Google Sheets connector for Claude

Use Porter’s Google Sheets connector for Claude to read any tab or A1 range as data, filter it by date and set it next to live ad spend.

  • Pace the budgets in your sheet against live ad spend
  • Summarize a leads log by week and source
  • Compare a targets tab with an actuals tab
  • Roll up one tab per client into one scorecard
Connect Google Sheets to Claude free See the 3 steps
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By Porter Metrics team · Last updated October 19, 2026

ClaudePorter connected
List the tabs in my 'Marketing 2026' spreadsheet with their row counts.
Porter / Google Sheets / Trailgear Demo✓ 4 rows
Leads is the largest tab (4,812 rows); Claude can summarize it by week next.
TabRows
Leads4,812
Budget148
Campaigns362
Notes57
Demo data, Trailgear Demo account
Any tab you share
01Setup

How to connect Google Sheets to Claude

Claude has its own Drive and Sheets connectors, built for one file at a time. To read tabs as data across spreadsheets, connect them in Porter, add Porter’s MCP URL to Claude as a custom connector, then ask. The guide on how to connect Porter to Claude with MCP also has screenshots. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the open standard Claude uses to connect to tools such as Porter.

Before you start

  • You need a Google account that can open the spreadsheet, as well as a free Porter account and any Claude plan. Custom connectors work on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, but Free allows only one (Anthropic’s guide to custom connectors). Each tab needs its headers in row 1, plus a Date column if you want date filters.
  • Works in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Cowork and Claude Code, with any Claude model, from Opus to Sonnet and Haiku.

  1. Step 1: Connect Google Sheets in Porter, then pick tabs

    Sign up to Porter with Google and pick Google Sheets as the source. Choose the spreadsheet and tick the tabs Claude should read, then pick Claude as the destination. Each tab becomes one data source (a spreadsheet on its own gives Claude no columns to read).

  2. Step 2: Add the Google Sheets connector to Claude

    In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, choose + Add, then Add custom connector. Finally, name it Porter Metrics and paste this URL:

    MCP URL
    https://mcp.portermetrics.com/mcp

  3. Step 3: Ask Claude about Google Sheets

    Sign in to Porter when Claude asks, then try this:

    Prompt
    List the tabs in my 'Marketing 2026' spreadsheet with their row counts, then summarize the 'Leads' tab by week for the last 4 weeks.

Guides and videos

Connect Google Sheets to Claude free

app.portermetrics.com / create
Google screen where you allow Porter Metrics to see your Google Sheets spreadsheets
First, sign in with Google and allow access to your spreadsheets.
Porter's Select worksheets window for Google Sheets with a demo account
Then, add the sheets Claude can read and save.
Claude's Add custom connector window with the name Porter Metrics and Porter's MCP URL filled in
Then, in Claude, add a custom connector with Porter's MCP URL.
Porter's Application Access Request screen asking you to let Claude use the Porter MCP server
When Claude asks, sign in to Porter and select Allow Access.
Porter Metrics listed as a connected connector in Claude with its read-only tools
After that, Porter shows as connected, so you can ask your first question.
If you prefer video, watch the whole Google Sheets to Claude setup (1:35, no sound).
Interactive walkthrough, so you can click along here
02Use cases and prompts

What you can ask Claude

Each use case comes with a prompt to copy, the fields it uses and who it’s for. Field IDs come from your own header row, so these headers are just examples; the Google Sheets fields list explains the naming.

Can Claude pace the budgets in my sheet against live ad spend?

The problemBudgets sit in a tab while spend gets pasted in from the ad platforms on Monday, and by Thursday the pacing column is already wrong.

What Claude doesClaude reads your Budgets tab together with live spend for the same campaigns. That spend comes from the Google Ads connector for Claude and the Meta Ads connector for Claude. It then projects month-end spend from the daily run rate and flags campaigns heading over budget.

What you getThe Monday paste goes away, and you can pull budget from a campaign mid-month instead of explaining the overspend afterwards.

Prompt
Read the 'Budgets' tab (Campaign, Monthly budget). Next to it, show month-to-date Blended Ad Spend for the same campaigns from Google Ads and Meta. Project month-end spend from the daily run rate and list campaigns that will pass 100% of budget, most urgent first.

For: in-house PPC managers · agency media buyers · marketing leads

Fields used: CampaignMonthly budgetBlended Ad SpendCampaign name

Can Claude summarize a leads log in Google Sheets by week?

