How much does Hex cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial of Team plan, no payment card required
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free plan. Community plan is free: Hex agent trial, connect any data source, all cell types, small compute. Team trial users who do nothing are downgraded to it.
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup for Community, Professional and Team "Try 14 days free"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise requires contacting sales "Contact Sales"
- Support
- Email support on Community, Professional and Team "Support (9am-5pm PT M-F)"
- Support
- Enterprise: email and Slack support, priority SLAs, dedicated Product Expert "Email and Slack support"
What Hex does
Hex combines an AI agent, notebooks, chat-based Threads, dashboards and data apps that query data directly in the customer's warehouse. Context Studio lets data teams manage definitions, semantic models and evals so AI answers stay governed.
- Good for
- Data teams and companies that want AI-assisted self-serve analytics for business users on a governed warehouse, from individuals up to regulated enterprises.
- Channels
- Web app, Slack, MCP, CLI, API
- Main product
- Hex analytics platform (agentic notebooks, Threads conversational analytics, BI, data apps, Context Studio)
- Also includes
- Hex Agent and Notebook Agent, Threads (conversational analytics), Context Studio with endorsements, guides and evals, Data apps and generative apps, Business intelligence and drill-down exploration, Hex CLI
- Connects to
- Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, dbt, GitHub, GitLab, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, Slack, Claude, Codex
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Natural language questions
Get me NexaCorp's Q3 sales by product line
- Text-to-SQL generation
I use it to scaffold entire apps and help me debug SQL queries.
- Data warehouse connectors
Hex has built-in connections to the most popular data warehouses, lakehouses, and databases.
- Semantic layer / metrics
Hex syncs with metadata and semantic layer tools. Define metrics and data models wherever you like, and Hex ca
- Automatic chart generation
I also created a chart showing revenue vs growth.
- CSV/Excel file upload
uploaded files are stored in AWS S3
- Embedded analytics
Embedded analytics add-on
- SSO and access controls
Hex supports SSO via OIDC within the product.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI data analytics tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | available on Enterprise | "HIPAA BAA available"enterprise |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR."enterprise |
| GDPR | yes | "SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR."enterprise |
| CCPA | yes (badge listed) | "CCPA"security |
| PCI | yes (badge listed) | "PCI"security |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | OIDC SSO on Enterprise; SSO and SCIM | "SSO and SCIM"enterprise |
| Trust center | trust.hex.tech | "Hex | Trust Center"security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professionalper Editor / month | $36 | – | –Up to 5 published apps | – | "$36 per Editor / month" |
| Teamper Editor / month | $75 | – | – | – | "$75 per Editor / month" |
| Community | – | – | – | – | "For hobbyists completing small projects and showcasing work." |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "For organizations requiring advanced security, governance, and support." |
Free plan: Community plan is free: Hex agent trial, connect any data source, all cell types, small compute. Team trial users who do nothing are downgraded to it.
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Pay-as-you-go compute billed per minute "*Billed per minute of usage."
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Professional and Team can cancel or change plan anytime; access continues to end of billing period "Professional and Team customers can cancel or change their plan anytime from Settings > Manage Plan."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Hex Technologies Inc.
- Ships updates
- 36 in the last 12 months Last on Oct 22, 2026, from their changelog
- Funding
- $100m fundraise announced with Hex 4.0 "Announcing Hex 4.0, and a $100m fundraise building toward the agent-native future for analytics."
- Customers
- "over 2,000 customers globally" their claim
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Questions
Is Hex free?
Yes. Community plan is free: Hex agent trial, connect any data source, all cell types, small compute. Team trial users who do nothing are downgraded to it. Paid plans start at $36/month.
How much does Hex cost?
Paid plans start at $36 per month.
Is Hex HIPAA compliant?
Hex says a HIPAA BAA is available on Enterprise.