For finance teams evaluating Pigment

Pigment Alternative: Pigment vs Fintastic

Businesses choose Fintastic over Pigment because of what Pigment's architecture costs them: scenarios that add weight to the model as you save them, planning split across separate apps that pass data through libraries, and seat classes and separate modules that move the quote when another team wants in.

Fintastic makes every version its own model, holds finance, sales, workforce, and operations in one connected plan, and covers unlimited users and data in one subscription, so nothing has to be rationed and a hiring change reaches the P&L without moving data between systems or a new module on the invoice.

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"Fintastic has transformed how we approach forecast and scenario planning. The backend engine is lightning fast and deeply customizable."

Data & Analytics Leader, Travel & Hospitality

"The tool is more intuitive and flexible than other tools I have used. The team is very responsive."

Finance Leader, Travel & Hospitality

"Easily integrated with our other systems (HRIS, Salesforce, NetSuite) with the ability to create a rolling forecast."

Finance Leader, Software Industry

"Fintastic provides the flexibility in data display and analysis within the system, much more user friendly than the other planning tools we've used previously."

Finance Leader, Software Industry

"We've had a very positive experience with Fintastic. The level of customer support and technical assistance has been impressive, and implementation was easy and successful."

Finance Leader, Software Industry

"The tool is very intuitive and easy to understand. The vendor is very helpful and prompt with questions and concerns about the product."

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How does Fintastic compare to Pigment?

Outcome
Fintastic
Pigment
Saving what-ifs and versions
✓No cost to saving one
Build as many plans, forecasts, and scenarios as you want, each with its own setup. Adding more never slows the model, and you can compare any of them side by side in one click.
✗Each version adds weight
Scenarios live inside one model, so the more you add, the bigger the model gets. Teams start rationing which questions are worth the wait.
Comparing versions
✓One click, however they were built
Versions compare in a click, however many you have and however differently they were built.
✗Versions need to match
Comparing two scenarios requires them to have been built the same way, so the versions you most want to compare are often the ones you cannot.
Big, detailed models
✓Full detail, full speed
Model your business at the level of detail you actually need, from day one. Nothing to choose upfront, and no flattening your data or building workarounds to keep things fast.
〰Detail may need rolling up
Skips the empty parts of a model to save space. Teams planning in fine detail may need to roll data up to keep the model a manageable size.
Planning across the business
✓One connected plan
Every team's numbers, financial and operational, live in one plan and flow through every scenario. Each scenario can look completely different without slowing the model down.
〰Separate apps
Headcount, finance, and operations are separate apps, each holding its own part of the plan.
Getting to one connected plan
✓No integration step
The numbers already talk to each other, in every version.
〰Connected through libraries
Apps pass data to each other through libraries, which has to be set up before their numbers can talk.
AI across the plan
✓Sees your whole plan
The Fintastic AI Agent is built into the platform itself. Ask it anything across your full plan and it answers from your live numbers, while respecting who is allowed to see what.
〰Sits above the model
Agents and optimization tools are arriving quickly, but they sit above the modeling layer. Partners themselves caution that agents make good planning processes faster and bad ones faster too, if the model, data flows, and review process are not ready.
Who can build in it
✓Your team builds in it
Your team owns the build at three to five hours a week, so the people who own the plan are the ones who change it.
✗Its own modelling language
SQL-like syntax and a shift from spreadsheet thinking to a relational, dimension-dependent mindset, explicitly not like Excel. Reviewers describe a difficult learning curve and call complex models challenging to implement for non-technical personnel.
Following the math
✓Full transparency
Full transparency into the calculations, in a form a reviewer or an auditor can follow without a walkthrough.
✗Reads like a script
Reviewers report that checking a formula is frustrating because it reads like a script rather than logic, so you cannot follow it the way a reviewer or auditor expects to.
Who owns the build
✓You stay in control
We build it alongside your team, so you own and run it yourself. Support is included in your subscription, with no separate contract.
✗Delivered through partners
Deployment runs through outside implementation partners, so a change six months post go live can become a separate engagement, and administrative ownership drifts from finance to technical teams as complexity grows.
Pricing
✓All-inclusive
One subscription based on your company size. Unlimited users, unlimited data, and ongoing support, all included.
✗Seats and modules
A platform fee plus Explorer, Contributor, and Editor seat classes, with workforce planning and sales capacity planning quoted on top. Seat classes are the quote mover, so extending planning into another function is a commercial event rather than a modelling decision.
Range of outcomes
✓Risk ranges built in
Run thousands of what-ifs on any plan to see your best, worst, and most likely outcomes, so you can plan around real risk instead of a single guess.
✗Discrete point estimates
Scenario modeling and rapid what-if exploration, without a native probability distribution across outcomes.

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