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Cradle vs Hex vs Rows

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

	Cradle	Hex	Rows
What it is	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.	Use AI to analyze data from 50+ sources — PDFs, databases, analytics tools, and bank accounts. Only plain language. No code, SQL, or formulas.
Category	Data Analysis	Data Analysis	Data Analysis
Pricing	Paid	Freemium · Free · from $36/user/mo	Freemium · Free · from $8/user/mo
How it bills	Not published	Per seat	Per seat
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	AI functions usable as formulas Built-in API and platform connectors Scheduled refresh Shareable as a web app Familiar spreadsheet interface
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	Language-model operations at column scale Connectors remove manual exports Cheap
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	Not a full Excel replacement AI calls consume credits fast Large sheets get slow

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