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Financial reporting and dashboards · September 2026 Edition

Fathom vs Vena

Zero of twelve models named Fathom first on the direct prompt; three named Vena. Fathom was named by eleven of the twelve models and Vena by eleven and Fathom carries 17 labels and Vena 18, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Fathom

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Vena

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share12%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate24%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1718A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Fathom reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Sage Intacct was named alongside these two in twelve of the twelve direct answers. Sage Intacct vs Fathom · Sage Intacct vs Vena

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 financial reporting and dashboards page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
FathomFirst choices, of twelve modelsVena
Direct031 against Fathom
Paraphrase601 against Fathom
Comparative00
Budget-constrained002 against Fathom · 1 against Vena
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
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.

The direct prompt

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

Vena first, Fathom not the choice

3 of 12 modelsFathom was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Sage Intacct, Vena alternatives: Datarails, FineReport, Maxio, Oracle NetSuite, Planful
Kimi K2Sage Intacct, Vena alternatives: Cube, Datarails
GLM 4.7 FlashXDatarails, Vena alternatives: Cube, HighRadius, Sage Intacct, Workday Adaptive Planning

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Prophix, Vena
Grok 4.1 FastSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Vena
Mistral SmallSage Intacct alternatives: Fairview, Vena
DeepSeek V4 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Maxio, Oracle NetSuite, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: Fathom, Looker Studio, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite, Planful, Vena

Neither was named

4 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniSage Intacct alternatives: Oracle NetSuite
Gemini 3.5 FlashCube, Pigment alternatives: Aleph, Datarails, Oracle NetSuite, Planful, Sage Intacct
Llama 4 MaverickSage Intacct
MiniMax M2.5Sage Intacct alternatives: Cube, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Oracle NetSuite, Workday Adaptive Planning

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
Fathom leads by fifteen points.
Fathom15%#3 of 11
Vena0%#– of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Fathom leads by six points.
Fathom12%#2 of 14
Vena6%#3 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Fathom0%#– of 10
Vena0%#– of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Fathom

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

“Avoid pricier tools like Fathom ($53/mo) unless needed.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid this if you already have a senior financial controller who needs complex driver-based modeling; this is more of a "reporting" tool” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“dedicated FP&A/reporting tools like Fathom or specialized platforms (which are pricier, typically $50+/mo and aimed at mid-market)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · soft negative
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Fathom delivers the best balance of speed, accounting integration, and value.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Vena

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
Sage Intacct vs FathomSage Intacct vs VenaThe full financial reporting standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.