The problemEvery lead lands in a shared tab, but the Monday pivot table that would make sense of it never gets built.

What Claude doesClaude groups the rows by week and Source, then counts leads, adds up deal value and names the source that grew or dropped the most.

What you getYou see which channel to fund next week before anyone builds a pivot table.

Prompt
In the 'Leads' tab, for the last 8 weeks, count rows and sum Deal value by Week and Source. Which Source grew or dropped the most against the previous 4 weeks?

For: B2B marketers · CRM managers · agencies reporting leads

Fields used: DateSourceStatusDeal value

Can Claude find the right tab and read a range without any setup?

The problemA spreadsheet full of tabs called “Copy of Q3 final v2”, but the one that matters is never the first one you open.

What Claude doesWith no setup, Claude lists every tab with its row and column counts, then reads the A1 range you name straight from the Sheets API. Values come back as the sheet displays them, and Claude reads the formulas instead when you ask (Google’s values.get reference for render options).

What you getYou land on the live tab and its totals in one answer, instead of clicking through a spreadsheet you inherited.

Prompt
List every tab in the 'Client Reporting' spreadsheet with its row and column count. Then read 'Summary'!A1:H40 and tell me which rows hold totals.

For: marketing ops · agency account managers

Fields used: Claude reads the range directly (sheet_list, values_get)

Can Claude compare a targets tab with an actuals tab in Google Sheets?

The problemTargets sit in one tab and actuals in another, so the monthly review opens with an hour of VLOOKUPs.

What Claude doesClaude lines up each month and KPI across both tabs, then returns the gap and the percent to target.

What you getThe review starts with the KPIs that slipped twice instead of fixing lookup formulas.

Prompt
Compare the 'Targets' tab with the 'Actuals' tab by Month and KPI for 2026. Show Target, Actual, the difference and percent to target, and flag any KPI below 90% for two months in a row.

For: marketing leads · founders · marketing analysts

Fields used: MonthKPITargetActual

Can Claude roll up one tab per client into one scorecard?

The problemEvery client has a tab with the same columns, but the Friday roll-up is an hour of copy-paste into a summary tab.

What Claude doesClaude pulls the client tabs together and returns one row per client with spend, leads, cost per lead and the change from the week before. Each tab is its own data source in Porter, so keep the same headers on every client tab.

What you getFriday’s status note starts with the clients whose cost per lead moved instead of a copy-paste session.

Prompt
For the tabs 'Client A', 'Client B' and 'Client C', show last week's Spend, Leads and Spend divided by Leads per tab, next to the week before. Mark any client whose cost per lead rose more than 20%.

For: agency account managers · agency owners

Fields used: DateSpendLeads

Can Claude check a tab for blanks, duplicates and typos before a report goes out?

The problemOne blank date or a “1,200” typed as text, and the client dashboard built on that tab breaks an hour before the call.

What Claude doesClaude reads the range, then lists empty required cells, duplicate rows and values that don’t fit their column, with row numbers, so you know exactly which cells to fix in Sheets.

What you getYou catch the broken rows before the client does, without filtering every column by hand.

Prompt
Read 'Orders'!A1:L2000. List rows where Date or Order ID is empty, rows that appear twice, and cells in the Revenue column that aren't numbers. Give me the row numbers.

For: marketing ops · marketing analysts · agencies

Fields used: Claude reads the range directly

Can Claude compare this week with last week in any dated tab?

The problemWeek over week in a sheet means two SUMIFS per metric and a helper column just to find the week.

What Claude doesOn any dated tab, Claude filters the tab by date, then compares the two weeks for every number column and names the biggest movers. The dates filter correctly even when Claude labels the period “unverified”.

What you getThe weekly check becomes one question you can ask any morning, on any tab with a Date column.

Prompt
In the 'Sales' tab, compare the last 7 days with the 7 days before for every number column. Show both totals, the change and the percent change, largest first.

For: e-commerce marketers · founders · agencies

Fields used: DateSalesOrders
03Why Porter

Why Porter for Google Sheets in Claude

Porter reads your tabs as data across spreadsheets and sets them next to live ad spend. To edit the file you have open, use Claude for Google Workspace (Claude for Google Workspace help) or Claude’s Sheets connector (Anthropic’s guide to Google Workspace connectors), and to build an agent that writes cells, follow Google’s guide to the official Sheets MCP server. You can run both.

✓

Every tab as data

Each header becomes a field, number columns become metrics and a Date column turns on date filters, so Claude asks across tabs and spreadsheets in one answer.

