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Databricks documents Genie usage as pay-as-you-go after a per-user monthly free allowance, with billed usage measured in DBUs through Unity AI Gateway. The applicable DBU price depends on the current cloud, region, SKU, and negotiated Databricks terms.

Hex publishes Community, Professional, Team, and Enterprise plan options.

Snowflake documents Cortex Agents billing in AI credits per million tokens, with underlying service and tool costs added separately.

ThoughtSpot publishes user- and usage-based plans that include Spotter at defined query or unlimited-token allowances, plus custom Enterprise pricing. Current totals depend on users, credits, add-ons, deployment, and whether the customer supplies its own LLM provider.

Genie runs as a Databricks workspace experience backed by Unity Catalog data and a pro or serverless SQL warehouse; creators configure a Genie Space and grant users explicit space and data permissions.

Hex is a hosted service on AWS with production environments logically isolated in VPCs, encrypted customer data, and multi-availability-zone resilience. Customer arrangements can vary by tenancy, compliance profile, and hosting region.

Cortex Agents run inside a Snowflake account and are accessed through Snowflake roles, object privileges, and authenticated API requests.

Databricks documents Genie as a natural-language interface for querying organizational data, returning SQL-backed answers and visualizations and supporting follow-up exploration; answer quality depends on the configured data and instructions.

Hex documents AI-assisted analysis, notebook, and data workflows.

Snowflake Cortex Agents orchestrate structured and unstructured data tools to plan tasks, retrieve information, and generate responses.

ThoughtSpot Spotter supports natural-language, AI-assisted analysis of business data.

Databricks documents workspace entitlements, object permissions, governed data access, sharing controls, and administrative settings for AI/BI resources including Genie; exact controls depend on workspace configuration and assigned privileges.

Hex documents Team and Enterprise workspace controls for sharing defaults, project-level connections, secret visibility, OIDC SSO, API access and token expiry, and SSH keys; the available controls depend on the workspace plan and administrator configuration.

Snowflake documents role-based access control for Cortex Agents, including required database, schema, warehouse, model, Cortex Search, and semantic-view privileges; administrators must grant the relevant roles and USAGE permissions.

ThoughtSpot documents administrator whitelisting and configuration for Spotter connectors, user-level authentication, role-based access to connected content, and audit logs for tool usage and connector health; controls depend on enabled Spotter capabilities and connector configuration.

Databricks documents platform security and compliance controls applicable to Genie deployments.

Hex documents workspace AI controls, training opt-out, provider retention behavior, BYOK, and geographic data residency.

For the Microsoft Teams integration, Snowflake documents that prompts and responses are processed through Snowflake and Microsoft services, subject to configured RBAC, masking, row-access, and regional-processing constraints; buyers should separately verify retention and transfer terms for their deployment.

ThoughtSpot states that data sent to the AI used by Spotter is not persisted: provider LLMs do not store prompts or responses and delete data after processing. AI features remain subject to customer-controlled permissions, and the provider list is disclosed through ThoughtSpot's subprocessors information.

Databricks provides Genie conversation and management APIs for embedding natural-language data queries in applications and for programmatic space lifecycle workflows, with OAuth or service-principal authentication and documented warehouse permissions.

Hex documents connections to supported data platforms and sources.

Cortex Agents can be used through Snowsight, REST API, and SQL and can orchestrate Cortex Analyst semantic views, Cortex Search services, and optional web search; each tool requires its own configuration and permissions.

Spotter Connectors can connect Spotter with Slack, Jira, Confluence, Snowflake, Glean, web search, and custom MCP-compatible services; administrators enable and configure connectors, while users authenticate supported tools individually.