What is Hex?
Agentic data notebooks and apps platform enabling data teams to build interactive dashboards, perform exploratory analysis, and share customer-facing data experiences. Anyone can get data insights grounded in the facts of their business.
Hex pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $36/editor/month. Free tier. 14-day free trial on Team plan.
Community
FreeFor hobbyists completing small projects and showcasing work
- Notebook agent trial
- Connect any data source
- Up to 5 notebooks
- Build with all cell types
- Small compute
Professional
For individuals accelerating data insights and solo workflows
- Notebook agent
- Standard credits
- Unlimited notebooks
- Up to 5 published apps
- 30-day version history
- Medium compute
Team
For companies collaborating with data and automating manual work
- Threads agent
- Semantic model agent
- Extended credits
- Unlimited published apps
- Visual exploration and drill down
- Unlimited version history
- Scheduled runs and alerts
- Shared components
- Shared collections
- Advanced compute add-ons
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations requiring advanced security, governance, and support
- Explorer seat add-on
- Audit logs
- Premium credits
- OAuth database connections
- Observability API
- OIDC SSO
- Single tenant add-on
- HIPAA add-on
- Embedded analytics add-on
- Custom Docker image add-ons
- Dedicated support
Add-ons
- Large Compute$0.32/hr
- Extra Large Compute$0.65/hr
- 2XL Compute$1.29/hr
- 4XL Compute$2.58/hr
- A10G GPU$4.06/hr
- L4 GPU$2.93/hr
- Single Tenant Add-on
- HIPAA Add-on
- Embedded Analytics Add-on
- Custom Docker Image Add-ons
What Hex does
The capabilities that matter for bi software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- BI paradigm
- Notebook
- Semantic / modelling layer
- Built-in
- Warehouse-native (SQL push-down)
- ✓
- Self-hostable / OSS core
- ✓
- Managed cloud available
- ✓
- Natural-language query / AI copilot
- ✓
- Embedded / white-label analytics
- ✓
- Scheduled reports / alerting
- ✓
- Row-level security & SSO/SAML
- ✓
- Per-seat pricing published
- ✓
- Free tier / free desktop
- ✓
- dbt-native integration
- -
- Data-source connector breadth
- Multiple data sources with out-of-the-box connections and flexible APIs
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Hex alternatives
Other bi software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Hex, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 96 | 32.00 | 3072.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 60 | 12.00 | 720.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"nlq_ai":true,"rls_sso":true,"paradigm":"notebook","free_tier":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"semantic_layer":"built_in","warehouse_native":true,"connector_breadth":"Multiple data sources with out-of-the-box connections and flexible APIs","scheduled_reports":true,"embedded_analytics":true,"transparent_pricing":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |