10 categories · RankedVena
Vena is a Microsoft-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform for finance teams · venasolutions.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 19 of 66 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cube is first at 18%.
Planful is first at 27%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Vena if adoption speed and Excel familiarity are critical and you are Microsoft-centric; it leads on operational planning and ease of implementation”Muse Glimmer 30B · Direct question · first choice
“Frequently recognized as a leader in EPM for mid-market, known for its Excel-like interface and strong financial planning capabilities”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Choose Vena if you need fast adoption, Excel continuity, and a finance-owned planning/consolidation with low change management.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Mid-Market Dedicated CPM / Consolidation Tools: Planful, Prophix, Vena Solutions, Fluence Technologies, LucaNet.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Extremely slow performance (e.g., single-cell updates taking 20+ minutes)... many call it "the worst decision"”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Avoid for tight budgets: Enterprise tools like Drivetrain, Vena, or Anaplan”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Vena is criticized mainly for scalability and being Excel-in-the-cloud”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Options to AVOID on a Limited Budget ... | Vena | ~$50K–$150K/year”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Vena, over the 468 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 253 | 32 | View → | |
| 245 | 22 | Compare → | |
| 235 | 23 | Compare → | |
| 221 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 196 | 35 | Compare → | |
| 176 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 150 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 136 | 14 | View → | |
| 122 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 64 | 5 | View → |
What the models named instead of Vena →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Vena's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- finance teams
- Free plan or trial
- Book your free Vena demo today.
- Certifications
- SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, TRUSTe
- Hosting
- Canada, United States, EU cloud regions
- Customers named
- IPSL, First Majestic, Tanger Outlets, Cumming Group, Meats by Linz, Kansas City Chiefs, Partners in Health, Schuh
How this is measured
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 →Sources returned with these answers
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 404 of the 468 answers that named Vena and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
969 of the 969 domain citations in answers naming Vena came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 25 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 23 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 633 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 269 | 0 | 2023-05-24 | ||
| News or press | 222 | 0 | 2025-09-19 | ||
| Template or tool | 134 | 0 | 2025-04-28 | ||
| Case study | 71 | 1 | 2026-08-11 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 42 | 0 | 2024-07-31 | ||
| Comparison | 25 | 1 | 2026-08-31 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Podcast or video | 5 | 0 | 2026-01-21 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24What is orchestrated planning glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-17Ai in excel finance data blog
- 2026-09-16Guide consolidated financial statements blog
- 2026-08-31Netsuite planning and budgeting alternatives comparison
- 2026-08-28What is decision latency glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-11Sprypoint scales fpa to support rapid growth with vena case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page venasolutions.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. 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.