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Territory and quota planning for enterprise buyers

Asked as “sales territory and quota planning tool”, and as “sales performance management platform”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 54 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
35% of first choices, contested.

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
01Varicent35%18%49endorsed leader
02Anaplan33%20%56endorsed leader
03Salesforce Sales Planning7%25%12criticized challenger
04Fullcast4%6%32accepted challenger
05CaptivateIQ4%21%39accepted challenger
06Xactly4%19%32accepted challenger
07Salesforce Maps2%28%18criticized challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10Maptive0%54%13criticized challenger
09eSpatial0%46%13criticized challenger
08Workday Adaptive Planning0%12%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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Key
01Varicent35%
02Anaplan33%
03Salesforce Sales Planning7%
04Fullcast4%
05CaptivateIQ4%
06Xactly4%
07Salesforce Maps2%
08Workday Adaptive Planning0%
09eSpatial0%
10Maptive0%

02What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, 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 56 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Tools to avoid for THIS requirement - **Anaplan** and **Varicent** — ... they're the least predictable on TCO” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
CaptivateIQ
21%
8 of 39 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Avoid These Pricing Models: Custom per-seat pricing with setup fees (CaptivateIQ, Varicent, Vena) - hard to predict” Mistral Small, budget prompt
Maptive
54%
7 of 13 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid map-first tools as your core for a complex B2B book. Tools like Maptive/eSpatial/Geopointe” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct prompt
Varicent
18%
9 of 49 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid These Pricing Models: ... (CaptivateIQ, Varicent, Vena) - hard to predict” Mistral Small, budget prompt

