EMBED SHEETS vs CALCONIC
Calconic is the one product here that undercuts us on price, so this page starts with that rather than working around it.
Calconic prices below were read from their own pricing page on 26 August 2026. Check them before you decide — they change.
Billed monthly, cancel any time. No traffic limits on any plan — only how many calculators you may have.
| Feature | Embed Sheets | Calconic |
|---|---|---|
| Drag-and-drop builder | ||
| Formula editor Theirs is a graphical formula editor; ours is written, with the function list beside it. | ||
| Financial and date functions Their site describes “mathematical operations and functions” without listing them, so we cannot say either way. | Not stated | |
| Live data from a REST API Their features page lists Zapier and Google Sheets integrations and no way to call an API from a calculation. | ||
| Charts and data tables They offer a gauge and a text gauge for showing a result graphically, which is not the same as a chart of a series. | ||
| A Google Doc as the PDF template Not something we could find stated either way on their site. | Every plan | Not stated |
| Payments inside the calculator Their paid plans include PayPal payments and an order form. | ||
| Value lookup from a CSV | ||
| Quizzes and scored assessments Choices, a score worked out by formula and a banded result. Not something we checked either way on their side. | Not stated | |
| Unlimited calculators Theirs is the Bold plan, billed annually. Both are unlimited; the difference is what it costs and whether traffic is capped. | $19/month | $44/month |
| A Google Sheet as the calculation engine Their own documentation describes their Google Sheets integration as saving submissions to a sheet. Writing a visitor’s answers into cells and reading the results back is a different thing. | ||
| Unlimited visits Theirs are counted as impressions, from 500 a month to 75,000. An impression is spent when the calculator loads, whether or not anybody uses it. | Every plan | up to 75,000/month |
| Unlimited submissions on every plan Their plans are metered by traffic or submissions; ours are metered only by how many calculators an account may have. | Every plan |
Their $5 plan allows 3,000 impressions a month. An impression is counted when the calculator loads, whether or not anybody uses it — so a calculator on a busy page spends the allowance on people who scrolled past. Our $7 plan has no traffic ceiling at all. Below about 3,000 loads a month they are cheaper; above it, they are not.
Their $5 and $14 are the annual rates, paid up front. Billed quarterly the same plans are $6 and $17, and the quarterly plans also allow fewer calculators and fewer impressions. Ours are monthly, cancellable, and the same either way.
Most businesses already have their pricing in a spreadsheet that works. Embed Sheets can use that sheet as the calculation engine: a visitor’s answers are written into its input cells and the results read back, so your existing formulas run untouched and changing a price means editing the sheet. Every other builder here asks you to rebuild the logic in their own formula language first.
Every builder in this category charges by traffic: views, visits, impressions, submissions or responses. Embed Sheets limits how many calculators you can have and nothing else — submissions are unlimited on every plan, including the $7 one. It is a different model rather than a cheaper version of the same one, and the difference shows up at the worst possible moment: when a calculator starts working.
On its annual Light plan, yes — $5 a month against $7. It caps you at 3,000 impressions a month and requires paying a year up front. Which is better depends entirely on how much traffic your calculator sees.
That is a question for them, and their pricing page is where to check it before you commit. We mention it because it is the axis the two products differ on, not to make a claim about how they handle it.
It saves submissions to a sheet. Their documentation describes it as connecting “to automatically save data from your calculator submissions”. That is a different thing from using the sheet to do the arithmetic, which is what Embed Sheets does.
