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Territory and quota planning · November 2026 Edition

Lative vs Salesforce Sales Planning

One of fourteen models named Lative first on the direct prompt; zero named Salesforce Sales Planning. Lative was named by nine of the fourteen models and Salesforce Sales Planning by eight and Lative carries 13 labels and Salesforce Sales Planning 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Lative

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Salesforce Sales Planning

criticized challenger

By Salesforce, San Francisco, United States, founded 1999. Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate23%31%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1316A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Lative reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.CaptivateIQ Planning was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. CaptivateIQ Planning vs Lative · CaptivateIQ Planning vs Salesforce Sales Planning · Everstage vs Lative

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the territory and quota planning page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
LativeFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSalesforce Sales Planning
Direct10
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained013 against Lative · 1 against Salesforce Sales Planning
Scale-constrained001 against Salesforce Sales Planning
Negative002 against Salesforce Sales Planning
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Lative and Salesforce Sales Planning were named in the same answer ten times, of the 41 answers naming Lative and the 51 naming Salesforce Sales Planning. In those answers Salesforce Sales Planning took the first choice zero times and Lative three.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Lative and Salesforce Sales Planning stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Lative Salesforce Sales Planning first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Lative on the left and Salesforce Sales Planning on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Lative and Salesforce Sales Planning stood in it.

Lative first, Salesforce Sales Planning not the choice

1 of 14 modelsSalesforce Sales Planning was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Mistral SmallCaptivateIQ Planning, Lative alternatives: Fullcast Plan, Xactly, ZoomInfo

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5CaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: Maptive, Pipedrive, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning, eSpatial
Gemini 3.5 FlashFullcast Plan alternatives: CaptivateIQ Planning, Pigment, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning, Xactly, Xactly AlignStar
GLM 4.7 FlashXCaptivateIQ Planning, Fullcast Plan alternatives: QuotaPath, Salesforce Sales Planning
GPT-6 LunaFullcast Plan alternatives: CaptivateIQ Planning, Salesforce Sales Planning

Neither was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniAnaplan Territory & Quota Planning alternatives: CaptivateIQ Planning, Vena
Perplexity SonarCaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: Fullcast Plan, Pigment, QuotaPath
Grok 4.20CaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: Fullcast Plan, QuotaPath
DeepSeek V4 FlashCaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: Fullcast Plan, Pigment
Llama 4 MaverickCaptivateIQ Planning
Qwen 3.7 FlashCaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: Fullcast Plan, QuotaPath, Visdum, Xactly
Kimi K2CaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: QuotaPath, Visdum
MiniMax M2.5CaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: QuotaPath, Vena, Xactly
Muse Glimmer 30BCaptivateIQ Planning alternatives: QuotaPath

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Salesforce Sales Planning leads by two points.
Salesforce Sales Planning5%#7 of 16
Lative3%#8 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Lative2%#7 of 13
Salesforce Sales Planning2%#8 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Lative2%#– of 9
Salesforce Sales Planning2%#6 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Lative

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.

“Other options include Pigment, Lative, and Anaplan, but they may be more expensive or have more complex pricing structures.” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · soft negative
“From $5,000/year (up to 20 reps) | Tying territory design directly to quota and rep capacity” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · soft negative
“Lative (from ~$5k/year but scalable)” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · soft negative
“CaptivateIQ Planning and Lative are the top choices” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice
“Coverage-based planning around your reps, fast, affordable ($5K/yr) | If you need to start small and simple” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · alternative
“Lative (~$5,000/yr) — it uniquely connects territory design to actual rep capacity and quota fairness” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · alternative

What the models said about Salesforce Sales Planning

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Salesforce's patch notes document fixes to issues involving imports, assignments, publishing, and permissions.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“at $75 per user per month, billed annually—which may be more than a limited-budget team wants to spend” GPT-6 Luna · budget prompt · soft negative
“Salesforce Sales Planning if you haven't checked its edition, licensing, and limits.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“Best low-cost overall: Salesforce Sales Planning if you already live in Salesforce.” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · first choice
“Modern, agile RevOps & SPM platforms (e.g., Pigment, Fullcast, Salesforce Sales Planning, CaptivateIQ/Spiff if bundling with comp).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · alternative
“Salesforce Sales Planning works best for organizations already deeply invested in Salesforce” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · alternative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.