The Best Business Banking for Lean B2B Founders

I compared all 3 published business-banking tools in our catalogue on price, deposit protection, expense tooling and accounting integrations, using the feature data on file as of June 2026. Banking is a category where "cheap" and "right" diverge: a free freelancer add-on and a licensed cooperative bank solve genuinely different problems, so I've ranked for the lean incorporated B2B founder specifically rather than crowning a single universal winner. Where deposit protection differs (an EMI partner under the guarantee scheme versus a direct banking licence) I've flagged it, because that's the one thing you can't bolt on later.

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