Meridian Funding vs. SwiftCapital: Price or Speed?
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This is the most common head-to-head in business lending for a reason: both lenders are excellent, and they're excellent at different things. Meridian is the price-for-speed leader; Swift is the pure speed play.
Side by side
The decision rule
Choose Meridian Funding when you clear its 660 floor and one-year requirement and your deadline allows 1–3 days, the rate band (6.9–19.9% est. APR* vs 9.9–29.9% est. APR*) is meaningfully lower and there's no prepayment penalty.
Choose SwiftCapital when the opportunity dies this week (funding in 1–2 days), when you're under a year in business, or when your credit sits in the 600–659 window Meridian won't serve. You pay for the velocity (2% – 5% origination on every draw); sometimes the velocity is worth every basis point.
If you're genuinely between them, that's the concierge's specialty: it scores both against your exact amount, timeline, and credit range, plus the rest of the example directory, in about a minute.