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Financial modeling and scenario planning · November 2026 Edition

Workday Adaptive Planning vs Vena

Three of fourteen models named Workday Adaptive Planning first on the direct prompt; zero named Vena. Workday Adaptive Planning was named by ten of the fourteen models and Vena by thirteen and Workday Adaptive Planning carries 20 labels and Vena 22, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Workday Adaptive Planning

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

Vena

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share9%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate20%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#8A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels2022A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Workday Adaptive Planning reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Datarails was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. Microsoft Excel vs Workday Adaptive Planning · Microsoft Excel vs Vena · Datarails vs Workday Adaptive Planning

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 modeling and scenario planning page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Workday Adaptive PlanningFirst choices, of fourteen modelsVena
Direct301 against Workday Adaptive Planning · 1 against Vena
Paraphrase211 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Comparative00
Budget-constrained002 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Scale-constrained00
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, Workday Adaptive Planning and Vena were named in the same answer 235 times, of the 498 answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning and the 468 naming Vena. In those answers Vena took the first choice twelve times and Workday Adaptive Planning twenty-three.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Workday Adaptive Planning 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
Workday Adaptive Planning Vena first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Workday Adaptive Planning on the left and Vena on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Workday Adaptive Planning first, Vena an alternative

3 of 14 modelsVena was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniPigment, Workday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Anaplan, Vena
MiniMax M2.5Workday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Cube, Vena
GPT-6 LunaWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Planful, Vena

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashMosaic alternatives: Cube, Datarails, Pigment, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Perplexity SonarDrivetrain alternatives: Abacum, Datarails, Limelight, Vena
Mistral SmallDatarails alternatives: Cube, Limelight, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashDatarails, Limelight alternatives: Aleph, Cube, Jedox, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXDatarails alternatives: OneStream, Pigment, Planful, Vena
Muse Glimmer 30BDatarails alternatives: Aleph, Cube, Limelight, Planful, Prophix One, Vena

Neither was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Datarails alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Pigment, Planful
Grok 4.20Datarails alternatives: Cube, Jirav, Quantrix Modeler
DeepSeek V4 FlashPigment alternatives: Aleph, Cube, Datarails, Prophix One
Llama 4 MaverickAleph, Datarails, Limelight
Kimi K2Cube, Datarails alternatives: Drivetrain, Jirav

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
Level: the same share of first choices.
Workday Adaptive Planning0%#15 of 16
Vena0%#13 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Workday Adaptive Planning leads by seven points.
Workday Adaptive Planning9%#5 of 11
Vena2%#8 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Workday Adaptive Planning leads by six points.
Workday Adaptive Planning8%#2 of 11
Vena2%#7 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

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. One of one in this category shown.

“Skip enterprise platforms like Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle EPM, or Workday Adaptive Planning” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative

What the models said about Vena

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
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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.