When asked for the best small business loan marketplace, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Fundera was named most often, followed by Lendio and Biz2Credit. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: Fundera, Lendio.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundera | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Lendio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Biz2Credit | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| Fundera by NerdWallet | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
| Nav | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| SmartBiz | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: Lendio, Fundera, Fundera by NerdWallet, SmartBiz.
Choosing the best small business loan marketplace depends on your specific needs, industry, and financial situation.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Lendio, Fundera, Biz2Credit.
If you want the best overall small-business loan marketplace, Lendio is the strongest pick based on recent reviews.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: Lendio, Fundera, Nav, Biz2Credit.
Here are some of the top options to consider:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Lendio, Fundera, Biz2Credit.
Here are the most frequently recommended options based on review sites, borrower feedback, and lender variety:
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Lendio, Fundera, Nav, SmartBiz.
There isn't one single "best" marketplace—it depends on your priorities (speed, cost, credit profile, loan size).
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: Lendio, Fundera, Fundera by NerdWallet.
Choosing the best small business loan marketplace depends on your specific needs, such as the type of loan, your credit score, industry, and how quickly you need funding.
The questions asked
- What is the best small business loan marketplace for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/business-loan-marketplaces