⊞

Google Sheets next to your ad spend

Set budgets, targets or offline sales against live Google Ads, Meta and GA4 numbers from all Claude connectors in one answer, then have Claude turn it into a chart or dashboard.

⚙

Safe for live spreadsheets

Claude reads every tab and range you connect, then tells you what to fix, while your spreadsheets stay exactly as you set them. You pick the tabs and revoke access anytime.

Aa

One URL, nothing to host

Connect Sheets in Porter and add one custom connector to Claude, on any Claude plan, Free included. There’s no Google Cloud project to set up.

↻

One connection, every destination

The same connection also feeds Google Sheets to Looker Studio and Google Sheets to BigQuery, so the tab behind Claude’s answer also fills your reports.

✓

Live dashboards, not only chat answers

Ask Claude for a dashboard and Porter’s AI dashboards publish it at its own link, synced automatically and ready to share. Official MCP servers answer inside the chat and stop there.

04Dashboard

Dashboard template

Start from a ready-made Google Sheets template, or ask Claude to build a live one with AI dashboards.

AI dashboards

Build a live Google Sheets dashboard from the chat

Describe the dashboard in one sentence and Porter builds it. A client-ready dashboard in minutes, with no chart dragging and no BI tool to learn. Ask Claude:

Prompt
Build a live Google Sheets dashboard for my account with the last 30 days, the main KPIs and a weekly trend.
Live URLEach dashboard at its own link: no login, no app, no download
Auto-syncFresh Google Sheets data, nobody re-exports each period
Scheduled deliveryEmail or PDF sends on a set day
White labelYour logo and branding for clients
Sharing permissionsView or edit access per person

Or start from a template

Dashboard templates for every source ↗Ads, social, SEO, ecommerce and CRMPorter's template gallery ↗Every Porter template in one place
05Pricing

Pricing

You can start free, since Porter’s Google Sheets connector for Claude comes with every plan. Use the calculator for your number of accounts, or see Porter pricing for every plan.

What you get

  • Free plan: never expires, with unlimited connected accounts and the last 15 days of data in Claude (30 days in Data Studio and Sheets)
  • Reporting: from $12.50 per account a month billed annually, or $15 month to month for one account
  • Billing: each connected tab counts as one data source account, with volume discounts and no per-seat fee
  • No credits needed: Claude’s Google Sheets questions are reads, so they use no AI credits
  • Trial: 14 days of full access, no card

See full pricing and plans

Price calculator

$33.33/mo$6.67 per account

An account is one ad account, Stripe account, store, page or GA4 property. The Free plan never expires and has unlimited accounts, with the last 15 days of data in AI chats.

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06Data and actions

Google Sheets data Claude can use

The Google Sheets connector builds Claude's field list from your own tabs: every column is a field, named from its header row. Number columns become metrics while text and date columns become dimensions, and a Date column turns on date filters. Claude can also list a spreadsheet's tabs and read any range (full list of Google Sheets fields).

Tabs read cleanly when row 1 has one header per column, each row is one record, and dates sit in a single Date column. Numbers typed as text, like "1,200" with a stray space, come in as text rather than as a metric Claude can add up. Rename a header only when you're ready to update the prompts that use it.

How Claude reads Google Sheets

BehaviorWhat it meansExample
Header row → field namesEach header becomes a field with the sheets_source_ prefixAd spend → sheets_source_ad_spend
Number columns → metricsClaude can add, average and compare themSpend, Leads, Revenue
Text columns → dimensionsClaude groups and filters by themCampaign, Source, Client
Date column → date filtersRows filter by any date rangeLast 7 days, by Week
One tab = one data sourceAsk across several tabs in one questionClient A, Client B, Client C
Range readsAny A1 range, straight from the Sheets API (Google's guide to A1 notation and ranges)'Summary'!A1:H40
Tab listEvery tab with its row and column count20 tabs in a shared file
Spreadsheet searchFind a spreadsheet in Drive by name"Marketing 2026"

Product stats

WhatGoogle Sheets connector
FieldsYour own: every column, named from its header row; number columns become metrics
ReadsTabs as data, A1 ranges, tab lists, spreadsheet details and Drive search by name
FreshnessRange reads come live from the Sheets API; new columns appear once the tab is ingested again
HistoryThe last 15 days in Claude on the Free plan (30 days in Data Studio and Sheets)
RowsUp to 1,000 per question by default; longer answers are flagged as truncated
SpeedGoogle allows 60 reads per minute per user, with a 180-second timeout
AccessYour Google sign-in, on the tabs you connect in Porter

See all Google Sheets fields

07Security

Is it safe?

