Best AI for spreadsheets
What 29 creators said they actually use for spreadsheets, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For spreadsheets, most creators use Claude (15), then ChatGPT (7).
Top tools for spreadsheets
Creators who use or recommend each"I highly recommend it. The Claude models running inside the extension on a Windows computer is the best way to create spreadsheets. It's insane how good Claude is at Excel. You have to download this if you use Excel for your job."
"I changed my sales process after letting GPT-6 rip on Lightfield for a couple of hours on the weekend."
"A lot of code is getting written for me to do all sorts of analysis, like understand trends, understand a business, understand the next feature, how well our previous launches are doing. A lot of code is written by Codex for that. I'm ob..."
"If you're watching this right now, what I would recommend you do is go open Claude Code right now. Have it connect to your Google Drive account, look at the last 20 spreadsheets that have been added to your account, ask it to build one o..."
"I use a really cheap model — I use Gemini Flash to then take those clusters and categorize them."
Models creators name for spreadsheets
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Best AI for other jobs
How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track and note when a creator says they use or recommend an AI tool for a job. Each creator counts once per tool. Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.