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Corporate performance management · September 2026 Edition

Vena vs Cube

Zero of twelve models named Vena first on the direct prompt; zero named Cube. Vena was named by eleven of the twelve models and Cube by eight and Vena carries 37 labels and Cube 14, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Vena

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

Cube

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share12%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate8%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#6A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels3714A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Vena 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 Vena · Planful vs Cube · 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.
VenaFirst choices, of twelve modelsCube
Direct00
Paraphrase20
Comparative00
Budget-constrained221 against Vena
Scale-constrained10
Negative002 against Vena
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, Vena and Cube were named in the same answer 139 times, of the 348 answers naming Vena and the 311 naming Cube. In those answers Cube took the first choice eighteen times and Vena twelve.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

8 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashPigment alternatives: Cube, Mosaic, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Planful, Prophix, Vena
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
Qwen 3.7 FlashSonar alternatives: Anaplan, OneStream, Planful, Vena
Kimi K2Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, OneStream, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXProphix alternatives: Drivetrain, Limelight, Planful, Vena
MiniMax M2.5Pigment, Planful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Workday Adaptive Planning

Neither was named

4 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
Llama 4 MaverickPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning, deFacto Global

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 two points.
Cube16%#1 of 11
Vena14%#2 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Vena leads at mid-market.
Vena12%#2 of 12
Cube5%#6 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Vena0%#11 of 12
Cube0%#– of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Vena

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. Vena Solutions – Best for Excel-Dependent Teams ... Choose Vena if your team lives in Excel and wants minimal change management” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Cube

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
Planful vs VenaPlanful vs CubeVena vs ProphixVena vs Workday Adaptive PlanningVena vs PigmentVena vs JedoxVena vs AnaplanProphix vs CubeWorkday Adaptive Planning vs CubePigment vs CubeCube vs JedoxCube vs AnaplanAll twenty-eight head-to-head pages and the full corporate performance ma standing

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.