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Hex vs Iris.ai vs Paperclip

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

	Hex	Iris.ai	Paperclip
What it is	Collaborative data notebooks where SQL, Python and AI assistance sit in the same document.	Augment expert knowledge by unifying complex enterprise data to empower next-gen AI agents & applications	Manage a team of AI agents to run your business. Org charts, budgets, governance, and goals — all in one deployment.
Category	Data Analysis	Data Analysis	Data Analysis
Pricing	Freemium · Free · from $36/user/mo	Paid	Freemium
How it bills	Per seat	Not published	Not published
Free tier	Yes	No	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	AI that knows your actual schema Analyst and stakeholder use one artefact Strong collaboration	Sits in Data Analysis, one of the better-covered categories here — easy to compare	—
What does not	Expensive per seat Requires a data warehouse Overkill for spreadsheet-scale work	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	—