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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 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

About Benchling Insights

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

About Hex