2 categories · RankedSmartsheet
Smartsheet is a work and project management product with a spreadsheet-style interface · smartsheet.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Spreadsheet-like interface combined with resource utilization tracking, capacity planning, budgeting, and portfolio views.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
“Spreadsheet-like but powerful for budgets, resource allocation, and approvals. Excellent for hybrid marketing/finance use.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Starts at $9/user/month with a 30-day free trial. Great for tracking utilization and project management.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for Spreadsheet Lovers: Smartsheet ... a powerful, low-cost option that scales well.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“criticized for various reasons, such as high risk of scope creep and implementation failure”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“complaints about complexity, cluttered UIs, bugs/glitches, high/complex pricing”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Smartsheet, over the 57 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 11 | View → | |
| 44 | 3 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → | |
| 30 | 9 | View → | |
| 25 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 6 | View → | |
| 19 | 4 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of Smartsheet →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Smartsheet's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams
- Price stated
- Pricing by plan type
- Starting price
- 129
- Free plan or trial
- Try Smartsheet for free
- Certifications
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, FedRAMP, ISO 42001
- Hosting
- Smartsheet Regions, Smartsheet Gov, US, EU, Australia, AWS East regions (Virginia/Ohio), AWS GovCloud West region (Oregon), AWS EU regions (Germany/Ireland)
- Customers named
- McLaren Racing, Roche IT, Sutherland, Convergint, DIRECTV, PUMA (PLM), PUMA, theisens
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 50 of the 57 answers that named Smartsheet and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
154 of the 163 domain citations in answers naming Smartsheet came from a third party's page. Nine were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 410 | 0 | 2025-12-17 | CRM, DAM | |
| News or press | 262 | undated | |||
| Case study | 245 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 213 | undated | SEO | ||
| Report or ebook | 123 | 0 | 2026-05-05 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 48 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 48 | 0 | 2025-11-05 | ||
| Comparison | 27 | 0 | 2025-12-17 | ||
| Podcast or video | 19 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-05-05Ai making work denser not lighter report or ebook
- 2025-12-17All risk assessment matrix templates you need blog
- 2025-12-17Project management vs project portfolio management comparison
- 2025-11-05Pre conference lunch pre con attendees only conference or event
- 2025-11-05Pre conference breakfast pre con attendees only conference or event
- 2025-10-3032 free excel spreadsheet templates blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page smartsheet.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.