calamine

How often 10 AI models recommend calamine, what they say about it, and who they recommend instead, on the 1 buying question where it came up.

Mention rate

13%of all answers on this question

Best standing

#15of 42 on Best Python libraries for reading and editing Excel files

Buying questions

1where any model named it

Never named it

3of 10 models

Which models recommend it

Share of each model's answers that named it, at any position · The black tick marks the panel average

1. GPT-6 Luna25%
2. Qwen 3.8 Flash25%
3. Kimi K325%
4. Claude Haiku 5.513%
5. Gemini 4 Argon13%
6. DeepSeek V4 Pro13%
7. Mistral Large 413%
8. GLM-5.30%
9. MiniMax M30%
10. Nemotron 3 Ultra0%

Never named it: GLM-5.3 MiniMax M3 Nemotron 3 Ultra

Tracked since October 25, 2026. Each time the panel answers these questions again, the change shows here.

What the models say

Each model's one-line reason for recommending it, from its first answer

Best Python libraries for reading and editing Excel files 5

• Claude Haiku 5.5Very fast Rust-based reader for xlsx, xls and ods files.
• GPT-6 LunaFast Rust-backed reader supporting several Excel formats, including .xlsb.
• Qwen 3.8 FlashRust-backed reader, dramatically faster than openpyxl/xlrd.
• DeepSeek V4 ProExtremely fast, lightweight Excel reader binding Rust's Calamine engine.
• Kimi K3Very fast Rust-backed reader for xlsx/xls/ods, great for large messy files.

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, calamine highlighted.

Best Python libraries for reading and editing Excel files

42 products named in 80 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

openpyxlpandasXlsxWriterxlrdxlwings

Contested

1. 6pyexcel78%
2. 7pyxlsb63%
3. 8xlwt60%
4. 9Python calamine43%
5. 10PyExcelerate25%
6. ⋯
7. 15calamine13%

Mention rate by model and question

Share of each model's answers on the question that named it · Hover a cell for the count

Question	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Best Python libraries for reading and editing Excel files	13	25	13	25	13		25		13

Does the wording matter?

Share of answers that named it under each way of asking the question · Hover a cell for the exact wording

Question	List request	Buyer asking for advice	Search query	Worth paying for?
Best Python libraries for reading and editing Excel files				50

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

calamine vs openpyxlcalamine vs pandascalamine vs XlsxWritercalamine vs xlrdcalamine vs xlwingscalamine vs pyexcel

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