AISheeter vs Columns AI (formerly Columns)

AISheeter is a Google Sheets add-on that puts a reasoning agent inside your spreadsheet. You describe what you need in plain language, and it can format cells, write formulas, build charts, filter data, and run analysis without leaving the sheet. It fits anyone who lives in spreadsheets for reporting, modeling, or cleanup work, especially teams that want AI next to their data instead of in a separate chat window.

Most spreadsheet AI tools stop at one-shot prompts or a single model. AISheeter chains multi-step workflows from one command, shows the model's thinking when you use reasoning models, and remembers session context plus past successful commands. It also prefers native Google Sheets formulas for math when that is faster and cheaper, which keeps recurring calculations auditable and free of LLM cost. The trade-off is narrow scope: it runs only as a Google Workspace Marketplace add-on, not in Excel or as a standalone app.

The product fits sales teams cleaning CRM exports, founders building financial models, and ops managers who process thousands of rows. Bulk jobs run on AISheeter's servers so you can close the sidebar while up to 10,000 rows process on paid plans. With BYOK pricing you connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, or DeepSeek keys and pay providers directly with no markup from AISheeter.

Install from the Google Workspace Marketplace takes about 30 seconds, and the free tier includes 100 AI credits plus 600 BYOK requests each month. Pro at $14.99 per month raises credits to 1,000 and unlocks full-size models plus persistent memory. Over 500 users rate it 4.9 out of 5 on the site.

Columns AI is an end-to-end data platform that connects messy files and live sources, automates transformations, and turns the results into charts and dashboards you can share. It is built around three products: Drive for ingesting and structuring files, Flow for no-code data pipelines, and Graph for branded visualizations.

The platform targets teams that need reliable data workflows without standing up a full engineering stack. You can connect Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Excel, databases, Snowflake, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Gusto, and HTTP APIs, then describe transformations in plain language instead of writing SQL.

Columns AI fits business operators, consultants, marketing and RevOps teams, analysts, and freelancers who need to move from raw inputs to client-ready visuals. Founder Shawn Cao previously built large-scale data infrastructure at Microsoft, Facebook, and Pinterest.