Hex

Hex is a comprehensive, AI-powered analytics workspace built for teams to drive faster answers and better decisions. It provides a unified platform that goes beyond traditional dashboards, integrating deep-dive analysis, interactive data applications, and self-service exploration. Hex is trusted by leading data companies like Notion, ClickUp, and StubHub to foster a data-driven culture where anyone, regardless of technical proficiency, can comfortably use data to answer their own questions.

The platform's core is a collaborative notebook environment where Python, SQL, and no-code elements coexist harmoniously. This eliminates the need to switch between different tools for querying, transforming, predicting, and visualizing data. With its integrated AI assistant, users can get intelligent help anywhere in their workflow, from generating code with a simple prompt to creating charts and explaining complex logic.

How to use Hex

Using Hex involves a streamlined workflow designed for both data professionals and business users. First, you connect Hex to your data sources, with built-in connections for popular data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and databases. Once connected, you can begin your analysis in a Hex notebook. You can write SQL queries to fetch data, use Python for advanced analysis and machine learning, or leverage no-code cells with point-and-click tools to filter and pivot data. The platform's AI assistant can be prompted in natural language to generate queries, write code, or build visualizations. As you work, you can collaborate with teammates in real-time through multiplayer editing and comments. Once your analysis is complete, you can transform it into a polished, interactive data app using a drag-and-drop builder. These apps can be shared with stakeholders, who can then explore the data, adjust parameters, and even write data back to your database, turning insights directly into action.

Core Features of Hex

• AI-Powered Notebooks: A multiplayer notebook environment that seamlessly integrates Python, SQL, and no-code cells, allowing for flexible and powerful analysis.
• Magical AI: A conversational AI interface that assists with generating code, creating charts, answering questions, and debugging, all through natural language prompts.
• Interactive Data Apps: Build and publish beautiful, interactive data applications from your analyses using a drag-and-drop interface, enabling stakeholders to explore insights on their own.
• Self-Serve Exploration: An intuitive, point-and-click experience for business users to explore governed data and semantic models without writing any code.
• Real-time Collaboration: Features like multiplayer editing, commenting, and version control make data analysis a team sport.
• Seamless Integrations: Native connections to popular data warehouses (Snowflake, etc.), dbt for semantic models, Git for version control (GitHub/GitLab), and orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Reusable Components: Save and reuse logic, charts, and groups of cells across different projects to scale your work efficiently.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant, offering flexible deployment models (multi-tenant, single-tenant, private cloud) and robust security features.

Use Cases for Hex

Hex is versatile and supports a wide range of analytics needs. For example, ClickUp used Hex to operationalize a data science churn model, turning it into a cross-functional program that saved millions in customer churn. Notion leverages Hex to empower everyone in the company, from data science to sales, to make decisions with data. Other common use cases include:

• Exploratory Analysis: Performing deep dives and ad-hoc explorations to uncover novel insights.
• Business Intelligence & Reporting: Creating and sharing dynamic KPI dashboards to monitor sales performance, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
• Data Modeling: Transforming raw data into analysis-ready datasets for predictive models or company-wide reporting.
• Advanced Data Science: Implementing complex techniques like sentiment analysis, time series forecasting, and data clustering within the platform.

Advantages of Hex

The primary advantage of Hex is its ability to unify the entire analytics workflow in one place. This eliminates tool-hopping and increases efficiency. Its AI-powered features significantly accelerate productivity for data teams. By providing both code-based and no-code interfaces, Hex democratizes data access, enabling both technical and non-technical users to collaborate effectively. This breaks down silos and fosters a stronger data culture. Finally, by allowing users to build interactive apps instead of static reports, Hex makes insights more actionable and shortens the feedback loop between analysis and decision-making.

Pricing and Plans

Hex offers several plans to fit different needs:

• Community: A free plan designed for individuals to explore data and showcase their work. It includes unlimited queries and up to 5 projects.
• Professional: Priced at $36 per Editor/month, this plan is for practitioners and small teams. It offers unlimited projects, unlimited AI actions, and 30-day version history.
• Team: At $75 per Editor/month, this plan is built for scaling data collaboration and governance. It adds features like visual exploration for data apps, review workflows, user groups, and key integrations. A 14-day free trial is available.
• Enterprise: This plan offers custom pricing for organizations requiring advanced security (SSO, HIPAA), dedicated support, custom deployment options, and embedded analytics.