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Index › IT › Products › Excel · November 2026 Edition

3 categories · Ranked

Excel

#27Best rank (small business)

13/14Models named it

0First choices

14Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inCyber risk quantification #43 Enterprise architecture tools #27 small business GRC platforms #94

Why models recommend it

“You can build a powerful model in Microsoft Excel using free community-driven templates.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Avoid: Relying on Excel/Visio for long-term EA”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

“preferring Excel or Airtable instead... this approach typically leads to manual, error-prone processes”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Excel, over the 35 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Archi	15	9	View →
Bizzdesign Horizzon	13	0	View →
Draw.io	13	0	View →
Microsoft Power BI	12	0	View →
Miro	12	0	View →
Sparx Enterprise Architect	12	0	View →
Visio	12	0	View →
MEGA HOPEX	10	0	View →
SharePoint	10	0	View →
Google Sheets	9	0	View →

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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Excel 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 31 of the 35 answers that named Excel and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

globalaea.org14

reddit.com14

capterra.com13

softwareadvice.com12

g2.com10

getapp.com8

capstera.com7

linkedin.com7

softwarefinder.com6

us.fitgap.com6

No domain is on file for Excel, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

globalaea.org/blogpost/956055/519735/Visual-Enterprise-Architecture-on-Any-Budget14

capstera.com/knowledge-hub/articles/enterprise-architecture-tools-guide7

softwareadvice.com/enterprise-architecture/small-business7

getapp.com/development-tools-software/enterprise-architecture/org/small-business6

us.fitgap.com/search/enterprise-architecture-tools/small-business6

globalaea.org/blogpost/956055/AEA-Blog5

opensourceforu.com/2024/09/top-tools-for-enterprise-architecture-development5

softwarefinder.com/enterprise-resource-planning-software/enterprise-architecture-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Excel across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1