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Alternatives to Microsoft Excel, as AI models named them

In the September 2026 Edition, 199 of the 216 answers collected in the one category where Microsoft Excel holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often

Anaplan23

First choices in the 199 answers that did not name Microsoft Excel, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Financial modeling and scenario planning

Planning and analysis. Six framings, twelve models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Microsoft Excel is not its first choice or an alternative in it.

Small businessMicrosoft Excel is #9 of 13 here at 6% of first choices, 19 labels.

Sixty-four of the seventy-two answers did not name Microsoft Excel; it was the first choice in five. The first choices in those sixty-four answers, twenty products in all, the eight most named:

Clockwork7 of 64

Fathom6 of 64

LivePlan6 of 64

Cube3 of 64Head to head →

Excel/Google Sheets3 of 64

Finmark3 of 64

Float3 of 64

Forecastr3 of 64

12 more in the record.The full small business standing →

Mid-marketMicrosoft Excel is #4 of 8 here at 11% of first choices, 14 labels.

Sixty-three of the seventy-two answers did not name Microsoft Excel; it was the first choice in six. The first choices in those sixty-three answers, seventeen products in all, the eight most named:

Datarails9 of 63Head to head →

Cube5 of 63Head to head →

Vena3 of 63Head to head →

Drivetrain2 of 63

Limelight2 of 63

Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets2 of 63

Pigment2 of 63

Planful2 of 63Head to head →

9 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →

EnterpriseMicrosoft Excel holds 7 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Seventy-two of the seventy-two answers did not name Microsoft Excel; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-two answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

Anaplan23 of 72

Limelight7 of 72

Erwin Data Modeler2 of 72

Pigment2 of 72

Acterys1 of 72

Ardoq1 of 72

Board1 of 72

Cube1 of 72Head to head →

7 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of twelve models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is seventy-two answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Microsoft Excel neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Microsoft Excel only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Microsoft Excel's side.

Every answer and every label is in the free record. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Microsoft Excel was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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