DigiFi vs nCino (2026)
This choice turns on the size of the institution and how far it wants AI to reach. nCino runs commercial, small business, consumer and mortgage lending, deposit account opening and portfolio monitoring for more than 2,700 institutions in 20 countries, and puts five role based agents to work across them through what it calls its Agentic Operating System. DigiFi is a lighter origination platform for loans and deposit accounts, configured without code, with one generative AI agent that completes tasks inside each application. DigiFi publishes its full price list. nCino prices by the products deployed, meters its agents in Intelligence Units and gives figures only in a quote. DigiFi also lets the lender pick where the system runs, including on premises. nCino carries more for an examiner: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, model risk documentation it aligns with federal guidance, and a commitment never to train agents or foundation models on personally identifiable or nonpublic personal information, a question DigiFi leaves open. Neither publishes testing of the credit decisions its software automates for disparate impact, and neither names the model behind its agents.
- A small lending team must change products without engineers. DigiFi's templates and no code tools let business staff rework workflows, decision logic and portals, then test before release.
- Procurement wants a rate card rather than a negotiated quote. DigiFi publishes its platform fee, the usage it includes and its overage pricing.
- Policy requires the software to run inside the lender's own data center. DigiFi offers on premises installation beside shared cloud and private cloud hosting.
- The launch date is fixed and close. DigiFi says its customers typically go live within six months, starting from templates for common loan and deposit products.
- Commercial credit teams lose hours to spreading statements. nCino's Automated Spreading reads tax returns, audits and company prepared statements, reconciles them line by line and learns from earlier mappings.
- Several cores, a customer relationship system and fintech apps must feed one view of each client. nCino Integration Gateway connects cores from Fiserv, Jack Henry and FIS through prebuilt connectors.
- Examiners will ask how every AI action was controlled. nCino's operating system applies banking guardrails to each Digital Partner and documents every action it takes.
- Customer data must never train a vendor's models. nCino states that it does not use personally identifiable or nonpublic personal information to train its agents or foundation models.
This comparison is published by AI FinTech Index, an independent research platform that publishes independent ratings of AI vendors for financial services. DigiFi and nCino are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI FinTech Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| DigiFi | nCino | |
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| Primary category | Lending & Banking Operations | Lending & Banking Operations |
| Founded | Not published | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Not published | Wilmington, North Carolina, United States |
| Website | www.digifi.io | www.ncino.com |
Side by Side
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The short version of each
DigiFi
DigiFi builds origination software for lenders that want to launch and change products without engineers. Its loan origination and account opening systems share no code tools for workflows, decision logic, layouts and portals, with a testing mode ahead of production, and customers typically go live within six months. The decision engine runs lender built rules, formulas and scorecards. A generative AI agent, enabled per task or triggered from automated workflows, plans its steps and marks every update it makes in the application history, so staff can tell agent work from their own.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
nCino
nCino sells a cloud banking platform to banks, credit unions and independent mortgage banks, used by more than 2,700 institutions. It spans commercial, small business, consumer and mortgage lending, deposit account opening and portfolio analytics. Banking Intelligence layers predictive, generative, agentic and analytical AI over the platform, coordinated by an operating system that deploys, governs and logs agent actions. Five Digital Partners cover executive, analyst, service, processor and client work, and staff reach them in plain language through Banking Advisor or Mortgage Advisor. Automated Spreading reads financial statements and tax returns into credit spreads.
Source: AI FinTech Index, 2026
Common questions
How is each one priced?
DigiFi charges a fixed platform fee of $3,995 a month plus usage above its included allowances, with no feature restrictions or tiers. nCino prices by the products an institution deploys and how its teams use them, and meters Digital Partners in Intelligence Units under its Intelligence Solution Framework, with numbers given only in a quote. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
What does each agent do on its own?
DigiFi's agent works one application task at a time from instructions the lender writes, and runs without step by step confirmation unless guided mode is switched on. nCino's Digital Partners coordinate workflows, sub agents and tools behind Banking Advisor and Mortgage Advisor, and are built to surface the moments where human judgment is required. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which suits a smaller lender?
DigiFi, in the AI FinTech Index's view: its price is public, configuration needs no developers and its customers typically go live within six months. nCino serves community banks and credit unions as well as enterprise banks, but its pricing and its agent layer are built around deployment across the whole institution.
Do nCino's lending reports or DigiFi's engine cover fair lending testing?
Not of the decisions themselves. nCino builds Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Community Reinvestment Act and Section 1071 reporting frameworks into its platform, which help an institution report on its own lending, but publishes no disparate impact testing of its credit decisioning or method for adverse action reasons. DigiFi publishes neither. Neither names the large language model behind its agents, and DigiFi notes only that its file size limits come from the underlying models. Graded by AI FinTech Index against the same capability axes from each vendor's own published materials, verified October 13, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Credit Decisioning & Underwriting page.
nCino Integration Gateway was formerly Glyue, a product of Sandbox Banking. DigiFi's outcome figures rest on a single named lender, Sparrow.