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FP&A platforms for enterprise buyers

Asked as “FP&A software”, and as “financial planning and analysis platform”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 40 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
48%
Clear leader
48Anaplan20Workday Adaptive Planning15Pigment17others

48% of first choices, clear leader.

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 an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Anaplan48%20%66endorsed leader
02Workday Adaptive Planning20%19%64accepted challenger
03Pigment15%10%40accepted challenger
04OneStream2%9%45accepted challenger
05Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM2%10%39accepted challenger
06Board2%3%31accepted challenger
07IBM Planning Analytics2%19%21accepted challenger
08Cube2%47%17criticized challenger
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12Vena0%36%25criticized challenger
11Planful0%19%21accepted challenger
09SAP Analytics Cloud0%10%20accepted challenger
10CCH Tagetik0%7%15accepted 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.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
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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01Anaplan48%
02Workday Adaptive Planning20%
03Pigment15%
04OneStream2%
05Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM2%
06Board2%
07IBM Planning Analytics2%
08Cube2%
09SAP Analytics Cloud0%
10CCH Tagetik0%
11Planful0%
12Vena0%

What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, 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
20%
13 of 66 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid Anaplan / Workday / OneStream unless you have a dedicated procurement team to cap escalation” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Workday Adaptive Planning
19%
12 of 64 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid Anaplan / Workday / OneStream unless you have a dedicated procurement team” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Vena
36%
9 of 25 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Mid-Market/Value-Tier Tools (e.g., Cube, Datarails, Centage, Jirav, Vena for non-Excel natives)” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Cube
47%
8 of 17 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“Spreadsheet-Native Tools (Cube, Datarails/Jirav) ... Why to avoid: These platforms sit "on top of" spreadsheets rather than replacing the architecture.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, 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

66 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. 1057 links across 215 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

50 answers · 80 citations · 11 models
46 answers · 81 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Board43 answers · 69 citations · 12 models
36 answers · 39 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Centage36 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Drivetrain32 answers · 46 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Cubesoftware23 answers · 35 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 26 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G219 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
18 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Anaplan14 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
13 answers · 13 citations · 7 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
Anaplan anaplan.com48%48318,10053278,17931
Workday workday.com
Workday Adaptive Planning 20%
20%4301,220,00023,8482,213,450 company80
Pigment pigment.com15%19849,50025,64512,24822
OneStream onestream.com2%55312,10070332,233$36120
Oracle Fusion oracle.com
Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM 2%
2%32626007,410,638 company$247101
Board board.com2%14790,500612,48244,405106
IBM ibm.com
IBM Planning Analytics 2%
2%87201,00034,09831,137,701 company$2,518118
Fintastic2%
Limelight golimelight.com2%4949,5004,5464,75004
Cube cubesoftware.com2%30490,500152,613168,764131

