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3 categories · Ranked

Anaplan

146Judge labels

19First choices

64Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

33% in Territory planning for enterprise buyers

Rank 98 of 103 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 47% of its 38 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.

Small business121 of 121

criticized challenger

Mid-market98 of 103

criticized challenger

Enterprise2 of 85

endorsed leader

In territory 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Territory and quota planning	Revenue operations	0%	98 of 103	47%	38	criticized challenger
Sales commissions and incentive compensation	Revenue operations	0%	50 of 51	83%	6	under 10 labels · led by Everstage at 25%
Revenue intelligence and forecasting	Sales	0%	64 of 75	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Avoma at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Anaplan yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. 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.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	8	8
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	2	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	2	4
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	7	8
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	1	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	1	2	3	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	3	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

Direct22 labels9

Paraphrase12 labels1

Comparative32 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained24 labels4

Scale-constrained25 labels5

Negative31 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative146 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.

“Best for: Large enterprises needing connected planning across sales, finance, quota, capacity, and territory lifecycle.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Territory planning · comparative prompt · first choice

“Need enterprise-wide connected planning? → Anaplan or Workday Adaptive Planning” Mistral Small · Territory planning · comparative prompt · first choice

“Anaplan is best for large enterprises running connected territory, quota, and capacity planning across finance and sales” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Territory planning · comparative prompt · alternative

“Varicent, Anaplan | Best for highly complex matrix organizations needing rigorous mathematical modeling” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Territory planning · scale 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.

“What to avoid for mid-market - Anaplan ... "more platform than mid-market teams need."” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Territory planning · direct prompt · hard negative

“Avoid enterprise-tier platforms like Oracle SPM, Xactly Incent, Varicent, and Anaplan” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Commissions · negative prompt · hard negative

“Best avoided by: Anyone looking for dedicated commission software” Kimi K2 · Commissions · negative prompt · hard negative

“Skip these (too expensive for a limited budget)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Territory planning · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Anaplan, over the 146 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

Varicent98 of 14615Not in the top three

CaptivateIQ96 of 14618Not in the top three

Fullcast73 of 14613Not in the top three

Xactly57 of 1461Not in the top three

eSpatial47 of 1461Not in the top three

QuotaPath46 of 14612Not in the top three

Salesforce Maps44 of 1461Not in the top three

Maptive40 of 1462Not in the top three

Workday Adaptive Planning27 of 1460Not in the top three

Badger Maps25 of 1463Not 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 23 of the 146 answers that named Anaplan and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

captivateiq.com15

pipeline.zoominfo.com15

guideflow.com14

articsledge.com11

worldmetrics.org10

anaplan.comYour site9

lative.ai8

salesmotion.io8

varicent.com8

maptive.com7

Ninety-six of the 105 domain citations in answers naming Anaplan came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pipeline.zoominfo.com/sales/sales-territory-management-software14

captivateiq.com/blog/territory-planning-software-202613

articsledge.com/post/territory-planning-software9

guideflow.com/blog/sales-territory-management-software7

maptive.com/15-best-sales-territory-mapping-software7

salesmotion.io/blog/sales-territory-mapping-software7

varicent.com/blog/territory-planning-tools7

bitscale.ai/blogs/best-territory-planning-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

Anaplan.

Website: anaplan.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2006
Ownership: Public, PLAN on New York Stock Exchange

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase

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