Small business▼−8Since September 2026: 10% → 2%, −8 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 → 11 of 103
3 categories · RankedLivePlan
33Judge labels
6First choices
1Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
3% in Financial modeling for small business buyers
Rank 12 of 77 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 106
3%12 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market12 of 77
3%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In financial modeling · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named LivePlan 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial modeling and scenario planning | Planning and analysis | 3% | 12 of 77 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Excel at 14% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 0% | 33 of 101 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 13% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| FP&A platforms | Planning and analysis | 0% | 41 of 74 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 20% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, LivePlan held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Financial modeling · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 16 → 10 of 75
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial modeling | 2% | 4% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 16 → 12 of 77 |
| Cash flow forecasting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 38 → 33 of 101 |
| FP&A platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 41 of 74, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated LivePlan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated LivePlan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative4 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labels5
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 7 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.
“LivePlan and Fathom are often the easiest starting points. They are easier to set up, more affordable” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Financial modeling · budget prompt · first choice
“LivePlan is the gold standard for budget-conscious companies.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial modeling · budget prompt · first choice
“If you need deeper "what-if" scenarios, try LivePlan (for growth planning)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cash flow forecasting · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for Small Businesses (Business Planning Focus): LivePlan” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Financial modeling · budget prompt · alternative
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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LivePlan, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LivePlan was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as LivePlan, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LivePlan was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 LivePlan. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 28 of the 33 answers that named LivePlan and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cubesoftware.com14
drivetrain.ai14
liveplan.comYour site10
worldmetrics.org9
g2.com8
gitnux.org8
autymate.com6
datarails.com6
itechguides.com6
thecfoclub.com6
Seventy-seven of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming LivePlan came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
liveplan.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, LivePlan takes 3% of first choices and Microsoft Excel takes 14%.ShowHide
Search and answers
liveplan.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, LivePlan takes 3% of first choices and Microsoft Excel takes 14%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “modeling tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “financial modeling software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“liveplan”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 95 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 216,928 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 23,866 · 2,578 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,937
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
3%
rank 12 of 77 in financial modeling
Segment leader
14%
Microsoft Excel
- First choices
- 6 across its categories
- Named in
- 33 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 28 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on liveplan.com
1,695
subdomains included
Content
806
counted in the table below
Documentation
3
Product · Integration
20 · 4
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 654 | 48 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 40 | 0 | 2025-04-23 | ||
| Case study | 37 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 26 | 5 | 2026-08-11 | ||
| Template or tool | 12 | 1 | 2026-07-29 | ||
| Podcast or video | 11 | 0 | 2026-03-03 | ||
| Conference or event | 10 | 0 | 2026-05-13 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 0 | 2026-05-14 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 4 | 2026-09-11 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 0 | 2026-05-13 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Start bakery blog
- 2026-09-24Financial projections for startups blog
- 2026-09-24How to get a startup business loan with no money blog
- 2026-09-24Sba business plan blog
- 2026-09-24Metrics in a minute net profit blog
- 2026-09-24Profit margin what it is and how to calculate it blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page liveplan.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow LivePlan
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
LivePlan is its own company.ShowHide
The company
LivePlan is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Business Plan Software With Performance Tracking
- For
- entrepreneurs and small businesses
- Price stated
- Start planning for $20 /mo liveplan.com
- Starting price
- 20 liveplan.com
- Integrations claimed
- 2 liveplan.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2SAQ A 3.2Level 1 PCI DSSVisa Cardholder Information Security and Compliance (CISP)MasterCard® Site Data Protection Program (SDP)Discovery Information Security and Compliance (DISC)
- Customers named
- JoannaBrianMauricioAmy WellsBrandonBenLarry and StacieBruce
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, hosting
What LivePlan's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: liveplan.com, liveplan.com/pricing, liveplan.com/policies/security, liveplan.com/features/perks, liveplan.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when LivePlan's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as LivePlan, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for LivePlan by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where LivePlan is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name LivePlan, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.