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Columns vs Hex vs Matik

All three are data analysis tools. Here is what separates them.

	Columns	Hex	Matik
What it is	Clean data, automate workflows, and build compelling visual stories with Columns AI. Discover Columns Drive, Flow, and Graph today.	Collaborative data notebooks where SQL, Python and AI assistance sit in the same document.	Matik’s AI automates the creation of personalized presentations, documents, and reports directly from your data.
Category	Data Analysis	Data Analysis	Data Analysis
Pricing	Paid	Freemium · Free · from $36/user/mo	Freemium
How it bills	Not published	Per seat	Not published
Free tier	No	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	—	SQL and Python in one notebook Schema-aware query generation Publish notebooks as apps Reactive execution Warehouse connectors	—
What works	Sits in Data Analysis, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare	AI that knows your actual schema Analyst and stakeholder use one artefact Strong collaboration	—
What does not	No free tier — it has to be paid for before it can be tried Does not publish a price on its own site, so the cost is only clear after signing up 44 other tools in this catalogue claim to do the same job 14 tools in the same category have a free tier	Expensive per seat Requires a data warehouse Overkill for spreadsheet-scale work	—