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Corporate performance management · October 2026 Edition

Workday Adaptive Planning vs Cube

One of fourteen models named Workday Adaptive Planning first on the direct prompt; two named Cube. Workday Adaptive Planning was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Cube by ten and Workday Adaptive Planning carries 52 labels and Cube 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Workday Adaptive Planning

criticized challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

Cube

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

First-choice share10%8%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate29%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels5221A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Workday Adaptive Planning reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Planful was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Planful vs Workday Adaptive Planning · Planful vs Cube · Prophix vs Workday Adaptive Planning

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 corporate performance management page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Workday Adaptive PlanningFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCube
Direct122 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Paraphrase401 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Comparative00
Budget-constrained132 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Scale-constrained00
Negative0010 against Workday Adaptive Planning · 1 against Cube
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, Workday Adaptive Planning and Cube were named in the same answer 139 times, of the 445 answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning and the 365 naming Cube. In those answers Cube took the first choice twenty-one times and Workday Adaptive Planning seven.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Workday Adaptive Planning and Cube 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
Workday Adaptive Planning Cube first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Workday Adaptive Planning on the left and Cube on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Workday Adaptive Planning and Cube stood in it.

Workday Adaptive Planning first, Cube an alternative

1 of 14 modelsCube was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
MiniMax M2.5Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Cube, Prophix, Vena

Cube first, Workday Adaptive Planning not the choice

2 of 14 modelsWorkday Adaptive Planning was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashCube, Vena alternatives: Abacum, Datarails, Mosaic, Pigment, Planful, Prophix
GLM 4.7 FlashXCube, Prophix alternatives: Planful

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Drivetrain alternatives: Jedox, Planful, Prophix, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Perplexity SonarPlanful alternatives: Datarails, Drivetrain, Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning
Grok 4.1 FastPlanful, Prophix alternatives: OneStream, Workday Adaptive Planning
Llama 4 MaverickPlanful alternatives: Prophix, Workday Adaptive Planning
Kimi K2Datarails, Drivetrain, Vena alternatives: Cube, Planful, Prophix
GPT-6 LunaPlanful alternatives: NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
Muse Glimmer 30BPlanful, Prophix alternatives: Cube, Workday Adaptive Planning

Neither was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniPlanful, Vena alternatives: Board, Jedox, OneStream, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM
Mistral SmallProfitbase EPM, Prophix alternatives: IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, Phocas Software
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Pigment, Prophix, Vena
Qwen 3.7 FlashPlanful alternatives: Drivetrain, Prophix

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
Cube leads by eleven points.
Cube15%#1 of 13
Workday Adaptive Planning4%#6 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Workday Adaptive Planning leads at mid-market.
Workday Adaptive Planning10%#4 of 14
Cube8%#5 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Workday Adaptive Planning leads by seven points.
Workday Adaptive Planning7%#4 of 12
Cube0%#– of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Workday Adaptive Planning

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

“it is recommended to avoid defaulting to Workday Adaptive if cost predictability across thousands of users is a top priority” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
“Adaptive Insights (if you want a clean web interface). These two cover the vast majority of mid-sized B2B use cases effectively.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Cube

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

“Excel/Google Sheets-like interface; quick setup for forecasting/reporting; good for startups/small finance teams avoiding big implementations.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget 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.