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AI for Database vs Cradle vs Hex

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

	AI for Database	Cradle	Hex
What it is	Connect Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB or Google Sheets and ask questions in plain English. Instant answers, dashboards, alerts. Free – no credit card.	Protein engineering AI, built for scientists. Leverage AI to generate protein candidates and improve their properties. More breakthroughs in fewer experiments…	Collaborative data notebooks where SQL, Python and AI assistance sit in the same document.
Category	Data Analysis	Data Analysis	Data Analysis
Pricing	Freemium	Paid	Freemium · Free · from $36/user/mo
How it bills	Not published	Not published	Per seat
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	—	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