Databricks vs Hex: who uses which
Customers, public proof and the companies that use both.
On usedby, 38 companies use Databricks and 29 use Hex. No company is listed with both yet. Hex leads among the Fintech & Payments companies on usedby that use either tool.Latest check Oct 8, 2026: 66 of 67 public lines checked. Counts include every proof level, job-post signals included. Companies named on both have a confirmed or observed line on each side.
Who uses Databricks, Hex, or both
Every company with a public proof for at least one of the two tools.
38
use only Databricks
0
companies use both
29
use only Hex
38 companies use only Databricks, 29 use only Hex and 0 use both, out of the 67 companies on usedby that use at least one of them.
Where it lands
Newest customers
No new customer since tracking started on October 2, 2026.
Where it lands
Newest customers
We have not started tracking changes for Hex yet.
Who uses both
Companies with a confirmed or observed line on both tools.
By industry
Which tool the companies on usedby use, by industry. Shares of the companies on usedby that use Databricks, Hex or both: a share of the companies on usedby, not of the market.
Databricks onlyBothHex only
More common with Hex
- Fintech & Payments5 of the 7 Fintech & Payments companies on usedby that use either tool use Hex.
- DevTools & Infrastructure6 of the 6 DevTools & Infrastructure companies on usedby that use either tool use Hex.
- Artificial Intelligence4 of the 5 Artificial Intelligence companies on usedby that use either tool use Hex.
Source: confirmed and observed usedby lines. Job-post signals, the weakest proof level, are left out of these shares.
Side by side
Facts from our data and from each vendor's public pages. Each line says where it comes from.
DatabricksHexWhat customers report
Results as the vendor or the customer published them, with the source and the date.
Databricks
Shell currently has over 100 AI projects running
Shell
Vendor case study, databricks.com, captured Oct 2, 2026
over 850 active power users successfully utilizing Databricks
KPMG
Vendor case study, databricks.com, captured Oct 2, 2026
Hex
the time to go from doing getting started tutorials to production ready data pipelines and dashboards was less than three days each
Matter Labs
Vendor case study, hex.tech, published Feb 18, 2026
saving an entire week of analyst time per month
Valon
Vendor case study, hex.tech, published Feb 18, 2026
Questions about Databricks and Hex
Which is used more, Databricks or Hex?
Databricks has more customers on usedby: 38 against 29 for Hex.
Do companies use both Databricks and Hex?
usedby has not found a company with a confirmed or observed line on both Databricks and Hex yet.
Who uses Databricks?
38 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Databricks.
Who uses Hex?
29 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Hex.
How does usedby count customers?
A company counts when a public page shows it: a vendor's customer page, a case study, a press release or a job post, most saved with a dated capture. Every line is a customer, at one of three proof levels: confirmed, observed or signal (a job post, the weakest). A company is named as using both tools when its lines on both are confirmed or observed.