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Corporate performance management · September 2026 Edition

Pigment vs Cube

Two of twelve models named Pigment first on the direct prompt; zero named Cube. Pigment was named by ten of the twelve models and Cube by eight and Pigment carries 21 labels and Cube 14, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Pigment

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

Cube

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share5%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels2114A 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 Cube · 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 modelsCube
Direct20
Paraphrase00
Comparative10
Budget-constrained02
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 against Pigment
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 Cube were named in the same answer eighty-seven times, of the 186 answers naming Pigment and the 311 naming Cube. In those answers Cube took the first choice nine times and Pigment nine.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Pigment and Cube 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 Cube first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Pigment on the left and Cube on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Pigment first, Cube an alternative

2 of 12 modelsCube 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

3 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Mistral SmallPlanful alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Prophix
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Datarails, Drivetrain, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Kimi K2Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, OneStream, Vena

Neither was named

7 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
Llama 4 MaverickPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning, deFacto Global
Qwen 3.7 FlashSonar alternatives: Anaplan, OneStream, Planful, 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
Cube leads by sixteen points.
Cube16%#1 of 11
Pigment0%#– of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Pigment5%#5 of 12
Cube5%#6 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Pigment0%#8 of 12
Cube0%#– 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 Cube

No label in this category carried a quote.

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.