Alternatives to Hex
An analytics platform with an AI data assistant, notebooks, dashboards and interactive data apps. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Hex
An analytics platform with an AI data assistant, notebooks, dashboards and interactive data apps.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Hex.
Deepnote
A collaborative data notebook for Python and SQL with AI assistance, dashboards and data apps.
Deepnote is a freemium hosted notebook for Python and SQL with AI help, dashboards and data apps, while Hex is paid only and aimed at company-wide self-serve analytics.
marimo
Reactive Python notebook stored as a plain script.
marimo is a free, open source reactive Python notebook that runs locally and stores notebooks as plain scripts, without Hex's hosted dashboards and AI data assistant.
Apache Superset
A self-hosted data exploration and visualization platform with a no-code chart builder and SQL IDE.
Apache Superset is free, open source and self-hosted, focusing on no-code charts and a SQL IDE rather than notebooks, and you must run the server yourself.
JupyterLab
A web-based interactive environment for notebooks, code and data, used widely in data science.
JupyterLab is a free open-source notebook environment for over 40 languages that runs locally or in a browser, without Hex's hosted AI assistant or data apps.
Jupyter
Browser-based notebooks, JupyterLab and the classic Notebook, that combine live code, text and visualizations.
Jupyter gives free, open-source notebooks through a local server, with a choice of JupyterLab or the classic Notebook, but no built-in dashboards or AI data assistant.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Hex as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Julius AI
An AI workspace that analyses data and creates spreadsheets, slides, dashboards, websites, images and video.
Hex is a paid analytics platform combining notebooks, dashboards and AI questions over company data, aimed at companies with data teams rather than individuals.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Python
A general-purpose programming language used for scripting, web backends, data analysis and machine learning.
Positron
A free data science IDE for Python and R from the makers of RStudio.
RStudio
A free, open-source IDE for R with a data viewer, environment pane and support for Python and SQL.
DbVisualizer
A cross-platform database client and SQL tool that connects to many relational and NoSQL databases.
Spyder
An open-source Python IDE for scientific work with a variable explorer and an IPython console.
