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

1 category · Named, not ranked

Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets

2Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

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. Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets was named 2 times in Financial modeling, where Datarails led with 19%. 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-market10 of 114

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In financial modeling · 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 Microsoft 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
Financial modeling and scenario planning	Planning and analysis	4%	10 of 114	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Datarails at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft 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 Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“the best choice is usually Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets if you can keep the model simple, because they are the lowest-cost and fastest to implement options” Perplexity Sonar · Financial modeling · budget prompt · first choice

“Why it's the best: No other tool matches the unlimited flexibility of a spreadsheet.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial modeling · budget prompt · first choice

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Clockwork2 of 20Not in the top three

Fathom2 of 20Not in the top three

Anaplan1 of 20Not in the top three

Causal1 of 20Not in the top three

Coefficient1 of 20Not in the top three

LiveFlow1 of 20Not in the top three

LivePlan1 of 20Not in the top three

PlanGuru1 of 20Not in the top three

Upmetrics1 of 20Not in the top three

Vena1 of 20Not 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 Microsoft 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 1 of the 2 answers that named Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

abacum.ai1

autymate.com1

barchart.com1

clockwork.ai1

cubesoftware.com1

datarails.com1

drivetrain.ai1

farseer.com1

fathomhq.com1

financealliance.io1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

abacum.ai/blog/best-financial-modeling-software-tools1

autymate.com/blog/best-financial-modeling-software-in-2026-top-10-tools-with-pricing1

barchart.com/story/news/3006151/best-fpa-software-for-financial-modeling-in-2026-top-10-to1

clockwork.ai/blog/best-fpa-software-small-business1

cubesoftware.com/blog/best-fpa-software-tools1

cubesoftware.com/blog/financial-modeling-software1

datarails.com/best-financial-modeling-software1

drivetrain.ai/solutions/financial-modeling-software1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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