Fintastic vs Pigment

How many what-ifs does your team skip because they are not worth the wait?

In most planning tools every scenario you save makes the model itself heavier, so teams start rationing which questions are worth asking. In Fintastic each version is its own separate model. Saving twenty of them leaves the main model exactly as fast as it was with one, and nobody has to decide which questions make the cut.

Save as many versions as the question needs, not as many as the model can carry

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The cost of rationing

The Scenarios You Do Not Run Are the Ones Nobody Sees

In Pigment, and in most planning tools, scenarios sit inside a single model, so the model grows as you add them. When saving a version slows everything down, teams get careful about it. Only the questions worth the wait get modelled. The rest get answered from instinct, or from a side spreadsheet, or not at all.

That is not a modelling problem. It is a decision-making one. The board sees three scenarios because three was what the model could carry, not because three was the right number of ways the year could go.

What-ifs that get skipped because they are not worth the wait

Side spreadsheets holding the versions the model cannot

A board pack built around the scenarios that were cheap to produce

Getting it live

Who Builds Your Model, and What Happens After Go-Live

Pigment deploys through a network of implementation partners. Fintastic builds in-house: the team that built the platform builds your model with you, at roughly three to five hours a week from your side, and support sits inside the subscription rather than in a change-request process.

Both approaches work. The difference shows up eighteen months in, when the business changes and the model has to change with it.

One team

From evaluation through build and every change after.

Support included

A change six months after go-live is not a separate engagement.

How it works

What Makes the Difference

Four things about how Fintastic is built. Each one shows up in what your team can do in a forecast cycle.

Every Version Is Its Own Model

One Model, All of the Business

Detail Without the Slowdown

Comments That Carry Their View

Every Version Is Its Own Model

A version can be a plan, a forecast, or a what-if. It holds its own numbers, its own level of detail, and its own formulas. Saving more of them costs nothing in speed, and any two can be compared in one click even when they are built differently.

One Model, All of the Business

Finance, revenue, headcount, and operations sit in one model and are present in every version, so a hiring change reaches the P&L without anyone moving data between systems.

Detail Without the Slowdown

Big models with a lot of detail in them are where planning usually gets slow. Fintastic runs two calculation engines side by side on the same model, so nobody has to choose between planning at the level they want and getting an answer quickly.

Comments That Carry Their View

Every comment links to the exact cell, filter, view, version, and time period it was made in. Clicking it puts the board back into that state, so a question is never separated from the number it is about.

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A team that compared both

Priceline's Shortlist Was Anaplan and Pigment. One Thing Decided It.

Priceline had been running Anaplan for about four years and the contract was coming up. Pigment was the other candidate, already in use at a sister company.

The deciding factor was what happened when they saved a version. The requirement was to copy the whole environment, change a driver, see the impact, and compare it against the base, as many times as a forecast cycle needed. That used to take a full day. In both leading candidates, every version saved added weight to the model. In Fintastic, versions are separate models, which is what made the requirement possible at all.

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We have Fintastic because it gives us real-time forecast decision making in ways that we couldn't have even dreamed of before.

David Hutchison

Director, FP&A

Priceline

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1 day to 15 sec

for a sandbox that used to take a full day

1 to 30-40

sandbox versions archived in the 2026 budget cycle

5-10 min

from CFO request to the answer in their hands, previously one to two days

2-4 weeks

for six team members to be building in Fintastic themselves

Fintastic and Pigment, Compared

Two modern platforms built on different choices. Which set fits depends on how many what-ifs you run, how many parts of the business you plan across, and how much detail your data carries.

Fintastic

Pigment

Saving What-Ifs and Versions

Every version is a separate model with its own numbers, detail, and formulas. Adding more costs you nothing in speed.

Scenarios live inside one model, so the more you add, the bigger the model gets. To compare two of them, they need to be built the same way.

Planning Across the Business

Finance, revenue, headcount, and operations in one model, present in every version.

Headcount, finance, and operations are separate apps that pass data to each other through libraries.

Getting It Live

Built in-house with your team at three to five hours a week. Support included.

Delivered through a network of outside implementation partners.

Big, Detailed Models

Two calculation engines work on the same model at once, so it stays fast whether a model is mostly full or mostly empty.

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.

Reporting and Drill-Down

Totals and the detail behind them in one report. Up to three versions side by side, even when they are built differently.

Drill-down and version comparison, as long as the versions line up with each other.

Comments and Collaboration

A comment remembers exactly what you were looking at. Click it and the board goes back to that view.

You can comment on cells and boards, but the comment does not remember the view you were in.

Permissions

Set access by person or group, down to a department, a line item, or a business unit. Sensitive columns like comp can be hidden.

Access is set by user, role, group, and rule. Detail-level access is set per person rather than per group.

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Based on publicly available product documentation and customer accounts as of 2026.

Enterprise security built in: SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001 · AWS infrastructure · Encryption in transit and at rest · SSO with group-level controls

Questions Worth Asking Before You Shortlist

Is Fintastic a good Pigment alternative?

It depends on why you are looking. Teams move to Fintastic when they need to run a lot of what-ifs at once, plan across finance, headcount, and operations in one model, or have reached the point where model size is what is slowing them down.

The fastest way to settle it is to test both on your own model rather than on a demo dataset.

How is Fintastic different from Pigment?

The short version: saving a what-if costs nothing. In Pigment scenarios sit inside a single model, so the model grows as you add them. In Fintastic each version is its own separate model, so saving twenty of them leaves the main model exactly as fast as it was with one.

Fintastic also holds finance, headcount, and operations in one model rather than in separate applications joined together.

When is Pigment the better fit?

Pigment is a strong platform with real design and AI investment, and teams that value interface polish and run a contained number of scenarios are often very happy there.

The teams that move to Fintastic tend to be the ones running a lot of what-ifs at once, planning across finance, headcount, and operations together, or carrying enough detail that model size has become the thing holding them up.

Does saving more versions slow Fintastic down?

No. Because each version is its own model, saving twenty of them leaves the main model performing exactly as it did with one.

This is straightforward to show on your own data rather than take on trust.

Pigment is a larger company. Why choose Fintastic?

It is a fair question and worth asking directly. Priceline asked it too, and evaluated both. They chose Fintastic on the ability to save unlimited versions without slowing the model down.

Company size is a reasonable proxy for risk. Testing both on your own model is a better one.

What Happens When Your Planning Platform Finally Keeps Up

Teams using Fintastic report faster cycles, fewer firefights, and more time spent on the decisions that actually matter.

In my finance career, it’s rare to see an interconnected platform of this scale support iterative scenario planning without sacrificing speed or reliability. Fintastic has been a meaningful addition for Priceline.

Marc Culver

VP of Finance at Priceline

Before implementing Fintastic, business stakeholders couldn't easily create or maintain scenarios. Now there are multiple scenarios that are easily managed and compared, allowing us to plan ahead and make more data-driven decisions.

Emmanuel Blum

Director of FP&A at Claroty

Artlist reduced time spent on their BVA (budget vs. actual) reporting cycle by 70% - with analysis available at PO-level granularity, always live, with no manual consolidation required.

Evyatar Talev

FP&A Manager at Artlist

Fintastic has been a game changer for our FP&A team! What used to take us days can now be done in mere minutes.

Tom Nguyen

VP Finance at Aviatrix