03What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

24 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 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. 214 links across 69 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 8 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · CaptivateIQ12 answers · 16 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Varicent10 answers · 13 citations · 3 models
vendor site · ZoomInfo10 answers · 11 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Guideflow8 answers · 15 citations · 2 models
6 answers · 15 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Anaplan6 answers · 8 citations · 3 models
6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Pigment5 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Salesmotion5 answers · 5 citations · 1 model
vendor site · SAP4 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Lative4 answers · 4 citations · 1 model
vendor site · Monday.com4 answers · 4 citations · 2 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 sales territory and quota planning tool for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which sales performance management platform would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade territory and quota planning tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best sales territory and quota planning tool 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 sales territory and quota planning tool. What should we look at?”Negative“Which territory and quota planning tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Anaplan, Varicent
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Fullcast
XactlyChanged
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Varicent
Fullcast
Three alternativesAnaplan, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Varicent
against: CaptivateIQ
Varicent
One alternativeAnaplan
no first choiceagainst: Anaplan, Spreadsheets
GPT-5.4 miniAnaplan
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Xactly
against: BoogieBoard, Vena
VaricentChanged
Two alternativesOracle Sales Performance Management, Xactly
Anaplan Territory and Quota, Varicent Sales Planning / Territory and Quota Planning
Two alternativesSAP Territory and Quota, Salesforce Territory Planning / Enterprise Territory Management
against: Xactly
Anaplan
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ Planning, Xactly
no first choiceagainst: Geopointe, SAP SuccessFactors Territory and Quota, Territory Manager / Territory Planner-style tools
Gemini 3.5 FlashAnaplan
Five alternativesFullcast, Pigment, Salesforce Sales Planning, Varicent, Xactly
VaricentChanged
Four alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Salesforce Spiff, Xactly
Anaplan
Six alternativesFullcast, Pigment, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning, Varicent, Xactly
Lative
Two alternativesAkoonu, Anaplan
against: Salesforce Sales Planning, Varicent, Xactly
Anaplan
Four alternativesFullcast, Pigment, Salesforce Territory Planning / Maps, Varicent
against: AlignMix, Anaplan, Badger Maps, Maptive, Oracle SPM, SAP SuccessFactors, Salesforce Sales Territories, Varicent, Workday Adaptive Planning, eSpatial
Perplexity SonarAnaplan
Four alternativesFullcast, Lative, Salesforce Territory Planning / Maps, Xactly AlignStar
VaricentChanged
Three alternativesCaptivateIQ, SAP Commissions, Xactly
Anaplan
Eight alternativesBoogieBoard, Fullcast, SAP Territory and Quota, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning, Varicent, Workday Adaptive Planning, Xactly AlignStar
Varicent Territory and Quota Planning
Two alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ Planning
against: Salesforce Maps
Anaplan
Four alternativesCaptivateIQ, Pigment, SAP Territory and Quota, Varicent
against: Badger Maps, MapBusinessOnline, Maptitude, Maptive, Plotly Dash Enterprise, Salesforce ecosystem, Spreadsheets, eSpatial
Grok 4.1 FastAnaplan, Varicent
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Fullcast
against: Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning
VaricentChanged
Four alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, SAP Commissions, Xactly
no first choice
Seven alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Fullcast, Salesforce Maps, Varicent, Workday Adaptive Planning, Xactly
Salesforce Sales Planning
One alternativeAnaplan
against: CaptivateIQ, Fullcast, Maptive, Varicent, eSpatial
Anaplan, Fullcast
Four alternativesCaptivateIQ, Salesforce Maps, Varicent, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: AlignMix, Anaplan, Badger Maps, Maptive, Oracle SPM, SAP SuccessFactors Territory & Quota, Spotio, Spreadsheets, Varicent, Xactly, eSpatial
Mistral SmallAnaplan
Four alternativesFullcast, Lative, Varicent, Xactly
against: Salesforce Territory Planning / Maps
VaricentChanged
Five alternativesCaptivateIQ, Everstage, Forma.ai, Vulki, Xactly
no first choiceQuotaPath, Salesforce Maps
Two alternativesAnaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: CaptivateIQ, Varicent, Vena
Salesforce Sales Cloud + Territory Management
Three alternativesAnaplan for Sales Performance, Clari with Territory IQ, Xactly
against: HubSpot Sales Hub
against: Custom Excel/Google Sheets models, homegrown Access databases
DeepSeek V4 FlashVaricent
Five alternativesAnaplan, BoogieBoard, Fullcast, Lative, Xactly
against: Geopointe, Maptive, eSpatial
VaricentHeld
Three alternativesCaptivateIQ, SAP Commissions, Xactly
against: Anaplan
CaptivateIQ, Varicent
Five alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, SAP Territory and Quota, Workday Adaptive Planning, Xactly
against: Salesforce Maps
Salesforce Sales Planning
Two alternativesFullcast, Salesforce Spiff
against: Anaplan, CaptivateIQ, Varicent, Xactly
Varicent
Three alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Fullcast
against: Anaplan, Badger Maps, Geopointe, Google Maps, Maptive, Optymyze, Oracle Sales Performance Management, QuotaPath Atlas, SAP SuccessFactors Territory & Quota, Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management, Spotio, Varicent, Vena, Xactly, eSpatial
Llama 4 MaverickAnaplan
Three alternativesFullcast, SAP Territory and Quota, Xactly AlignStar
Salesforce Sales CloudChanged
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Varicent
CaptivateIQ
Seven alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, QuotaPath, Salesforce Maps, Varicent, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
AnaplanVaricent
Three alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Fullcast
against: Anaplan, CaptivateIQ
Qwen 3.7 FlashAnaplan, CaptivateIQ
Two alternativesClari Copilot, Salesforce Revenue Cloud
VaricentChanged
Two alternativesAnaplan, Xactly
no first choice
Five alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Fullcast, Varicent, Xactly
Anaplan
Three alternativesDatarocks, Qonto, Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Anaplan
Three alternativesCaptivateIQ, Prospeo, Varicent
against: MapQuest integrations, Microsoft Power Automate + Excel Online, Oracle NetSuite, PowerBI, QlikView, Repsly, SAP APO, Siebel, Tableau
Kimi K2Varicent
