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The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft Excel is first at 22%.
Microsoft Excel is first at 19%.
Anaplan is first at 59%.
“Modern, intuitive for dynamic modeling, scenario planning, and dashboards. Great for startups/SMBs”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Causal has the most approachable modeling interface, with a free tier, then about $250 a month”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“LivePlan and Causal are popular choices among small businesses and startups”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“"We want faster forecasts and visuals." | Causal or Planful”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Paid plans can be pricey for very small budgets”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
The products named in the same answers as Causal, over the 45 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 3 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 5 | View → | |
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 9 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 33 of the 45 answers that named Causal and are not a share of its labels.
Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Causal came from a third party's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 163 | 12 | 2026-09-23 | ESG and carbon reporting, Accounting software | |
| Case study | 68 | undated | Financial consolidation | ||
| Report or ebook | 67 | undated | Financial consolidation, Accounting software | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 48 | 0 | 2025-12-02 | Financial consolidation | |
| News or press | 18 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | ||
| Podcast or video | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated | Lease accounting | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2025-11-12 |
Every page lucanet.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name financial consolidation (11); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.