Hex vs ThoughtSpot

Hex is a hosted data platform for exploring data, asking questions, and building data applications through notebooks and conversational self-service. It supports SQL, Python, and R, with real-time collaboration and version history. Users can connect data warehouses and local TXT, CSV, JSON, Parquet, Avro, and XLSX files, as well as metadata, semantic-layer, catalog, machine-learning, and workflow tools. Airflow, Dagster, and dbt integrations can trigger analytical flows and app runs from data pipelines. Hex says its agent grounds answers in organizational context and can connect with Claude, Codex, Cursor, Slack, MCP, a CLI, APIs, or custom agents. Users can build apps from prompts, with code underneath and controls for the finished app. Context Studio and Evals provide visibility into topics, trends, and warnings about answer quality. Community is free; Professional costs $36 a month per Editor, and Team costs $75 a month per Editor. Community and Professional allow up to five published apps, while Team and Enterprise allow unlimited published apps. A 14-day trial is listed.

ThoughtSpot is a cloud analytics platform from ThoughtSpot, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. It provides natural-language queries, embedded analytics, scheduled reports, and real-time data refresh across web, iOS, and Android. Row-level security is included. Essentials costs $25 a month when billed annually, covering 5 to 50 users and up to 25M rows of data. Pro costs $50 a month when billed annually, for up to 1,000 users and 250M rows, with 25 Spotter queries per user each month. A Pro usage option is listed at $0.10 a month with the same user and row limits. Enterprise plans list unlimited users and data but no price. Developer (Embedded) has no listed price and allows up to 10 users and 25M rows. Enterprise (Embedded) lists embeddable AI dashboards and visualizations, natural-language search and data exploration, Spotter AI Agents, Analyst Studio, and API and SDK access.