Mercury
Free business checking and wires for startups, via partner banks
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 3 independent review sources
- 2,739 third-party reviews counted
- 3 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 0.73
- 29 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 40.4
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Mercury ranks #2
Mercury ranks #2 of 9 financial with a TOP SCORE of 59.
The category leader scores 64, a gap of 5 points.
That is 4 points above the category average of 55.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 75; its weakest is AI Authority at 39.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
54 → 61 ↑6.6
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capterra ↗ | 4.8/5 | 96 | 24 | 30 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| G2 ↗ | 4.5/5 | 90 | 121 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Trustpilot ↗ | 4.1/5 | 82 | 2.6k | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 75% | 50% | 0% | 2.7 | 12 | 31 Aug 2026 |
| claude grounded | 15% | 15% | 0% | 2.0 | 20 | 30 Aug 2026 |
| claude parametric | 20% | 10% | 0% | 4.8 | 20 | 30 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Rho31 Aug 2026
- FrontDeskReview31 Aug 2026
- Finder31 Aug 2026
- StartupSavant31 Aug 2026
- Mercury Support31 Aug 2026
- Airwallex30 Aug 2026
- Glassdoor30 Aug 2026
- NerdWallet30 Aug 2026
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission30 Aug 2026
- Yahoo Finance30 Aug 2026
- Bluevine30 Aug 2026
- Slash30 Aug 2026
- Ramp30 Aug 2026
- Brex30 Aug 2026
- Rho30 Aug 2026
- AlternativeTo30 Aug 2026
- U.S. News & World Report30 Aug 2026
- Contrary Research30 Aug 2026
- Relay Financial30 Aug 2026
- Efficient App30 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Mercury is a US fintech banking platform — not a bank — offering business checking and savings through partner banks including Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., with free domestic and international USD wires, virtual and physical cards, bill pay and invoicing. It targets US-incorporated startups, VC-backed companies and SMBs, including multi-entity structures needing shared controls. Deposits are eligible for up to $5M in pass-through FDIC insurance via partner sweep networks.
- Category
- Financial
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Products
- Mercury business checking and savings, Mercury Plus, Mercury Pro, Mercury Treasury, IO Corporate Card (issued by Patriot Bank), Virtual and physical debit cards with merchant lock, Bill pay and invoicing, Expense reimbursements
- Markets
- Startups, SMB, VC-backed companies, Agencies and professional services, E-commerce, Accounting firms, Multi-entity businesses
- Countries
- United States
- Integrations
- NetSuite (Pro tier required for enriched automations), Invoicing API (500 calls/month on Plus, unlimited on Pro)
- Pricing
- $35/month (Mercury Plus), or $29.90/month billed annually · free tier: $0/month Mercury plan: checking and savings, free domestic and international USD wires, virtual and physical debit cards, corporate credit cards, security protocols; expense reimbursement capped at 5 active users/month pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank, and is not itself FDIC-insured; banking services are provided by partner banks (Choice Financial Group, Column N.A. and, per older disclosures, Evolve Bank & Trust), with the IO Card issued by Patriot Bank under Mastercard licence. FDIC insurance is pass-through and conditional on sweep-network requirements being satisfied, so the advertised $5M ceiling is not equivalent to direct bank insurance. SOC 2 is confirmed; HIPAA and GDPR support are not stated. State money-transmitter or other licence detail was not verified in this session.
- Official website
- https://mercury.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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