formulas

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

Mention rate

10%of all answers on this question

Best standing

#16of 42 on Best Python libraries for reading and editing Excel files

Buying questions

1where any model named it

Never named it

7of 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. MiniMax M363%
2. GPT-6 Luna25%
3. DeepSeek V4 Pro13%
4. Claude Haiku 5.50%
5. Gemini 4 Argon0%
6. Qwen 3.8 Flash0%
7. GLM-5.30%
8. Kimi K30%
9. Mistral Large 40%
10. Nemotron 3 Ultra0%

Never named it: Claude Haiku 5.5 Gemini 4 Argon Qwen 3.8 Flash GLM-5.3 Kimi K3 Mistral Large 4 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 2

• GPT-6 LunaHelpful when parsing and evaluating spreadsheet formulas in Python.
• MiniMax M3Parses and recalculates Excel formulas programmatically in Python.

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, formulas 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. 16formulas10%

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		25			13			63

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		5	15	20

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

formulas vs openpyxlformulas vs pandasformulas vs XlsxWriterformulas vs xlrdformulas vs xlwingsformulas vs pyexcel

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