Anaplan

Anaplan is an enterprise connected-planning (xP&A) platform, founded in 2006 in Yorkshire, England by Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, and Michael Gould, that unifies financial, sales, supply chain, and workforce planning on a single proprietary in-memory calculation engine called Hyperblock. Anaplan went public on the NYSE in 2018 and was taken private in a $10.4 billion acquisition by Thoma Bravo in June 2022. The company has since invested roughly $500M into a multi-year AI roadmap, rebranding its current positioning around what it calls "decision infrastructure for the Agentic Enterprise": combining the probabilistic reasoning of LLMs with Hyperblock's deterministic, auditable calculations so AI-generated answers remain precise and traceable rather than approximate.

Anaplan's core AI capabilities, branded Anaplan Intelligence, center on CoModeler, an AI agent that builds, extends, and optimizes Anaplan planning models from natural-language descriptions, and a set of role-based AI agents (Finance Analyst, Sales Analyst, Supply Chain Analyst, Workforce Analyst) that proactively monitor metrics, flag anomalies and risks, run scenario comparisons, and recommend next actions specific to each function. The platform serves over 2,600 large enterprises, with 48% of the Fortune 50 and 50% of the world's 20 most valuable companies as customers, including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Generali, Jaguar Land Rover, and LinkedIn. Anaplan was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management with the highest Ability to Execute, and holds numerous G2 Summer 2026 Leader badges across enterprise, mid-market, and regional categories.

Anaplan does not publish pricing publicly; contracts are individually negotiated based on user type (Model Builder, Power User, Read-Only), applications deployed, and data volume. Third-party benchmarks report entry-level deployments starting around $30,000-$50,000/year, with typical mid-market UK deployments (15-30 users) running £80,000-£200,000/year in licensing alone, and large enterprise-wide rollouts reaching $150,000 to over $1M/year once multiple applications, model builders, and professional services are included. Implementation is a significant undertaking, commonly requiring certified systems integrator partners (Deloitte, Accenture, PwC, EY, Slalom) and ranging from a few weeks for narrow deployments to multiple years for complex, multi-model rollouts, making Anaplan best suited for large, well-resourced enterprises with complex cross-functional planning needs rather than small businesses or teams wanting a quick, self-serve setup.

Anaplan does not publish pricing; every contract is custom-negotiated based on user type, applications deployed, and data complexity. User licenses are tiered by role: Model Builders (who design/maintain models) carry the highest per-user cost, followed by Power Users (who run scenarios and input data), then Basic/Read-Only users. Third-party benchmarking sources report entry-level deployments starting around $30,000-$50,000/year; a typical mid-market deployment (15-30 named users, 3-5 model builder licenses) often runs £80,000-£200,000/year (roughly $100,000-$250,000) in licensing alone; and large, multi-application enterprise rollouts can reach $150,000 to over $1,000,000/year. Implementation and professional services are billed separately and often equal or exceed first-year licensing costs, ranging from about $50,000 for single-function deployments to $250,000+ for enterprise-wide rollouts, typically delivered through certified partners like Deloitte, Accenture, PwC, EY, or Slalom. Contact Anaplan sales directly for a quote specific to your organization.