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What is Hex
Hex is a collaborative analytics workspace that combines notebooks, SQL, Python, and interactive visualizations to build and share analyses and data apps. It is used by data analysts, analytics engineers, and data science teams to explore data, create repeatable reporting, and publish interactive dashboards for business stakeholders. The product emphasizes end-to-end workflows in a single web-based environment, including data connections, code, visualization, and sharing with access controls.
Unified SQL and Python workflow
Hex supports analyses that mix SQL queries, Python code, and visualization blocks within the same project. This reduces context switching between separate BI tools and notebook environments for teams that need both reporting and advanced analysis. It also supports iterative development where exploratory work can be converted into shareable, parameterized outputs.
Collaborative, shareable analytics artifacts
Hex is designed for collaboration through shared projects that can be reviewed and reused across a team. Outputs can be published as interactive reports or apps for non-technical stakeholders, which helps operationalize analysis beyond one-off notebooks. Compared with many traditional BI-only tools, it more directly supports code-first collaboration patterns.
Interactive dashboards and apps
Hex enables building interactive dashboards and lightweight data applications from the same underlying analysis. Parameter controls and interactive components allow stakeholders to explore slices of data without editing code. This can reduce the need to rebuild the same logic in a separate dashboarding layer.
Not a full BI semantic layer
Hex focuses on analysis projects and interactive outputs rather than providing a comprehensive governed semantic modeling layer typical of some enterprise BI stacks. Organizations that require centralized metric definitions, extensive lineage, and strict governance may need complementary tooling. This can increase implementation effort for large-scale, multi-team standardization.
Requires data and coding skills
While Hex can publish stakeholder-friendly outputs, creating and maintaining projects generally requires comfort with SQL and/or Python. Teams seeking primarily no-code dashboard creation may find onboarding slower. Ongoing maintenance can also depend on technical owners for complex projects.
Embedded analytics may be limited
Hex can share and publish content, but product-grade embedded analytics (multi-tenant embedding, extensive white-labeling, and fine-grained customer-facing controls) may not match platforms built primarily for OEM embedding. Software vendors building customer-facing analytics may need additional engineering work or alternative embedding approaches. Fit with embedded use cases depends on required authentication, theming, and tenant isolation patterns.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | For hobbyists: Notebook agent trial; Connect any data source; Up to 5 notebooks; Build with all cell types; Small compute. |
| Professional | $36 per Editor / month | Everything in Community, plus: Notebook agent; Standard agent credits; Unlimited notebooks; Up to 5 published apps; Unlimited AI quick edits; 30-day version history; Medium compute. |
| Team | $75 per Editor / month | Everything in Professional, plus: Threads agent; Semantic model agent; Extended agent credits; Unlimited published apps; Visual exploration & drill down; Unlimited version history; Scheduled runs & alerts; Shared components & collections; Advanced compute add-ons; 14-day free trial (no card required). |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Contact sales. Everything in Team, plus: Explorer seat add-on; Audit logs; OAuth database connections; Observability API; OIDC SSO; Single-tenant add-on; HIPAA add-on; Embedded analytics add-on; Custom Docker image add-ons. |
Compute profiles (billed per minute of usage):
| Profile | RAM (GB) | CPU | Price / hr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra small | 2 | 0.25 | Free |
| Small | 4 | 0.5 | Free |
| Medium | 8 | 1 | Free |
| Large | 16 | 2 | $0.32 |
| Extra large | 32 | 4 | $0.65 |
| 2XL | 64 | 8 | $1.29 |
| 4XL | 128 | 16 | $2.58 |
| A10G GPU | 27 | 6 | $4.06 |
| L4 GPU | 27 | 6 | $2.93 |
Notes: Compute billed per minute; free trials limited to Medium compute; Team and Enterprise can opt into pay-as-you-go compute add-ons.
Seller details
Hex Technologies, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2019
Private
https://hex.tech/
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