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 109 → 98 of 99
Workday · 2 categories · RankedWorkday Adaptive Planning
131Judge labels
19First choices
28Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
29% in Workforce planning for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 98 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 36 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday Adaptive Planning →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business101 of 102
0%18 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 98
5%36 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 83
29%60 labels
accepted challenger
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 5% | 4 of 98 | 25% | 36 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 8% → 6%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 62 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Workday Adaptive Planning held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce planning · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 8% → 6%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 8% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 4 → 3 of 93
Enterprise▲+3Since September 2026: 29% → 32%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
32%from 29% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 of 68, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce planning | 8% | 6% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 8% → 6%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 of 98, unchanged |
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 53 → 62 of 78 |
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 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
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
Direct31 labels6
Paraphrase23 labels5
Comparative29 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels5
Scale-constrained11 labels3
Negative19 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative131 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 26 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.
“I'd usually recommend Workday Adaptive Planning if you want a strong balance of headcount planning, finance integration, and scenario modeling.” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best for organizations already on Workday HCM/Finance... Strengths are ease of use, version control and Workday-native integration.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Workforce planning · comparative prompt · first choice
“The search results specifically mention this segment as the sweet spot for Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, Abacum, and Visier.” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce planning · scale prompt · first choice
“Already on Workday? → Workday Adaptive Planning (no contest for integration)” Kimi K2 · 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.
“Avoid jumping straight to enterprise platforms like ... Workday Adaptive Planning” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“$140K–$250K/year; only worth it if already on Workday HCM” Kimi K2 · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“enterprise-level tools like Workday Adaptive Planning or Anaplan are often too expensive, complex, and slow to implement” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce planning · direct prompt · soft negative
“integrating with non-Workday ERP and financial systems can cause synchronization issues” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Adaptive Planning, over the 131 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 131 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 126 of the 131 answers that named Workday Adaptive Planning and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com69
peoplemanagingpeople.com59
g2.com42
intervue.io41
resources.rework.com36
learn.g2.com35
firsthr.app33
worldmetrics.org32
abacum.ai28
checkthat.ai28
403 of the 403 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
Where Workday Adaptive Planning stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Workday Adaptive Planning stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“workday adaptive planning”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 57 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Workday's site (workday.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 4 of 98 in workforce planning
Segment leader
37%
ChartHop
- First choices
- 19 across its categories
- Named in
- 131 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 126 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 2Adaptive Insights 1Workday Workforce Planning / Workday Adaptive Planning 1
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The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Adaptive Planning.ShowHide
The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Adaptive Planning.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn 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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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Workday Adaptive Planning by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Workday Adaptive Planning 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 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;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.