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Financial reporting and dashboards · October 2026 Edition

Tableau vs Vena

Zero of fourteen models named Tableau first on the direct prompt; zero named Vena. Tableau was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Vena by twelve and Tableau carries 29 labels and Vena 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Tableau

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

Vena

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

First-choice share4%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate24%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 18; printed, not drawn.
Labels2921A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Tableau reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Sage Intacct was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Sage Intacct vs Tableau · Sage Intacct vs Vena · Wave vs Tableau

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
TableauFirst choices, of fourteen modelsVena
Direct00
Paraphrase211 against Tableau
Comparative20
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained00
Negative006 against Tableau
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Tableau and Vena 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
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Tableau Vena first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Tableau on the left and Vena on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Intuit Enterprise Suite, Oracle NetSuite, Pigment, Planful, Prophix, Vena
Perplexity SonarSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Planful, Prophix, Vena
Grok 4.1 FastSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Vena
Mistral SmallSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, HighRadius, Prophix, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Llama 4 MaverickSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Maxio, Phocas Software, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: BlackLine, OneStream, Oracle NetSuite, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXSage Intacct alternatives: Acumatica, Datarails, Oracle NetSuite, Vena
MiniMax M2.5Sage Intacct alternatives: Acumatica, Mosaic, Oracle NetSuite, Vena
Muse Glimmer 30BSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Prophix, Vena

Neither was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Sage Intacct alternatives: Cube, Datarails, Flow ERP, Oracle NetSuite, Prophix
GPT-5.4 miniSage Intacct alternatives: OneStream, Prophix, Solver, Workiva
DeepSeek V4 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: Datarails, Oracle NetSuite
Kimi K2Sage Intacct alternatives: Cube, Datarails
GPT-6 LunaDatarails alternatives: Planful, Sage Intacct, 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
Level: the same share of first choices.
Tableau0%#12 of 12
Vena0%#– of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Tableau leads by two points.
Tableau4%#7 of 18
Vena2%#8 of 18
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Tableau0%#8 of 14
Vena0%#– of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Tableau

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

“Power BI or Tableau would be the most versatile choices... while Tableau offers more advanced visualization capabilities” MiniMax M2.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Tableau if visualization quality is critical, you have the budget, and do exploratory analysis” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · first choice
“reviews note Power BI/Tableau as most adopted for versatility” Grok 4.1 Fast · comparative prompt · first choice

What the models said about Vena

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.