9 categories · RankedWorkiva
Workiva is a reporting platform for financial, regulatory, and ESG reporting, with support for audit, SOX and internal controls, and governance, risk and compliance work · workiva.com ↗
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 4 of 83 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Certent Disclosure Management is first at 36%.
Certent Disclosure Management is first at 27%. 5 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is DFIN ActiveDisclosure at 11%.
Why models recommend it
“For most accelerated and large accelerated filers, Workiva is the default with linked data across every document and the deepest iXBRL automation in the category.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Workiva is the strongest overall platform in 2026, leading on connected data, native iXBRL and breadth across SEC, SOX, statutory and ESG reporting”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Comparative question · first choice
“Workiva: The gold standard for workflow and cross-document linking. Best if budget allows and you want industry-leading reliability.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“I'd usually recommend Workiva if your main need is internal controls management tied to financial reporting/SOX-style workflows”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid starting with Workiva, Optro/AuditBoard, or Diligent unless the company needs a full enterprise SOX”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · warning
“What to Avoid with Limited Budgets: ... Workiva | $40,000 - $300,000+ | Premium pricing accumulates”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“the goal is to avoid enterprise platforms like BlackLine or Workiva”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“avoid enterprise-focused tools like BlackLine, FloQast, or Workiva”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Workiva, over the 539 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 190 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 166 | 48 | Compare → | |
| 123 | 34 | Compare → | |
| 122 | 30 | Compare → | |
| 120 | 2 | View → | |
| 105 | 17 | View → | |
| 91 | 29 | Compare → | |
| 90 | 34 | View → | |
| 83 | 3 | View → | |
| 71 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Workiva →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Workiva's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- finance, audit, risk and sustainability teams
- Customers named
- The Hershey Company, Amalgamated Bank, AES, Southwest, NXP
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 490 of the 539 answers that named Workiva and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
1,036 of the 1,129 domain citations in answers naming Workiva 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 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 20 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
| Mistral Small | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 338 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 66 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page workiva.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.