How much does Furo cost?

Furo publishes no price. Its site offers "Try it free", and its press release describes a subscription model (read on 2026-10-28). Zorowatt Starter is €49 a month for 3 site analyses, then €15 each; Pro is €149 a month with a white-label report and 3 seats. Your first site analysis is free, with no card.

Does Furo check the meter data or the bill?

No published bill reconstruction or data-quality report was found in the sources read on 2026-10-28 (furoenergy.com, a Furo press release and a pv magazine article). That is not proof it has none; ask Furo.

Its press release reports more than 3,500 sites planned or optimised, about 100 paying customers and partners including Enpal, Sonnen, Fenecon, BayWa and IBC Solar. A February 2026 pv magazine article named Sonnen, Enpal, Deutsche Bahn and Better Energy among Lumera's users.

Does Zorowatt operate or trade the battery?

No. Zorowatt is planning only: no live battery control and no trading, so its sizing is not tied to an operating contract.

Zorowatt vs Furo

Where Furo is strong, where it falls short, and what changes if you switch. Every number can be checked on their site.

Furo (formerly Lumera Energy, Munich) is web software for planning commercial and industrial batteries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain: upload a load profile, get the optimal size, the use cases and customer-ready documents. Since May 2026 it also operates and trades larger systems. Zorowatt is planning only, covers the Netherlands, Germany and Romania in depth, and publishes its prices. (furoenergy.com)

Short answer

When to pick Furo: Pick Furo if you sell in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or Spain and want planning and, for systems of 150 kW and more, real-time operation and trading from the same company.
When to pick Zorowatt: Pick Zorowatt if you also work in the Netherlands or Romania, want to see the price up front, and need the meter data checked and the bill rebuilt and set against the invoices before the battery is sized.

Facts about the other tool read on 2026-10-28 from the pages linked in each cell. Prices and features change; check the vendor's page before you rely on one.

Feature	Zorowatt	Furo
Price	Free €0 · Starter €49 / month · Pro €149 / month · Enterprise on request	No published price; "Try it free" on the site; a subscription model, according to its press releasefuroenergy.com, pes.eu.com · 2026-10-28
Runs on	The browser; nothing to install	Web softwarepv-magazine.de · 2026-10-28
Meter data import and checks	15-minute or hourly data from CSV, Excel, German MSCONS or Green Button files, or a year of values with no dates; gaps, duplicates, daylight saving time and kW / kWh mix-ups flagged, never filled silently	Load-profile upload with the site's addressfuroenergy.com, pv-magazine.de · 2026-10-28
Tariffs	Versioned 2026 tariffs, each with its source: Netherlands (Liander, Stedin, Enexis, plus the ACM 2028 draft as a scenario), Germany (NEW Netz, Netze BW, RheinNetz, levies and Stromsteuer), Romania (ANRE zones). Any other country: a generic template where you enter the rates	Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain; grid fees including the demand charge (Leistungspreis), high-load windows and power prices are enteredpes.eu.com, pv-magazine.de · 2026-10-28
Battery dispatch	Rule-based, with the optimal (LP) dispatch as the upper bound; every saving is billed by the same bill engine	Optimal size and operating strategy; use cases self-consumption, dynamic tariffs, peak shaving and atypical grid use, with the revenue of eachfuroenergy.com, pv-magazine.de · 2026-10-28
Solar	Planned solar modelled from PVGIS (EU Joint Research Centre) and laid on the meter data; existing PV is in the meter data (import and export)	Optional PV, as a yield profile or as parameterspv-magazine.de · 2026-10-28
Battery products	A database of commercial and industrial products, every spec with its source	Installers store their own battery systems (depth of discharge, response time, cycle life, efficiency) and see which is closest to the optimumpv-magazine.de · 2026-10-28
Financials	NPV, IRR and payback, with degradation	Economic viabilityfuroenergy.com · 2026-10-28
Client report	PDF report for the client; white-label on Pro	Customer-ready documents generated automaticallyfuroenergy.com · 2026-10-28
Battery operation	Planning only: no live battery control, no trading	Since May 2026: real-time optimisation and automated trading for systems of 150 kW and morepes.eu.com · 2026-10-28
Try before buying	First site analysis free, no card	"Try it free"furoenergy.com · 2026-10-28

In short

Furo is the closest tool to Zorowatt, with a real installer base and the German use cases (peak shaving, dynamic tariffs, atypical grid use) built in. The differences are coverage, openness and scope: Zorowatt has Dutch and Romanian tariffs, a published price, a data check and a bill check against the invoices, and stays out of operating the battery. Choose by where your sites are and whether you want the planner and the operator to be the same company.

Price per year

Furo: No published price; a subscription
Zorowatt: Starter €588 a year (€348 at the founding price) · Pro €1,788 a year for 3 seats · single analyses €15

As each vendor's page states it; prices in other currencies are not converted.

How to switch

Upload the same load profile you uploaded to Furo.

Upload the site's meter data to the free data checker or the Workspace: every assumption made reading the file is listed.
Pick the site's tariff and enter the invoices: the bill check shows whether the baseline matches before anything is sized.
Size the battery, compare it with your earlier study, and send the client the PDF report.

Questions

How much does Furo cost?: Furo publishes no price. Its site offers "Try it free", and its press release describes a subscription model (read on 2026-10-28). Zorowatt Starter is €49 a month for 3 site analyses, then €15 each; Pro is €149 a month with a white-label report and 3 seats. Your first site analysis is free, with no card.
Does Furo check the meter data or the bill?: No published bill reconstruction or data-quality report was found in the sources read on 2026-10-28 (furoenergy.com, a Furo press release and a pv magazine article). That is not proof it has none; ask Furo.
Who uses Furo?: Its press release reports more than 3,500 sites planned or optimised, about 100 paying customers and partners including Enpal, Sonnen, Fenecon, BayWa and IBC Solar. A February 2026 pv magazine article named Sonnen, Enpal, Deutsche Bahn and Better Energy among Lumera's users.
Does Zorowatt operate or trade the battery?: No. Zorowatt is planning only: no live battery control and no trading, so its sizing is not tied to an operating contract.

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Both tools run in the browser with no account; the file is not uploaded.

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Switching?

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