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Excel Master vs Formula Bot

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Excel Master starts at $9.99, Formula Bot at $18. Only Formula Bot has a free tier.

Excel MasterExcel add-in that reads your workbook and writes then runs VBA or Python to do the task you describe.Formula BotChat with spreadsheet and database data to build reports

Side by side

FactExcel MasterFormula Bot
CategorySpreadsheets & Data EntryData Analysis Assistants
Pricing modelPaidFreemium
Starts at$9.99 month$18 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWindowsWeb
CompanyExcelMaster.aiFormula Bot
Launched—2022
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Excel Master

Running generated code inside the workbook, on your own machine, is the right shape for spreadsheet work: no upload, no copy-paste of formulas, and VBA output you can inspect. The hard limit is platform, since Mac and Excel for the web are simply not supported, and everything is credit-metered with only a three-day trial to judge it.

Pros

  • Runs inside Excel and executes on the open workbook, not an upload
  • Generates VBA and Python you can read and keep
  • Processing stays on the local machine
  • Entry plan is $9.99/month and credit top-ups are cheap

Cons

  • Windows and Excel 2016+ only; no Mac, web or Google Sheets
  • Only a three-day trial, no free tier
  • Agent credits are consumed per task with no published per-task cost
  • Company detail is thin beyond a Texas address

Formula Bot

If you came looking for the free Excel formula generator that went viral in 2022, that product no longer exists in the same shape — it is now a paid analytics workspace and lives on a different domain. As an analytics tool it is fine for spreadsheet-scale work and outclassed by real BI above that.

Pros

  • keeps native Excel and Google Sheets add-ons rather than forcing everything into a web app
  • 15-plus connectors including Snowflake, Postgres, MySQL, Airtable and Google Analytics
  • dashboards can be embedded in a site via an iframe snippet
  • entry plan is $18/month, well under most BI seat pricing

Cons

  • the $18 Starter tier is capped at 250 chat messages a month
  • per-user pricing above Starter gets expensive for a team quickly
  • the original formula-generation use case is now a small part of a bigger product
  • no API, so it cannot be scripted into a pipeline

Which one fits

Choose Excel Master if you need

  • Windows analysts living in legacy .xlsm workbooks
  • Generating VBA without knowing VBA
  • Repetitive cleanup on large sheets

Choose Formula Bot if you need

  • analysts who live in Excel or Google Sheets and want formulas explained, not just produced
  • small teams wanting charts and scheduled reports without standing up a BI stack
  • one-off questions against a CSV or a Postgres table

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