Claude Sheets: How to Use It, Plans, Limits and Whiteboards

Last updated: November 11, 2026

Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet built into Claude that launched in beta on November 10, 2026, for Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise plans. Claude builds a working sheet with tabs, formulas, formatting and charts from a prompt, edits cells alongside your team, and exports to .xlsx or CSV.

Contents

What Anthropic launched
Plans and availability
How to create and work in a sheet
Claude Sheets limits
Claude Whiteboards
Claude Data
Settings for admins
Frequently asked questions

Anthropic announced three new artifact types on November 10: Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta, and Claude Data, the renamed and now generally available version of Claude Dashboards. This guide focuses on Sheets, then covers what power users need to know about the other two. Every detail comes from Anthropic’s launch announcement and its help center.

What Anthropic launched

Product	Status	What it does
Claude Sheets	Beta	Spreadsheets Claude builds and edits with you, with formulas across tabs, formatting, dropdowns, checkboxes and charts
Claude Whiteboards	Beta	A shared board where you talk, type or sketch and Claude organizes ideas into diagrams, flows and groups
Claude Data (formerly Dashboards)	Generally available; certified queries and live sharing in beta	Dashboards, data stories and narrated videos built from a connected warehouse or CRM

Anthropic’s companion article says these join the existing Docs, Slides and Design artifacts and Claude Motion. Because Claude keeps the same context across steps, an idea can move from a whiteboard to a sheet to a dashboard without restating the details.

Plans and availability

According to Anthropic’s artifacts help article, the Sheets and Whiteboards templates are in beta on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise plans. The Data template is available on the same paid plans.

Plan	Sheets and Whiteboards	Claude Data
Free	Not available	Not available
Pro, Max, Ultra	Available (beta)	Available
Team	On by default	On by default
Enterprise	Off until an owner turns them on	Turns on by default November 19, 2026, unless an owner already saved a setting

There is no separate price. Sheets and Whiteboards count toward your plan’s usage limits like any other Claude work. For current subscription prices, see our answer on how much Claude Pro costs.

How to create and work in a sheet

Anthropic’s Get started with Claude Sheets guide describes two entry points: ask in any chat, or start from the Artifacts tab.

Check that artifacts work on your account. They require “Cloud code execution and file creation” (called “Create and edit files” in the newer layout) to be on in Settings > Capabilities.
Open the Artifacts tab and select the “Sheets” tile, or simply ask in a chat, for example “Build a campaign tracker with owners, dates, and status.”
Give Claude your real numbers. You can import a CSV, Excel or Google Sheets file, or paste from Excel or Google Sheets, so the sheet is built from your own data.
Refine with prompts such as “Add a column for budget remaining” or “Highlight anything that’s overdue.” Each edit Claude makes is outlined as it lands.
Select a range and ask about it, for example “Why is this total higher than last month?” You can also type formulas and comments yourself.
Click “Share” to bring in teammates. Everyone edits the same cells at the same time, alongside Claude.
Export to .xlsx or CSV, or use “Send to” for partner apps. Anthropic names Airtable, Asana, monday.com and Smartsheet.

If Claude makes a change you do not want, open version history and restore an earlier version. Note that restoring also removes any edits made after that version.

Claude Sheets limits

The help center lists these launch limits for the beta:

Size: up to 100,000 cells per sheet. Claude Sheets includes 144 functions.
Not available yet: pivot tables, protected ranges, find and replace, multi-column sort, filter views, multi-select dropdowns and PDF export.
Not supported: macros, VBA, Power Query, DAX and print layout.
No live data: sheets cannot pull live data from connected apps, and docs, decks and dashboards cannot use a sheet as a data source.
Mobile: web and desktop are fully supported; mobile has basic read-only access, although the launch post says all three products work on mobile.
Compliance: HIPAA, CMEK and zero data retention are not yet supported.

For heavy models, Anthropic points to Claude for Excel or Claude for Google Workspace, which bring Claude to files you already keep in those apps. That is the short answer to “Claude Sheets vs Excel”: Sheets is for light, shared sheets built with Claude.

Claude Whiteboards

The Whiteboards help article describes a board where you talk, type or sketch and Claude draws what you describe with shapes, arrows and sections. You can dictate a brain dump and Claude groups related ideas, orders steps and connects dependencies. Drag across a region to ask about just that part, or ask Claude to regroup the board by theme or turn it into a timeline.

When the thinking is done, ask Claude to turn the board into a doc or deck, send it to Lucid, Miro or Zoho Vani, or export it as PNG. You cannot import a board from a file. Whiteboards works on web, Claude Desktop and Claude Mobile, but Claude does not use context from your connected apps on a board, and it is not available to organizations with HIPAA-ready configurations.

Claude Data

Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or CRM. The launch post lists these additions:

Certified queries (beta): your data team certifies metric definitions, and charts built on them carry a “certified” badge.
Data stories and narrated videos drafted from your metrics for review before sharing.
Live sharing (beta): viewers see current numbers without access to the underlying connectors, and cannot run other queries with your access.
Design system support, per-dashboard caching and refresh cadences, and tracked changes with rollback.

Settings for admins

Owners and Primary Owners control all three in Organization settings > Artifacts, in the Artifact templates section. Custom roles let admins enable Sheets for part of an organization. To let people outside your organization join a whiteboard by email, turn on “Email invitations outside your organization” in the same settings area.

For related Claude changes, see our guides to Unified Claude in Claude Desktop and Claude Fable 5.2, our answer on whether Claude has memory, and, for a competing approach, the Gemini app’s file editing features.

Frequently asked questions

What is Claude Sheets?

Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet built into Claude, launched in beta on November 10, 2026. You describe a tracker, budget or model, and Claude builds a working sheet with tabs, formulas, formatting, dropdowns, checkboxes and charts that you, your team and Claude can edit together.

Is Claude Sheets free?

No. Claude Sheets is in beta on the Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise plans, not the Free plan. It has no separate fee; using it counts toward your plan’s normal usage limits, like the rest of your work with Claude.

Can Claude Sheets replace Excel?

Not yet. Anthropic says sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality for now. Pivot tables, protected ranges, find and replace, filter views and PDF export are missing, and macros, VBA, Power Query and DAX are not supported. You can export to .xlsx or CSV or use Claude for Excel instead.

How big can a Claude sheet be?

At launch, a single sheet can hold up to 100,000 cells. Claude Sheets includes 144 functions, and it offers bar, line and pie charts plus other chart types Claude can generate.

Why can’t I see Sheets or Whiteboards on my Enterprise account?

Both are off by default on Enterprise plans. An Owner or Primary Owner must turn them on in Organization settings > Artifacts. Artifacts also require the code execution and file creation capability to be on. Claude Data turns on by default for Enterprise on November 19, 2026.

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