OneStream a 5X Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software

It’s that time of year again – budgeting and planning for 2026 is underway in most organizations. With a constantly changing economic landscape, every organization is looking for better ways to analyze, plan, forecast, and harness the power of AI to support more agile decision-making.

For organizations looking to upgrade their financial planning software, a great resource for identifying the top vendors in the market is the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.

Read on to learn why OneStream was recognized as a Leader for the 5th time in this report, why this is important to buyers, and what customers are saying about us.

Evaluating the Top Players in Financial Planning 

In the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software, the Gartner analyst team evaluated the top 14 vendors in the market based on their “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.” Based on their assessment, which is performed through an RFI response, demonstrations, and customer references, Gartner positioned the vendors into one of four quadrants – Leaders, Visionaries, Challenger, and Niche Vendors.

What were the results? I’m proud to report that for the fifth year, OneStream was recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software1. (See Figure 1 below.)

Figure 1 – 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software

Why This Matters to Buyers

Organizations relying on spreadsheets or legacy on-premise applications have an opportunity to drastically improve their financial and operational planning and forecasting by moving to modern, cloud-based solutions that can leverage the power of AI built for finance to drive faster, more accurate forecasts and deliver rapid insights to decision-makers.

Reports like the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software help Finance leaders everywhere discover new solutions that can help them streamline processes, improve business agility, and become strategic partners to the enterprise.

We believe OneStream was recognized as a leader based on the breadth and depth of our platform, supporting a broad range of financial and operational planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, as well as financial close and consolidation, reporting, and analysis. OneStream’s Extensible Dimensionality® was also called out as a key innovation, supporting both summarized and detailed planning and reporting within a single application, which is an asset for companies seeking integrated financial and operational reporting and planning.

Other key strengths that were called out include:

Operational Analytics: OneStream’s Dynamic Cube Services enable near-real-time synchronization of metadata and data from external sources without replication. This is ideal for rapidly changing external data sources, enabling more responsive planning and forecasting without reimporting data or modifying dimensions.

Roadmap: OneStream continually reinvests in research, development, and AI/ML to align with customer needs. Future focus includes real-time anomaly detection that triggers AI-generated commentary at specific data intersections, delivering contextual narratives and immediate insights to enable finance teams to accelerate decisions and mid-cycle planning corrections.

AI integration: OneStream’s SensibleAI™ portfolio (Forecast, Studio, and Agents) brings use cases enabled by AI right into the business workflows of the platform, supporting a centralized data model. This reduces complexity and improves end-user adoption, enabling finance teams to generate driver-based forecasts, align inputs across functions, and reconcile plan data without manual intervention.

What Customers Are Saying

As part of their research for the Magic Quadrant, the Gartner analyst team reads and considers the customer reviews that have been posted on Gartner Peer Insights.Here’s what some of our customers said in their recent reviews of OneStream:

• “OneStream has brought simplicity, visibility, and efficiency to our finance processes.” Senior Analyst, Corporate FP&A Financial Systems
• "OneStream is an all-in-one solution and I can't wait to advance our usage." Division Chief Financial Officer
• “Great partnership and commitment to 100% customer satisfaction is real not just marketing slogan." Director of IT - Banking

Learn More

With a mission of becoming the operating system for modern finance, we have worked hard to provide the only enterprise finance platform that unifies all your financial and operational data, embeds AI for better decisions and productivity, and can extend to meet the evolving needs of your business, without adding technical debt. To learn more, download the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software and contact OneStream to learn how we can help your organization Take Finance Further!

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1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, Regina Crowder, Sid Sahoo, Mike Lashinsky, 1 December 2025.

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