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Index › Vendors › Clockwork · September 2026 Edition

4 categories · Ranked

Clockwork

94Judge labels

45First choices

1Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

4Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

60% in FP&A platforms for small business buyers

Rank 3 of 52 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 13 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business1 of 57

under the label threshold

In fp&a platforms · 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 Clockwork 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
FP&A platforms	Planning and analysis	15%	3 of 52	0%	13	accepted challenger
Corporate performance management	Planning and analysis	2%	9 of 95	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%
Financial modeling and scenario planning	Planning and analysis	0%	26 of 114	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Datarails at 19%
Cash flow forecasting	Treasury and cash	0%	40 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Clockwork 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 Clockwork across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

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

Direct15 labels12

Paraphrase15 labels11

Comparative12 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained31 labels17

Scale-constrained10 labels5

Negative11 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative94 labels in all, every segment counted; 45 of the 57 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.

“Clockwork is the best FP&A software for a limited budget due to its balance of features, ease of use, and transparent pricing” Mistral Small · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · first choice

“Clockwork is highlighted as a leading option that delivers forecasting, scenario planning, and an AI analyst from $149/month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · first choice

“The best FP&A software for a company with a limited budget is Clockwork, which is a strong overall option” Llama 4 Maverick · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · first choice

“Go Clockwork for more robust AI-driven planning/forecasting at a still-affordable price” Grok 4.1 Fast · FP&A platforms · budget prompt · first choice

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Clockwork, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Clockwork was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Jirav60 of 941Not in the top three

Fathom58 of 947Not in the top three

Cube53 of 948Not in the top three

Datarails42 of 942Not in the top three

LiveFlow42 of 942Not in the top three

Anaplan30 of 940Not in the top three

Workday Adaptive Planning29 of 941Not in the top three

Mosaic27 of 941Not in the top three

Vena21 of 941Compare →

Limelight16 of 940Not 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 Clockwork. 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 71 of the 94 answers that named Clockwork and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

clockwork.aiYour site69

golimelight.com51

cubesoftware.com45

drivetrain.ai42

getaleph.com39

learn.g2.com25

g2.com21

centage.com16

fathomhq.com16

thefinanceweekly.com14

269 of the 338 domain citations in answers naming Clockwork came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

clockwork.ai/blog/best-fpa-software-small-business68

golimelight.com/blog/fpa-software-for-small-business48

drivetrain.ai/solutions/financial-planning-analysis-software36

cubesoftware.com/blog/best-fpa-software-tools28

getaleph.com/answers/best-fpa-software-by-company-size27

cubesoftware.com/blog/best-fpa-software-for-small-businesses21

learn.g2.com/best-fpa-software20

getaleph.com/answers/top-fpa-software-202615

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Clockwork

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Clockwork; a claim can dispute any of them.

Clockwork AI 1Clockwork.ai 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Clockwork's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Clockwork, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at clockwork.ai is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.