HR AI Index
Index Vendors › Anaplan · September 2026 Edition
1 category · Ranked

Anaplan

128Judge labels
22First choices
45Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
47% in Workforce planning for enterprise buyers
Rank 38 of 89 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 44% of its 34 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.
In workforce planning · 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 Anaplan 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Workforce planningWorkforce planning and analytics0%38 of 8944%34criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Anaplan yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Anaplan across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini12003
Gemini 3.5 Flash00066
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast02204
Mistral Small00202
DeepSeek V4 Flash01034
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K210135
GLM 4.7 FlashX10124
MiniMax M2.500202

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
Direct24 labels11
Paraphrase19 labels6
Comparative33 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels4
Scale-constrained13 labels1
Negative20 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative128 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 34 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.

“Choose Anaplan if: You need sophisticated scenario modeling across multiple functions and want HR to own the workforce planning process independently.” Kimi K2 · Workforce planning · comparative prompt · first choice
“Choose Anaplan if you need advanced, cross-functional workforce planning and scenario modeling.” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce planning · comparative prompt · first choice
“Deep scenario modeling tied to finance | Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Pigment” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce planning · comparative prompt · first choice
“Choose Anaplan if you need the most robust enterprise scenario modeling” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce planning · comparative 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.

“Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems—such as Anaplan, Board, or IBM Planning Analytics... Why to be cautious: ... these tools can become a massive "spreadsheet on steroids" trap.:” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative
“you do not need the extreme complexity, high licensing costs, and long implementation times of enterprise legacy tools like Anaplan or Workday Adaptive Planning” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce planning · direct prompt · soft negative
“you also do not want to buy a massive, over-engineered enterprise system (like Anaplan or Workday Strategic Planning)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce planning · scale prompt · soft negative
“Anaplan and Workday Adaptive Planning are powerful but can have steep learning curves and high costs.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Anaplan, over the 127 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Anaplan was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Workday Adaptive Planning85 of 12710Not in the top three
ChartHop50 of 12713Not in the top three
Visier44 of 1272Not in the top three
Pigment32 of 1272Not in the top three
Orgvue31 of 1272Not in the top three
Rippling29 of 1275Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors29 of 1270Not in the top three
Planful28 of 1274Not in the top three
Workday19 of 1272Not in the top three
Vena19 of 1270Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Anaplan. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 103 of the 127 answers that named Anaplan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com59
peoplemanagingpeople.com50
learn.g2.com46
selectsoftwarereviews.com40
worldmetrics.org36
cubesoftware.com34
g2.com30
articsledge.com28
hrtechsaas.com24
coefficient.io22

369 of the 369 domain citations in answers naming Anaplan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited 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 Anaplan'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 Anaplan, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at anaplan.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.