Best for
Best for small teams and agencies that want plain-English answers across connected marketing, sales and warehouse data, kept current as dashboards and alerts.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
AI Data Analysis Comparison
Better Analyst vs. Numerous.ai
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for marketers and researchers who process long columns of text in Google Sheets or Excel and want ChatGPT available as a cell function.
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Better Analyst | Numerous.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free plan; Pro from 20 US dollars / month Pro is 20 US dollars a month billed yearly (240 US dollars), or 30 US dollars billed monthly. Team is 119 US dollars a month billed yearly, or 149 US dollars billed monthly, for 5 people, plus 12 US dollars a month per extra person on yearly billing or 15 US dollars on monthly billing. Extra AI credits cost 10 US dollars per 1,000. | From 8 US dollars / month Personal plan billed yearly, or 19 US dollars billed monthly; 1 million characters of ChatGPT inputs and outputs, single user. |
| Free trial | Free plan with 10 chat messages and 100 AI credits a month, one data source and one AI dashboard, no credit card required | First 7 days free |
| Output | Charts, tables and written analyses in chat, AI dashboards, scheduled reports and alerts by email or Slack | Text written into spreadsheet cells, such as summaries, categories, rewrites and generated formulas |
| Hosting | Cloud, used in the browser; data stored on AWS in the United States | Add-on for Google Sheets and add-in for Microsoft Excel |
| Data sources and file types | Uploads of Excel, CSV, TSV and PDF files, plus connectors for Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, Google Sheets, Google Drive, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Supabase, SQL Server, Redshift, Airtable, HubSpot, Salesforce, Power BI, Tableau, Dropbox, OneDrive and SharePoint | Cells in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, passed as arguments to its functions |
| Charts, tables and summaries | Written analyses with charts and tables in chat, dashboards edited by chat or drag and drop, scheduled reports and metric alerts | Answers written into cells: summaries, categories and sentiment labels; the =INFER function completes a column from 4 or 5 worked examples |
| Formulas and code | Writes and runs SQL or Python for each analysis, and generates Excel and Google Sheets formulas; Excel and Google Sheets add-ons are available | Generates spreadsheet formulas from a plain-English description, from SUM and COUNTIF to VLOOKUP, QUERY and REGEX, and explains existing formulas in plain English |
| Traceability to the source | The vendor states that every answer shows the SQL or Python behind it, and that the calculations and code behind complex transformations can be opened to verify the output | Not stated |
| File size and row limits | Maximum file size depends on the plan: 5 MB on Free, 500 MB on Pro, and 1 GB on Team and Enterprise; the documentation names no row limit | Not stated |
| Data handling and privacy | Data is stored on AWS in us-east-2 (Ohio) and encrypted in transit and at rest; analysis code runs in an isolated sandbox per chat. The vendor states it does not train models on customer data and uses AI provider APIs that do not train on data sent through them. Free-plan chats and files inactive for 60 days are deleted | Requests are sent to OpenAI through its API, which OpenAI states it does not use for training and retains for 30 days for abuse monitoring. Data passed into =AI, =WRITE and =INFER is cached in a database on Google Cloud in the United States; the vendor states it does not store spreadsheet data that is not passed into these functions |
| Export and sharing | Charts can be downloaded from chat; chats, charts and dashboards can be shared with named people, behind a password or with an expiry date, and viewers open them with an email code. Data Flows write cleaned data to Google Sheets or a warehouse | Not stated |
| Integrations and API | Any REST API can be connected as a data source on paid plans; a Slack agent and one embedded AI chat for your own product are on Team, unlimited embeds on Enterprise | Not stated |
| Deployment | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS) |
| Support | Email helpdesk | Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Live online demos and webinars |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized | Not stated |
| Integrations | more entries Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Ads, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Supabase, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Airtable, HubSpot, Salesforce, Power BI, Tableau, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Slack | Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Better Analyst Free plan; Pro from 20 US dollars / month Numerous.ai From 8 US dollars / month
- Free trial Better Analyst Free plan with 10 chat messages and 100 AI credits a month, one data source and one AI dashboard, no credit card required Numerous.ai First 7 days free
- Deployment Better Analyst Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Numerous.ai Cloud (SaaS)
- Hosting Better Analyst Cloud, used in the browser; data stored on AWS in the United States Numerous.ai Add-on for Google Sheets and add-in for Microsoft Excel
- Output Better Analyst Charts, tables and written analyses in chat, AI dashboards, scheduled reports and alerts by email or Slack Numerous.ai Text written into spreadsheet cells, such as summaries, categories, rewrites and generated formulas
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Better Analyst
Strengths
- Over twenty built-in connectors, from GA4 and Google Ads to Snowflake, BigQuery and Salesforce
- Each answer shows the SQL or Python that produced it
- Chat, charts and dashboards do not use AI credits on paid plans
- Team plan includes 5 people and free dashboard viewers who see only their permitted rows
- Alerts can be previewed against the last 30, 60 or 90 days before they are saved
Limitations
- Free plan is limited to 10 chat messages a month and one data source
- Bulk work such as PDF conversion and row enrichment draws on a monthly credit allowance
- Per-member data access, Projects and the Slack agent need the Team plan
- SSO, SCIM and audit log export need a custom Enterprise contract
- No file size or row limits are published
Numerous.ai
Strengths
- Works as ordinary spreadsheet functions that can be dragged down a column
- =INFER applies a pattern taught with 4 or 5 examples to the remaining rows
- Generates formulas from plain English and explains existing ones
- No OpenAI API key needed
- Remaining tokens are kept after cancelling, according to the vendor
Limitations
- Usage is capped by a monthly allowance of ChatGPT characters per plan
- The Personal plan is limited to a single user
- Results are written into cells; the website describes no charts or dashboards
- No API or integrations beyond the two spreadsheet apps are described
Plans
Pricing
Better Analyst
- Free 0 US dollars 10 chat messages and 100 AI credits a month, one data source, one AI dashboard.
- Pro 20 US dollars / month Billed yearly at 240 US dollars, or 30 US dollars billed monthly. Unlimited chat, data sources and dashboards, 3,000 AI credits a month, for one person.
- Team 119 US dollars / month Billed yearly at 1,428 US dollars, or 149 US dollars billed monthly. 5 people included, 12 US dollars a month per extra person on yearly billing and 15 US dollars on monthly billing, 10,000 shared AI credits a month, free viewers.
- Enterprise Custom Annual contract with SAML SSO, SCIM, audit log export, custom connectors, DPA and SLA.
Numerous.ai
- Personal 8 US dollars / month Billed yearly, or 19 US dollars billed monthly. 1 million characters of ChatGPT inputs and outputs, Google Sheets and Excel, single user.
- Pro 24 US dollars / month Billed yearly, or 39 US dollars billed monthly. 5 million characters, Google Sheets and Excel, shared with up to 3 people, email support.
- Enterprise 8 US dollars / user / month Billed yearly, or 10 US dollars per user billed monthly. 1 million characters per person, priority email support, video call onboarding on request.
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