Bricks vs ExcelAI

Bricks is a web-based AI data analyst that turns imported data into dashboards and reports. It can generate charts, KPIs, insights, and tables, while its spreadsheet tools assist with calculations, lookups, data cleaning, formatting, visualization, and analysis through natural-language requests. Users can modify dashboards with AI prompts or manual controls, then share them by link, present them in Bricks, or export them. Uploads can include CSV, XLSX, PDF, and PNG files; Bricks can also import data from Google Sheets or databases. The product is aimed at small to medium-sized everyday datasets, including spreadsheet, CRM, sales, marketing, financial, survey, and operational data. The free plan includes 20 AI messages per month and supports up to 3 people. Premium costs $25 per user per month, or $17.50 per user per month with annual billing; it supports up to 200 people. Pro costs $100 per user per month, or $70 per user per month with annual billing, and includes unlimited AI messages and up to 10 team members. When the monthly AI message limit is reached, AI features pause until reset or upgrade, while manual editing remains available.

ExcelAI is an add-in that works inside Microsoft Excel and handles natural-language requests. It can write formulas, generate P&L statements, balance sheets and cash flow reports, format sheets, create charts, clean data and run multi-step workflows with undo support. Its analysis can identify patterns and anomalies and process thousands of rows, according to the maker. ExcelAI is a COM add-in for Excel 2019, Excel 2021 and Microsoft 365 on Windows and macOS. Listed model providers include Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama and Mistral. The privacy policy says prompts and temporary operation context are processed transiently, while the maker says it does not store workbook contents or train AI models on user data. Communications with its servers are encrypted using TLS 1.3. A free plan includes 20 requests per five hours. Starter is listed at $5 a month for the first month, then $10/month; Pro is listed at $20 a month, with billing details stating no monthly fee and a separate $0.88 card processing fee. Google Sheets is marked as coming soon.