# Hexis Cloud vs Onyx (slim)

> Onyx scores 65 (B) to Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C) for company knowledge search. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Onyx scores 65 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do company knowledge search.

- Hexis Cloud: C 55.3, rank #705 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hexis.min.md
- Onyx: B 65, rank #355 of 1084 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onyx.min.md
- Hexis Cloud, good for A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 85 against 77; Transparency & trust, 75 against 63. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Onyx loses 4 points for them.
- Onyx, good for Teams that want one permission-aware index over Slack, Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitHub and the rest, self-hosted or air-gapped, with agents searching it through MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 69 against 18; Schema & documentation, 88 against 83; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 57; Security & auth, 71 against 64.

| Category | Hexis Cloud | Onyx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 18 | 69 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 75 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hexis Cloud | Onyx |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | Platform |
| Vendor | Bevelites GmbH (Bevel) | DanswerAI, Inc. (Onyx, formerly Danswer) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp` | `https://cloud.onyx.app/mcp` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026 | MIT (Community Edition, including the MCP server, the API server, the CLI and the connectors). Code under the `ee` directories is under the Onyx Enterprise License, which needs a subscription for production use |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Bevel-Software/hexis` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-02 |
| Popularity | 114 stars, 900 npm/wk | 32k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |