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Index › Finance › Planning and analysis › FP&A platforms · September 2026 Edition

FP&A platforms

Asked as “FP&A software”, and as “financial planning and analysis platform”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
15%
Contested · Pigment 15%
15Clockwork15Pigment15Vena56others

15% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Vena15%16%45accepted challenger
02Pigment15%16%38accepted challenger
03Clockwork15%0%13accepted challenger
04Planful10%11%36accepted challenger
05Fathom10%0%10accepted challenger
06Cube8%8%37accepted challenger
07Prophix6%12%17accepted challenger
08Datarails4%9%45accepted challenger
09Aleph2%0%18accepted challenger
10Centage2%6%17accepted challenger
11Workday Adaptive Planning2%28%39criticized challenger
12Jirav2%15%20accepted challenger
13Mosaic2%9%11accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
16Anaplan0%61%38criticized challenger
15OneStream0%31%13criticized challenger
14LiveFlow0%10%10accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
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01Vena15%
02Pigment15%
03Clockwork15%
04Planful10%
05Fathom10%
06Cube8%
07Prophix6%
08Datarails4%
09Aleph2%
10Centage2%
11Workday Adaptive Planning2%
12Jirav2%
13Mosaic2%
14LiveFlow0%
15OneStream0%
16Anaplan0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Anaplan
61%
23 of 38 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 8 hard negative
“Avoid or be cautious about enterprise platforms (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive, Planful, Pigment) unless you have the budget and need for their complexity.” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Vena
16%
7 of 45 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“"would rather eat a bullet than use it again." ... Anaplan and Vena are the two with the most consistent negative sentiment” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Workday Adaptive Planning
28%
11 of 39 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“This platform is widely reported to cause friction due to an archaic interface and sluggish performance.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Pigment
16%
6 of 38 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid or be cautious about enterprise platforms (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive, Planful, Pigment)” Mistral Small, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

63 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 821 links across 145 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

45 answers · 74 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Centage33 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Drivetrain29 answers · 33 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G227 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Cubesoftware26 answers · 45 citations · 10 models
23 answers · 30 citations · 11 models
23 answers · 25 citations · 8 models
20 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Clockwork18 answers · 29 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Board16 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
15 answers · 53 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best fp&a software”, “fp&a platforms”, “fp&a software”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Vena venasolutions.com15%40412,1003,92862,294$13,79258
Pigment pigment.com15%19849,50025,64512,24822
Clockwork clockwork.ai15%2427,1007,1784634
Planful planful.com10%3573,600685,72658,997$137120
Fathom fathomhq.com10%19090,5006,65774,88138
Cube cubesoftware.com8%30490,500152,613168,764131
Prophix prophix.com6%2491,6004114,138$1091032
Datarails datarails.com4%3746,60013418,964$16,697107
Aleph getaleph.com2%9218,1001,6637,31003
Centage centage.com2%431,000111,69265

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 6 of them are among the sites the models cited here (centage.com, cfoshortlist.com, cubesoftware.com, getaleph.com, golimelight.com, reddit.com). The first result for “best fp&a software” is irisfinance.co.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best FP&A software for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which financial planning and analysis platform would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top FP&A platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best FP&A software for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a FP&A software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which FP&A platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Planful
Three alternativesPigment, Prophix, Vena
against: Jirav
AbacumChanged
Three alternativesMosaic, Prophix, Vena
no first choiceClockwork
Three alternativesAbacum, Centage, Datarails
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniPlanful, Vena
Two alternativesCube, Datarails
against: Anaplan
Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Two alternativesPlanful, Vena
no first choicePlanGuru
Four alternativesDatarails, Fathom, LiveFlow, Martus
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashDrivetrain
Three alternativesBob Finance, Cube, Planful
against: Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
Mosaic, Pigment, VenaChanged
Four alternativesCube, Datarails, Planful, Prophix
against: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choice
Ten alternativesAnaplan, Bob Finance, Clockwork, Cube, Datarails, OneStream, Pigment, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Fathom
Three alternativesClockwork, Coefficient, Jirav
against: Anaplan, LiveFlow, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
Pigment
Five alternativesCube, Mosaic, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Planful, Vena
against: Anaplan, SAP BPC
against: Anaplan, Cube, Datarails, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Perplexity SonarPlanful
Five alternativesAleph, Centage, Pigment, Prophix, Vena
PlanfulHeld
Three alternativesDatarails, Jirav, Vena
no first choice
Eleven alternativesAleph, Anaplan, Board, Cube, Datarails, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Jirav
Four alternativesCube, Datarails, Fairview, Fathom
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20Cube, Vena
Two alternativesDatarails, Pigment
against: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
CubeChanged
Five alternativesDatarails, Pigment, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Four alternativesCube, Pigment, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Clockwork, Fathom
Two alternativesExcel/Google Sheets, Reach Reporting
against: Cube, Datarails, Jirav, Limelight
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
Mistral SmallCentage
Four alternativesAbacum, Aleph, Datarails, Workday Adaptive Planning
Prophix, VenaChanged
Two alternativesDatarails, Planful
no first choiceClockwork
Six alternativesCube, Datarails, Excel, Fathom, Google Sheets, Jirav
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Centage, Datarails, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
DeepSeek V4 FlashDatarails
Three alternativesPlanful, Prophix, Vena
ProphixChanged
Three alternativesCentage, Pigment, Planful
against: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choice
Eleven alternativesAnaplan, Board, Cube, Datarails, Jirav, Mosaic, OneStream, Pigment, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Clockwork, Fathom
Two alternativesBudgyt, Causal
against: Anaplan, Mosaic, Pigment, Planful, Vena
no first choiceagainst: Anaplanagainst: Anaplan, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Oracle Hyperion, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Llama 4 MaverickPigment
Three alternativesAleph, Centage, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceChangedno first choiceClockwork
Three alternativesFathom, LiveFlow, Reach Reporting
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Datarails, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashPigment
Four alternativesAleph, Centage, Datarails, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
VenaChanged
Three alternativesDatarails, LiveFlow, Pigment
against: Anaplan
Anaplan, Datarails, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Four alternativesIBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Planning Analytics, Jirav, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Cube
Two alternativesClockwork, LiveFlow
Planful
Four alternativesFluent, Kore, Mosaic, Scope
against: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP BPC
against: Anaplan, OneStream, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Kimi K2Pigment
Three alternativesAleph, Centage, Workday Adaptive Planning
Datarails, Prophix, VenaChanged
Three alternativesAleph, Mosaic, Planful
against: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceClockwork, Fathom
One alternativeExcel
against: Jirav
no first choice
Seven alternativesAleph, Cube, Datarails, Jirav, Planful, Prophix, Vena
against: Anaplan
against: Anaplan, Cube, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, OneStream, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning
GLM 4.7 FlashXPigment
Eight alternativesAleph, Centage, Cube, Datarails, Planful, Prophix, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
AlephChanged
Six alternativesCube, Drivetrain, Pigment, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choice
Seven alternativesAnaplan, Board, Cube, OneStream, Pigment, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Fathom
Five alternativesClockwork, Excel/Google Sheets, Jirav, LiveFlow, Reach Reporting
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, Prophix, SAP BPC, Vena
MiniMax M2.5Pigment
Four alternativesAleph, Centage, Datarails, Workday Adaptive Planning
Cube, VenaChanged
Two alternativesCentage, Planful
no first choiceClockwork
One alternativeExcel/Google Sheets
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Kyriba, OneStream, Pigment
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:46yes99 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:45yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:29yes2623 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:29yes197 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:46yes2316 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:47yes59 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:36yes1217 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:44yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:34yes531 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:30yes519 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:39yes1243 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:40yes513 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:32yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:30yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:47yes1121 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:34yes206 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:46yes179 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:53yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:42yes915 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:35yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:41no034 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:38yes921 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:30yes8109 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:31yes924 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:30yes912 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:37yes310 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:34yes1226 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:31yes2013 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:34yes2522 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:41yes89 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:42yes1817 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:45yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:49no033 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:33yes828 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:34yes3466 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:26yes1429 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:48yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:34yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:39yes1920 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:26yes209 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:31yes3917 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:36yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:40yes816 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:40yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:35yes532 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:28yes1231 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:53yes8250 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:42yes922 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:46no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:45no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:29yes1124 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:27yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:27yes1711 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:37no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:28yes918 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:41yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:43no031 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:41yes954 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:35no091 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:29yes538 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:28no03 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:27no07 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:32yes2128 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:31yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:38yes3916 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:26yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:26yes2940 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:37yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:33yes2462 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:41yes2437 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:43yes3251 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:35yes1435 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Adaptive Insights (Workday) read as Workday Adaptive Planning
Clockwork AI read as Clockwork
HiBob Finance (formerly Mosaic) read as Bob Finance
Oracle read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Oracle EPM read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Oracle EPM (Hyperion) read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Oracle EPM Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Prophix One read as Prophix
Prophix One™ read as Prophix
Vena Solutions read as Vena
Wolters Kluwer read as CCH Tagetik
Workday Adaptive read as Workday Adaptive Planning
Unresolved, counted raw
Fluent
Kore
Martus
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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