Hex makes it easy for everyone to ask questions and build with data, without all the chaos, cost, and confusion. The homepage sample shows Agent, Notebook, App, and Publish app, plus SQL and Python cells. A banner says dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt. Cards are Community at Free, Professional at $36 per Editor / month, and Team at $75 per Editor / month. Enterprise is Custom. Medium compute is included on all paid plans, and larger profiles are billed per minute of usage.
Hex fits an analyst who wants the question, the cell, and the app in one project and can read a per-editor price first. Community is free, with an agent trial, any data source, all cell types, and small compute. Professional adds the agent, standard credits, five published apps, and 30-day history. Team adds unlimited apps and scheduled runs. Anyone can try the Hex Team plan free for 14 days, no payment card required. The NexaCorp script and the StubHub page are vendor material, not a warehouse this review queried.
A good fit for
Someone who will start on Community and compare it with Professional before paying $36 per editor.
A team that wants Suggestions in Context Studio, which the docs limit to Team and Enterprise.
An admin who will accept or reject context changes instead of letting an agent edit guides on its own.
Know the trade-offs
Professional and Team credit grants refresh monthly and do not roll over.
Free trials are limited to Medium compute. Large and bigger profiles have per-hour rates billed per minute.
Managers can accept or reject suggestions but cannot open evidence from individual conversations. Only admins can.
Cells, apps, and the suggestion queue.
A notebook that also has an agent and an app
The homepage says Hex makes it easy for everyone to ask questions and build with data, without all the chaos, cost, and confusion. The sample project shows Agent, Notebook, App, Share, and Publish app, with a SQL cell and Python cells beside an agent thread. The agent script says it will read a table, name a semantic model, and draw charts. That script uses fictional product lines. It is not a query this profile reran. A banner calls generative data apps gorgeous, interactive dashboards and apps you can build with just a prompt.
Community is for hobbyists and is labeled Free: a Hex agent trial, any data source, all cell types, and small compute. Professional is for solo workflows. The card is written $36 per Editor / month Get started Everything in Community, plus the Hex agent, standard credits, up to 5 published apps, 30-day version history, and medium compute. Team is for companies collaborating with data, at $75 per Editor / month, with Try 14 days free. It adds extended credits, unlimited published apps, drill down, unlimited version history, scheduled runs and alerts, shared components, shared collections, and advanced compute add-ons. Enterprise is Custom via Contact Sales. The list after everything in Team includes an Explorer seat add-on, audit logs, premium credits, OAuth database connections, Observability API, OIDC SSO, Bring Your Own Key, a single tenant add-on, a HIPAA add-on, embedded analytics, custom Docker images, and dedicated support. Anyone can try the Hex Team plan free for 14 days, no payment card required. Doing nothing drops the workspace to the free Community plan.
AI features in Hex consume credits based on the effort required to complete the task. Paid plans include a credit grant, and add-on credits can be purchased. Professional and Team plans include monthly per-seat credit grants that are assigned to each paid user, refresh monthly, and do not roll over. Enterprise grants are custom on the order form. The page does not define how effort becomes a credit. Medium compute is included on all paid plans. Team and Enterprise can opt in to pay-as-you-go compute. Extra small, Small, and Medium are marked Free. Large is 16 GB and 2 CPU at $0.32. Extra large is 32 GB and 4 CPU at $0.65. 2XL is 64 GB and 8 CPU at $1.29. 4XL is 128 GB and 16 CPU at $2.58. A10G GPU is $4.06 and L4 GPU is $2.93, both at 27 GB and 6 CPU. Rates are billed per minute of usage. Free trials are limited to Medium compute.
Suggestions are actionable recommendations that Hex generates by analyzing patterns across agent conversations and warnings in your workspace. The docs place them on the Team and Enterprise plans, in the Suggestions tab of Context Studio. Repeated warnings about a missing definition, an undocumented join, or an unendorsed table can become one suggestion. Not every warning qualifies. One-off mistakes are filtered out. Each row has a title, a status, an evidence count, and timestamps. Admins can view suggestions and their summaries, accept/reject changes, and review supporting evidence from individual conversations. Managers can accept or reject but cannot open that evidence. Only admins can see individual conversation evidence. Changes may create or update a guide, edit workspace rules, rewrite a table description, or endorse a table, schema, or semantic model. Publish applies a guide stored in Hex. A GitHub-synced guide has to be edited in GitHub, then marked completed. The article says these are AI-generated recommendations, not automatic fixes.
