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Workforce planning for enterprise buyers

Asked as “workforce planning software”, and as “headcount planning tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Clear leader
47% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Anaplan47%20%54endorsed leader
02Workday Adaptive Planning29%14%49accepted challenger
03ChartHop7%19%21accepted challenger
04Pigment4%0%13accepted challenger
05Oracle Workforce Modeling4%20%10accepted challenger
06Visier2%14%28accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08Orgvue0%17%18accepted challenger
09Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM0%14%14accepted challenger
07SAP SuccessFactors0%6%17accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
Key
01Anaplan47%
02Workday Adaptive Planning29%
03ChartHop7%
04Pigment4%
05Oracle Workforce Modeling4%
06Visier2%
07SAP SuccessFactors0%
08Orgvue0%
09Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM0%

02What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Anaplan
20%
11 of 54 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“What to avoid for your use case - **Anaplan** — ... Hardest to predict.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Workday Adaptive Planning
14%
7 of 49 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“quote-only with $300K–$1.5M+ implementations; predictable only if you're already on Workday HCM” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Visier
14%
4 of 28 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Quote-only pure-plays (Visier, OrgVue): Lack transparent PEPM benchmarks.” Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt
BambooHR
75%
3 of 4 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“SME-Focused HR Platforms (e.g., BambooHR) ... **Why to Avoid:** They typically lack the advanced predictive analytics” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

