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Centage Planning Maestro

42Judge labels
8First choices
4Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in Financial consolidation for small business buyers
Rank 11 of 96 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In financial consolidation · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Centage Planning Maestro for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Financial consolidationAccounting and close2%11 of 9625%4under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%
Financial modeling and scenario planningPlanning and analysis0%20 of 1140%5under 10 labels · led by Datarails at 19%
Cash flow forecastingTreasury and cash0%29 of 860%4under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Centage Planning Maestro yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Centage Planning Maestro across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00112
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash11002
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K203003
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct10 labels5
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative9 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labels3
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 11 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd suggest starting with Centage (if you want a dedicated tool at a very low per-user price) or Joiin” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Financial consolidation · budget prompt · first choice
“Centage utilizes AI-mapped connectors... shortening implementation to weeks rather than months.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial modeling · direct prompt · alternative
“FP&A platforms (like Abacum or Centage) if you need integrated budgeting and forecasting” Kimi K2 · Cash flow forecasting · scale prompt · alternative
“Purpose-built for mid-market without the overhead of enterprise solutions” Kimi K2 · Financial modeling · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“far lower than enterprise tools like OneStream or Centage ($18K–$40K/year)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Financial consolidation · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Centage Planning Maestro, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Centage Planning Maestro was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Fathom21 of 424Not in the top three
Cube20 of 422Not in the top three
Datarails19 of 425Not in the top three
Joiin13 of 425Not in the top three
Vena10 of 420Not in the top three
OneStream8 of 421Not in the top three
Workday Adaptive Planning8 of 421Not in the top three
Anaplan8 of 420Not in the top three
Planful8 of 420Not in the top three
Prophix7 of 420Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Centage Planning Maestro. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 39 of the 42 answers that named Centage Planning Maestro and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fathomhq.com27
highradius.com25
prophix.com25
datarails.com17
cubesoftware.com16
softwareconnect.com13
thecfoclub.com12
zipdo.co11
centage.comYour site9
consolidate.io9

155 of the 164 domain citations in answers naming Centage Planning Maestro came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Centage Planning Maestro

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Centage Planning Maestro; a claim can dispute any of them.
Centage 11Centage's Planning Maestro 1
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