Anthropic put a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, and a data tool inside Claude. Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards launched in beta on November 10, 2026, and Claude Dashboards, in beta since October, became generally available as Claude Data. All three open as artifacts beside your chat, and all three run on paid plans. We checked the launch against Anthropic's own pages on day one; we could not run an in-app test because our test setup has no paid Claude plan, and we mark what's checked versus documented below.
What Anthropic released
Claude Sheets is a spreadsheet you describe and Claude builds. Anthropic's examples are prompts like asking for a campaign tracker or a hiring budget. Sheets get tabs, formulas that work across tabs, formatting, conditional formatting, dropdowns, checkboxes, and charts. Formulas stay in the cells, so you can check how each number was calculated. When Claude edits, each change is outlined as it lands, and a team can share the sheet and work in the same cells at the same time.
Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for thinking through a messy plan (Anthropic's phrase). You talk, type, or sketch, and Claude organizes the material into diagrams, flows, and groups. Everyone on the board works live, and when the thinking is done, Claude can turn the board into a doc or deck, or send it to Lucid, Miro, or Zoho Vani.
Claude Data is the company-data piece. It connects to sources like BigQuery, Snowflake, and Salesforce and builds dashboards on them. In this release it gained certified queries (a data team certifies the queries everyone should use), live sharing (colleagues see current numbers without connector access), data stories and narrated videos, caching, and tracked changes.
Who gets them
All three ship on paid plans: Pro ($20 a month, or $17 a month with annual billing), Max ($100 a month), Ultra ($200 a month), Team, and Enterprise. The free plan includes chat, artifacts, and the Docs, Slides, and Design templates, but doesn't list Sheets, Whiteboards, or Claude Data. On Team plans the three are on by default. On Enterprise plans an admin turns Sheets and Whiteboards on in Organization settings, then Artifacts; Claude Data turns on by default on November 19, 2026.
Why a beginner might care
If you're learning AI right now, the useful part is that the thing you ask Claude for can be something you keep working on, not text you copy out and rebuild somewhere else. Anthropic's own examples are modest starting points: a campaign tracker or a hiring budget from one prompt, a retro meeting where everyone adds notes and Claude groups them by theme, a plan you dictate that comes back with owners and dates.
The second useful part is checkability. In Sheets, formulas stay in the cells where you can read them, and every Claude edit is outlined. Reading how a number was computed before trusting it is the habit that makes AI useful, and a spreadsheet that keeps the math visible fits it.
If your files already live in Excel or Google Sheets, Claude can work in those directly: that's what the October Google integration and Claude for Excel do. The new tools are for starting inside Claude.
What we checked on launch day
The tiers, on Anthropic's pricing page. The Pro row lists "Claude Data, plus Sheets and Whiteboards (beta)," and the free plan's list stops at Docs, Slides, and Design. Check that row before paying: it's where Anthropic lists which plans include the three tools.
The sign-in page. Signed out of claude.ai, the Artifacts tab redirects to sign-in, so there's no anonymous look at the new artifact types.
The templates' tier table. Anthropic's Help Center table for artifacts puts the Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data templates on Pro, Max, Ultra, Team, and Enterprise, with the free plan's row left at Docs, Slides, and Design.
Everything inside a sheet or a board is Anthropic-documented rather than tested by us, because our test setup has no paid Claude plan. The full guide marks that line explicitly.
The honest catch
Three limits are worth knowing before you subscribe: the price, the sheet's simple feature set, and usage limits.
The price is the first one. Sheets and Whiteboards are what a Claude subscription adds, and the cheapest way in is Pro at $20 a month ($17 with annual billing). On the free plan you keep chat, artifacts, and the Docs, Slides, and Design tools; the spreadsheet and the board are behind the subscription.
The sheets are simple. Anthropic's announcement says "For now, sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality, but we are working on adding more." If the job needs the full power of Excel, the documented path is exporting to .xlsx or CSV, or using Claude for Excel. Whiteboards export as PNG and can't import a board from a file.
Both betas count toward your plan's usage limits, like the rest of Claude, so how much sheet and board work you get depends on the plan's limits.
Who may not need these yet: free-plan users, anyone who needs advanced spreadsheet features today, and teams with no data source to connect for Claude Data. If your sheets already live in Excel or Google Sheets, Anthropic's Help Center suggests the new Sheets for a light, shared sheet you build with Claude, and the integrations cover the files you keep there. Claude Data needs a connector to a supported source such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Salesforce, Amazon Redshift, or ClickHouse. Without company data to connect, it's not the piece to start with.
The full walkthrough
For the requirements, the try-it path, and the version stamp, the study guide walks it screen by screen: Claude gets a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, and a data tool.
FAQ
Are Claude Sheets free?
No. Sheets, Whiteboards, and Claude Data run on paid plans: Pro at $20 a month ($17 with annual billing), Max, Ultra, Team, and Enterprise. The free plan keeps chat, artifacts, and the Docs, Slides, and Design tools.
What is the difference between Claude Sheets and Claude for Excel?
Claude Sheets puts a spreadsheet inside Claude; Claude for Excel brings Claude to the Excel files you already have. Anthropic's Help Center draws exactly that line and suggests Sheets for a light, shared sheet you build with Claude.
Can Claude Sheets do everything Excel does?
No. Anthropic's announcement says sheets have simple spreadsheet functionality for now, with more planned. For full Excel features, the documented path is exporting to .xlsx or CSV, or using Claude for Excel.
Do Claude Sheets and Whiteboards count against my usage?
Yes. Both count toward your plan's usage limits, like the rest of your work with Claude, per Anthropic's Help Center.
What is Claude Data?
The new name for Claude Dashboards, which left beta on November 10, 2026. It connects to company data sources like BigQuery, Snowflake, and Salesforce and builds dashboards, with certified queries and live sharing new in beta. It needs a data connector, so it's a team tool.
Want the requirements box, the try-it steps, and the version stamp? The guide walks it screen by screen: learn.greatwithtech.com/guides/claude-sheets-whiteboards-data.
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