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Corporate performance management · November 2026 Edition
Planful vs Workday Adaptive Planning
Six of fourteen models named Planful first on the direct prompt; two named Workday Adaptive Planning. Both were named by all fourteen models and Planful carries 42 labels and Workday Adaptive Planning 53, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in ten categories this edition.
Named in seven categories this edition.
First-choice share27%10%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%19%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 16; printed, not drawn.
Labels4253A 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.Vena was named alongside these two in eight of the fourteen direct answers. Planful vs Vena · Planful vs Cube · Planful vs Pigment
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 corporate performance management 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 modelsWorkday Adaptive Planning
Direct621 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Paraphrase611 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Comparative00
Budget-constrained102 against Planful · 4 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Scale-constrained02
Negative024 against Workday Adaptive Planning
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 Workday Adaptive Planning were named in the same answer 223 times, of the 402 answers naming Planful and the 498 naming Workday Adaptive Planning. In those answers Workday Adaptive Planning took the first choice twenty times and Planful nineteen.
Every model, every framing
The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Planful and Workday Adaptive Planning stood in it.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Workday Adaptive Planning first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Planful on the left and Workday Adaptive Planning on the right.The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Planful and Workday Adaptive Planning stood in it.
Planful first, Workday Adaptive Planning an alternative
6 of 14 modelsWorkday Adaptive Planning was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Perplexity SonarPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Pigment, Prophix, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Grok 4.20Planful alternatives: Drivetrain, OneStream, Prophix
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful alternatives: Datarails, Prophix, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
GLM 4.7 FlashXPlanful, Vena alternatives: Board, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
GPT-6 LunaPlanful alternatives: Pigment, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Muse Glimmer 30BPlanful, Vena alternatives: Prophix, deFacto Global
Workday Adaptive Planning first, Planful an alternative
2 of 14 modelsPlanful was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.GPT-5.4 miniWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Prophix
Qwen 3.7 FlashWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Anaplan, Cube, OneStream, Planful
Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Gemini 3.5 FlashPigment alternatives: Cube, Mosaic, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Kimi K2Cube, Vena alternatives: Datarails, Planful, Prophix
MiniMax M2.5Vena alternatives: OneStream, Pigment, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning
Neither was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Mistral SmallAnaplan, Empower alternatives: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
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
Workday Adaptive Planning leads by five points.
Workday Adaptive Planning7%#4 of 14Planful2%#8 of 14Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Planful leads at mid-market.
Planful27%#1 of 16Workday Adaptive Planning10%#3 of 16Enterprise
The order flips: Workday Adaptive Planning leads at enterprise.
Workday Adaptive Planning5%#4 of 13Planful4%#5 of 13What the models said about Planful
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Options to AVOID on a Limited Budget ... | Planful | ~$60K–$250K+/year” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Choose Planful if you want a browser-based, structured platform with strong multi-entity consolidation, financial close and rolling forecasts.” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose Planful if you want a unified planning, reporting and consolidation platform with stronger native modeling and self-service” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · first choice
What the models said about Workday Adaptive Planning
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of five in this category shown.
“Avoid: Enterprise solutions like Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or Prophix until you scale” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Options to AVOID on a Limited Budget ... | Adaptive Planning (Workday) | ~$100K+/year” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“your sweet spot at 500 employees is mid-market EPM. Top contenders include: ... Workday Adaptive Planning | Planning/FP&A focus, Workday HCM users | Strong trial available” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“For most mid-to-large enterprises today, Adaptive Insights (Workday), Vena, and Trullio (for specialized uses) are often considered more user-friendly starting points” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: Workday Adaptive Planning ... widely considered the gold standard for mid-market to upper-mid-market companies” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared
Planful vs VenaPlanful vs CubePlanful vs PigmentPlanful vs JedoxPlanful vs DatarailsPlanful vs ProphixVena vs Workday Adaptive PlanningWorkday Adaptive Planning vs CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning vs PigmentWorkday Adaptive Planning vs JedoxWorkday Adaptive Planning vs DatarailsWorkday Adaptive Planning vs ProphixAll twenty-eight head-to-head pages and the full corporate performance ma standing
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.