Julius AI vs Rows

Short version: you can sign up for Julius today, and you can't sign up for Rows. In February 2026, Rows said Superhuman had agreed to buy it and that rows.com would fully wind down on May 31, 2026. Its site is still online, but every sign-up button on its pricing page is switched off. Julius lets you upload a spreadsheet or connect a database and ask questions about it in plain English. It has a free plan, and Plus costs $16 a month billed yearly or $20 month to month.

That makes this less of a contest than it used to be. Rows was a spreadsheet with an AI analyst built in. You worked in cells and asked the AI for help along the way. Julius is a chat workspace. You hand it files or a data source and get back answers, charts and the code behind them. If you came here looking for Rows, the sections below cover what each one did well and where to go instead.

What you pay

Plan	Julius AI	Rows (last listed, sign-ups closed)
Free	$0: a daily credit allowance, Julius Lite models, and Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint connectors	$0: 5 AI tasks a month, data tables refreshed by hand, 1 MB file imports
First paid plan	Plus, $20/mo, or $16/mo billed yearly: 2,000 credits a month plus 100 daily refresh credits	Plus, $8 per user a month, or $6 billed yearly: 200 AI tasks a month, data tables refreshed daily
Next tier	Pro, $45/mo, or $37/mo billed yearly: 5,000 credits a month and 3 scheduled runs	Pro, $79/mo plus $8 per user, or $59 plus $6 billed yearly: 1,000 AI tasks a month, refresh every minute
Teams	Business, $450/mo, or $375/mo billed yearly: 60,000 credits a month, up to 50 team members	Enterprise, by quote
Databases and warehouses	Postgres, BigQuery and Snowflake on paid plans	Data warehouses among its built-in integrations
Files	Paid plans keep files for 7 days. Enterprise keeps them permanently	1 MB imports on Free, 5 MB on Plus, 100 MB on Pro
Can you sign up?	Yes, there's a free plan	No. Rows said it would wind down by May 31, 2026

Julius prices are in US dollars. Rows listed its prices before sales tax or VAT. Checked October 21, 2026. On Julius's yearly plans, the whole year's credits arrive on day one: 24,000 on Plus and 60,000 on Pro. Julius doesn't publish how many daily credits the Free plan gets. Sources: Julius's pricing page (opens in a new tab), Julius's data connectors page (opens in a new tab), Rows' pricing page (opens in a new tab) and Rows' announcement about joining Superhuman (opens in a new tab).

Where Julius wins

• You can actually start using it. Julius has a free plan and takes new sign-ups. Rows doesn't.
• Ask questions instead of writing formulas. Upload a spreadsheet (.xls, .xlsx or .csv), a Google Sheet, a PDF or an image, then ask in plain English. Julius writes the code to answer and shows it to you, so you can see how it got there. Multi-tab spreadsheets work too. You can name a tab in your question.
• It connects to real databases. Paid plans add Postgres, BigQuery and Snowflake. Julius also lists MySQL, SQL Server, Supabase, Google Ads and Meta Ads among its connectors.
• More than analysis. Every plan, Free included, can make presentations, websites, images and videos, with tighter limits on Free. It can turn an analysis into an editable PowerPoint or Google Slides deck.
• Reports on a schedule. Pro includes 3 scheduled runs, and Business has no limit.

Watch out for: Julius runs on credits, and the free daily allowance isn't published, so you only find out how far it goes by using it. Paid plans keep your uploaded files for only 7 days. Permanent storage, SSO and audit logs come with Enterprise. To invite teammates, you need Business, which is $375 a month billed yearly.

What Rows did better

• It was a real spreadsheet. You typed = in a cell and described what you wanted, and the AI wrote the formula, made the chart or pulled out the insight. Your work stayed in a grid you could edit by hand.
• Live data from other tools. Rows imported data from 50+ sources, including ad platforms and data warehouses, and could refresh it on a schedule, daily on Plus and every minute on Pro.
• Cheaper for a single user. Plus was $6 per user a month billed yearly, versus $16 for Julius Plus.
• PDFs and images into tables. Rows could turn invoices, PDFs and screenshots into editable tables, with Python built in for deeper analysis.

Watch out for: none of that helps a new user now. Rows' last changelog entry is from February 16, 2026, and the site now points visitors to Superhuman Docs. Its founders say the Rows team will focus on strengthening the capabilities of Coda, part of Superhuman, for data-driven teams. If you still have a Rows account, email support@rows.com, the address Rows still lists for questions.

Which one should you pick?

• You have a CSV or Excel file and want answers and charts without formulas: Julius Free. Upgrade if you run out of credits.
• You analyze data every week: Julius Plus, at $16 a month billed yearly.
• You send the same report every week or month: Julius Pro, for its 3 scheduled runs.
• Your team's data lives in Postgres, BigQuery or Snowflake: Julius. The connectors start on Plus, and Business lets you invite up to 50 team members.
• You want a spreadsheet you work in cell by cell, with AI built in: not Rows anymore. See our list of AI tools for spreadsheets and data for options that are still open.
• You're a current Rows user: copy your work out now, and contact support@rows.com about your account.

Julius's free plan is the cheapest way to see if chat-style analysis suits you. Upload a file you already know well and check that its answers match what you'd expect.