Small business▼−6Since September 2026: 11% → 4%, −6 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 4 → 9 of 101
Workday · 7 categories · RankedWorkday Adaptive Planning
449Judge labels
38First choices
130Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
7Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in Financial modeling for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 99 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 52 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday Adaptive Planning →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business10 of 116
4%35 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 99
10%52 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise4 of 73
7%49 labels
accepted challenger
In corporate performance ma · 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 Workday Adaptive Planning 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate performance management | Planning and analysis | 10% | 4 of 99 | 29% | 52 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 12% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial modeling and scenario planning | Planning and analysis | 6% | 8 of 77 | 35% | 17 | criticized challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 4% → 5%, +1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| FP&A platforms | Planning and analysis | 4% | 10 of 74 | 39% | 41 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 0% | 83 of 101 | 33% | 9 | 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. |
| Financial consolidation | Accounting and close | 0% | 32 of 102 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 24% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 0% | 28 of 105 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 33% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Board and investor reporting | Planning and analysis | 0% | 79 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Workday Adaptive Planning held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Corporate performance ma · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 12% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 91
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 4 of 69, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate performance ma | 12% | 10% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 12% → 10%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 of 99, unchanged |
| FP&A platforms | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 10 of 74 |
| Financial modeling | 4% | 5% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 4% → 5%, +1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 8 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 25 → 83 of 101 |
| Financial consolidation | 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 41 → 32 of 102 |
| Financial reporting | 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 28 of 105, unchanged |
| Board | 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 59 → 79 of 99 |
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 Workday Adaptive Planning 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 Workday Adaptive Planning 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 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 15 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
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
Direct91 labels12
Paraphrase59 labels12
Comparative81 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained57 labels9
Scale-constrained75 labels5
Negative86 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative449 labels in all, every segment counted; 38 of the 46 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.
“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 · Financial modeling · direct prompt · first choice
“Consistently ranks as the strongest overall FP&A software for organizations that want balanced modeling power without sacrificing usability” Claude Haiku 4.5 · FP&A platforms · comparative prompt · first choice
“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 · Corporate performance ma · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you want to modernize your tech stack and improve collaboration across departments: Choose Workday Adaptive Planning.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial modeling · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
“Avoid legacy enterprise solutions (like Workday Adaptive Planning or Oracle Cloud EPM) unless you have a dedicated system administrator.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FP&A platforms · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Designed for large, complex organizations; requires significant modeling expertise, IT resources, and comes with high annual costs” Mistral Small · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“High negative share (e.g., 28% in AI analysis, "avoid enterprise platforms unless budget for complexity"); steep learning curve” Grok 4.1 Fast · FP&A platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“it is recommended to avoid defaulting to Workday Adaptive if cost predictability across thousands of users is a top priority” Llama 4 Maverick · Corporate performance ma · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Adaptive Planning, over the 445 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Adaptive Planning was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Adaptive Planning, over the 445 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Adaptive Planning 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 Workday Adaptive Planning. 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 407 of the 445 answers that named Workday Adaptive Planning and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
drivetrain.ai186
cubesoftware.com141
g2.com108
learn.g2.com96
prophix.com95
getaleph.com93
golimelight.com93
datarails.com91
resources.rework.com79
onestream.com78
1,060 of the 1,060 domain citations in answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
workday.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Workday Adaptive Planning takes 10% of first choices and Planful takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
workday.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Workday Adaptive Planning takes 10% of first choices and Planful takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “epm software”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “epm platforms”
5
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“workday adaptive planning”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 57 a month
- Its company's site
- workday.com shared with Workday's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,213,450 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 69,259 · 7,130 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 28,599
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
10%
rank 4 of 99 in corporate performance ma
Segment leader
22%
Planful
- First choices
- 38 across its categories
- Named in
- 445 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 407 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.
Names read as Workday Adaptive Planning
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Adaptive Planning; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday Adaptive 7Adaptive Insights 6Adaptive Insights (Workday) 4Adaptive Planning 4Adaptive 1Adaptive Planning (Workday) 1Adaptive/Workday 1
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Workday is the company behind Workday Adaptive Planning.ShowHide
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Company records- Also from Workday
- Workday Accounting Agent, Workday Adaptive, Workday Financial Management, Workday Financials, Workday P2P, Workday P2P/T&E, Workday PSA, Workday Performance and 8 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- EPM-Software
- For
- Enterprise and mid-market organizations
- Price stated
- Prijzen variëren workday.com/nl-nl/products/adaptive-planning/pricing.html
- Free plan or trial
- Kostenloser Probemonat workday.com/de-de/pages/cb/workday-adaptive-planning.html
- Certifications
- ISO 42001-afstemming
- Customers named
- Scout24HubSpotMan GroupCumulusKindred at HomeBoston ScientificTX Group
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What Workday Adaptive Planning's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: workday.com/de-de/pages/cb/workday-adaptive-planning.html, workday.com/nl-nl/products/adaptive-planning/pricing.html, workday.com/nl-nl/products/adaptive-planning/overview.html, workday.com/nl-nl/products/adaptive-planning/technology.html, workday.com/nl-nl/products/adaptive-planning/ai-for-fpa.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Workday Adaptive Planning, 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;
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