67 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 938 links across 244 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Guideflow43 answers · 51 citations · 10 models
vendor site · People Managing People32 answers · 40 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Select Software Reviews29 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
26 answers · 35 citations · 9 models
22 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
21 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
21 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
vendor site · ChartHop16 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
14 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 14 citations · 6 models
vendor site · HRTechSaaS13 answers · 14 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best workforce planning software for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which headcount planning tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade workforce planning tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best workforce planning software for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a workforce planning software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which workforce planning tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Anaplan
Five alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
WorkdayChanged
Three alternativesAnaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
One alternativeSAP SuccessFactors
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Two alternativesOrgvue, SAP SuccessFactors
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Orgvue, Workday, Workday Adaptive Planning
GPT-5.4 miniAnaplan
Three alternativesBoard, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: IBM Planning Analytics
AnaplanHeld
Two alternativesOracle Hyperion / Oracle EPM, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning
Three alternativesIBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Cloud EPM / Strategic Workforce Planning, SAP enterprise workforce management / workforce planning tools
Workday Adaptive Planning
One alternativeAnaplan
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashPigment
Eight alternativesAnaplan, ChartHop, Kantata, Lative, Orgvue, Planview, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Four alternativesNakisa, Orgvue, Pigment, Visier
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Five alternativesDayforce, Orgvue, Pigment, UKG Pro, Visier
Visier
Three alternativesChartHop, Orgvue, TeamOhana
against: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: BambooHR, Deputy, Excel, Google Sheets, Gusto, Kronos, TCP
Perplexity SonarAnaplan
Three alternativesPigment, UKG Pro Workforce Management, Workday
AnaplanHeld
One alternativeWorkday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Six alternativesIBM Planning Analytics, Jedox, Oracle Workforce Modeling, Pigment, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Visier
Oracle Workforce Modeling
One alternativeAnaplan
against: Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastAnaplan
Two alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM / Workforce Modeling, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Three alternativesAnaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors
against: ChartHop
Workday Adaptive Planning
Four alternativesAnaplan, IBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Workforce Modeling, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning
against: UKG Pro
Workday Adaptive Planning
Three alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro
against: Anaplan, ChartHop, Deel, Orgvue, Rippling, Visier
Anaplan
Two alternativesCube, Vena
against: Anaplan, Dayforce, Leapsome, Oracle, SAP Analytics Cloud, Spreadsheets, UKG Pro, Workday Adaptive Planning
Mistral SmallAnaplan
Two alternativesUKG Pro Workforce Management, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Two alternativesAgentnoon, ChartHop
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Four alternativesIBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Workforce Modeling, OrgChart, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning
Anaplan, Oracle Workforce Modeling
One alternativeVisier
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashAnaplan, Pigment
Three alternativesOracle HCM Workforce Planning, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
AnaplanChanged
Three alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Agentnoon, ChartHop
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Four alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Oracle Workforce Modeling, UKG Pro Workforce Management, Visier
against: SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning
ChartHop
Two alternativesAgentnoon, Rippling
against: Anaplan, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceagainst: Abacum, Anaplan, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Oracle Workforce Modeling, Planful, SAP SuccessFactors, Spreadsheets, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday HCM
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceAnaplanWorkday Adaptive Planning
Five alternativesAgentnoon, Aleph, OneStream, Oracle Cloud EPM, UKG Pro
against: Anaplan, Orgvue, Spreadsheets, Workday Adaptive Planning
Qwen 3.7 FlashAnaplan
Two alternativesVisier, Workday
Planful, Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Three alternativesAnaplan, ChartHop, Vena
Anaplan, One Model
Six alternativesBeamery, Gloat, Orgvue, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, Workday Adaptive Planning
ChartHop
One alternativeRippling
against: Anaplan
no first choiceagainst: 15Five, BambooHR, Excel/Google Sheets, Lattice, Leapsome
Kimi K2Anaplan
Three alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Two alternativesBoard, Vena
Anaplan
Nine alternativesChartHop, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Pigment, Planful, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, Vena, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning
Three alternativesChartHop, Deel HR, Visier
against: Anaplan
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, ChartHop, Excel, Float, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Oracle Workforce Modeling, SAP, Workday
GLM 4.7 FlashXAnaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Four alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud HCM – Workforce Planning, Orgvue, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning, Visier
AnaplanChanged
Six alternativesChartHop, Deel, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan
Four alternativesOrgvue, Planful, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
ChartHop
One alternativeWorkday Adaptive Planning
against: Visier
no first choiceagainst: Excel, Google Sheets, Oracle, SAP, Workday
MiniMax M2.5Anaplan
Two alternativesVisier, Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive PlanningChanged
Three alternativesAnaplan, Oracle Cloud EPM, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning
no first choice
Six alternativesIBM Planning Analytics, Oracle Workforce Modeling, Pigment, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Anaplan
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Four alternativesBoard, ChartHop, Deel Workforce Planning, SAP SuccessFactors
Workday
Four alternativesBambooHR, Crunchr, Deel, SAP SuccessFactors
against: Gusto
against: BambooHR, Excel/Google Sheets, Leapsome
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:16yes911 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:45yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:54yes1344 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:19yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:42yes3317 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:36yes1111 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:12yes2217 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:54yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:15no027 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:35yes1425 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:44yes2589 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:08yes521 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:32yes97 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:51yes56 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:04yes1526 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:57yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:40yes3616 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:00yes97 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:45yes2216 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:16yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:28no029 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:14yes822 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:20yes13132 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:45yes2540 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:18yes1311 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:37yes69 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:02yes2850 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:40yes1710 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:31yes2417 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:27yes1412 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:56yes2339 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:16yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:14yes527 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:25yes1749 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:13yes2245 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:56yes1020 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:56yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:14yes58 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:57yes2035 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:26yes156 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:21yes3720 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:46yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:27yes2825 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:36yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:09yes1462 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:09yes1428 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:58yes2849 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:15yes1667 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:54no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:25no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:03yes1047 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:21yes2012 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:43yes1912 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:52no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:38yes2848 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:14yes55 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:33yes1037 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:12yes1847 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:14yes2976 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:42yes928 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:55yes188 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:16yes56 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:49yes1228 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:55yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:28yes2214 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:00yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:34yes2223 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:43yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:02yes523 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:55yes2752 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:26yes25117 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:34yes1446 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
HiBob HRIS read as HiBob
Oracle Cloud HCM read as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Oracle HCM read as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Oracle HCM Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Oracle HCM Cloud (Workforce Modeling) read as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Unresolved, counted raw
Cornerstone Workforce Planning
Dayforce SWP (Formerly Agentnoon)
Kronos Workforce Planning (UKG)
Lupahire
Oracle Cloud EPM / Strategic Workforce Planning
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM / Workforce Modeling
Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM – Workforce Planning
Oracle HCM Workforce Planning
Oracle Hyperion / Oracle EPM
Oracle Workforce Planning
Oracle Workforce Planning & Modeling
SAP enterprise workforce management / workforce planning tools
TCP
Workday Workforce Planning
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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