Planful vs Workday Adaptive Planning
Three of fourteen models named Planful first on the direct prompt; one named Workday Adaptive Planning. Both were named by all fourteen models and Planful carries 54 labels and Workday Adaptive Planning 62, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in ten categories this edition.
Named in seven categories this edition.
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 FP&A platforms page.
By framing
PlanfulFirst choices, of fourteen modelsWorkday Adaptive Planning
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
| 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
Both were the first choice
1 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.Planful first, Workday Adaptive Planning not the choice
2 of 14 modelsWorkday Adaptive Planning was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.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.Neither was named
5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Planful2%#11 of 17Workday Adaptive Planning0%#16 of 17Planful7%#5 of 14Workday Adaptive Planning7%#6 of 14Workday Adaptive Planning11%#3 of 14Planful4%#6 of 14What 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.
“60% of FP&A professionals expressed criticism about Planful. Users report that "the planning feature was almost impossible to use".” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid the mid-market "contact us" vendors (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Planful)” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Planful is best for horizontal mid-market and enterprise finance teams that value packaged AI features and integrated FP&A plus close, and is a G2 Leader” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct 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. Two of two in this category shown.
“Avoid the mid-market "contact us" vendors (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Planful)” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Workday Adaptive Planning and Prophix One are the most recommended due to their balance of functionality, scalability, and user-friendliness” Mistral Small · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.