Yes. Porter's Google Sheets connector for Claude reads through your Google sign-in, and your spreadsheets stay exactly as you set them, from every cell to every sharing setting. Disconnect in Porter, or remove an app's access to your Google Account, at any time.

What Claude can see in Google Sheets

Claude sees only the tabs you connected in Porter, from spreadsheets the connecting Google account can open. A tab that account can't read publishes no fields, so nothing from it reaches Claude (Porter's privacy policy).

Prompt injection in shared sheets

Text typed into a cell is data rather than an instruction Claude should follow. Google warns about indirect prompt injection for its own Sheets MCP. Porter's connection reads and never writes, so your spreadsheet stays as you set it even if a cell holds a planted instruction.

08FAQ

FAQ

Most questions cover Claude's own connectors, freshness, several tabs, API keys and sending data the other way. Then come 3 fixes: tabs Claude can't see, numbers that don't match, and slow or cut-off answers.

Does Claude have its own Sheets connector?

Yes. Claude has a Google Drive connector and the Claude for Google Workspace add-on. Its Docs, Sheets and Slides connectors edit a file live in a pane, so use them to edit one spreadsheet. But use Porter when Claude should read many tabs as data, filter by date or compare a sheet with ad spend.

How fresh is the data, and what if I add a column?

Range reads come from the Sheets API the moment Claude asks, so they show the sheet as it is. For a new column, ingest the tab again in Porter. Until then, Claude reads the new column through a range.

Can I connect several spreadsheets or client tabs?

Yes. Every tab you connect in Porter becomes its own data source, from any number of spreadsheets. Claude can then ask across them in one question. Agencies usually connect one tab per client with matching headers, then ask for one scorecard.

Do I need an Anthropic API key or Claude Code?

No. The Google Sheets connector for Claude is a custom connector you add with one URL. So there's no Anthropic API key to paste into a spreadsheet and no code to run. If you're coding your own agent, point it at Google's official Sheets MCP instead.

Can Porter send ad data into Sheets instead?

Yes. Porter also works the other way: it can send marketing data into Google Sheets and keep a tab updated on a schedule. That's a separate setup, but both can run on the same spreadsheet.

Troubleshooting

Why can't Claude see my tab or its columns?

Connect the tab itself in Porter, not just the spreadsheet, and keep its headers in row 1. The connecting Google account must also be able to open the file. A tab nobody has ingested has no fields yet, but Claude can still read its range.

Why don't the numbers match my sheet?

Claude's numbers through Porter can differ from your sheet for 5 usual reasons. For example, dates come back as text like 20261011, numbers as text like 73.0, and a renamed header breaks the old field name. Rows past the row limit are also left out, while a tab without a Date column can't be filtered by date.

Why is a big question slow or cut off?

Porter returns up to 1,000 rows per question by default, then flags anything longer as truncated. Google also caps reads at 60 per minute per user and times out requests after 180 seconds (Google's Sheets API usage limits). Instead, ask by month, or name a smaller range.

09Next

More Claude connectors

Your tabs usually hold analytics, CRM and store numbers someone copied in by hand. Porter brings those sources into Claude through the same MCP URL. The numbers in your sheet can then sit next to the live figures they came from:

→GA4 connector for Claude→HubSpot connector for Claude→Shopify connector for Claude→BigQuery connector for Claude→Google Search Console connector for Claude

Not only Claude. Send Google Sheets data anywhere

The same Porter account and connection also send Google Sheets data to these destinations, at no extra cost.

→Google Sheets to ChatGPT→Google Sheets to Data Studio→Google Sheets to Google Sheets→Google Sheets to BigQuery→Google Sheets connector for any AI tool (MCP)

Try the connector in Claude

Connect your tabs in Porter and ask about any of them: pacing, leads, targets, client roll-ups or this week against last. Setting up the Google Sheets connector for Claude takes one Google sign-in and one URL. Since the free plan includes the MCP, your first tab costs nothing to try.

Connect Google Sheets to Claude free

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In-house marketers: the budget tab and live spend finally sit in the same answer.

Agencies: one scorecard across every client tab, ready before Friday's calls.

Marketing ops and analysts: broken rows found before the dashboard breaks, not after.

About the author: Porter Metrics team, who build Porter's connectors for Claude.Last updated October 19, 2026

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