10 categories · RankedVena
348Judge labels
29First choices
65Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
10Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
15% in FP&A platforms for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 52 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 16% of its 45 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business11 of 57
2%19 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market1 of 52
15%45 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise18 of 41
0%25 labels
criticized challenger
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 Vena 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% | 1 of 52 | 16% | 45 | accepted challenger |
| Corporate performance management | Planning and analysis | 12% | 2 of 95 | 8% | 37 | accepted challenger |
| Financial modeling and scenario planning | Planning and analysis | 6% | 5 of 114 | 15% | 26 | accepted challenger |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 6% | 5 of 133 | 6% | 18 | accepted challenger |
| Financial consolidation | Accounting and close | 2% | 6 of 96 | 4% | 25 | accepted challenger |
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 0% | 26 of 86 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 18% |
| Financial close management | Accounting and close | 0% | 53 of 68 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 60% |
| Board and investor reporting | Planning and analysis | 0% | 39 of 97 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 25% |
| Corporate tax provision | Tax and compliance | 0% | 59 of 98 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision at 26% |
| Account reconciliation | Accounting and close | 0% | 41 of 72 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 33% |
Movement
This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Vena 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 Vena across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 24 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 14 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 3 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 14 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 22 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
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
Direct79 labels7
Paraphrase47 labels14
Comparative70 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained30 labels3
Scale-constrained66 labels5
Negative56 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative348 labels in all, every segment counted; 29 of the 39 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.
“Go with Vena if your finance team wants to continue modeling in Excel but needs to eliminate spreadsheet errors and automate data ingestion from your ERP.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FP&A platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“1. Vena Solutions – Best for Excel-Dependent Teams ... Choose Vena if your team lives in Excel and wants minimal change management” Kimi K2 · Corporate performance ma · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Vena or Planful are the top choices due to their balance of structure, Excel integration, and advanced scenario capabilities” Mistral Small · Financial modeling · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Vena or Datarails if you have a small to mid-sized finance team that wants to retain the comfort of using Excel” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FP&A platforms · comparative 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.
“"would rather eat a bullet than use it again." ... Anaplan and Vena are the two with the most consistent negative sentiment” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“If data sovereignty and verified security audits are non-negotiable for you, this is a major red flag.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Vena (ongoing performance, learning curve, support, and security concerns)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“These tools are built for FP&A (financial planning & analysis), not core accounting” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial close manageme · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vena, over the 348 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vena was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Vena. 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 270 of the 348 answers that named Vena and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
drivetrain.ai136
cubesoftware.com99
cfoshortlist.com91
golimelight.com84
getaleph.com79
learn.g2.com77
worldmetrics.org76
prophix.com68
g2.com66
gartner.com64
840 of the 840 domain citations in answers naming Vena came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Vena
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Vena; a claim can dispute any of them.
Vena Solutions 42
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