IEC 42001 certification for the AI management system behind Sisense Intelligence. Luzmo does not.

  • A broader data layer

    ElastiCube, Live, and hybrid data models, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake semantic import.

    Our read: Luzmo also queries your database live, with Warp acceleration and a semantic layer shared by dashboards, APIs, and AI.

Decision guide

Most teams match more than one scenario. Rank them by what your customers will do with analytics after launch.

  • Most changes after launch should skip your release cycle

    Your product team edits dashboards, formulas, and themes in Luzmo’s editor, and customers edit their own within their token rights. With Compose SDK, each change is a code change.

    Better fit: Luzmo

  • The same platform must serve your internal teams

    Sisense covers internal and embedded analytics on one platform.

    Better fit: Sisense

  • Customers build and save their own dashboards

    Luzmo’s embedded editor is in the plan. In Sisense, check the role or license each customer needs, and the status of Viewer Plus.

    Better fit: Luzmo

  • Your developers will code most of the experience

    Sisense Compose SDK deserves a close look. Test it against Luzmo Flex on the same screen.

    Better fit: Sisense

  • Uninterrupted AI access or hard spending limits

    Luzmo keeps answering past the 500 included conversations and bills usage. Sisense lets admins cap credits per tenant, and the assistant stops for that tenant until credits reset. Decide which risk matters more: an interruption or an overspend.

    Better fit: Both. Run the same job in each.

  • AI must run on your own model provider

    Sisense supports your own LLM today. Luzmo IQ runs on OpenAI and enables other providers on request. Ask both about your provider.

    Better fit: Sisense

  • You need dedicated or on-premises infrastructure

    Both offer dedicated cloud and on-premises deployment on Enterprise. Ask both for the same architecture in writing.

    Better fit: Both. Run the same job in each.

  • You need a price before procurement

    Luzmo publishes a starting price. Sisense requires a quote.

    Better fit: Luzmo

Pricing snapshot

No universal cheaper answer. Luzmo publishes one plan, then usage. Sisense quotes Self-Serve and Enterprise, with AI credits for its managed LLM.

Luzmo

One plan, Embedded Everywhere, from €1,995 per month in Europe and $2,495 per month in the Americas, billed annually. The bill is a platform fee plus AI and Warp usage. Some contracts scale on monthly active users instead. The plan includes 500 governed AI conversations per month and 100 million Warp rows. White-labeling, self-service, and governed AI are included. Enterprise changes deployment, not the product.

Sisense

Sisense publishes two plans, Self-Serve and Enterprise, without prices. Enterprise lists full white-labeling, native multi-tenant architecture, column-level security, SaaS, dedicated cloud, or on-premises deployment, and bring your own LLM. The managed LLM consumes credits that admins budget per tenant and user group.

Headline prices are not total cost. Ask both vendors to quote the same scope: number of tenants, monthly active users, dashboards customers can edit, AI questions per tenant per month, deployment (shared, dedicated, or on-premises), and who maintains models and dashboards. Then add the internal time each option needs for the changes you listed above.

Confirm current Luzmo list prices

Last verified:Sources: Luzmo pricing (opens in new tab), Sisense plans (opens in new tab), Sisense assistant and AI credits (opens in new tab).

Migrating embedded analytics from Sisense to Luzmo

Moving from Sisense to Luzmo means moving data models, dashboards, security rules, and any Compose SDK code.

Treat this as a scoping exercise, not a rip-and-replace. Inventory data models, dashboards in use, security rules, tenants, and custom code before you count dashboards.

  1. Map ElastiCube and Live models to Luzmo datasets and formulas, connected live to your source, with Warp where you need acceleration. There is no automated import.
  2. Rebuild the dashboards customers actually use in the Luzmo editor, or create them through the API.
  3. Map data security rules to embed-token parameters, and dynamic connections to account overrides.
  4. Compose SDK screens do not convert. Rebuild them with Flex or the dashboard components.
  5. Move tenants and roles to embed-token rights, including who can edit dashboards.
  6. If you use your own LLM, ask Luzmo to enable your provider. IQ runs on OpenAI today.

Already on Sisense? Inventory models, dashboards in use, security rules, tenants, and Compose SDK code, then scope the work before you estimate.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers on pricing, white-labeling, self-service, Compose SDK, multi-tenancy, AI credits, and when Sisense is the better fit.

  • Is Sisense good for embedded analytics?

    Yes. Sisense is a serious embedded analytics platform, with iframe, Embed SDK, and Compose SDK embedding, data security rules, multitenancy, and an AI assistant. Several of these, including full white-labeling and native multitenancy, are listed under its Enterprise plan. See Sisense plans. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • What are the best Sisense alternatives for embedded analytics?

    It depends on who uses the analytics. If it lives only inside your product, look at platforms built for customer-facing analytics, such as Luzmo, which includes white-labeling, an embedded dashboard editor, and AI in one published plan. If the same platform must serve internal teams, compare broader platforms. See the Luzmo compare hub. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • What is the difference between Luzmo and Sisense?

    Both embed analytics in your product. Sisense is a broader platform for internal and embedded analytics, with Compose SDK for developers and key embedding features under Enterprise. Luzmo is built only for customer-facing analytics, with one published plan that includes white-labeling, end-user dashboard editing, and AI conversations. See Luzmo pricing. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • How much does Sisense cost compared with Luzmo?

