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Index › Vendors › Spreadsheets · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Spreadsheets

9Judge labels

1First choices

8Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Spreadsheets was named 4 times in Succession planning and 1 other category, where Lattice led with 31%. 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-market18 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise91 of 92

under the label threshold

In succession 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 Spreadsheets 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
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	2%	18 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	89 of 89	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	1	2
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	1	1
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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 label1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“If your budget is very tight, start with a free spreadsheet template.” Mistral Small · Succession planning · 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.

“Avoid if: Your organization is beyond a small, stable team... Error-prone: Studies show up to 88% of spreadsheets contain errors” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce planning · negative prompt · hard negative

“Spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets) – Strongly Avoid for Anything Beyond Small-Scale Use” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce planning · negative prompt · hard negative

“Spreadsheets, for example, often break down at scale.” Mistral Small · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spreadsheets, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spreadsheets was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Anaplan5 of 90Not in the top three

Workday Adaptive Planning4 of 90Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors3 of 90Not in the top three

Visier2 of 91Not in the top three

ChartHop2 of 90Not in the top three

Dayforce2 of 90Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM2 of 90Not in the top three

Rippling2 of 90Not in the top three

Gusto1 of 91Not in the top three

One Model1 of 91Not 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 Spreadsheets. 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 8 of the 9 answers that named Spreadsheets and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

articsledge.com6

theorgchart.com6

cubesoftware.com4

g2.com4

hrtechsaas.com4

worldmetrics.org4

selectsoftwarereviews.com3

aihr.com2

aspect.com2

blog.peopleware.com2

Thirty-seven of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Spreadsheets came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

articsledge.com/post/workforce-planning-software6

theorgchart.com/resources/workforce-planning-tool-challenges5

cubesoftware.com/blog/workforce-planning-software3

hrtechsaas.com/blog/workforce-planning-software3

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/workforce-planning-software3

worldmetrics.org/best/workforce-planning-software3

aspect.com/resources/5-common-mistakes-selecting-workforce-management-solution2

blog.peopleware.com/spreadsheet-planning/8-signs-youve-outgrown-excel2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Spreadsheets

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

Spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets) 2Spreadsheets (Free or Low-Cost) 1

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