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TaglineSpreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in.Open weights + strong photorealism. The open-source answer.Run any open-source AI model with an API call.
Categorydataimagedev platform
PricingFree + $19-$89/user/moAPI + open weights (Schnell is Apache 2.0)Pay per second of compute
Best forOps teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources.Developers + power users who want control and privacy.Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc).
Strengths
  • Pull live data from Stripe, Slack, Google Analytics, etc.
  • AI functions inside cells
  • Modern UX
  • Runs locally on a beefy GPU
  • Very photoreal
  • Best open-weight model
  • Tens of thousands of models (image, video, audio, LLMs)
  • One-line API for any model
  • Cog framework for custom model deploy
Weaknesses
  • Not a full Excel replacement for heavy users
  • Integrations best on paid tiers
  • Harder to use than hosted tools
  • Needs infra
  • Cold starts on less-popular models
  • Pricing gets real at scale
Kai's verdictA-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards.A-tier. S-tier if you self-host. The reason open-source image gen matters.S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space.
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