Vena vs Cube
Three of twelve models named Vena first on the direct prompt; one named Cube. Vena was named by eleven of the twelve models and Cube by seven and Vena carries 18 labels and Cube 12, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in ten categories this edition.
Named in nine 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 financial reporting and dashboards page.
By framing
VenaFirst choices, of twelve modelsCube
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
| 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 | |
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
Vena first, Cube an alternative
3 of 12 modelsCube was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Cube first, Vena not the choice
1 of 12 modelsVena was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
2 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Vena0%#– of 11Cube0%#– of 11What the models said about Vena
No label in this category carried a quote.
What the models said about Cube
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Go with Cube (if you want to keep Excel) or Pigment (if you want a modern, web-native planning tool)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
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.