SQL Spreads 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

SQL Spreads

4.9

(13)

Pricing

Starting at $468.00 per year

About SQL Spreads

SQL Spreads is an Excel Add-In to let your end-users insert data in SQL Server from within the well-known data tool everyone loves - Excel.

A SQL Spreads Excel document is created by a Designer and sent through to a Data Editor license holder to start editing and saving changes back to the database.

A benefit is that it can all be setup within 5 minutes from the well-known Excel interface with no coding required.

There are key aspects that ensure the data integrity is kept intact such as automatic data validation, key look-ups with drop down lists, change tracking and Tree Filters.

There is also an excellent Support Team structure in place to guide you through using SQL Spreads.

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SQL Spreads Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $468.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$468.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Update SQL Server data using Excel
Easily show and hide columns
Read-only columns
Automatic data validation
Data filtering and sorting
Designer & Editor roles
On-premise and Azure SQL Server support
Unlimited data

Pro

$948.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Tree Filter to select which data to import
Key lookups with Drop-Down lists
Change tracking
Support for working with SQL Server Views
Data post processing through SQL queries
Azure AD Authentication with MFA

Premium

$2,388.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

VBA integration
Hierarchical Tree Filters
Conflict detection for smooth collaboration
Pivot data between Excel and SQL Server

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SQL Spreads Features

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SQL Spreads User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

92%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.6

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Paul S.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed June 2024

This was the best value software purchase of my career, and I just scratched the surface

SQL Spreads was the perfect tool for our use case. As a rapidly growing company, we found ourselves outgrowing Excel alone but not quite large enough to justify a heavy-duty planning software. We knew the critical dimensions we wanted to plan on, and designed the SQL structure around this. SQL Spreads was the final puzzle piece to build the lightweight planning infrastructure we needed to remain agile yet institutionalize our plans.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to connect to your database and get going quickly. Anyone on the team can make specific changes to the table templates. This saved us a ton of time during the company's liminal space between start-up models and heavy-duty planning software.

Cons:

Licensing took a bit of time to figure out, but customer support was helpful.

Reasons for choosing SQL Spreads

It was far cheaper and easier to engage with out-of-the-box.

Phil C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2023

Lightning solution to get data in and managed effectively without a whole load of development time

Pleasantly surprised at such an obvious solution - use Excel grids for data entry and management (with Primary Key as link). It worked nicely, integrated well with Excel and support was great when needed. Job done, with many opportunities for data maintenance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SQL Spreads makes it easy to create data entry and management screens at the speed of lightning - practically instant forms. And when you want more advanced tuning, their support is very dedicated.

Cons:

If many Tables/Views are being managed (more than 10), using the Excel Tabs for each one can be a little clunky. But that's rarely the case for any one user's workbook, and the licence allows any number of them.

Reasons for choosing SQL Spreads

Tired of old, fiddly, tricky to maintain VBA so Access not encouraged. Power Apps a very close contender, and cheaper, but even after spending significant time working it out and delivering for client projects, it's a lot more work at minimal benefit to knock up data entry to SQL Tables and Views. Further, you can use licenced SQL Spreads on any number of databases, where you have to pay more on each app with Power Apps.

Reasons for switching to SQL Spreads

Needed quick solutions to get data in and managed effectively without a whole load of development time. Then so did our clients.

Vendor Response

Hi Phil, thank-you for the review and for your feedback on having more than 10 Excel tabs in a document. We will use this as input into our discussions on how to improve SQL Spreads in the future.

Replied August 2023

Wally M.

Verified reviewer

Renewables & Environment

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2025

SQL Spreads a Lifesaver

Was a critical tool for an early stage startup to collect and control input of data from a non digital source like farming records and surveys.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SQL Spreads was an essential solution for our team to have non-technical users interact directly with a central database. They were able to do so in a comfortable and controlled manner using careful design of SQLSpreads workbooks and using an Excel worksheet format they they were already familiar with.

Cons:

Would have been nice to be able to easily limit the options for input to a table where our users select from a drop down based upon another SQL Table

Reasons for choosing SQL Spreads

Familiarity with Excel environment and ease of implementation

Mary Anne K.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed September 2024

A Simple Solution That Works Wonders!

Customer service in this company is amazing. You get to deal with real people. I even get emails asking how things are going and if there is anything they can do to help. When you need help, they are very responsive and the first person you talk to solves the problem.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love this product and the support I receive. It's amazing. As a SQL programmer, it makes my job a lot easier. Using Excel for user interfaces is great because the learning curve for end-users is minimal. I also use it to edit my SQL tables through Excel instead of writing update queries. With SQL Spreads, I can spend my time programming instead of creating and managing user interfaces through inefficient programs that aren't user friendly.

Cons:

The only thing I don't like about SQL Spreads is that I didn't find it sooner.

Brandy S.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed May 2024

SQL Spreads is a game changer!

I wish I knew about this tool years ago. We were able to get a complete budget process up and running in a matter of weeks using just SQL Spreads and our existing data warehouse in SQL Server.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SQL Spreads is easy to install, easy to configure, and works very well with SQL Server. My end users love it because it acts like a normal excel spreadsheet for them. The toolbar and tree filters are easy to use and understand, and are not intimidating to users who have no database experience.

Cons:

I did have to set up some views to best format dimensions to work in the tree filters. But it was easy to do and not overly burdensome.

Reasons for choosing SQL Spreads

Other products we considered were designed to be used by IT professionals who knew how to work with databases. The UI for the tool was too hard for end-users to understand, and the functionality was less (no tree filters, no lookups)

Adam L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed June 2024

Essential for our metadata operations

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We use SQL Spreads to store our spark metadata schemas, which change often. Rather than use SQL statements to update records, we can easily add, update and delete records in just a few clicks, saving time, whilst also visualising our schema database for easier navigation.

Cons:

I have yet to find something I do not like.

Matija T.

Verified reviewer

Building Materials

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed January 2024

Great for non SQL user

Overall, a positive and efficient experience with SQL Spreads—seamless integration, user-friendly, and a valuable tool for database tasks in Excel.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I appreciate SQL Spreads for seamlessly integrating with Excel, simplifying database tasks. The intuitive interface and real-time sync enhance my workflow, proving to be a time-saving tool for improved data analysis and collaboration. Notably, even as someone unfamiliar with SQL, I find it user-friendly.

Cons:

No significant drawbacks; highly satisfied.

Nick N.

Verified reviewer

Packaging and Containers

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2023

Does everything you would want it to do.

Overall the experience has been great, it's nice to not have to get into SQL every time I need to look at something.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Speed to use, how you can filter before a data feed comes in to reduce the load, how you can make new tables with just a few clicks.

Cons:

Nothing I can think of. It's been a game changer for us.

Vendor Response

Hi Nick, thank-you for your review of SQL Spreads. It is great to hear how easy it is for you to view your data without needing to get into the SQL side of things.

Replied September 2023

David C.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed September 2023

Great for End Users and a SQL Team

A true time saver, End Users are very antiquated with Excel, so this product bridges the gap.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SQL Spreads eliminated the need to develop a full-blown application to facilitate a budgeting process. With a table intensive project such as our budgeting, it was much easier to have End Users manage a set of (restricted) tables so that the SQL team can perform other complicated functions.

Cons:

We found that we could unintentionally wipe out a linked table; but we learned how to avoid. Just takes getting used to.

Vendor Response

Hi David, thank-you for your feedback on your budgeting process. Our team has taken your comment into consideration for future improvements in SQL Spreads, related to unintentionally wiping out a linked table.

Replied September 2023

Verified

Reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2023

SQL Spreads Review