How does Databricks Genie compare with the alternatives?
Start with Genie when your data and analysts live in Databricks: it works on Unity Catalog data, and chat is free through January 31, 2027. Pick Hex when data spans platforms; it reaches 16 databases and adds notebooks and published apps, billed per seat and credit. Both answer from context a data team curates and score accuracy against test questions.
Pick the agent on the platform that already holds your data. Genie reads Unity Catalog metric views through curated Genie Agents, and CoWork reads semantic views through Cortex Agents, each under its platform's permissions. Genie chat is free through January 31, 2027, while CoWork bills AI Credits per token from the start.
Choose whichever product already holds your governed metrics. Looker's Conversational Analytics answers through LookML Explores, so it inherits definitions a BI team already maintains. Genie answers from Unity Catalog metadata, metric views, and a per-agent knowledge store on Databricks.