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (centage.com, cfoshortlist.com, cubesoftware.com, gartner.com, getaleph.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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which financial planning and analysis platform would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade FP&A platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best FP&A software for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a FP&A software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which FP&A platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceAnaplanChanged
Six alternativesBoard, IBM Planning Analytics, Jedox, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workiva
Anaplan
Two alternativesOneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Two alternativesBoard, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
GPT-5.4 miniAnaplan
Three alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
One alternativeAnaplan
no first choice
Six alternativesAnaplan, IBM Planning Analytics, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning
Two alternativesBoard, OneStream
against: Anaplan
no first choiceagainst: Vena
Gemini 3.5 FlashPigment
Four alternativesAnaplan, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
AnaplanChanged
Three alternativesOneStream, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Cube, Datarails
Anaplan
Four alternativesOneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
Fintastic
Two alternativesActerys, Cube
against: Anaplan, OneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning
Five alternativesAnaplan, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, Planful
against: Clockwork, Jirav
against: Cube, Datarails, IBM Planning Analytics, Jirav, Mosaic, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Oracle Hyperion, SAP BPC, Vena
Perplexity SonarPigment
Nine alternativesAnaplan, Board, CCH Tagetik, IBM Planning Analytics, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Datarails
AnaplanChanged
Four alternativesBoard, Drivetrain, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
against: Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Six alternativesBoard, IBM Planning Analytics, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning
One alternativePigment
against: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
no first choiceagainst: Cube, Datarails, Drivetrain, SAP Analytics Cloud, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Grok 4.20Anaplan
Four alternativesOneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
AnaplanHeld
Four alternativesOneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceAnaplan
Two alternativesOneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
against: Centage, Limelight, Pigment, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choice
Six alternativesAnaplan, Cube, OneStream, Pigment, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Anaplan, Centage, Cube, Datarails, Jirav, OneStream, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Mistral SmallPigment
Two alternativesAnaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
AnaplanChanged
Two alternativesBoard, Cube
Pigment
Seven alternativesAnaplan, IBM Planning Analytics, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning
One alternativeAnaplan
no first choiceagainst: Cube, Datarails, Vena
DeepSeek V4 FlashAnaplan, Pigment
Two alternativesOneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
AnaplanChanged
Six alternativesBoard, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan, Pigment
Six alternativesBoard, CCH Tagetik, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: IBM Planning Analytics
Limelight
One alternativeCube
against: Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Board, Cube, Datarails, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Llama 4 MaverickWorkday Adaptive PlanningAnaplanChanged
One alternativeWorkday Adaptive Planning
Pigment
Two alternativesAnaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Two alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choice
One alternativeAnaplan
against: Anaplan, Pigment, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning
Qwen 3.7 FlashAnaplan
Five alternativesOneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
AnaplanHeld
Two alternativesOneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
OneStream, Pigment
Two alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud
against: Anaplan, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Four alternativesOneStream, Planful, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, Pigment, SAP BPC
Kimi K2Pigment
Four alternativesAnaplan, IBM Planning Analytics, OneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
OneStreamChanged
Three alternativesAnaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
Pigment
Six alternativesAnaplan, Board, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: CCH Tagetik, IBM Planning Analytics
Workday Adaptive Planning
Two alternativesOneStream, Planful
against: Anaplan
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Cube, Datarails, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXAnaplan, Board
Five alternativesCCH Tagetik, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan, PigmentChanged
Two alternativesBoard, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: OneStream
Pigment
Nine alternativesAnaplan, Board, CCH Tagetik, IBM Planning Analytics, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Planful, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
IBM Planning Analytics
Two alternativesOneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: Cube, Datarails, Jirav, Oracle E-Business Suite budgeting, Oracle Hyperion, Prophix, SAP BPC, Workday Adaptive Planning
MiniMax M2.5Workday Adaptive Planning
Five alternativesAnaplan, Board, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP BPC
Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPMChanged
Three alternativesOneStream, SAP, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceCube
Three alternativesAnaplan, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Pigment, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning
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 17:42no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:27yes55 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:27yes1528 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:36yes204 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 17:29yes3020 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:30yes2010 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:27yes2828 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:26yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:43yes932 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:36yes918 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:47yes1878 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:26yes1022 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:34no06 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:33yes26 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:48yes2128 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:32yes207 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 17:48yes3816 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:30yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:33yes1413 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:26yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:26yes522 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:41yes1529 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:44yes1245 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:32yes522 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:42yes1311 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:35yes610 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:46yes1725 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:30yes2010 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 17:35yes2921 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:48yes57 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 17:30yes2568 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:31yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:38yes2083 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:35yes2447 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:52yes23193 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:33yes518 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:37yes138 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:30yes57 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:38yes2330 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:26yes186 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 17:30yes3623 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:29yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:48yes2634 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:40yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:26no041 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:40yes822 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:39yes2565 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:36yes1558 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:34yes1811 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:35no011 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:43yes1528 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:40yes1711 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 17:54yes1717 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:34no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 17:31yes2558 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:45yes65 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:49yes1033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:28yes1527 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:55yes25118 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:44no014 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:34yes1710 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:27yes69 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:28yes1826 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:28yes208 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 17:29yes2417 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:27yes54 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:38yes3126 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:47yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:47yes2468 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:38yes2945 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 17:42yes3372 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:38yes1541 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 read as Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Insights (Workday) read as Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Insights (a Workday Product) read as Workday Adaptive Planning
IBM read as IBM Planning Analytics
Oracle read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Oracle EPM read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Oracle EPM Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM read as Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Vena Solutions read as Vena
Wolters Kluwer read as CCH Tagetik
Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik read as CCH Tagetik
Workday read as Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive read as Workday Adaptive Planning
Unresolved, counted raw
Fintastic
NextFPA
Oracle E-Business Suite budgeting
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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