Commabot vs Columns AI (formerly Columns)

Commabot is a browser-based Excel alternative for CSV work: you upload a file and handle analysis, cleaning, and transformation in a chat interface instead of writing spreadsheet formulas. The homepage frames it as a conversational CSV editor for sales reports, survey results, financial records, and other tabular files.

The About page also describes specialized contact list prep workflows: deduplicating contacts, standardizing phone numbers to E.164, removing unsubscribes, merging multiple lists, and formatting exports for HubSpot or Salesforce import. That gives the product both open-ended CSV chat and CRM-ready contact cleanup paths.

You sign in with Google to upload files. Commabot runs on Google Cloud infrastructure and processes uploads in memory unless you explicitly save them to your account.

Columns AI takes messy files and live data sources through ingestion, automation, and chart publishing without making you stitch together separate tools. Drive ingests CSV, Excel, PDF, and images with OCR, Flow connects warehouses and apps with plain-language transformations, and Graph publishes brand-matched visuals you can embed or export.

Most BI tools assume your data is already clean and your team knows SQL. Columns splits the problem into three steps on purpose: structure files in Drive, automate sync and transforms in Flow, then ship client-ready charts from Graph without opening a separate design tool. You pay per row processed, and the Basic plan has no monthly base fee.

The site lists 12,000+ users across business operators, consultants, marketing and RevOps teams, analysts, and freelancers. Founder Shawn Cao previously built data infrastructure at Microsoft, Facebook, and Pinterest.