Macabacus vs Rows vs Shortcut vs Private Equity List

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

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Rows
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Shortcut
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Private Equity List
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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
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Competitor Rows
rows.com
Rows is a spreadsheet built around an AI data analyst.
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Competitor Shortcut
shortcut.ai
Shortcut is an AI agent for Excel that builds and edits spreadsheets and financial models.
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Competitor Private Equity List
privateequitylist.com
An actual investment team member with a work email.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
134.9Kvisits/mo
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58.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 5.1%
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▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
-27.9%
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+2.6%
Global rank web
#316,413
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#628,791
Avg. last 3 months
137.9K
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54.1K
Bounce rate lower is better
45%
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55%
Pages / visit
2.0
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1.8
Visit duration
46s
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35s
Traffic sources
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 17%
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● Direct 97% · ● Referral 3%
MacabacusRowsShortcutPrivate Equity List
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
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Starting price
$16.67per month
$6per month · free tier available
$100per month · free tier available
$99per month · free tier available
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Plans
Basic $200/yrProfessional $360/yrEnterprise Custom
Free FreePlus $6/moPro $59/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $100/moTeams $320/moEnterprise Custom
Basic FreePro $99/moPro+ $209/moPro Max $319/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
DataDocumentsText
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Output
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Skill level
Intermediate
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Intermediate
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI For FinanceAI Spreadsheet
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI For Data AnalyticsAI Spreadsheet
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI For Data AnalyticsAI For Finance+1 more
Research & AnalyticsAI For Finance
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Excel
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Finance
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Excel data analysis
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