# Anaplan vs Datarails

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Datarails

| Attribute | Anaplan | Datarails |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 56.4 (44% (low)) | 62.1 (52% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Anaplan is an enterprise planning platform that integrates financial planning, budgeting, workforce planning, and trade management in a single system. It enables organizations to move beyond disconnected spreadsheets and siloed processes to achieve unified, data-driven decisions across finance, sales, marketing, operations, and human resources. | An integrated finance platform that connects Excel spreadsheets to live data from 600+ sources, providing version control, audit trails, centralized business logic, and automated workflows for budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and financial close processes. |
| features.capabilities | `{"sso_scim":false,"xp_and_a":true,"api_access":"read","consolidation":"multi_entity","deployment_model":"enterprise_cloud","modelling_engine":"spreadsheet","revenue_planning":true,"erp_gl_connectors":true,"scenario_planning":true,"workforce_planning":true,"excel_sheets_native":true,"dashboards_reporting":true,"warehouse_connectors":true,"budgeting_forecasting":true,"erp_integration_for_historical_sales_ingestion":true}` | `{"api_access":"full","consolidation":"multi_entity","modelling_engine":"spreadsheet","erp_gl_connectors":true,"scenario_planning":true,"excel_sheets_native":true,"dashboards_reporting":true,"budgeting_forecasting":true}` |
| integrations.count | 3 | 600 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"PeopleSoft"},{"name":"Excel"},{"name":"CloudWorks"}]` | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","BE","IT"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"quote","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Datarails FP&A Professional","features":["FinanceOS Unlimited Dashboards, Reporting & Planning","Datarails AI Agents","FinanceOS AI Connector","Standard Support"],"minSeats":2,"contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"integrations":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Datarails FP&A Premium","features":["FinanceOS Unlimited Dashboards, Reporting & Planning","Datarails AI Agents","FinanceOS AI Connector","Premium Support"],"minSeats":5,"contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"integrations":"2"}},{"free":false,"name":"Datarails FP&A Expert","features":["FinanceOS Unlimited Dashboards, Reporting & Planning","Datarails AI Agents","FinanceOS AI Connector","Premium Support","One Additional Product: Month-End Close, Cash Management, or Spend Control"],"minSeats":15,"contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"integrations":"3"}}],"summary":"Custom quote. Professional tier starts at 2 users with 1 integration. Complete cost transparency, no consultant fees.","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.datarails.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-04T08:31:54.199Z"}` |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | - | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (FP&A Software)

| Capability | Anaplan | Datarails |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Budgeting / forecasting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Modelling engine | Spreadsheet | Spreadsheet |
| **Planning** |  |  |
| Scenario / what-if planning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Workforce / headcount planning | ✓ | - |
| Revenue planning | ✓ | - |
| xP&A (cross-functional planning) | ✓ | - |
| **Finance** |  |  |
| Consolidation | Multi-entity | Multi-entity |
| **Connectivity** |  |  |
| ERP / GL connectors | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data-warehouse connectors | ✓ | - |
| Deep Excel / Sheets integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Reporting** |  |  |
| Dashboards / reporting | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Platform** |  |  |
| SSO / SCIM | ✗ | - |
| API access | Read | Full |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:00:07.050Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*