# Workforce planning for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "workforce planning software" and as "headcount planning tool", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/planning/workforce-planning/2026-09/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/planning/workforce-planning/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Anaplan leads with 47% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 45 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Anaplan](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/anaplan/index.md) | 47% | 20% | 54 |
| 2 | [Workday Adaptive Planning](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/workday-adaptive-planning/index.md) | 29% | 14% | 49 |
| 3 | [ChartHop](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/charthop/index.md) | 7% | 19% | 21 |
| 4 | [Pigment](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/pigment/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 13 |
| 5 | Oracle Workforce Modeling | 4% | 20% | 10 |
| 7 | [Visier Workforce Planning](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/visier-workforce-planning/index.md) | 2% | 14% | 28 |
| 9 | [SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/sap-successfactors-workforce-planning/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 29 |
| 10 | [Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/oracle-fusion-cloud-hcm/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 20 |
| 11 | [Orgvue](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/orgvue/index.md) | 0% | 17% | 18 |
| 12 | [UKG Pro Workforce Management](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/ukg-pro-workforce-management/index.md) | 0% | 17% | 12 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 69 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Anaplan; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning, UKG Pro Workforce Management, Visier Workforce Planning
- GPT-5.4 mini: Anaplan; alternatives Board, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Pigment; alternatives Anaplan, ChartHop, Kantata, Lative
- Perplexity Sonar: Anaplan; alternatives Pigment, UKG Pro Workforce Management, Workday
- Grok 4.20: Anaplan; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Mistral Small: Anaplan; alternatives UKG Pro Workforce Management, Workday Adaptive Planning
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Anaplan, Pigment; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Visier Workforce Planning, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Anaplan; alternatives Visier Workforce Planning, Workday
- Kimi K2: Anaplan; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning, Workday Adaptive Planning
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Orgvue, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning, Visier Workforce Planning
- MiniMax M2.5: Anaplan; alternatives Visier Workforce Planning, Workday Adaptive Planning

## Sources the answers cite

67 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- guideflow.com: 47 answers, 55 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 32 answers, 40 citations
- selectsoftwarereviews.com: 29 answers, 29 citations
- worldmetrics.org: 26 answers, 35 citations
- cubesoftware.com: 22 answers, 22 citations
- articsledge.com: 21 answers, 21 citations
- learn.g2.com: 21 answers, 21 citations
- charthop.com: 19 answers, 26 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://guideflow.com/blog/workforce-planning-software (39 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-workforce-planning-software (30 answers)
- https://selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/workforce-planning-software (29 answers)
- https://articsledge.com/post/workforce-planning-software (21 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-workforce-planning-software (21 answers)
- https://cubesoftware.com/blog/workforce-planning-software (19 answers)
- https://lupahire.com/blog/best-workforce-planning-software-tools (17 answers)
- https://worldmetrics.org/best/workforce-planning-software (17 answers)
- https://charthop.com/resource/best-headcount-planning-software (15 answers)
- https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/tools/10-best-workforce-management-software-for-enterprises/133654518 (14 answers)

## Warned against

- Anaplan: 11 of 54 labels negative. "What to avoid for your use case - Anaplan — ... Hardest to predict." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Workday Adaptive Planning: 7 of 49 labels negative. "quote-only with $300K–$1.5M+ implementations; predictable only if you're already on Workday HCM" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Visier Workforce Planning: 4 of 28 labels negative. "Quote-only pure-plays (Visier, OrgVue): Lack transparent PEPM benchmarks." (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)
- Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM: 4 of 20 labels negative. "forcing your HCM to be a planning engine" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.