Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 76 → 42 of 100
Excel/Google Sheets
38Judge labels
0First choices
19Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Excel/Google Sheets was named 8 times in Cash flow forecasting and 3 other categories, where Agicap led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business47 of 107
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market100 of 101
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In cash flow forecasting · 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/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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 0% | 100 of 101 | 60% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 13% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial close management | Accounting and close | 0% | 73 of 85 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 55% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| FP&A platforms | Planning and analysis | 0% | 64 of 74 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Treasury management systems | Treasury and cash | 0% | 92 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Trovata at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Excel/Google Sheets held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Cash flow forecasting · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 81 → 95 of 96
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash flow forecasting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 81 → 100 of 101 |
| Financial close manageme | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 65 → 73 of 85 |
| FP&A platforms | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 21 → 64 of 74 |
| Treasury management syst | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 92 of 124, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Excel/Google Sheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Excel/Google Sheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained13 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative16 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
“Best for: Very small businesses just starting out ... Cons: Manual data entry, no automatic syncing with bank accounts” Kimi K2 · Cash flow forecasting · 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.
“## 1. Excel/Google Sheets (Untethered) Why to avoid: - Manual data entry errors” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · hard negative
“AI analyses flag Excel workflows as a top "avoid" for scaling.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · hard negative
“relying solely on spreadsheets is the riskiest approach” Kimi K2 · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · hard negative
“Cons: High risk of human error ("fat finger" mistakes), version control issues, and lack of an automated audit trail.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial close manageme · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Excel/Google Sheets, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Excel/Google Sheets was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Excel/Google Sheets, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Excel/Google Sheets was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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/Google Sheets. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 37 of the 38 answers that named Excel/Google Sheets and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com13
guideflow.com13
drivetrain.ai12
abacum.ai11
cubesoftware.com11
gitnux.org10
tesorio.com10
worldmetrics.org10
quicken.com9
fathomhq.com8
No domain is on file for Excel/Google Sheets, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Excel/Google Sheets stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Excel/Google Sheets stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“excel/google sheets”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,016 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 100 of 101 in cash flow forecasting
Segment leader
13%
Agicap
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 38 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Excel/Google Sheets
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Excel/Google Sheets; a claim can dispute any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Excel/Google Sheets by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Excel/Google Sheets is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Excel/Google Sheets, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.