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Corporate performance management · September 2026 Edition

Pigment vs Anaplan

Two of twelve models named Pigment first on the direct prompt; zero named Anaplan. Pigment was named by ten of the twelve models and Anaplan by twelve and Pigment carries 21 labels and Anaplan 41, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Pigment

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

Anaplan

criticized challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

First-choice share5%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%56%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#8A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels2141A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Pigment reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Planful was named alongside these two in ten of the twelve direct answers. Planful vs Pigment · Planful vs Anaplan · Vena vs Pigment

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 corporate performance management page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
PigmentFirst choices, of twelve modelsAnaplan
Direct201 against Anaplan
Paraphrase015 against Anaplan
Comparative103 against Anaplan
Budget-constrained004 against Anaplan
Scale-constrained002 against Anaplan
Negative001 against Pigment · 8 against Anaplan
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Pigment and Anaplan were named in the same answer 156 times, of the 186 answers naming Pigment and the 438 naming Anaplan. In those answers Anaplan took the first choice twenty-two times and Pigment twenty-two.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Pigment and Anaplan stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
Pigment Anaplan first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Pigment on the left and Anaplan on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Pigment and Anaplan stood in it.

Pigment first, Anaplan not the choice

2 of 12 modelsAnaplan was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashPigment alternatives: Cube, Mosaic, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Planful, Prophix, Vena
MiniMax M2.5Pigment, Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Workday Adaptive Planning

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Qwen 3.7 FlashSonar alternatives: Anaplan, OneStream, Planful, Vena

Neither was named

9 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
GPT-5.4 miniWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Perplexity SonarPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix
Grok 4.1 FastPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix, Vena
Mistral SmallPlanful alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Prophix
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Datarails, Drivetrain, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Llama 4 MaverickPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning, deFacto Global
Kimi K2Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, OneStream, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXProphix alternatives: Drivetrain, Limelight, Planful, Vena

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
Level: the same share of first choices.
Pigment0%#– of 11
Anaplan0%#11 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Pigment leads by two points.
Pigment5%#5 of 12
Anaplan2%#8 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Anaplan leads at enterprise.
Anaplan30%#2 of 12
Pigment0%#8 of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Pigment

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Anaplan

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

“you generally want to avoid heavy enterprise platforms like Anaplan or Oracle (which cost tens of thousands annually)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Anaplan or Workday Adaptive Planning are the top recommendations due to their scalability, strong FP&A features” Mistral Small · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.