Hex
hex.tech · 2 records in Compute, Storage · JSON
Records 2
- caveatHex (Community)
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-04
- fails: quotaHex (Storage)
Storagefree tieridentity card?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
Hex (Community)
Compute- Free allowance
- Community is free and includes Small compute: 4 GB and 0.5 CPU, billed per minute of usage; scheduled runs and alerts are a Team feature at USD 75 per editor per month
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaSmall compute only: 4 GB RAM, 0.5 CPU; no scheduled runs on Community
- Evidence
- documented7 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Community is free and includes Small compute: 4 GB and 0.5 CPU, billed per minute of usage; scheduled runs and alerts are a Team feature at USD 75 per editor per month unit hours; metered on wall-clock; The compute table marks Extra small, Small and Medium as Free per hour, but the plan tables grant Community 'Small compute' only. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota half a CPU and 4 GB is the hard ceiling, and there is no scheduler to spend it unattended |
| Identity | email a free Community account; the trial needs no payment card, and the pricing page states no card for Community |
| Egress | no egress allowance or price published |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object |
| Retention | 7-day version history on Community (7 days) |
| Interface | rest, cli a browser notebook with SQL and Python cells |
| Tooling | the web editor; scheduled runs need Team |
| Composes with | a collaborative analysis notebook; not a compute provider for a scheduled job |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Half a CPU makes Hex the weakest compute among these notebook offers on raw capacity, and no hour cap is published. No free GPU: the A10G GPU profile is billed at USD 4.06 per hour and the L4 GPU profile at USD 2.93 per hour, as advanced compute add-ons of Team and Enterprise. |
| Evidence note | documented compute profiles and the scheduled-runs gating are quoted from the pricing page today. No monthly hour cap is published, which is the gap. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 7
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | hex.tech/pricing/ | quoted: '| Small | 4 | 0.5 | Free |' from the compute-profile table, and the footnote '*Billed per minute of usage. Free trials are limited to Medium compute.' |
| 2026-10-24 | hex.tech/pricing/ | quoted with an elision marked: 'Features include: Hex agent trial Connect any data source Build with all cell types ... Small compute' |
| 2026-10-24 | hex.tech/pricing/ | quoted: 'Scheduled runs and alerts' appears in the Team plan list only |
| 2026-10-24 | hex.tech/pricing/ | quoted: 'Anyone can try the Hex Team plan free for 14 days, no payment card required.' |
| 2026-11-03 | hex.tech/pricing/ | the Small compute profile is 4 GB and 0.5 CPU at no price per hour, and the Community plan lists Small compute |
| 2026-11-03 | hex.tech/pricing/ | version history is 7-day on Community, 30-day on Professional, unlimited on Team and Enterprise |
| 2026-11-03 | hex.tech/pricing/ | the A10G GPU compute profile is billed per hour; the L4 GPU row is USD 2.93 and Community lists only Small compute |
More fields 12
| shape | {"vcpu": 0.5,"ram_gib": 4,"disk_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | free |
| term | none |
| m10h usd | 0.0 |
| m24h usd | 0.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 0.00 on Community |
| free tier kind | free-forever |
| unattended | no |
| unattended mechanism | none on Community; scheduled runs are Team-tier |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": false,"ports": "unstated","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "not published"} |
| units | RAM and disk are quoted in the vendor's own decimal GB, not GiB. The ram_gib and disk_gib keys carry the vendor's number unconverted, so where a vendor writes 30 GB the key holds 30 and the true value is about 27.9 GiB. No conversion was performed. |
Unknown values 1
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Hex (Storage)
Storage- Free allowance
- Community (free): small compute only — 2 GB / 4 GB / 8 GB RAM profiles at $0/hr.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- card?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Community (free): small compute only — 2 GB / 4 GB / 8 GB RAM profiles at $0/hr. No storage allocation published; there is no user-writable persistent disk, only data connections. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | card (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | No published meter; the model is 'bring your own warehouse', so bytes never live with Hex. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | graphql graphql |
| Tooling | Hex API + MCP server; data comes from connected warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres), not from Hex storage. |
| Composes with | None — Hex is a query layer. Whatever storage you use, you must already own. |
| Reliability | Not a storage provider in any sense. Recorded to close the branch. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | hex.tech/pricing/ | Community free 'Features include: ... Small compute'; compute table caps free profiles at 8 GB |
| 2026-10-21 | learn.hex.tech/docs/explore-data/projects/environment-config | compute profiles are memory/CPU only, no disk |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "not-storage","why": "Community (free): small compute only — 2 GB / 4 GB / 8 GB RAM profiles at $0/hr. No storage allocation published; there is no user-writable persistent disk, only data connections.","retry_when": "never; it is not storage","first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read