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The best paid alternative to Microsoft Excel is Tableau. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Excel and many of them is paid so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid alternatives to Microsoft Excel are FlowCog, Starhive, Flexmonster and Dyntell Bi.

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  1. Tableau icon
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    Tableau helps the world’s largest organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.

    229 Tableau alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Alex Cruger
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    Tableau - is a software that help you work with collected data: create charts and sheets. But it's product for IT teams only, because it's really hard to build anything without appropriate knowledge

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    • Some users think Tableau is a great Microsoft Excel alternative, some don't.

    • Tableau is the most popular commercial alternative to Microsoft Excel.

    • Tableau is Paid and ProprietaryMicrosoft Excel is also Paid and Proprietary
  2. FlowCog icon
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    Financial modeling software for SaaS companies. Gain insight into your cash trajectory. SaaS projections battle-tested with investors and boards.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Starhive icon
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    Starhive is an asset management and CMMS system that helps you track and maintain everything. By unifying your assets, inventory, and tasks in one place you can always stay one step ahead of critical to-dos and bring order to chaos.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. Flexmonster icon
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    Flexmonster Pivot is a feature-rich JavaScript library for web reporting. The component connects to any data source and perfectly visualizes data from MongoDB, Elasticsearch, OLAP cubes, SQL, NoSQL databases, or JSON / CSV files up to 1GB.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Dyntell Bi, a smart business intelligence software designed for any sized business. Enter a robust visualization, analytics and prediction tool that was born from our ERP solution. Dyntell Bi takes your raw data and makes it come alive.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Resolver One icon
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    Resolver One is a program that blends a familiar spreadsheet-like interface with the powerful Python programming language, giving you a better tool to analyse and present your data.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Oracle Hyperion Financial Management is a financial consolidation and reporting application built with advanced Web technology.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Aspose.Cells for Cloud is a REST based API for processing spreadsheets in the cloud. It allows creating, manipulating and converting spreadsheets in your web, desktop, mobile and cloud applications. It supports rows, columns, cells, text, data, images, hyperlinks, comments...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Keikai icon
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    Keikai is the only Web Spreadsheet designed and architected for big data — and is the fastest web spreadsheet regardless of size. Other advanced features include embeddable in your Web Apps, providing true Excel experiences and more.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Comments about Keikai as an Alternative to Microsoft Excel
    NatalieMW
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    Compatible to Excel files and same Excel user experience.

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    • Keikai is Paid and ProprietaryMicrosoft Excel is also Paid and Proprietary
  10. DPlot icon
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    DPlot graphing software lets scientists and engineers graph, plot, analyze, and manipulate data.

    53 DPlot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Valispace icon
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    Valispace is a co-engineering platform that allows companies that develop complex products to bring them to market faster, helping engineers escape from document hell. It brings all loose engineering data into one central place and helps streamline engineers’ efforts from...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Sturppy icon
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    Create the financial model for your startup easily and quickly with no prior knowledge required and get revised by our AI.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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