Four alternativesAnaplan, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning, Xactly
against: CaptivateIQ, QuotaPath
VaricentHeld
One alternativeXactly
against: CaptivateIQ
Anaplan, Varicent
Seven alternativesCaptivateIQ, Fullcast, Oracle Sales Performance Management, SAP Territory and Quota, Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management + Maps, Workday Adaptive Planning, Xactly
Salesforce Sales Planning
Two alternativesLative, Maptive
against: Anaplan, CaptivateIQ, Fullcast, Varicent, Workday Adaptive Planning
Anaplan, Varicent
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Fullcast
against: Anaplan, Pigment, SAP Commissions, SAP Territory & Quota, Salesforce Maps, Varicent, Xactly
GLM 4.7 FlashXAnaplan, Fullcast
Two alternativesSalesforce Maps, Xactly
Varicent, XactlyChanged
Three alternativesCaptivateIQ, QuotaPath, Salesforce Spiff
Anaplan Territory and Quota Planning, Varicent Territory and Quota Planning
Five alternativesCaptivateIQ, Fullcast, Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management, Workday Adaptive Planning, eSpatial
Salesforce Sales Planning
Two alternativesMaptive, QuotaPath
against: Anaplan
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5Varicent Territory and Quota Planning
Two alternativesAnaplan, SAP Territory and Quota
CaptivateIQ, VaricentChanged
Two alternativesSalesforce CPQ, Xactly
no first choiceAnaplan
Two alternativesVaricent, Workday Adaptive Planning
against: Maptive, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning
Varicent
Three alternativesAnaplan, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management
against: Anaplan
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-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:13yes77 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:18yes44 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 23:25yes1421 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:47yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:28yes08 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:27yes08 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:13yes023 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 00:16yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:40yes024 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:53yes049 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:59yes0102 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:31yes016 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:48yes910 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:37yes55 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:08yes1020 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:32yes2019 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:17yes08 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:32yes011 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:13yes019 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:56yes02 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:37no031 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 00:38yes029 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:59yes032 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:24yes011 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:43yes1310 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 00:11yes513 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:44yes3028 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:59yes2011 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:38yes012 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:21yes010 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:25yes028 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:37yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:05yes043 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:29yes059 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:44yes023 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:27yes013 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 22:55yes139 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:19yes54 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:42yes2336 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:16yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:10yes08 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:22yes010 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:25yes027 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:24yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 03:05no053 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:51yes046 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:29yes0127 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:29yes066 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 23:18yes1214 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:07yes35 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:28yes2029 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:56yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 02:23yes07 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 03:25no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:02yes046 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:49yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 05:07yes030 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:47yes058 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:23yes029 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:16yes018 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:14yes1411 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:04yes45 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:47yes2124 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:15yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 04:38yes012 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:06yes012 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 23:00yes072 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:39yes02 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:56no049 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:23yes094 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:32yes019 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:14yes052 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
Oracle read as Oracle Sales Planning
Salesforce read as Salesforce Maps
Salesforce (Territory Management + Maps / Sales Planning) read as Salesforce Maps
Unresolved, counted raw
Akoonu (RevWorks)
Anaplan Territory and Quota
Anaplan Territory and Quota Planning
Anaplan for Sales Performance
Captivate IQ
Clari with Territory IQ
Custom Excel/Google Sheets models
Datarocks (by Qlik)
MapQuest integrations
Microsoft Power Automate + Excel Online
Prophet
Qonto
QuotaPath Atlas
QuoteIQ
Repfox
Repsly
SAP APO
Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management + Maps
Salesforce Sales Cloud + Territory Management
Salesforce Territory Planning / Enterprise Territory Management
Siebel
Territory Manager / Territory Planner-style tools
Varicent Sales Planning / Territory and Quota Planning
ZoomInfo Sales Territory Management
homegrown Access databases
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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