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Alteryx Designer vs Hex
Both stand on augmented analytics software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
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Choose Alteryx Designer if your team needs visual data workflows with preparation, blending and analytics in one interface. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan, or if Starter’s annual billing, cloud-only deployment or Windows desktop requirement does not fit your setup.
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Hex brings notebooks, data connections, app building, and conversational tools into one hosted platform. The free Community plan has a five-app publishing limit; larger plans raise that limit, with Team adding unlimited published apps.
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| Alteryx Designer | Hex | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | A free trial | Yes |
| Open source | Not published | Not published |
| Runs on | API, Mac, Web, Windows | API, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | Starter Edition: $250 a month | Professional: $36 per editor a month |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Maker | Not published | Hex |
| Website | alteryx.com | hex.tech |
| On augmented analytics software | #8 of 32 | #4 of 32 |
Alteryx Designer: what it does well
- Visual workflows document each analysis step.
- More than 300 drag-and-drop analytics automation tools.
- Extracts insights from PDFs, text files and images.
- Connects to over 80 data sources and outputs to over 70 tools.
- SDKs support adding custom tools and formulas.
What to know first
- No free plan is available.
- Starter Edition is $250 a month, billed annually.
- Designer Desktop requires Windows.
- Starter Edition is cloud-only and limited to 1–10 seats.
Hex: what it does well
- Supports SQL, Python, and R.
- Offers real-time collaboration and version history.
- Integrates with Airflow, Dagster, and dbt.
- Community plan is free.
- Team includes unlimited published apps.
What to know first
- Community and Professional cap published apps at five.
- Professional costs $36 a month per Editor.
- Team costs $75 a month per Editor.
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