Macabacus vs Shortcut vs Microsoft Copilot in Excel

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

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Macabacus
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Competitor 1
Shortcut
Competitor 2
Microsoft Copilot in Excel
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Macabacus: Sourcetable78% GPT for Work (Sheets, Docs, Slides)76% Grist75% Pecunio AI74% Clever CSV73% Commabot71% Rows71% Gemini in Google Sheets71%
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3 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 Shortcut
shortcut.ai
Shortcut is an AI agent for Excel that builds and edits spreadsheets and financial models.
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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 ...
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
134.9Kvisits/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
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Avg. last 3 months
137.9K
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Bounce rate lower is better
45%
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Pages / visit
2.0
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Visit duration
46s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 17%
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MacabacusShortcutMicrosoft Copilot in Excel
049.8K99.6K149.4K199.3KMacabacus · 152.5KMacabacus · 199.3KMacabacus · 187.2KMacabacus · 184.9KMacabacus · 148.5KMacabacus · 136.6KMacabacus · 142.1KMacabacus · 134.9K100K1MMacabacus · 152.5KMacabacus · 199.3KMacabacus · 187.2KMacabacus · 184.9KMacabacus · 148.5KMacabacus · 136.6KMacabacus · 142.1KMacabacus · 134.9KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Starting price
$16.67per month
$100per month · free tier available
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Plans
Basic $200/yrProfessional $360/yrEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $100/moTeams $320/moEnterprise Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
DataDocumentsText
DataDocumentsText
DataText
Output
CodeText
Data
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Skill level
Intermediate
Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI For FinanceAI Spreadsheet
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI For Data AnalyticsAI For Finance+1 more
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI For Data AnalyticsAI Spreadsheet
Tasks what each tool can do · 4 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Excel
Spreadsheets
Excel automation
Excel formulas
Financial modeling
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Data analysis
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Excel data analysis
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Google sheets assistance
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