Datacake vs Losant Enterprise IoT Platform

Datacake is an IoT platform that turns sensor data into live dashboards, alerts, and reports. Its monitoring use cases include cold chains, temperature and humidity, indoor air quality, soil moisture, and industrial noise. Users can build real-time dashboards without coding and set thresholds and rules that send alerts by email, SMS, or webhook. Datacake lists more than 400 LoRaWAN device templates across over 125 manufacturers, with payload decoders and dashboards. Every plan includes its managed LoRaWAN Network Server, with unlimited gateways and no per-gateway fees. Data can be streamed to other systems through MQTT, HTTPS webhooks, and a REST API. Native iOS and Android apps support dashboards, device onboarding, alert creation, and push notifications. Its OpenAI-powered assistant can analyze sensor data and help create dashboards, rules, and decoders; changes require confirmation. White-label branding and multi-tenancy are offered for system integrators, distributors, and OEMs. The free plan supports five devices. Hobby costs €25 a month and covers up to 25 devices, with one year of retention.

Losant Enterprise IoT Platform is a low-code platform for building real-time connected IoT solutions. Its Visual Workflow Engine provides drag-and-drop tools for logic and orchestration across cloud and edge environments. Experience Views support multi-tenant applications, custom branding and domains, and built-in authentication or enterprise SSO. Device features include digital twins, an MQTT broker, webhooks, and real-time two-way command and control. The platform offers dashboards, Jupyter notebook execution for batch analytics, and integrations with cloud AI/ML services. Edge capabilities include Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet, and SNMP connectors, remote deployments, and store-and-forward for intermittent connections. Deployment can use Losant’s managed Google Cloud service, a customer’s public cloud account, or an on-premises installation. The free Developer Sandbox allows up to 10 devices and 30 days of data storage without a credit card. Launch costs $250 a month and includes 100,000 monthly payloads and 90 days of retention; Growth costs $1,000 a month. Losant states that it is SOC 2 compliant and ISO 27001 certified.