By Julius AISan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. Upload a spreadsheet and it writes and runs real code against it, showing the working rather than describing it.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a monthly message allowance
Month to month
$20/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$16/mo
$200 a year, Plus plan −20%
Watch out: A generated analysis is only as good as the question. Work is metered in credits, and Max and Business are sold at a credit level you choose, so their headline price is the entry rate.
Strong fit. A spreadsheet that will fetch data and run analysis from a prompt, without leaving the grid. Familiar shape for anyone who already works in one.
Free plan
Yes
5 AI tasks a month, data tables imported by hand, integrations across 10 accounts and up to 3
Month to month
$8/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$6/mo
Plus plan −25%
Watch out: A spreadsheet is only as right as its inputs, and a generated formula is easier to trust than to check. AI tasks are capped by tier, at 5 a month free, 200 on Plus and 1,000 on Pro, and Pro charges a flat monthly fee on top of its per-seat price.
All plans (4)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Free plan at $0: 5 AI tasks a month, data tables imported by hand, integrations across 10 accounts and up to 3 guests
Plus
$8/mo · $6/mo yearly
200 AI tasks a month, data tables that refresh once a day, 10 integration accounts and up to 10 guests
Pro
$8/mo · $6/mo yearly
1,000 AI tasks a month, data tables that refresh by the minute, 100 integration accounts, up to 200 guests and video support
Enterprise
no price published, sold on enquiry
advanced API endpoints, custom AI models, functions and integrations, high-volume usage, custom themes and designs, SAML SSO and a dedicated customer success manager. Every figure on the page is quoted net, so sales tax or VAT is added on top
By ElicitOakland, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. Searches actual papers and extracts findings into a table you can check, one row per study, rather than answering in prose.
Free plan
Yes
Limited use of the Research Agent and Research Reports, but unlimited search across more than
Month to month
$19/mo
Academic Plus
Billed yearly
$11/mo
$132 a year, Academic Plus plan −42%
Watch out: Coverage is strongest in empirical fields. Extraction is a starting point for a literature review, not the review.
All plans (7)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Basic plan, free on both tabs: limited use of the Research Agent and Research Reports, but unlimited search across more than 138 million papers, unlimited summaries and unlimited chat with papers at full text
Academic Plus
$19/mo · $11/mo yearly
standard Research Agent, Reports and systematic review usage, export to RIS, CSV, BIB, PDF and DOCX, and 5 table columns at a time
Academic Pro
$69/mo · $39/mo yearly
5x usage, the dedicated systematic review workflow that screens 5,000 papers, and 20 columns at a time
Academic Scale
$149/mo · $89/mo yearly
9x usage, extraction and interpretation of figures, and live real-time collaboration
Industry Pro
$75/mo · $49/mo yearly
standard usage, the systematic review workflow, 20 columns and reports drawing on up to 135 data sources
Industry Scale
$279/mo · $169/mo yearly
5x usage, figure extraction, live collaboration and up to 200 data sources
Enterprise
Custom
custom usage, unlimited paper alerts, no training on your data by default, screening of 40,000 papers with 40 columns, and PRISMA-grade screening and extraction accuracy. Academic and industry are separate ladders — academics get an extra Plus tier and pay less at every step
By MicrosoftRedmond, United States1 product across 1 category
Built for this. Sits inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams, so it works on the documents and meetings a company already has. The closest thing to AI that needs no change of habit.
Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$25.20/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
$21/mo
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business plan −17%
Watch out: An add-on rather than a standalone purchase: the enterprise Copilot seat is $30 a user a month on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 licence you must already hold, and Copilot Chat is only included if you already pay for an eligible subscription. Agents need an Azure subscription on top again.
All plans (5)
Plan
Price
What you get
Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
$25.20/mo · $21/mo yearly
an add-on to an existing Microsoft 365 plan rather than a subscription in its own right
Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot
$28.20/mo · $23.50/mo yearly
the Microsoft 365 apps across devices with Copilot built in
Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot
$38.40/mo · $32/mo yearly
the same again with the advanced security tier
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the enterprise seat
$30/mo yearly
Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat
included at no additional cost for Microsoft Entra users on an eligible Microsoft 365 subscription, though agents need an Azure subscription and Copilot Studio capacity is bought prepaid
Two things separate these and both are on every card.
Fit
Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or
able to do it without that being its focus.
Free plan
Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a
trial that expires.
The order
Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is
no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.
Questions
What is the best ai for data analysis?
There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 6 rather than one: Julius AI, ChatGPT, Rows, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Elicit. 5 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.
Which of these have a free plan?
5 of the 6: Julius AI, ChatGPT, Rows, Claude, Elicit. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.
How was this list chosen?
By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.
