Can I migrate devices from Loriot to Datacake without their support team?

Yes. The migration does not require Loriot's vendor support: the DevEUI, JoinEUI/AppEUI and AppKey provisioned on Loriot are re-registered as-is on Datacake's LNS, and the cut-over is typically done gateway-by-gateway inside a single maintenance window, with Loriot serving the rest of the fleet until it is the last one left.

Is Datacake's free tier comparable to Loriot's Public Community?

Loriot's Public Community is fair-use limited: uplink rates and feature scope are capped to discourage commercial use. Datacake's free tier carries no fair-use rate-limit; production traffic is the default. You only pay if you exceed the included device licenses.

Does Datacake offer the same regional parameter coverage?

Yes: EU868, US915, AU915, AS923, IN865 and KR920 are all supported under LoRaWAN 1.0.x and 1.1.

What about Loriot's per-organisation tenant model?

Datacake offers workspace-level multi-tenancy with white-label support. Each customer or sub-organisation can have its own theming, custom domain and dashboards while sharing your underlying account quota.

Can I keep my MQTT and webhook integrations after the migration?

Yes. Datacake provides equivalent MQTTS and HTTPS outputs at the device or workspace level. The only consumer-side work is mapping Loriot's uplink envelope (EUI, data, cmd, etc.) onto Datacake's per-field JSON; for many integrations that is a one-time renaming pass in the receiving service rather than a protocol change.

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Datacake vs Loriot

Datacake: a free, dashboard-included alternative to Loriot

Loriot is a Swiss commercial LNS with multiple hosting tiers (Public Community, Pro, Business, Enterprise / On-Prem). It is connectivity-only: visualisation and rules are not part of the product. Datacake bundles a managed LNS, dashboards and rules into one platform, and the LNS itself is free in every plan.

$0 LNS in every Datacake plan, no per-gateway fees
Dashboards, rules and exports included on the same account
400+ device templates with payload decoders
Self-serve migration: same DevEUI / JoinEUI / AppKey

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Loriot vs Datacake at a glance

A side-by-side view of the parts of the LoRaWAN stack that change when you migrate. We've kept it factual. Both products have their strengths.

Capability	Loriot	Datacake
Hosted LoRaWAN Network Server	Multiple tiers: Public Community, Pro, Business, Enterprise	Hosted, included free in every plan
Free tier with no per-gateway fee	PartialPublic Community tier exists but is fair-use limited	LNS and gateways are free at every plan tier, no fair-use uplink limit
Per-gateway pricing in commercial tiers	Pro / Business tiers price by gateway-count	Gateways are free at every plan tier
Built-in dashboards	Bring your own (e.g. via webhooks)	Template-driven dashboards
Built-in rules / alerting		Email, SMS, push, webhook
Built-in payload decoders	PartialPer-device payload decoders, manually maintained	400+ Datacake-maintained templates
Multi-region support		EU868, US915, AU915, AS923, IN865, KR920
MQTT / Webhook outputs
On-prem / private deployment option	Enterprise tier supports on-prem	Datacake is a managed SaaS; no on-prem option
Migration complexity	Vendor-supported migration depending on tier	Self-serve: same DevEUI / JoinEUI / AppKey, no firmware re-flash

Capabilities reflect the public product documentation of Loriot and Datacake at the time of writing. Loriot's tier scope evolves, so please cross-check the current pricing and feature matrix on loriot.io.

Why Datacake

Where Datacake comes out ahead

No per-gateway billing
Datacake charges per device, not per gateway. Whether you run one gateway or fifty, the LNS bill stays $0.
Dashboards in the same product
Loriot is connectivity-only. Datacake adds dashboards, alerts and scheduled reporting on the same account, with no second product to integrate.
Faster device onboarding
400+ ready-to-use templates apply payload decoders, dashboards and downlinks per device. On Loriot you typically configure the decoder per device manually.
Lossless migration
Re-use the same DevEUI, JoinEUI and AppKey from your Loriot organisation: no firmware change is needed, and the Loriot organisation can keep running until every gateway has finished cutting over to Datacake.

Honest take

When Loriot might be the better fit

You need an on-prem LNS
Loriot's Enterprise tier supports on-prem / private-cloud deployment of the network server. Datacake is a managed SaaS. If your security policy mandates private hosting of the LNS itself, Loriot or ChirpStack are the right choice.
You operate region-specific tier contracts in CH / DE
Loriot is a Swiss vendor with established regional commercial relationships. If your existing telco / integrator contract is built around Loriot, switching adds friction beyond the technical migration.

Ready to switch?

Migrate from Loriot to Datacake

No firmware re-flash. Re-use the same DevEUI, JoinEUI/AppEUI and AppKey. Run both stacks in parallel during the cut-over so you never lose a device.

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Same DevEUI / JoinEUI / AppKey
Bring your existing gateway hardware
Parallel operation during cut-over
Self-serve: no vendor coordination

Datacake vs Loriot: frequently asked questions

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