Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 45 → 84 of 99
1 category · RankedPlanful
27Judge labels
4First choices
2Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Workforce planning for mid-market buyers
Rank 6 of 98 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 15 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Planful →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business86 of 102
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market6 of 98
5%15 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise8 of 83
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
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 Planful 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 5% | 6 of 98 | 7% | 15 | accepted challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 8% → 4%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Planful held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce planning · by segment
Mid-market▼−4Since September 2026: 8% → 4%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 8% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 8 of 93
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 8 → 6 of 68
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce planning | 8% | 4% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 8% → 4%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 6 of 98 |
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 13 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 Planful 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 Planful 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 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct7 labels2
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 label1
Scale-constrained7 labels1
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.
“For most mid-market B2B companies, Planful or Abacum will deliver the strongest value without enterprise-level costs and complexity.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce planning · direct prompt · first choice
“These are the most commonly recommended for mid-market teams that want FP&A grade modeling without enterprise complexity.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Workforce planning · direct prompt · first choice
“sweet spot for Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, Abacum, and Visier” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce planning · scale prompt · first choice
“ChartHop, HiBob Finance Suite, and Planful are well-suited options that connect to an HRIS without custom integration work” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce planning · direct 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.
“Planful has a steep learning curve and an unintuitive user interface” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Planful, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Planful was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Planful, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Planful 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 Planful. 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 23 of the 27 answers that named Planful and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com15
peoplemanagingpeople.com13
learn.g2.com11
cubesoftware.com9
hrtechsaas.com9
intervue.io9
g2.com8
paylocity.com8
firsthr.app7
hibob.com6
Ninety-five of the ninety-five domain citations in answers naming Planful came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
planful.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Planful takes 5% of first choices and ChartHop takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
planful.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Planful takes 5% of first choices and ChartHop takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “workforce planning tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “workforce planning software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“planful”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 685,726 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 58,997 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,136 · 388 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,983
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 8 clicks and $137 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 6 of 98 in workforce planning
Segment leader
37%
ChartHop
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 27 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 23 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
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on planful.com
1,172
subdomains included
Content
937
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
9 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 404 | undated | Performance management, Workforce planning | ||
| News or press | 187 | undated | Performance management, Workforce planning | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 143 | undated | Workforce planning | ||
| Report or ebook | 87 | undated | Performance management, Workforce planning | ||
| Case study | 74 | undated | Workforce planning | ||
| Comparison | 13 | undated | Performance management | ||
| Podcast or video | 11 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 10 | undated | Performance management | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page planful.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name performance management (25); 16 name the category the models place it in. 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.
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The company
Planful is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Planful is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- A cloud-based software platform for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial consolidation.
- For
- Finance teams
- Certifications
- ISO 27001: 2022 CertificateISO 27701: 2019 CertificateSOC1 Type 2SOC2 Type 2HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (HIPAA BAA)SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- USAustraliaEuropeCanadaUK
- Customers named
- SycuanCalCPATerSera TherapeuticsBoston Red SoxBoseEtsySafety National Casualty CorporationFive Guys
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations
What Planful's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: planful.com, trust.planful.com, planful.com/platform, planful.com/customer-stories, planful.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Planful'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 Planful, 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 Planful by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Planful 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 Planful, 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.