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Best AI tools for data analysts
Analysts spend much of their time on the invisible parts: pulling data, cleaning it, rewriting similar SQL and rebuilding the same recurring report. AI helps where it can see the actual schema and shows its working, because an answer you cannot check is not an analysis.
- 01 SQL against a real warehouse: Hex
- 02 Python notebooks you can hand over: Deepnote
- 03 Team investigations on one canvas: Count
- 04 Recurring reports with live data: Rows
- 05 Quick answers for stakeholders: Julius
SQL against a real warehouse
Hex
Free · from $36/user/mo
The AI is grounded in your actual schema, so generated SQL references real columns rather than guesses. The Community plan is free; paid is $36/editor/mo. Pointless without a warehouse.
- Free tier
- Community plan: notebook agent trial, connect any data source, small compute, 7-day version history, up to 3 shared collections/components
Python notebooks you can hand over
Deepnote
Free · from $39/editor/mo
Opens existing .ipynb files without conversion, and its agent edits any block with before-and-after diffs you approve. The free plan covers 3 editors and 5 projects; Team is $39/editor/mo billed yearly, and the core notebook is open source.
- Free tier
- Free forever: 3 editors, 5 projects, limited Deepnote AI, unlimited 5 GB RAM / 2 vCPU machines, 7-day revision history
Team investigations on one canvas
Count
Free · Pro from $49/editor/mo
SQL, Python, charts and text sit side by side like a whiteboard, and several agents can investigate different questions in the same canvas. The agent queries a live database only with explicit approval. Free covers 3 editors on CSV only; Pro is $49/editor/mo.
- Free tier
- Up to 3 editor seats, CSV database connections only, 3 canvases, community support
Recurring reports with live data
Rows
Free · from $6/mo (annual) / $8/mo (monthly)
A spreadsheet that pulls live data from common SaaS APIs into cells, which removes the manual export from weekly reporting. Plus is $8/user/mo ($6 billed annually) with 200 AI tasks a month. Not for heavy statistical work.
- Free tier
- 5 AI Tasks/month, manual data import only, 10 integration accounts, 3 guests, 1 MB import limit, 7-day version history, 500 API calls/month
Quick answers for stakeholders
Julius
Free · from $20/mo
Lets a non-coding colleague upload a spreadsheet and ask in plain English, while showing the Python it ran so you can verify the result. The free tier is 15 messages a month; Plus is $20/mo. Not for data that cannot leave your infrastructure.
- Free tier
- 15 messages/month, do not roll over, basic features and standard AI models
What you can skip
ChatGPT will analyse an uploaded spreadsheet, but tools grounded in your schema, like Hex, stop the guessing at column names that generic assistants do. ChatGPT profile.
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