Macabacus vs Private Equity List vs Microsoft Copilot in Excel vs Shortcut

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Macabacus
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Competitor 1
Private Equity List
Competitor 2
Microsoft Copilot in Excel
Competitor 3
Shortcut
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Macabacus
macabacus.com
An investment banking analyst builds a valuation model in Excel with dozens of assumptions scattered across worksheets
Competitor Private Equity List
privateequitylist.com
An actual investment team member with a work email.
Competitor Microsoft Copilot in Excel
microsoft.com
Instead of hunting for the right function, you describe the change you want in plain language and the assistant edits formulas, tables and formatting for you, while you review each change and stay ...
Competitor Shortcut
shortcut.ai
Shortcut is an AI agent for Excel that builds and edits spreadsheets and financial models.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
134.9Kvisits/mo
58.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 5.1%
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6-month growth
-27.9%
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Global rank web
#316,413
#628,791
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Avg. last 3 months
137.9K
54.1K
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Bounce rate lower is better
45%
55%
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Pages / visit
2.0
1.8
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Visit duration
46s
35s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 17%
● Direct 97% · ● Referral 3%
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MacabacusPrivate Equity ListMicrosoft Copilot in ExcelShortcut
049.8K99.6K149.4K199.3KMacabacus · 152.5KMacabacus · 199.3KMacabacus · 187.2KMacabacus · 184.9KMacabacus · 148.5KMacabacus · 136.6KMacabacus · 142.1KMacabacus · 134.9KPrivate Equity List · 43.6KPrivate Equity List · 47.9KPrivate Equity List · 71.9KPrivate Equity List · 57.3KPrivate Equity List · 55.4KPrivate Equity List · 55.1KPrivate Equity List · 49KPrivate Equity List · 54.5KPrivate Equity List · 58.8K10K100K1MMacabacus · 152.5KMacabacus · 199.3KMacabacus · 187.2KMacabacus · 184.9KMacabacus · 148.5KMacabacus · 136.6KMacabacus · 142.1KMacabacus · 134.9KPrivate Equity List · 43.6KPrivate Equity List · 47.9KPrivate Equity List · 71.9KPrivate Equity List · 57.3KPrivate Equity List · 55.4KPrivate Equity List · 55.1KPrivate Equity List · 49KPrivate Equity List · 54.5KPrivate Equity List · 58.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$16.67per month
$99per month · free tier available
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$100per month · free tier available
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Plans
Basic $200/yrProfessional $360/yrEnterprise Custom
Basic FreePro $99/moPro+ $209/moPro Max $319/mo+1 more
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Free FreePro $100/moTeams $320/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DataDocumentsText
Text
DataText
DataDocumentsText
Output
CodeText
Data
CodeData
Data
Skill level
Intermediate
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Intermediate
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Spreadsheets
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Financial modeling
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Investor search
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Community on aitoolstime
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