# Excel's Built-in Consolidate Feature: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/excel-s-built-in-consolidate-feature

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Financial consolidation](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/accounting/financial-consolidation/index.md) | 0% | 95 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Why to avoid: Built exclusively for numerical rollups and silently drops text fields" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Financial consolidation)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | 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 4.20 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Excel's Built-in Consolidate Feature, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- apistatuscheck.com: 1
- assets.contenthub.wolterskluwer.com: 1
- banqu.co: 1
- blog.traderspost.io: 1
- damsoncloud.com: 1
- datarails.com: 1
- dev.to: 1
- fivenines.io: 1
- godofprompt.ai: 1
- kyledavidgroup.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://apistatuscheck.com/blog/observability-consolidation-guide: 1
- https://assets.contenthub.wolterskluwer.com/api/public/content/Four-hidden-costs-of-a-legacy-consolidation-and-close-process: 1
- https://banqu.co/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-data-consolidators: 1
- https://blog.traderspost.io/article/how-to-avoid-consolidation-in-algo-trading-with-moving-averages: 1
- https://damsoncloud.com/resources/blog/consolidating-your-software-in-2023: 1
- https://datarails.com/blog/consolidated-data-in-excel: 1
- https://datarails.com/blog/how-to-consolidate-excel-files-into-one-fpa-workflow: 1
- https://dev.to/datasort/deep-dive-combining-disparate-excel-worksheets-effectively-ebp: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.