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Financial consolidation · October 2026 Edition

Planful vs OneStream

Six of fourteen models named Planful first on the direct prompt; one named OneStream. Planful was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and OneStream by thirteen and Planful carries 32 labels and OneStream 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Planful

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

OneStream

criticized challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share13%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%30%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#7A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels3237A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Planful reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Prophix was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Prophix vs Planful · Prophix vs OneStream · Sage Intacct vs Planful

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 financial consolidation page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
PlanfulFirst choices, of fourteen modelsOneStream
Direct615 against OneStream
Paraphrase001 against OneStream
Comparative05
Budget-constrained002 against Planful · 2 against OneStream
Scale-constrained102 against OneStream
Negative001 against OneStream
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Planful and OneStream were named in the same answer 143 times, of the 370 answers naming Planful and the 503 naming OneStream. In those answers OneStream took the first choice twenty-seven times and Planful twelve.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Planful and OneStream stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
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
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Planful OneStream first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Planful on the left and OneStream on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Planful and OneStream stood in it.

Planful first, OneStream an alternative

6 of 14 modelsOneStream was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Planful, Prophix alternatives: DOKKA, HighRadius, OneStream, Vena
Mistral SmallPlanful, Prophix alternatives: OneStream
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, FloQast
Kimi K2Fluence Technologies, Planful alternatives: Datarails, FloQast, Vena
MiniMax M2.5Planful, Prophix alternatives: Fluence Technologies
GPT-6 LunaPlanful alternatives: Oracle NetSuite, Prophix, Vena

OneStream first, Planful not the choice

1 of 14 modelsPlanful was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniOneStream alternatives: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Prophix

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashProphix alternatives: Anaplan Financial Consolidation, Lucanet, Planful, Vena
Perplexity SonarProphix alternatives: Cube, HighRadius, Planful, Vena
Grok 4.1 FastProphix alternatives: Centage Planning Maestro, Planful, SoftLedger, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashProphix alternatives: Cube, OneStream, Pigment, Vena
GLM 4.7 FlashXProphix, Sage Intacct alternatives: Cube, FloQast, HighRadius, OneStream, Planful
Muse Glimmer 30BProphix alternatives: Cube, Datarails, Fluence Technologies, Planful

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 MaverickProphix alternatives: Bluecopa, Cubesoftware, HighRadius

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

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Level: the same share of first choices.
Planful0%#– of 14
OneStream0%#14 of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Planful leads by eleven points.
Planful13%#3 of 12
OneStream2%#7 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: OneStream leads at enterprise.
OneStream63%#1 of 13
Planful2%#7 of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What 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 big-suite tools like Planful or Sage Intacct” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · hard negative
“My default pick: Planful for a mid-market B2B company that wants financial consolidation alongside close, reporting, and planning.” GPT-6 Luna · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with Planful or Prophix One as they specifically target mid-market needs” MiniMax M2.5 · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about OneStream

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“OneStream – best for complex enterprise CPM on one platform ... The ISG Financial Consolidation Buyers Guide 2025 finds OneStream atop the list” Muse Glimmer 30B · comparative prompt · first choice
“All-in-one CPM platform that replaces fragmented legacy tools like Oracle Hyperion components; ... Enterprise → OneStream, Oracle, or SAP.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
Also compared

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.