Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards launched in beta on November 10, 2026, and Claude Dashboards became generally available under a new name, Claude Data. All 3 come with every paid Claude plan: Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise. Free gets none of them. There is no add-on price, so the cheapest way in is Pro, at $20 a month or $17 billed yearly.
In October I posted that Opus 5.5 started the SaaS apocalypse, after we rebuilt 3 tools we used to pay for in one Saturday. Today Anthropic did the same thing at scale, inside Claude itself: a spreadsheet, a whiteboard and a data tool. Here is what each one does, who gets it on which plan, and what I would actually move into Claude this week.
- Claude Sheets (beta): spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-downs, built and edited by Claude with your team.
- Claude Whiteboards (beta): a shared board where Claude turns a messy brainstorm into a plan with owners and dates.
- Claude Data (generally available): the old Claude Dashboards, now with certified queries and live sharing in beta.
- Plans: Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise. Free is left out.
- Price: included in the plan. Claude Motion is still Team and Enterprise only.
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What Is Claude Sheets?
Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet that lives inside Claude. You ask for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and Claude builds it with tabs, formulas, formatting and drop-down menus. It edits the cells itself and outlines each change, so you can see what it touched. You can share a sheet with your team and work on it together with Claude.
Anthropic is honest about the limit. For now Sheets has simple spreadsheet functions, and more are coming. When you need full Excel, you export to .xlsx or CSV, or move to Claude for Excel. You can also continue in Airtable, Asana, monday.com or Smartsheet.
That tells me where Sheets fits today. It is the tracker you build in 2 minutes for a project, a list or a small budget. The financial model with 40 tabs and macros stays in Excel.
Is Claude Sheets the Same as Claude in Google Sheets?
No. Claude for Google Workspace, in public beta on paid plans since October 6, 2026, puts Claude in a sidebar inside your real Google Sheets file. Claude Sheets is a separate spreadsheet that lives inside Claude itself. The names sound alike, but they are 2 different products.
Pick by where the file must live. If your team already works in Google Sheets, the sidebar keeps everything there, with pivot tables and native charts. If you start from a chat and want a quick shared tracker, Claude Sheets is faster, and you can export it later.
What Are Claude Whiteboards?
Claude Whiteboards is a shared board where your team brainstorms with Claude in real time. You can talk through a plan out loud and Claude turns it into a board with a timeline, owners and dates. In a retro, everyone adds notes and Claude groups them by theme and drafts the action items for each person.
You can drag a box around any part of the board and ask Claude about just that part. When the session is over, Claude turns the board into a doc or a deck, or sends it to Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.
What Is Claude Data (Formerly Claude Dashboards)?
Claude Data is the new name of Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta on October 8, 2026. From November 10 it is generally available. It connects to your data, such as Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Snowflake or Salesforce, and answers questions with charts and dashboards that stay current. Anthropic says it renamed it because teams use their data for more than dashboards.
The new parts are the ones a data team asks for. Certified queries (beta) let the data team approve the metric definitions everyone uses, and charts built on them carry a certified badge. Live sharing (beta) shows colleagues current numbers even without access to the connectors. Viewers see results only and can run only approved queries.
There is more. Claude can draft data stories and narrated videos from your metrics, for you to review before sharing. Dashboards now support your design system, caching with a refresh cadence per dashboard, and tracked changes with rollback to an earlier version. Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a warehouse or a CRM.
Which Claude Plans Include Sheets, Whiteboards and Data?
Every paid plan includes all 3, and Free includes none of them. That is the short answer from Anthropic's pricing page, read on November 10. The table below also shows the tools that were already there, because the line between plans is different for each one.
| Tool | Free | Pro, Max, Ultra | Team and Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sheets (beta) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Claude Whiteboards (beta) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Claude Data | No | Yes | Yes |
| Claude Motion (beta) | No | No | Yes |
| Claude Docs, Slides and Design | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Max and Ultra give you more usage, and nothing extra here. Anthropic's pricing FAQ says the features you use change how fast you reach your limit, and all Claude activity draws from the same pool. So a heavy day of sheets and dashboards counts against the same limits as your chats and Claude Code.
