Every category where a model named Workday Adaptive Planning 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
Corporate performance management	Planning and analysis	12%	4 of 95	27%	41	criticized challenger
Financial modeling and scenario planning	Planning and analysis	4%	11 of 114	35%	17	criticized challenger
FP&A platforms	Planning and analysis	2%	11 of 52	28%	39	criticized challenger
Cash flow forecasting	Treasury and cash	0%	25 of 86	9%	11	accepted challenger
Financial reporting and dashboards	Planning and analysis	0%	28 of 133	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%
Financial consolidation	Accounting and close	0%	41 of 96	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%
Board and investor reporting	Planning and analysis	0%	60 of 97	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday Adaptive Planning 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 Workday Adaptive Planning 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	0	0	9	1	10
GPT-5.4 mini	5	1	1	0	7
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2	9	13
Perplexity Sonar	1	3	1	1	6
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	6	4	14
Mistral Small	1	3	8	1	13
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	4	2	7	14
Llama 4 Maverick	0	3	4	0	7
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	4	2	2	9
Kimi K2	0	2	5	4	11
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	7	1	1	9
MiniMax M2.5	0	4	6	1	11

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

Direct74 labels11

Paraphrase58 labels10

Comparative77 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained55 labels7

Scale-constrained61 labels3

Negative67 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative392 labels in all, every segment counted; 31 of the 34 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.

“the best EPM software is usually Workday Adaptive Planning if you want the best balance of ease of use, planning depth, and faster implementation” GPT-5.4 mini · Corporate performance ma · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend Workday Adaptive Planning if you want the best balance of usability, guided finance workflows, and solid scenario modeling” Perplexity Sonar · Financial modeling · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Workday Adaptive if you want a quick setup, great support, and potentially use Workday for payroll.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FP&A platforms · comparative prompt · first choice

“strong for Workday/HCM shops, easiest adoption, excellent workforce planning, native Workday integration” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate performance ma · scale 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.

“Avoid: Enterprise platforms like Anaplan or Workday Adaptive ... they're overkill and significantly more expensive” Kimi K2 · Corporate performance ma · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“You generally want to avoid enterprise-grade tools (like Anaplan or Workday) which cost thousands per month.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial modeling · budget prompt · hard negative

“This platform is widely reported to cause friction due to an archaic interface and sluggish performance.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid or be cautious about enterprise platforms (Anaplan, Workday Adaptive, Planful, Pigment)” Mistral Small · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday Adaptive Planning, over the 386 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Adaptive Planning was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Anaplan305 of 38654Not in the top three

Vena185 of 38622Not in the top three

OneStream177 of 38629Not in the top three

Planful152 of 38610Not in the top three

Pigment146 of 38624Not in the top three

Cube130 of 38619Not in the top three

Datarails112 of 38613Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM93 of 38613Not in the top three

Prophix74 of 3865Not in the top three

Board71 of 3863Not 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 Workday Adaptive Planning. 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 297 of the 386 answers that named Workday Adaptive Planning and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

drivetrain.ai161

cfoshortlist.com114

cubesoftware.com110

getaleph.com95

golimelight.com85

worldmetrics.org81

board.com69

gartner.com68

g2.com67

learn.g2.com64

914 of the 914 domain citations in answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software68

getaleph.com/answers/top-fpa-software-202663

financecopilothq.com/best-fpa-software60

centage.com/blog/best-fp-a-software57

cfoshortlist.com/reports/best-fpa-software-202644

drivetrain.ai/solutions/financial-planning-analysis-software44

board.com/guide/best-fpa-software-for-enterprises42

board.com/guide/best-fpa-software41

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workday Adaptive Planning

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

Workday Adaptive 11Adaptive Insights 5Adaptive Planning 3Workday 3Adaptive 2Adaptive Insights (Workday) 2Adaptive Insights (by Workday) 1Adaptive Insights/Workday 1Adaptive Planning (Workday Adaptive Planning) 1Adaptive Planning by Workday 1Planful / Workday Adaptive Planning 1Workday Adaptive Planning (Adaptive Insights) 1

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