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
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	8%	4 of 89	21%	39	accepted challenger
Workforce management suites	Core HR and payroll	0%	55 of 95	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ADP Workforce Now at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday Adaptive Planning 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 Workday Adaptive Planning across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	1	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	1	1	3	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	4	0	0	4
Kimi K2	0	2	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	2	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	2	0	3

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

Direct25 labels6

Paraphrase22 labels6

Comparative32 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels5

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative112 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 25 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.

“Best for: Finance-led headcount planning... making it the best option for aligning recruiting plans directly with the CFO's budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce planning · comparative prompt · first choice

“the best default choice is usually Workday Adaptive Planning if you need serious headcount, scenario, and budget planning” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce planning · direct prompt · first choice

“Ideal if you're already using Workday HCM and want seamless integration for workforce planning alongside financial planning.” Mistral Small · Workforce planning · direct prompt · first choice

“My near-universal top pick for mid-market B2B: Planful (or Workday Adaptive Planning if you're a Workday shop)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce planning · direct 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.

“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

“without the extreme cost and complexity of enterprise tools (like Anaplan or Workday Adaptive Planning)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“avoid the heavy implementation overhead of enterprise tools like Workday Adaptive Planning or Anaplan” Kimi K2 · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“but these are usually more expensive and better suited if forecasting accuracy matters more than cost” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce planning · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday Adaptive Planning, over the 112 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Anaplan85 of 11219Not in the top three

ChartHop49 of 11214Not in the top three

Visier48 of 1123Not in the top three

Planful34 of 1124Not in the top three

Pigment31 of 1123Not in the top three

Rippling29 of 1126Not in the top three

Orgvue29 of 1121Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors26 of 1120Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM19 of 1120Not in the top three

Vena17 of 1120Not 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 Workday Adaptive Planning. 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 97 of the 112 answers that named Workday Adaptive Planning and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com58

peoplemanagingpeople.com50

learn.g2.com42

worldmetrics.org35

selectsoftwarereviews.com34

hrtechsaas.com33

cubesoftware.com28

lupahire.com27

articsledge.com26

g2.com26

359 of the 359 domain citations in answers naming Workday Adaptive Planning came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/workforce-planning-software46

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-workforce-planning-software42

learn.g2.com/best-workforce-planning-software35

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/workforce-planning-software34

hrtechsaas.com/blog/workforce-planning-software30

lupahire.com/blog/best-workforce-planning-software-tools27

articsledge.com/post/workforce-planning-software26

cubesoftware.com/blog/workforce-planning-software24

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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.

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