How those limits work on the bigger plans is in my guide to Claude Max and Ultra usage limits.
What Changed Since the October Launch?
In 33 days the data tool went from beta to general availability and 2 new tools joined it. Here is the before and after, from Anthropic's own announcements.
| Item | October 8, 2026 | November 10, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Data tool | Claude Dashboards, beta, paid plans | Claude Data, generally available, paid plans |
| Spreadsheets | Not offered | Claude Sheets, beta, paid plans |
| Whiteboards | Not offered | Claude Whiteboards, beta, paid plans |
| Certified queries and live sharing | Not offered | Beta inside Claude Data |
| Enterprise default | Dashboards off | Sheets and Whiteboards off, Data on from November 19 |
On the same day Anthropic opened interactive connectors, so apps like Adobe, Atlassian, Box and Notion can open as full apps beside your chat. It also announced Claude Meetings, which will add Claude to a call to take notes. Meetings is marked as coming soon, so it is not something you can use today.
How Do You Turn Them On?
On Pro, Max and Ultra you just ask Claude for a sheet, a board or a dashboard. They work on web, desktop and mobile. On Team plans all 3 are on by default. On Enterprise, Sheets and Whiteboards are off by default, and Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026. Admins change all of this in Organization settings, under Artifacts.
Should You Move Your Spreadsheets Into Claude?
Move the small, shared, fast-changing ones, and keep the heavy ones where they are. Sheets is a beta with simple functions. Its real advantage is that Claude keeps the context of the chat. An idea can go from a whiteboard to a sheet to a dashboard without explaining it 3 times.
- Pick 1 tracker your team updates every week, like a pipeline list or a content calendar.
- Ask Claude to rebuild it as a Claude Sheet from a short brief, and share it with 1 colleague.
- Run 1 meeting on a Claude Whiteboard and let Claude write the action items.
- If you have a warehouse or a CRM connected, ask Claude Data the 3 questions you usually send to your data team.
- After 2 weeks, cancel only the seat or the tool you stopped opening. Keep the rest.
My take for a sales team: the CRM stays. Claude Data on top of the CRM is the interesting part, because a founder can finally ask how many meetings came from each channel last month without waiting for someone to build the report.
Before you pick a plan, check every Claude plan and price.
If you want this kind of AI workflow built into your sales process, that is what we do in our go-to-market consulting at Growth Cab.
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sheets free?
Claude Sheets is included at no extra price in every paid Claude plan: Pro, Max, Ultra, Team and Enterprise. It is not available on the Free plan. The cheapest way to use it is Pro, at $20 a month or $17 a month billed yearly, from Anthropic's pricing page read November 10, 2026.
When did Claude Sheets and Whiteboards launch?
Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta on November 10, 2026. On the same day Claude Dashboards, in beta since October 8, became generally available as Claude Data. All 3 work on the web, desktop and mobile apps.
What happened to Claude Dashboards?
Claude Dashboards was renamed Claude Data and became generally available on November 10, 2026. Anthropic changed the name because teams use their data for more than dashboards. It added certified queries and live sharing in beta, data stories, design systems, caching and tracked changes.
Can Claude Sheets replace Excel?
Not yet for heavy work. Anthropic says Claude Sheets has simple spreadsheet functions for now, with more coming. For full Excel features you export to .xlsx or CSV, or use Claude for Excel. Sheets fits shared trackers, lists and small budgets that Claude builds and edits with your team.
Is Claude Meetings available?
No. Anthropic announced Claude Meetings on November 10, 2026 as coming soon. It will let you add Claude to a call to take notes and update the documents your team is working on during the conversation. No date or plan list has been published yet.
Sources
Anthropic, Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data, November 10, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
Anthropic, More ways to work with Claude: Sheets, Whiteboards, and Interactive Connectors, November 10, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
Anthropic, Plans and pricing, read November 10, 2026.
Anthropic, Build live dashboards and animate explainers with Claude, October 8, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
Anthropic, Claude now works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, October 6, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
