# Corporate performance management: 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 a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/planning/corporate-performance-management/

**Standing:** Planful leads with 29% of first choices; verdict contested. 42 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planful | 29% | 12% | 40 |
| 2 | Vena | 12% | 8% | 37 |
| 3 | Prophix | 12% | 9% | 23 |
| 4 | Workday Adaptive Planning | 12% | 27% | 41 |
| 5 | Pigment | 5% | 5% | 21 |
| 6 | Cube | 5% | 0% | 14 |
| 7 | Jedox | 2% | 7% | 15 |
| 8 | Anaplan | 2% | 56% | 41 |
| 9 | Drivetrain | 0% | 0% | 16 |
| 10 | OneStream | 0% | 31% | 29 |
| 11 | SAP Analytics Cloud | 0% | 27% | 11 |
| 12 | Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM | 0% | 48% | 31 |

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: Workday Adaptive Planning; alternatives OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Pigment; alternatives Cube, Mosaic, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Planful
- Perplexity Sonar: Planful; alternatives Drivetrain, Prophix
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Planful; alternatives Drivetrain, Prophix, Vena
- Mistral Small: Planful; alternatives Cube, Drivetrain, Prophix
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Planful, Prophix; alternatives Cube, Datarails, Drivetrain, Vena
- Llama 4 Maverick: Planful; alternatives Drivetrain, Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning, deFacto Global
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Sonar; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Planful, Vena
- Kimi K2: Planful, Prophix; alternatives Cube, Drivetrain, OneStream, Vena
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Prophix; alternatives Drivetrain, Limelight, Planful, Vena
- MiniMax M2.5: Pigment, Planful, Prophix; alternatives Cube, Drivetrain, Workday Adaptive Planning

## Sources the answers cite

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

- drivetrain.ai: 35 answers, 41 citations
- cfoshortlist.com: 24 answers, 38 citations
- golimelight.com: 20 answers, 22 citations
- cybersecuritynews.com: 20 answers, 21 citations
- gbhackers.com: 20 answers, 20 citations
- thecfoclub.com: 20 answers, 20 citations
- peoplegoal.com: 18 answers, 18 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 17 answers, 17 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software (33 answers)
- https://cybersecuritynews.com/best-endpoint-privilege-management-tools/amp (20 answers)
- https://gbhackers.com/best-epm-tools-compared-2 (20 answers)
- https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-epm-software (18 answers)
- https://peoplegoal.com/blog/epm-software (15 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/epm-software (15 answers)
- https://cfoshortlist.com/reports (11 answers)
- https://cubesoftware.com/blog/best-epm-software (11 answers)
- https://cyberpress.org/epm-tools-by-business-size-3 (11 answers)
- https://golimelight.com/blog/best-epm-software (11 answers)

## Warned against

- Anaplan: 23 of 41 labels negative. "you generally want to avoid heavy enterprise platforms like Anaplan or Oracle (which cost tens of thousands annually)" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: 15 of 31 labels negative. "| Oracle EPM Cloud | $150–$500+/user/month | Enterprise-grade with high implementation costs" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- OneStream: 9 of 29 labels negative. "Avoid large enterprise platforms like Anaplan or OneStream if budget is the main constraint" (Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt)
- Workday Adaptive Planning: 11 of 41 labels negative. "Avoid: Enterprise platforms like Anaplan or Workday Adaptive ... they're overkill and significantly more expensive" (Kimi K2, paraphrase 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.