Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 41 → 30 of 99
Excel/Google Sheets
11Judge labels
1First choices
2Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
3 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 3 times in Workforce planning and 1 other category, where ChartHop led with 37%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business31 of 102
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market88 of 98
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In workforce planning · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 88 of 98 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 65 of 114 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Excel/Google Sheets held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce planning · by segment
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 83 of 93, unchanged
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce planning | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 88 of 98, unchanged |
| People analytics | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 65 of 114, 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 13 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained6 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“relying on spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets) for workforce planning is increasingly problematic” Kimi K2 · Workforce planning · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Excel/Google Sheets, over the 11 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 11 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 11 of the 11 answers that named Excel/Google Sheets and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
firsthr.app8
selectsoftwarereviews.com6
g2.com5
leapsome.com4
peoplemanagingpeople.com4
technologyadvice.com4
articsledge.com3
cubesoftware.com3
currentware.com3
eletive.com3
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 88 of 98 in workforce planning
Segment leader
37%
ChartHop
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 11 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.
Follow Excel/Google Sheets
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
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Claim this page
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/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/Google Sheets, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
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.