Databricks vs Hex

Side-by-side comparison of Databricks and Hex: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Databricks The unified data, analytics, and AI platform trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500 Visit	Hex The AI analytics platform where trust meets insight — for your whole team Visit
Category	Chat assistants	Chat assistants
Pricing	Paid	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Databricks (DBRX, MosaicML)	OpenAI
Founded	2013	2019
Headquarters	San Francisco, USA	San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·Unified lakehouse architecture combining data lake and data warehouse ·Enterprise-grade AI/ML and GenAI development on proprietary data ·Serverless Postgres (Lakebase) integrated with lakehouse for AI agents ·Open governance via Unity Catalog across data, models, and dashboards	·Agentic AI that writes SQL & Python and builds charts from natural language prompts ·Semantic model layer that grounds AI answers in trusted, business-defined metrics ·Dual interface: collaborative data notebooks plus polished, shareable data apps ·Conversational self-serve analytics so non-technical stakeholders can explore data without writing code