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Macabacus vs UpSlide

Macabacus and UpSlide both land on Depends.

Macabacus

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if your team does heavy financial modeling in Excel/PowerPoint on Windows and can budget per-seat fees.

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UpSlide

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you are a mid-to-large finance, consulting, or professional-services firm producing high volumes of client decks and reports in Microsoft 365.

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Macabacus versus UpSlide
Compare	Macabacus	UpSlide
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Investment banking and PE analysts	Finance, consulting, and professional services firms
Who it's not for	Casual Excel users . massive overkill	Solo analysts and freelancers
Privacy	Vendor runs a Bugcrowd bug bounty and VDP; two CVEs were published against older versions and addressed via patches.¹¹	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	Multiple reviewers call customer service excellent
Public sentiment	Finance users love the shortcuts and time savings but cite a learning curve and mourn the killed free version.^¹	Reviewers rate UpSlide highly for time savings, ease of use, and support, though some call it expensive.¹⁵
Biggest gotcha	Pricing is per user; seat costs multiply quickly across analyst teams.	Reddit user cites ~$2,700/user; expect enterprise-level pricing negotiation

Pick Macabacus when

Investment banking and PE analysts
FP&A teams on M365
Power Excel financial modelers
Brands enforcing deck/document compliance

When Macabacus is not a fit

Casual Excel users . massive overkill
Small teams without modeling-heavy workflows
Mac-only users
Anyone expecting the old free tier

Pick UpSlide when

Finance, consulting, and professional services firms
High-volume PowerPoint/Excel deck production
Compliance- and brand-governance-heavy workflows
Microsoft 365 shops

When UpSlide is not a fit

Solo analysts and freelancers
Small teams on a budget . Macabacus is far cheaper
Non-Microsoft tool stacks
Teams with light, occasional deck needs

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