One of twelve models named Workday Adaptive Planning first on the direct prompt; two named Pigment. Workday Adaptive Planning was named by twelve of the twelve models and Pigment by ten and Workday Adaptive Planning carries 41 labels and Pigment 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in seven categories this edition.
Named in six categories this edition.
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.
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Workday Adaptive Planning and Pigment were named in the same answer 146 times, of the 386 answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning and the 186 naming Pigment. In those answers Pigment took the first choice twenty-four times and Workday Adaptive Planning five.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Avoid: Enterprise platforms like Anaplan or Workday Adaptive ... they're overkill and significantly more expensive” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“the best EPM software is usually Workday Adaptive Planning if you want the best balance of ease of use, planning depth, and faster implementation” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · first choice
“strong for Workday/HCM shops, easiest adoption, excellent workforce planning, native Workday integration” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
No label in this category carried a quote.
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.