What is Hex?
Hex calls itself the analytics platform for humans and agents. It combines notebook-style analysis with a Notebook Agent, a Slack integration and shareable results, so analysts and business users can work on the same data. Hex announced version 4.0 and a $100m fundraise on its site.
In the notebook you can connect any data source and build with all cell types. Hex queries the data sources you connect, and results can be published for other users. AI features consume credits based on the effort of the task, and every paid plan includes a credit grant with add-on credits available.
Hex has four plans. Community is free for hobbyists. Professional costs $36 per editor per month and Team costs $75 per editor per month, and anyone can try Team free for 14 days with no payment card. Enterprise is for organizations that need advanced security, governance and support. Hex states that it is audited annually for SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance, and offers EU multi-tenant hosting on a contract basis.
Key capabilities
- Notebooks Connect any data source and build with all cell types.
- AI agent A Notebook Agent, with usage metered in credits.
- Plans Free Community, Professional at $36 per editor per month, Team at $75, and Enterprise.
- Trial 14 days of the Team plan, no payment card required.
- Compliance Annual SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA audits.
Where Hex fits
- Collaborative notebooks Notebook view with multiple cell types, plus threads, tasks and components for building analyses.
- AI-assisted analysis Conversational analytics through the Hex Agent, in threads and in Slack.
- Context management Bring business logic, definitions, models and institutional knowledge together so agents reason from shared, trusted context.
- Evals and observability Thread-level observability into token spend, and eval sweeps to tune the price and quality trade-off across models.
- Data connections Built-in connections to popular data warehouses, lakehouses and databases.
- Governed sharing Share results as apps with scheduled runs, notifications and embedding, under governance controls.
- Enterprise security Enterprise-grade security, governance, organization controls and visibility into how data is used.
- Migration from BI tools Documented paths to migrate Tableau and Looker dashboards.
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