Index › HR › Products › Excel/Google Sheets templates · November 2026 Edition
2 categories · Named, not ranked

Excel/Google Sheets templates

–Too few to rank
2/14Models named it
0First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inPay equity #84 mid-marketSuccession planning #52
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Excel/Google Sheets templates has 2.

Why models recommend it

“As a temporary free solution before investing in software”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Manual, error-prone, and time-intensive; not scalable or "always-on."”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Excel/Google Sheets templates, over the 2 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Excel/Google Sheets templates came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 2 of the 2 answers that named Excel/Google Sheets templates and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

getapp.com2
sourceforge.net2
capterra.co.za1
capterra.com1
compensationtools.net1
creately.com1
cxeverywhere.com1
figures.hr1
firsthr.app1
g2.com1

No domain is on file for Excel/Google Sheets templates, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Excel/Google Sheets templates across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501001
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000