    Sisense does not publish a price. Its plans page lists Self-Serve and Enterprise, and its managed LLM consumes credits budgeted per tenant. Luzmo publishes Embedded Everywhere from €1,995 per month in Europe and $2,495 in the Americas, billed annually, plus usage. There is not enough public information to call either cheaper. See Sisense plans and Luzmo pricing. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Is white-labeling included in Sisense?

    It depends on the plan. Sisense lists full white-labeling under Enterprise, and its documentation says white labeling is available for higher tiers only. Luzmo includes white-labeling, with your CSS, logo, emails, and domain, in its one plan. See Sisense embedding and white labeling. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Can customers build their own dashboards in Sisense?

    Users with the Designer role build dashboards. Since 2026.3.2, a Viewer Plus role, in Beta, lets viewers compose dashboards from widgets created by the assistant or copied from another dashboard. Luzmo’s embedded editor lets customers create, edit, and save dashboards in your product. See Sisense 2026.3 release notes. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Does Sisense have a code-first SDK?

    Yes. Compose SDK builds queries, charts, filters, dashboards, and AI components in React, Angular, or Vue, without a predefined dashboard. Luzmo offers Flex, web components, and framework SDKs. See Sisense Compose SDK. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Does Luzmo use iframes?

    Luzmo is native first, and an iframe is always available. Flex charts and Luzmo IQ components render directly in your page, without an iframe. Full dashboards embed through a web component that hosts the dashboard in an iframe. See Luzmo Flex. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Does Sisense support multi-tenancy?

    Yes. Sisense documents self-contained, multi-instance, and capability-based multitenancy, as a premium feature on Enterprise. Luzmo scopes every embed with a tenant token in its one plan. See Sisense multitenancy. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Can each customer use their own database?

    On both, yes. Sisense uses dynamic connections on Live data models to switch database or schema per user. Luzmo uses account overrides on the embed token to switch database, schema, or credentials per tenant. See Luzmo multi-tenant data. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • How do Sisense AI credits work?

    The Sisense managed LLM consumes credits. Admins set monthly credit budgets per tenant and user group, and when a tenant’s credits are used up, the assistant is unavailable to its users until they reset or more are allocated. Your own LLM does not consume credits. Luzmo includes 500 AI conversations a month, then usage. See Sisense assistant. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Can Sisense use my own LLM?

    Yes. Sisense supports OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock as your own LLM, and has announced Google Gemini and Anthropic for 2026.4. Luzmo IQ runs on OpenAI today and enables other providers on customer request. See Sisense 2026.3 release notes. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Does Sisense have an MCP server?

    Yes. Sisense’s hosted MCP server with OAuth 2.1 is generally available since 2026.3.2, and 2026.4 pre-release notes add dashboard building. Luzmo also runs a hosted MCP server that searches datasets, answers questions, creates charts, and adds them to dashboards. See Luzmo MCP server. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Is Sisense AI Context generally available?

    No. Sisense labels AI Context Beta. It adds business instructions to models, tables, columns, dashboards, and widgets. Luzmo documents AI context on dashboards, datasets, columns, and formulas. See Sisense AI Context. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • Does Sisense support on-premises deployment?

    Yes, on Enterprise, alongside SaaS and dedicated cloud. Luzmo also offers on-premises deployment on Enterprise, and dedicated cloud in any public AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud region. See Sisense plans and Luzmo trust portal. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

  • What kind of teams choose Sisense?

    Teams that want one platform for internal and embedded analytics, developers who will build most of the experience with Compose SDK, and buyers who need their own LLM provider today. Teams whose analytics lives only inside their product often compare it with Luzmo. Last verified: 16 October 2026.

Appendix

How we research this comparison

Luzmo publishes this comparison and has a commercial interest in the outcome. We cite current first-party documentation, label Beta and pre-release features as the vendor does, include cases where Sisense is the stronger fit, and update the page when products change.

Reviewed by: Jonathan Wuurman, VP of Growth, Luzmo

Fact-checked against first-party sources

Last full review:

Luzmo publishes this comparison and has a commercial interest in the result. We still want Sisense’s current product represented accurately, including the cases where Sisense is the stronger fit.

Sisense changed a lot in 2026: a generally available MCP server, AI Context in Beta, a managed LLM on AWS Bedrock with credits per tenant, a Viewer Plus role in Beta, and Compose SDK releases about every two weeks. An earlier version of this page missed most of that, and carried claims we could not source.

We checked each Sisense claim against its current documentation, release notes, plans page, and the Compose SDK changelog. Where the vendor labels a feature Beta or pre-release, we say so.

When Sisense supports a capability, we say so. When it depends on a plan, role, or data model type, we show that condition. Where we found no documentation, we say not documented.

Performance, implementation speed, AI quality, and design flexibility need the same test on both platforms.

Suggest a correction

How we label claims

  • Fact : A product capability explicitly documented by the vendor, with a primary source and verification date.
  • Implication : Our interpretation of a documented fact for a buyer. It is not itself a product capability.
  • Recommendation : Who should choose which product, based on the documented facts above.

Source hierarchy

  1. Official technical documentation
  2. Official release notes, labelled Beta or pre-release where the vendor does
  3. Official product and plans pages
  4. Official developer packages and changelogs
  5. Vendor customer stories for customer-reported outcomes only

Major corrections

  • : Full rewrite on the current template against Sisense documentation, 2026.3 and 2026.4 release notes, the plans page, and the Compose SDK changelog. Removed the admins-only dashboards, five-minute refresh, extra tenant charges, and domain restriction claims, which had no first-party source. Luzmo list price follows the Embedded Everywhere offer.

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