SheetXAI vs Columns AI (formerly Columns)

SheetXAI adds a plain-English assistant inside Excel and Google Sheets so you can sort columns, build formulas, extract invoice data, and generate content without memorizing VLOOKUP syntax. Highlight a range, describe what you want, and the add-in runs light or heavy AI operations across entire tabs in one charge.

Built-in spreadsheet copilots often stop at single-cell suggestions. SheetXAI also connects to 500-plus apps like Shopify, Stripe, HubSpot, and Jira, pulls PDFs and images into structured tables through OCR, and prices work in flat-fee operations rather than per-row analysis, which matters when you are cleaning thousands of leads or rewriting hundreds of product descriptions.

Operations teams, sales analysts, solo creators, and AppSumo buyers use it for deduping email lists, merging multi-tab reports, highlighting campaign trends, and bulk-generating SEO copy. A 7-day free trial is available on every paid tier, and a BYOK plan lets you bring your own API keys for $15 per month.

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.