Coda vs Rows

Coda is a document platform where docs behave like apps. Founded by former YouTube executive Shishir Mehrotra and based in San Francisco, it combines pages of text with tables that act as real databases, with formulas, views, buttons and automations. Grammarly acquired Coda in late 2024, and Mehrotra became Grammarly's CEO.

Packs connect a doc to Slack, Jira, Google Calendar, GitHub and hundreds of other services so it can read and write live data, and automations run on schedules or row changes. Teams use Coda for OKRs, meeting rituals, product roadmaps, hiring trackers and lightweight internal tools. The pricing model is unusual: only Doc Makers, the people who create docs, pay, while editors and viewers are free. The free plan covers personal use with doc size limits; Pro and Business (formerly Team) add unlimited doc size, version history, cross-doc sync and unlimited automations, and Enterprise adds SSO and audit features. Coda AI handles summaries, drafting and filling table columns.

Coda fits operations and product teams with a few power users who build structured docs for everyone else. Complex docs can become hard to maintain, the template ecosystem is smaller and mobile apps lag the desktop. Notion is easier to adopt and has a much larger template library, Airtable is stronger as a pure database, and Confluence suits engineering-heavy wikis.

Rows was a spreadsheet platform from Portugal, originally launched as DashDash, that combined familiar spreadsheet formulas with built-in data integrations, an AI analyst and publishing. In February 2026 Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, agreed to acquire Rows; the team moved on to strengthen Coda, and the Rows product was wound down, with rows.com fully shutting down on May 31, 2026.

While it ran, integrations pulled data from Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Facebook and Google Ads, databases and APIs into tables that refreshed automatically. The AI analyst summarized data, built pivot tables and charts, wrote formulas and answered questions in plain language, and any spreadsheet could be published as an interactive web page or embedded dashboard. It was sold as a freemium product with paid Plus and Pro plans.

Former users need a new home for the KPI dashboards, marketing reports and investor updates that relied on live data. Coda, now in the same company as the former Rows team, is the closest successor for teams that want docs and tables with integrations; Equals focuses on SQL and startup finance; Google Sheets with connector add-ons is the cheap default; and Airtable suits operational databases. Do not start new work in Rows, since the product is no longer available.