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Index › Vendors › Excel or Google Sheets · September 2026 Edition

Excel · 2 categories · Named, not ranked

Excel or Google Sheets

5Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Excel or Google Sheets was named 2 times in Accounting software and 1 other category, where Sage Intacct led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market47 of 56

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In accounting software · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Excel or Google Sheets for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	47 of 56	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%
Financial modeling and scenario planning	Planning and analysis	0%	42 of 114	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datarails at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Excel or Google Sheets yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Excel or Google Sheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For the most budget-conscious, Excel or Google Sheets with add-ons ... at a very low cost” Mistral Small · Financial modeling · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“spreadsheets are highly dangerous to rely on once your business scales” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Excel or Google Sheets, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Excel or Google Sheets was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Clockwork2 of 52Not in the top three

Fathom2 of 52Not in the top three

Jirav2 of 50Not in the top three

Limelight2 of 50Not in the top three

Float1 of 51Not in the top three

Sage Fixed Assets1 of 51Not in the top three

Asset Panda1 of 50Not in the top three

AssetTiger1 of 50Not in the top three

Cube1 of 50Not in the top three

Datarails1 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Excel or Google Sheets. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 5 answers that named Excel or Google Sheets and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

clockwork.ai2

drivetrain.ai2

golimelight.com2

worldmetrics.org2

acquisition-international.com1

assetcenter.app1

capterra.com1

cfoshortlist.com1

costbench.com1

cubesoftware.com1

Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Excel or Google Sheets came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

clockwork.ai/blog/best-fpa-software-small-business2

drivetrain.ai/solutions/financial-planning-analysis-software2

golimelight.com/blog/fpa-software-for-small-business2

acquisition-international.com/the-7-best-fixed-asset-depreciation-software-driving-finance1

assetcenter.app/blog/asset-management-software-for-small-business1

capterra.com/fixed-asset-management-software/s/small-businesses1

cfoshortlist.com/reports/best-fpa-software-20261

clockwork.ai/vs1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Excel or Google Sheets

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Excel or Google Sheets; a claim can dispute any of them.

Excel or Google Sheets (with add-ons) 1

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Excel or Google Sheets's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Excel or Google Sheets, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at excel.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.