accepted challengerNamed in six categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed 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.
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
xAIGrok 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
Z.AIGLM 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.
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.