What is the best mortgage LOS for a small broker shop?
A buyer who typed “What is the best mortgage LOS for a small broker shop?” on 22 September 2026 most often got LendingPad back: 15 of 15 answers. Then Calyx (13) and ICE Mortgage Technology (6). Every engine named LendingPad in every valid run. 22 of the 25 checked vendors were never named here, including nCino, the most named vendor in this category overall and MeridianLink.
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.
Best low-cost, familiar default for tiny shops: Calyx Point because it’s described as a practical, affordable choice for small brokerages and small independent lenders.
For small teams, heavyweight enterprise systems like ICE Mortgage Technology's Encompass are usually too expensive, overly complex, and require dedicated IT/administrator overhead.
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.