7 categories · RankedWorkday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning is enterprise performance management (EPM) software from Workday, used for financial planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, consolidation and reporting · workday.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 74 of 75 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cube is first at 24%.
Pigment is first at 19%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Anaplan is first at 49%.
Why models recommend it
“your sweet spot at 500 employees is mid-market EPM. Top contenders include: ... Workday Adaptive Planning | Planning/FP&A focus, Workday HCM users | Strong trial available”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“For most mid-to-large enterprises today, Adaptive Insights (Workday), Vena, and Trullio (for specialized uses) are often considered more user-friendly starting points”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Workday Adaptive Planning and Prophix One are the most recommended due to their balance of functionality, scalability, and user-friendliness”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: Workday Adaptive Planning ... widely considered the gold standard for mid-market to upper-mid-market companies”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid: Enterprise solutions like Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, or Prophix until you scale”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid the mid-market "contact us" vendors (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Planful)”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Skip enterprise platforms like Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle EPM, or Workday Adaptive Planning”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Options to AVOID on a Limited Budget ... | Adaptive Planning (Workday) | ~$100K+/year”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Workday Adaptive Planning, over the 498 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 387 | 64 | View → | |
| 245 | 41 | View → | |
| 235 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 223 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 208 | 32 | View → | |
| 176 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 175 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 160 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 109 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 91 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of Workday Adaptive Planning →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Workday Adaptive Planning's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Enterprise and mid-market organizations
- Price stated
- Prijzen variëren
- Free plan or trial
- Kostenloser Probemonat
- Customers named
- Scout24, HubSpot, Man Group, Cumulus, Kindred at Home, Boston Scientific, TX Group
- Also from Workday
- Workday Accounting Agent, Workday Adaptive, Workday Financial Management, Workday Financials, Workday P2P, Workday P2P/T&E and 10 more
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 430 of the 498 answers that named Workday Adaptive Planning and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
967 of the 967 domain citations in answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning 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 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 20 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 21 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 15 |