# Corporate performance management for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Finance AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "EPM software" and as "corporate performance management platform", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/planning/corporate-performance-management/enterprise/

**Standing:** OneStream (tied with Anaplan) leads with 30% of first choices; verdict contested. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OneStream | 30% | 7% | 54 |
| 2 | Anaplan | 30% | 28% | 57 |
| 3 | Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM | 17% | 26% | 46 |
| 4 | Workday Adaptive Planning | 4% | 20% | 50 |
| 5 | SAP Analytics Cloud | 2% | 17% | 23 |
| 6 | Planful | 2% | 18% | 17 |
| 7 | Board | 0% | 0% | 14 |
| 8 | Pigment | 0% | 6% | 16 |
| 9 | CCH Tagetik | 0% | 0% | 11 |
| 10 | IBM Planning Analytics | 0% | 39% | 18 |
| 11 | Vena | 0% | 50% | 18 |
| 12 | SAP Business Planning and Consolidation | 0% | 60% | 10 |

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: OneStream; alternatives Anaplan, CCH Tagetik, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Enterprise Performance Management
- GPT-5.4 mini: OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Anaplan; alternatives OneStream, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Perplexity Sonar: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Board, Drivetrain, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
- Grok 4.1 Fast: OneStream; alternatives Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Mistral Small: Anaplan; alternatives OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Enterprise Performance Management, Workday Adaptive Planning
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Anaplan; alternatives Board, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Workday Adaptive Planning; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
- Kimi K2: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Drivetrain; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Pigment, Planview Enterprise One
- MiniMax M2.5: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Anaplan, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning

## Sources the answers cite

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

- drivetrain.ai: 43 answers, 46 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 24 answers, 25 citations
- cfoshortlist.com: 23 answers, 48 citations
- golimelight.com: 23 answers, 25 citations
- thecfoclub.com: 21 answers, 21 citations
- onestream.com: 19 answers, 28 citations
- gbhackers.com: 18 answers, 18 citations
- oracle.com: 17 answers, 24 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software (41 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/epm-software (20 answers)
- https://gbhackers.com/best-epm-tools-compared-2 (18 answers)
- https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-epm-software (18 answers)
- https://onestream.com/blog/best-epm-software (15 answers)
- https://lupahire.com/blog/enterprise-performance-management-software (14 answers)
- https://golimelight.com/blog/best-epm-software (13 answers)
- https://intervue.io/blog/best-epm-software (13 answers)
- https://board.com/guide/best-fpa-software-for-enterprises (12 answers)
- https://learn.g2.com/best-corporate-performance-management-software (11 answers)

## Warned against

- Anaplan: 16 of 57 labels negative. "Avoid defaulting to Anaplan or Workday Adaptive if cost predictability across thousands of users is your top priority" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Vena: 9 of 18 labels negative. "Excel-based EPM Tools (e.g., Vena, Datarails) ... often lack the scalability required for large enterprises" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: 12 of 46 labels negative. "avoid platforms that demand heavy custom-model maintenance (e.g., Anaplan, Oracle EPM Cloud)" (MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt)
- Workday Adaptive Planning: 10 of 50 labels negative. "can feel "lightweight" for global enterprises. Reddit threads note teams abandoning it for more robust tools like Anaplan" (Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://finance-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://finance-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Finance AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition, finance-ai-index.com.