Hex alternatives compared by price

Metabase is the open source business intelligence tool that companies self-host for free and then move to the cloud plans. Those plans charge a flat base per instance with a handful of users included and a per-user fee above that.

Metabase starts at $100 per month for 5 users, then $6 per user for Starter (USD per month for the included users (5 on Starter, 10 on Pro), billed monthly), goes up to $575 per month for 10 users for Pro, has a free plan. Latest change: Pro from $500 to $575 (+15%), Apr 2026.

Count is a whiteboard-style canvas for data analysis. Small teams use it for free, larger ones pay per editor, and it competes with notebooks as much as with dashboards.

Count starts at $49 per editor per month for Pro (USD per editor per month, billed yearly), has a free plan.

SaturnSQL is a browser-based SQL editor for teams. Everyone connects to the same databases, keeps queries in a shared library, schedules them and pushes results to Slack, Google Sheets or CSV, with autocomplete that knows the schema and an AI assistant that turns plain language into SQL.

SaturnSQL starts at €19 per user per month, billed monthly, 14-day trial for Starter (EUR per user per month, billed monthly), goes up to €79 per seat per month, billed monthly, bought through sales for Pro (AI), has a free plan. Latest change: Pro (AI) from €29 to €79 (+172%), Oct 2026.

Tableau starts at £11.97 per user per month for Viewer (GBP per user per month, excluding VAT, reseller price), goes up to £91.77 per user per month for Enterprise Creator.

Retool starts at €9 per builder per month, billed annually, plus €5 per internal user per month, as shown to European visitors for Team (EUR per builder per month, billed annually, plus €5 per internal user per month, as shown to European visitors), goes up to €46 per builder per month, billed annually, plus €14 per internal user per month, as shown to European visitors for Business, has a free plan.