5 categories · RankedPivotXL
PivotXL is a cloud FP&A platform for mid-sized companies, available as a Microsoft Excel approved add-in · pivotxl.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Joiin is first at 50%.
Prophix is first at 31%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“For very tight budgets: Start with PivotXL ($100/month) - it's affordable and Excel-native”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a company with a limited budget, PivotXL is the standout choice.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“start with PivotXL at $100/month if you primarily work in Excel”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with PivotXL if your controllers love Excel and need powerful analytical reporting alongside checklists.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PivotXL, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 5 | View → | |
| 11 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 7 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on PivotXL's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- mid-sized companies
- Price stated
- Basic - Forever Free Plan: $ 0 / Forevever Free; Growth - Self Serve: $ 249 / Monthly; Enterprise: $ 999+ / Monthly; Add-Ons: Implementation $499 - $1,999 One-Time; Custom Scripts $99 - $1,999 Monthly Fee; Manpower Services $99 - $1,999 Monthly Fee
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- No Credit Card Needed - Just Sign Up and Enjoy the software for 30 Days
- Customers named
- Young Brothers Limited, University Tees
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 28 of the 28 answers that named PivotXL and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-six of the 114 domain citations in answers naming PivotXL came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 238 | 0 | 2026-04-04 | Financial reporting, Financial consolidation | |
| Comparison | 43 | 0 | 2025-12-31 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pivotxl.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name financial reporting (18); 2 name its categories the models place it in. Read September 29, 2026.