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Buyer question · Loan origination and lending software · release 2026-09

What are the best alternatives to Encompass?

12 of the 25 checked vendors were never named for “What are the best alternatives to Encompass?”. The most named: ICE Mortgage Technology, in 15 of 15 answers; then Calyx in 12 and LendingPad in 12. Every engine named ICE Mortgage Technology in every valid run. 12 of the 25 checked vendors were never named here, including Abrigo and Baker Hill.

If you sell loan origination and lending software and your name is not in that list, this is the question to fix first.

These answers come from one capture on 22 September 2026, three runs per engine, to this fixed wording. They are not a ranking, and an engine can answer differently on a refresh.

Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

Who was named

Each count is over the 15 valid answers to this exact question. Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

Checked loan origination and lending software vendors named in answers to this question, counted per answer.
VendorNamedRateWilson 95% interval
ICE Mortgage Technology15 of 15100.0%79.6% to 100.0%
Calyx12 of 1580.0%54.8% to 93.0%
LendingPad12 of 1580.0%54.8% to 93.0%
Mortgage Cadence10 of 1566.7%41.7% to 84.8%
LendingWise8 of 1553.3%30.1% to 75.2%
MeridianLink7 of 1546.7%24.8% to 69.9%
nCino7 of 1546.7%24.8% to 69.9%
Byte Software6 of 1540.0%19.8% to 64.3%
The Mortgage Office4 of 1526.7%10.9% to 52.0%
TurnKey Lender3 of 1520.0%7.0% to 45.2%
Floify2 of 1513.3%3.7% to 37.9%
Finastra1 of 156.7%1.2% to 29.8%
LoanPro1 of 156.7%1.2% to 29.8%

Checked and never named

12 of 25 checked vendors: 0 of 15 each.

Abrigo, Baker Hill, Blend, defi SOLUTIONS, FICS, Jack Henry, MortgageFlex, Nortridge, Origence, Sync1 Systems, Temenos, Vergent LMS.

By engine

Three runs per engine. Each cell is how many valid runs named the vendor.

Runs naming each vendor, by engine, for this question.
VendorChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AI OverviewsGoogle AI Mode
ICE Mortgage Technology3 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 3
Calyx1 of 33 of 33 of 32 of 33 of 3
LendingPad3 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 30 of 3
Mortgage Cadence1 of 30 of 33 of 33 of 33 of 3
LendingWise0 of 32 of 33 of 31 of 32 of 3
MeridianLink2 of 32 of 31 of 30 of 32 of 3
nCino0 of 33 of 33 of 30 of 31 of 3
Byte Software3 of 30 of 33 of 30 of 30 of 3
The Mortgage Office0 of 31 of 31 of 32 of 30 of 3
TurnKey Lender0 of 33 of 30 of 30 of 30 of 3
Floify0 of 32 of 30 of 30 of 30 of 3
Finastra0 of 30 of 30 of 30 of 31 of 3
LoanPro0 of 31 of 30 of 30 of 30 of 3

What the engines said

Assuming you mean ICE’s Encompass mortgage loan origination system (LOS), my shortlist would be LendingPad, ARIVE, Byte, Empower, and Mortgage Cadence.

ChatGPT, . Full answer text in the deposit.

LendingPad is a cloud-native, enterprise loan origination system built to modernize mortgage lending for lenders, brokers, bankers, and credit unions.

Claude, . Full answer text in the deposit.

The best alternatives to Encompass depend on what you mean by “alternative”: full loan origination system (LOS), point-of-sale/workflow layer, or a more specialized lending platform.

Perplexity, . Full answer text in the deposit.

The best alternatives to ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass depend on your organization's size and whether you need a full loan origination system (LOS) or a modular workflow.

Google AI Overviews, . Full answer text in the deposit.

Built directly on the Salesforce platform, nCino is ideal for banks and credit unions already deeply embedded in the Salesforce ecosystem.

Google AI Mode, . Full answer text in the deposit.

One sentence per engine at most, chosen by a fixed rule: the first full sentence naming a checked vendor, read in run order. Every answer in full: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.

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Release
2026-09, published
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22907695
Method
v1.1: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; ten fixed buyer questions per category; three runs per engine
Captured
Base
15 valid answers to this question; 0 excluded
Licence
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Observed answers on stated dates, not a ranking. This is not a judgment of product quality.

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