Formula Bot (now Better Analyst) vs Rows

Formula Bot, now Better Analyst, is a web platform for asking natural-language questions about spreadsheets, databases, and documents. It brings together data connections, preparation, analysis, dashboards, reports, presentations, and recurring automation. Users can create interactive charts and dashboards, schedule dashboard data refreshes, and inspect and export the code generated for a request.

Uploads include Excel, CSV, Google Sheets, PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, MP3, WAV, MP4, MOV, and WebM. Listed connectors include Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Tableau, Power BI, Airtable, Google Sheets and Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Supabase, and Microsoft SQL Server. Starter costs $20 a month; Max is $40 a month per user, and Business is $80 a month per user. Max includes a Slack agent for questions and scheduled reports. The maker says data is encrypted in transit and at rest and is not used to train AI models. On Free, chats and uploaded files are permanently deleted after 60 days of inactivity; paid-plan chats and files are retained indefinitely.

Rows is a spreadsheet platform for analyzing data, building reports, and connecting information from other tools. Its AI can extract data from documents, create reports, merge datasets, and perform advanced analysis; users can describe a task rather than work through formulas and menus. Rows connects to social media, data warehouses, advertising and back-office platforms, and other sources. RowsX imports tables from thousands of websites, while connected data can refresh automatically from every minute to every month. A spreadsheet can combine live data from more than 50 sources. Reports and interactive dashboards can be shared on any device and embedded elsewhere, and teams can collaborate in real time. The free plan is free forever and does not require a trial period or credit card. It includes five AI tasks per month, manual imports, ten integration accounts, up to three guests, a 1 MB file import size, and 500 API calls per month. Paid pricing starts at $6/user/mo (annual); applicable sales tax or VAT is extra. The listed platform is API.