A suggested start stays on Community: any data source, all cell types, small compute, and the agent trial. Move to Professional for the agent, standard credits, up to 5 published apps, and 30-day history, after reading the $36 per Editor / month line. The pages do not list tested warehouses.
An admin clearing the same agent warning
A suggested Team or Enterprise pass opens Suggestions, sorts by evidence count, and accepts a guide only after the diff. Managers stop at the summary, because they cannot open the conversations. Publish in Hex if the guide lives there. If it is synced from GitHub, edit GitHub and mark the proposal completed. These are suggested review steps.
A prompt that is supposed to become an app
A suggested publish path follows the banner: build the chart, then Publish app. Professional stops at 5 apps. Team says unlimited published apps, plus scheduled runs. The StubHub page says that team uses Hex for ad-hoc exploratory analysis, prototyping, self-serve, and data apps.
How to get started with Hex
1
Start on the free card
Use Get started on Community. The card includes a Hex agent trial, any data source, all cell types, and small compute.
2
Put a cell under the question
The homepage sample uses a SQL cell and Python cells inside the notebook, next to the agent thread.
3
Publish only if the app cap fits
Professional lists up to 5 published apps. Team lists unlimited published apps and scheduled runs.
4
Read credits and compute before a bigger job
Paid seats get a monthly grant that does not roll over. Trials stay on Medium compute, and larger profiles bill per minute.
Amounts below are copied from the public Hex pricing page. Community is labeled Free, not a zero-dollar token. Professional and Team are per editor per month. Enterprise says Custom. Hourly compute rates are separate from the seat price and are billed per minute.
Community
Hobbyists completing small projects.
Free.
No currency amount on the card.
Hex agent trial
Any data source, all cell types, small compute
Professional
Individuals on solo workflows.
$36.
Per Editor / month.
Hex agent and standard credits
Up to 5 published apps and 30-day version history
Medium compute
Team
Companies collaborating on data work.
$75.
Per Editor / month.
Try 14 days free, no payment card required
Extended credits and unlimited published apps
Scheduled runs, shared components, and advanced compute add-ons
Enterprise
Organizations that need the listed security add-ons.
Custom.
Contact Sales.
Explorer seat add-on, audit logs, and premium credits
Observability API, OIDC SSO, and a HIPAA add-on
Credit grants custom on the order form
The compare grid’s first cells are not labeled on every row, so a three-value row such as shared collections is not assigned here. If the 14-day Team trial ends with no action, the FAQ says the workspace drops to Community and loses premium features.
Hex: common questions
Can Hex be used without paying?
Community is labeled Free, with an agent trial, any data source, all cell types, and small compute. Students and educators can access Professional for free.
Professional is $36 per Editor / month. Team is $75 per Editor / month. Anyone can try the Hex Team plan free for 14 days, no payment card required. Enterprise is Custom. Doing nothing after the trial returns the workspace to Community.
AI features in Hex consume credits based on the effort required to complete the task. Professional and Team plans include monthly per-seat credit grants that are assigned to each paid user and do not roll over.
Extra small, Small, and Medium are Free. Medium compute is included on all paid plans, and free trials are limited to Medium compute. Large is $0.32, Extra large $0.65, 2XL $1.29, 4XL $2.58, A10G GPU $4.06, and L4 GPU $2.93. Billing is per minute of usage.
Suggestions are on Team and Enterprise. Admins can accept or reject changes and review evidence from individual conversations. Managers cannot open that evidence. Proposed changes are not applied automatically.
What do the public pages say about HIPAA and an API?
Enterprise lists a HIPAA add-on and an Observability API beside OIDC SSO and Bring Your Own Key. The docs navigation lists Import data via API and Public API.
NavHunt did not run Hex, did not connect a warehouse, did not start the 14-day Team trial, and did not accept a suggestion. The notebook, plan, credit, and compute details come from Hex pages reviewed on 2026-10-06: the homepage, the pricing page, the suggestions docs, and the StubHub customer page. Sample charts and customer quotes were not treated as measurements. This description is based on Hex's official materials reviewed on 2026-10-06.