Planful vs Cube
Three of twelve models named Planful first on the direct prompt; one named Cube. Planful was named by eleven of the twelve models and Cube by twelve and Planful carries 36 labels and Cube 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in nine 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 FP&A platforms page.
By framing
PlanfulFirst choices, of twelve modelsCube
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Planful and Cube were named in the same answer 108 times, of the 306 answers naming Planful and the 311 naming Cube. In those answers Cube took the first choice eighteen times and Planful seven.
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 | |
Planful Cube first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Planful on the left and Cube on the right.The direct prompt
Planful first, Cube an alternative
3 of 12 modelsCube was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Cube first, Planful not the choice
1 of 12 modelsPlanful was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
5 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
Planful10%#4 of 16Cube8%#6 of 16Cube2%#7 of 12Planful0%#11 of 12What the models said about Planful
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 or be cautious about enterprise platforms (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive, Planful, Pigment)” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to avoid when budget is tight ... overkill for a budget-conscious company” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Currently one of the leaders in this space. Excellent balance between a robust backend and a user-friendly frontend” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
What the models said about Cube
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Avoid pricier ones like Jirav (~$10K/year), Cube/Datarails ($1K+/month)” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“you quickly hit "guardrails"... still prone to broken formulas, version-control friction, and performance lag” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
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.