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Benchling Insights vs Hex
Benchling Insights or Hex? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Ask in plain language, Writes SQL, Charts and dashboards, Connects to your data, API
- Only Benchling Insights states: Spreadsheets
- Only Hex states: Python and notebooks
Benchling Insights
Benchling Insights analyzes, visualizes, and automates structured biotech R&D data without requiring code.
Plans
Not read from the maker’s page yet.
Prices checked 2026-09-26 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Ask in plain language — “The SQL Writer lets you generate and modify queries using natural language prompts.” source
- Writes SQL — “SQL Writer is a Benchling AI feature that can help you write new or edit existing SQL queries.” source
- Charts and dashboards — “Create configurable visualizations including bar, line, and pie charts, scatter plots, and heatmaps” source
- Connects to your data — “Connect Benchling Insights with external tools, data warehouses, or pipelines using robust APIs.” source
- Spreadsheets — “Pull in data from Benchling entries, studies, dashboards, or CSVs” source
- API — “Connect Benchling Insights with external tools, data warehouses, or pipelines using robust APIs.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “Benchling maintains SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, affirming our commitment to offering best-in-class security to protect our global customer base.” source
- SOC 2 — “Benchling maintains SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, affirming our commitment to offering best-in-class security to protect our global customer base.” source
- ISO 27001 — “Benchling maintains ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification aligned to the additional controls and implementation guidance of ISO/IEC 27017:2015 and ISO/IEC 27018:2025, in addition to a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation.” source
Latest updates
- Introducing Benchling Agents, your infinite program team
Benchling Agents can register molecules, run analyses, and flag risks automatically as work happens.
- Benchling now brings chemistry and biology together
Benchling introduces Chemistry Reactions for single-step synthesis planning and predictive ADMET models connected to the same scientific record.
- Lilly TuneLab pharma-powered AI models now in Benchling
Benchling users can run predictive AI models trained on decades of Eli Lilly's research data.
Hex
Hex is an AI analytics platform for querying, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data with SQL, Python, R, no-code tools, and agents.
Plans
Community
Free
- Hex agent trial
- Connect any data source
- Build with all cell types
- Small compute
Professional
- $36 per Editor / month
- Hex agent
- Standard credits
- Up to 5 published apps
- 30-day version history
- Medium compute
Team
- $75 per Editor / month
- Extended credits
- Unlimited published apps
- Visual exploration and drill down
- Unlimited version history
- Scheduled runs and alerts
- Shared components
Enterprise
Price on request
- Explorer seat add-on
- Audit logs
- Premium credits
- OAuth database connections
- Observability API
- OIDC SSO
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Ask in plain language — “Anyone can ask questions and explore data in plain language, without learning complex drag-and-drop UIs or waiting on the data team.” source
- Writes SQL — “AI can do almost everything for you in Hex. I use it to scaffold entire apps and help me debug SQL queries.” source
- Charts and dashboards — “Turn insights into polished, customizable dashboards in just seconds.” source
- Connects to your data — “Hex has built-in connections to the most popular data warehouses, lakehouses, and databases.” source
- Python and notebooks — “Python cell” source
- API — “Use our powerful public API to write your own integrations.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type II HIPAA” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type II HIPAA” source
- GDPR — “Badges SOC 2 Type II HIPAA PCI GDPR” source
- HIPAA — “Badges SOC 2 Type II HIPAA” source
Latest updates
- Explore and share insights from Generative Apps
Published Generative Apps now support chat follow-ups, and scheduled notifications can include CSV exports.
- Publish eval suites, skip approvals, and build Hex projects from your chat agent
You can publish and schedule versioned eval suites, skip agent approvals, and build Hex projects from your chat agent.
- More control over Generative app iteration
The app builder now supports direct text editing, creating chart properties, and queuing visualization tweaks.