# Corporate performance management for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

Finance AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "EPM software" and as "corporate performance management platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/planning/corporate-performance-management/enterprise/

**Standing:** Anaplan leads with 30% of first choices; verdict contested. 54 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anaplan | 30% | 27% | 67 |
| 2 | Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM | 24% | 24% | 63 |
| 3 | OneStream | 19% | 10% | 52 |
| 4 | Workday Adaptive Planning | 7% | 18% | 49 |
| 5 | SAP Analytics Cloud | 0% | 11% | 18 |
| 6 | Board | 0% | 8% | 12 |
| 7 | Planful | 0% | 18% | 17 |
| 8 | CCH Tagetik | 0% | 9% | 11 |
| 9 | IBM Planning Analytics | 0% | 25% | 16 |
| 10 | Jedox | 0% | 33% | 12 |
| 11 | Prophix | 0% | 36% | 14 |
| 12 | Vena | 0% | 50% | 20 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Anaplan, Drivetrain, Jedox, Vena
- GPT-5.4 mini: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Anaplan, Pigment; alternatives OneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Perplexity Sonar: Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Pigment, Planful
- Grok 4.1 Fast: no first choice; alternatives Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Mistral Small: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives IBM Planning Analytics, SAP Analytics Cloud, Workday Adaptive Planning
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Jedox, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Pigment, SAP Analytics Cloud
- Llama 4 Maverick: Anaplan, OneStream; alternatives Jedox, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Vena
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Anaplan; alternatives OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Kimi K2: OneStream; alternatives Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Board, OneStream, Planful, SAP Analytics Cloud
- MiniMax M2.5: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives Board, Planful, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BPC
- GPT-6 Luna: Anaplan; alternatives OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM; alternatives OneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning

## Sources the answers cite

78 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- drivetrain.ai: 40 answers, 46 citations
- onestream.com: 34 answers, 57 citations
- peoplegoal.com: 32 answers, 32 citations
- oracle.com: 26 answers, 42 citations
- intervue.io: 25 answers, 25 citations
- golimelight.com: 19 answers, 25 citations
- thecfoclub.com: 18 answers, 20 citations
- gitnux.org: 17 answers, 23 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://drivetrain.ai/solutions/enterprise-performance-management-software (38 answers)
- https://intervue.io/blog/best-epm-software (25 answers)
- https://peoplegoal.com/blog/epm-software (25 answers)
- https://trginternational.com/blog/guide-best-epm-software-vendor (17 answers)
- https://onestream.com/blog/best-epm-software (16 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-epm-software (15 answers)
- https://smartsheet.com/content/best-enterprise-project-management-software (14 answers)
- https://thecfoclub.com/tools/best-epm-software (14 answers)
- https://onestream.com/blog/anaplan-alternatives (13 answers)
- https://betterworks.com/magazine/best-performance-management-software (12 answers)

## Warned against

- Anaplan: 18 of 67 labels negative. "What to Avoid for Predictable Costs ... Pricing varies by use case and data volume, making it unpredictable as you scale" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: 15 of 63 labels negative. "large enterprises should be cautious about or may want to avoid the following EPM ... platforms" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Vena: 10 of 20 labels negative. "Excel-based EPM tools such as Vena and Datarails if you need broad enterprise scalability... often lack the scalability required for large enterprises." (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- Workday Adaptive Planning: 9 of 49 labels negative. "Adaptive Insights is routinely used by business units within large firms rather than as a single, enterprise-wide consolidation and planning hub." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 10 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: OneStream (30%) to Anaplan (28%). Margin 11 points, beyond the floor.

- OneStream: 30% to 17%, −12. Cleared the floor by 2 points · rank 1 → 3 of 69.
- Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM: 17% to 24%, +7. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 3 → 2 of 69.
- Workday Adaptive Planning: 4% to 7%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 of 69, unchanged.
- Pigment: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 14 → 7 of 69.
- SAP Analytics Cloud: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 6 → 15 of 69.
- Planful: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 8 → 17 of 69.
- Anaplan: 30% to 28%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 2 → 1 of 69.
- Board: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 13 → 18 of 69.
- CCH Tagetik: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 15 → 19 of 69.
- Jedox: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 35 → 21 of 69.
- IBM Planning Analytics: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 53 → 23 of 69.
- Prophix: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 45 → 39 of 69.

## Record

- Method: https://finance-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://finance-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Finance AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, finance-ai-index.com.