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Financial consolidation · November 2026 Edition

Planful vs Vena

Six of fourteen models named Planful first on the direct prompt; one named Vena. Both were named by all fourteen models and Planful carries 39 labels and Vena 30, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Planful

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

Vena

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share17%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%3%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#5A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels3930A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Planful reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Prophix was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Prophix vs Planful · Prophix vs Vena · Joiin vs Planful

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the financial consolidation page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
PlanfulFirst choices, of fourteen modelsVena
Direct61
Paraphrase20
Comparative00
Budget-constrained002 against Planful · 1 against Vena
Scale-constrained11
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Planful and Vena were named in the same answer 245 times, of the 402 answers naming Planful and the 468 naming Vena. In those answers Vena took the first choice fourteen times and Planful twenty-two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Planful and Vena stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Planful Vena first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Planful on the left and Vena on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Planful and Vena stood in it.

Planful first, Vena an alternative

6 of 14 modelsVena was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Planful alternatives: Datarails, Prophix, Sage Intacct
Perplexity SonarPlanful alternatives: Datarails, OneStream, Prophix, Vena
Grok 4.20Planful, Prophix alternatives: Vena
Mistral SmallPlanful, Prophix alternatives: OneStream, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Datarails, Vena
Muse Glimmer 30BPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Datarails, OneStream, Vena

Vena first, Planful an alternative

1 of 14 modelsPlanful was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
MiniMax M2.5Prophix, Vena alternatives: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Planful, Workiva

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniOneStream alternatives: BlackLine, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Prophix, Vena
Gemini 3.5 FlashProphix alternatives: Fluence Technologies, Planful, Vena
DeepSeek V4 FlashProphix alternatives: Planful, Vena
Llama 4 MaverickProphix alternatives: CCH Tagetik, OneStream, Planful
Kimi K2Prophix alternatives: Planful, Sage Intacct, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXProphix alternatives: OneStream, Planful
GPT-6 LunaProphix alternatives: Planful

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Vena leads by two points.
Vena3%#6 of 14
Planful2%#11 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Planful leads at mid-market.
Planful17%#3 of 14
Vena4%#5 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Planful0%#8 of 13
Vena0%#9 of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Planful

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Mid-Market Dedicated CPM / Consolidation Tools: Planful, Prophix, Vena Solutions, Fluence Technologies, LucaNet. (Great balance of powerful consolidation logic, fast implementation, and finance-team maintenance).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice

What the models said about Vena

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Mid-Market Dedicated CPM / Consolidation Tools: Planful, Prophix, Vena Solutions, Fluence Technologies, LucaNet.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.