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Corporate performance management · September 2026 Edition

Prophix vs Pigment

Four of twelve models named Prophix first on the direct prompt; two named Pigment. Prophix was named by nine of the twelve models and Pigment by ten and Prophix carries 23 labels and Pigment 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Prophix

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Pigment

accepted challenger

Named in six categories this edition.

First-choice share12%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate9%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#5A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels2321A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Prophix 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 Prophix · Planful vs Pigment · Vena vs Prophix

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.
ProphixFirst choices, of twelve modelsPigment
Direct42
Paraphrase10
Comparative01
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained00
Negative002 against Prophix · 1 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, Prophix and Pigment were named in the same answer forty times, of the 168 answers naming Prophix and the 186 naming Pigment. In those answers Pigment took the first choice four times and Prophix two.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Both were the first choice

1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
MiniMax M2.5Pigment, Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Workday Adaptive Planning

Prophix first, Pigment not the choice

3 of 12 modelsPigment was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Datarails, Drivetrain, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Kimi K2Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, OneStream, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXProphix alternatives: Drivetrain, Limelight, Planful, Vena

Pigment first, Prophix an alternative

1 of 12 modelsProphix 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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix
Grok 4.1 FastPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix, Vena
Mistral SmallPlanful alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Prophix
Llama 4 MaverickPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning, deFacto Global

Neither was named

3 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
Qwen 3.7 FlashSonar alternatives: Anaplan, OneStream, 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
Prophix leads by four points.
Prophix4%#6 of 11
Pigment0%#– of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Prophix leads by seven points.
Prophix12%#3 of 12
Pigment5%#5 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Prophix0%#– of 12
Pigment0%#8 of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Prophix

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

“1. Prophix One™ – Best for Planning + Financial Close in One Platform ... Designed specifically for mid-market organizations” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Pigment

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.