# Pigment alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 639 of the 756 answers in the 3 categories where Pigment holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/pigment/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Cube: 55
- Anaplan: 49
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: 36
- OneStream: 33
- Datarails: 27
- Jirav: 27

## FP&A platforms

**Small business**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #14 of 17 at 0%).

- Cube: first choice in 22 of those 82
- Jirav: first choice in 15 of those 82
- Datarails: first choice in 11 of those 82
- Fathom: first choice in 11 of those 82
- Aleph: first choice in 5 of those 82
- Clockwork: first choice in 3 of those 82
- PlanGuru: first choice in 3 of those 82
- LiveFlow: first choice in 2 of those 82

**Mid-market**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #1 of 14 at 19%).

- Cube: first choice in 6 of those 53
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 4 of those 53
- Anaplan: first choice in 3 of those 53
- PlanGuru: first choice in 3 of those 53
- Prophix: first choice in 3 of those 53
- Vena: first choice in 3 of those 53
- Excel: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Planful: first choice in 2 of those 53

**Enterprise**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #4 of 14 at 7%).

- Anaplan: first choice in 18 of those 53
- OneStream: first choice in 10 of those 53
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 3 of those 53
- Cube: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Planful: first choice in 2 of those 53
- Board: first choice in 1 of those 53
- Limelight: first choice in 1 of those 53
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: first choice in 1 of those 53

## Financial modeling and scenario planning

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Pigment.

- Google Sheets: first choice in 15 of those 84
- Microsoft Excel: first choice in 15 of those 84
- Jirav: first choice in 6 of those 84
- LivePlan: first choice in 6 of those 84
- Causal: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Fuelfinance: first choice in 5 of those 84
- Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Cube: first choice in 2 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 67 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #4 of 11 at 9%).

- Microsoft Excel: first choice in 11 of those 67
- Datarails: first choice in 7 of those 67
- Google Sheets: first choice in 7 of those 67
- Cube: first choice in 2 of those 67
- Limelight: first choice in 2 of those 67
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 2 of those 67
- Aleph: first choice in 1 of those 67
- Centage Planning Maestro: first choice in 1 of those 67

**Enterprise**: 71 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #4 of 11 at 8%).

- Anaplan: first choice in 20 of those 71
- Erwin Data Modeler: first choice in 4 of those 71
- Limelight: first choice in 3 of those 71
- OneStream: first choice in 3 of those 71
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 3 of those 71
- Ardoq: first choice in 2 of those 71
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: first choice in 2 of those 71
- AWS SageMaker: first choice in 1 of those 71

## Corporate performance management

**Small business**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #11 of 14 at 0%).

- Cube: first choice in 16 of those 76
- Vena: first choice in 8 of those 76
- Datarails: first choice in 7 of those 76
- Jirav: first choice in 6 of those 76
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 5 of those 76
- Effy AI: first choice in 4 of those 76
- Planful: first choice in 3 of those 76
- Aleph: first choice in 2 of those 76

**Mid-market**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Pigment (Pigment is #5 of 16 at 6%).

- Planful: first choice in 8 of those 73
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: first choice in 7 of those 73
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 6 of those 73
- Cube: first choice in 5 of those 73
- Vena: first choice in 5 of those 73
- Jedox: first choice in 3 of those 73
- Datarails: first choice in 2 of those 73
- Lattice: first choice in 2 of those 73

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name Pigment.

- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: first choice in 26 of those 80
- OneStream: first choice in 20 of those 80
- Anaplan: first choice in 8 of those 80
- Workday Adaptive Planning: first choice in 3 of those 80
- Betterworks: first choice in 2 of those 80
- Corporater: first choice in 1 of those 80
- Drivetrain: first choice in 1 of those 80
- IBM Planning Analytics: first choice in 1 of those 80

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