# Arcwise review (2026): is it worth it? > AI that explains metric changes from your warehouse and BI data Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Arcwise's site now describes a product for finding and explaining shifts in business metrics, with each explanation traced to the data and documentation behind it. It connects to data warehouses and BI tools such as Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, and delivers reports in its own app or embedded in docs and slides. It is sold through demos, and the site no longer describes a spreadsheet product. - **Category:** Spreadsheets & Databases - **Made by:** Arcwise - **Website:** https://arcwise.app - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a spreadsheet app, which this no longer is. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing Arcwise's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Early metric change detection:** Flags meaningful shifts in performance metrics before they come up in reviews. - **Traced explanations:** The vendor says every explanation is grounded in the connected data and documentation and can be audited. - **Business context:** Docs, definitions and operating logic can be connected so explanations follow the company's own terms. - **Reports in your workflow:** Reports are delivered in the Arcwise app or embedded in docs and slides. ## Good for - Operations and growth teams that already keep metrics in a data warehouse - Companies that need an auditable trail behind each explanation of a number ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; the site offers a demo booking and the paid and free terms of use are separate documents. - The current site is about warehouse metrics, not editing spreadsheets, so it is a poor fit for someone who wants a spreadsheet app. - The security page lists SOC 2 Type II as the vendor's claim, with your own LLM keys supported. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Arcwise is now an AI tool that explains why metrics moved, working from your data warehouse and BI tools. It publishes no prices, you book a demo to see it, and it isn't a spreadsheet app. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, so it sits in the middle until a quote says otherwise. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record, only a demo booking. - **Features: D.** It explains metric changes and needs a warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks to be any use. It no longer edits spreadsheets. - **Ease of use: C.** Connections to a warehouse and your documentation have to be set up first, and no store rating is on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web with Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks connections. No desktop or phone apps are listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Arcwise's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among spreadsheet and database tools - Arcwise's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 0 of the 63 other spreadsheet and database tools we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 21 of 63) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/spreadsheets ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Arcwise you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 59 of the 63 other spreadsheet and database tools grade higher. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks **Tags:** AI features, Reports, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [Sourcetable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sourcetable): AI spreadsheet that queries databases and business apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/arcwise-vs-sourcetable) - [Equals](https://toolgpa.com/tools/equals): Spreadsheet connected to business data, with dashboards. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/arcwise-vs-equals) - [Better Analyst (formerly Formula Bot)](https://toolgpa.com/tools/formula-bot): AI data analyst: chat, dashboards and alerts over files and databases. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/arcwise-vs-formula-bot) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://arcwise.app/ - https://arcwise.app/security Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/arcwise Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).