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Financial modeling and scenario planning · October 2026 Edition

Prophix vs Workday Adaptive Planning

Zero of fourteen models named Prophix first on the direct prompt; two named Workday Adaptive Planning. Prophix was named by seven of the fourteen models and Workday Adaptive Planning by eleven and Prophix carries 10 labels and Workday Adaptive Planning 17, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Prophix

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Workday Adaptive Planning

criticized challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share6%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate10%35%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1017A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Prophix reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Datarails was named alongside these two in nine of the fourteen direct answers. Microsoft Excel vs Prophix · Microsoft Excel vs Workday Adaptive Planning · Cube vs Prophix

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 modeling and scenario planning page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ProphixFirst choices, of fourteen modelsWorkday Adaptive Planning
Direct021 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Paraphrase412 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Comparative00
Budget-constrained002 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Scale-constrained011 against Prophix · 1 against Workday Adaptive Planning
Negative00
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, Prophix and Workday Adaptive Planning were named in the same answer ninety-four times, of the 244 answers naming Prophix and the 445 naming Workday Adaptive Planning. In those answers Workday Adaptive Planning took the first choice ten times and Prophix eight.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Workday Adaptive Planning first, Prophix not the choice

2 of 14 modelsProphix was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Qwen 3.7 FlashVena, Workday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Fathom, PlanGuru
GPT-6 LunaWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Cube, Vena

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarDatarails, Limelight alternatives: Abacum, Workday Adaptive Planning

Neither was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Datarails alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Planful, Prophix One
GPT-5.4 miniDatarails, Planful alternatives: Anaplan, Vena
Gemini 3.5 FlashAleph, Cube alternatives: Abacum, Bob Finance, Pigment, Vena
Grok 4.1 FastCube, Datarails, Drivetrain, Jirav alternatives: Abacum
Mistral SmallAbacum alternatives: Cube, Datarails
DeepSeek V4 FlashCube alternatives: Datarails, Jirav, Planful, Vena
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Kimi K2Drivetrain alternatives: Mosaic, Pigment
GLM 4.7 FlashXDatarails alternatives: Abacum, Cube, Lucanet xP&A, Mosaic
MiniMax M2.5Drivetrain alternatives: Abacum, Cube, Datarails, Pigment
Muse Glimmer 30BDatarails alternatives: Cube, Drivetrain, Mosaic, Planful

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
Prophix is not named for this buyer.
Prophix—not named
Workday Adaptive Planning0%#– of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Prophix6%#7 of 14
Workday Adaptive Planning6%#8 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Workday Adaptive Planning leads by sixteen points.
Workday Adaptive Planning16%#2 of 12
Prophix0%#– of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Prophix

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

“Prophix, Oracle Cloud EPM, SAP Analytics Cloud: Full-featured, complex” GLM 4.7 FlashX · scale prompt · soft negative

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.

“Start by looking closely at Vena or Adaptive. For most mid-market B2B firms, these two provide the perfect balance of power, price, and adoption speed.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“If you want to modernize your tech stack and improve collaboration across departments: Choose Workday Adaptive Planning.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase 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.