Three tools, one day, different jobs
● Claude Sheets — A spreadsheet from a prompt. Beta, and Anthropic itself calls it basic.
● Claude Whiteboards — A shared board for planning with your team. Beta. Exports to Lucid, Miro or Vani.
● Claude Data — Questions against your warehouse. Generally available, and the most finished of the three.
● If you only turn on one — Claude Data. It had a month in beta as Dashboards and it shows.
Anthropic shipped all three on 10 November 2026, which makes them easy to confuse. They solve genuinely different problems and only one of them is finished.
Side by side
|
Claude Sheets |
Claude Whiteboards |
Claude Data |
| Status |
Beta |
Beta |
Generally available |
| What it makes |
Spreadsheets with tabs, formulas, formatting, drop-downs |
A shared board: timeline, owners, dates, grouped notes |
Answers and dashboards from company data |
| Needs a connector |
No |
No |
Yes — warehouse or CRM |
| Team plan default |
On |
On |
On |
| Enterprise default |
Off |
Off |
On from 19 Nov |
| Exports to |
.xlsx, CSV |
Doc, deck, Lucid, Miro, Vani by Zoho |
Data stories, narrated video |
| Partner tools |
Airtable, Asana, monday.com, Smartsheet |
Lucid, Miro, Vani by Zoho |
Amplitude, Mixpanel, Omni, PostHog, Sigma |
| Maturity |
Anthropic says “currently basic” |
New in beta |
Month in beta as Dashboards |
Claude Data is the one that is actually ready
It launched as Claude Dashboards in October, spent a month in beta, and is now generally available. It connects to Amazon Redshift, BigQuery and ClickHouse, carries certified metric definitions with a badge, caches dashboards on per-dashboard refresh schedules, and tracks changes with rollback.
The feature worth the switch is live sharing: viewers see approved query results without access to your connectors. That removes the standard reason an analyst refuses to share a dashboard, which is that sharing the dashboard has historically meant sharing the credentials behind it.
Claude Sheets is useful and limited, and says so
It builds a working spreadsheet from a prompt — tabs, formulas, formatting, drop-downs — and outlines its edits so you can see what changed. Anthropic describes the functionality as currently basic in its own announcement and points to .xlsx or CSV export, or the separate Claude for Excel, for anything beyond that.
A vendor marking its own new feature as basic on launch day is the useful kind of honesty. Treat Sheets as the end of copy-pasting results out of Claude, not as a spreadsheet application.
Claude Whiteboards is the one with the clearest single use
Describe a plan and it builds the board: timeline, owners, dates. It groups team notes by theme, drafts action items, and lets you select part of a board and ask about just that part. Boards become a doc or a deck, or move into Lucid, Miro or Vani by Zoho.
The select-and-ask behaviour is the differentiator. Asking a question about one cluster of a messy board is something no existing whiteboard tool does well.
Which to turn on
- You run analytics and people ask you for numbers → Claude Data. Live sharing without connector access is worth the setup on its own.
- You run workshops, retros or planning sessions → Whiteboards, and plan to export into whatever board tool you already pay for.
- You keep pasting Claude output into a spreadsheet → Sheets, with the caveat that you will still export to .xlsx for real work.
- You are on Enterprise and nothing has appeared → an admin has to enable Whiteboards and Sheets under Organization settings, Artifacts. Claude Data switches itself on on 19 November.
- You need genuine Excel functionality → none of these. Use Claude for Excel.
Frequently asked questions
Which of the three is not in beta?
Claude Data. It is generally available, though some features inside it — certified metric definitions and live sharing — remain in beta. Sheets and Whiteboards are both beta.
Do I need a data connector?
For Claude Data, yes — a warehouse or CRM. Sheets and Whiteboards do not require one.
Why can my team not see Whiteboards or Sheets?
You are probably on Enterprise, where both are off by default. An admin enables them under Organization settings, Artifacts. On Team plans all three are on by default.
Is Claude Sheets good enough to replace Excel?
No, and Anthropic does not claim it is — its announcement calls the functionality currently basic. For full spreadsheet features, export to .xlsx or CSV, or use Claude for Excel.
What happened to Claude Dashboards?
Renamed Claude Data and promoted from beta to generally available on 10 November 2026.