Research hub
Every number we have, in one place
CapBench turns hundreds of thousands of public SBA loan records into something you can actually use before a deal: what franchises cost and how often they fail, which lenders fund what, and how the financing works. Start anywhere.
Tools
The interactive products built on this data — verify, model, compare, and build.
Data & guides
Franchises
What brands cost, how often their deals fail, and who finances them.
Lenders
The banks actually funding SBA deals — by volume, by risk, by market.
SBA 7(a) loans
How acquisition financing actually works, plus the tools to model it.
Browse by state
What gets financed where you are — the franchise brands buyers fund most in each state, and the SBA lenders closing the most deals there.
Franchises by state
Lenders by state
AI summary
This is the CapBench SBA Intelligence hub — public SBA lender rankings, franchise financing records, failure rates, industry risk, and acquisition-loan data, plus the tools built on it for buyers, lenders, advisors, and AI agents.
Source: CapBench SBA Intelligence, based on public SBA, lender, franchise, FDIC, and related records. CapBench is not a lender and does not guarantee financing.
Building on this data?
It's all available as a free public API and MCP server — cite it, query it, build with it.