Claude reads your bank accounts in a new Personal Finance hub

Accounts connect through Plaid, a bank-linking service, so Claude never asks for or sees a bank password, Anthropic’s post says. It sees each account’s name, type, last four digits, balances and credit limits, plus up to two years of transactions. It adds up where the month’s money went and flags duplicate charges, unexpected fees and bills that creep up. It also explains terms such as APR (the yearly interest rate on a card or loan). Conversations in the hub are not used to train models.

The post states that the hub has no ads or sponsored recommendations, and that Personal Finance offers no credit cards, loans or savings accounts of its own. ChatGPT added similar finance tools in May, TechCrunch notes. The beta is rolling out to US users on the Pro, Max and Ultra plans.

Our price sheet, checked 8 November, puts the cheapest of those plans, Pro, at $20 a month, with Max at $100 and Ultra at $200.

No card issuer or lender can pay for a place in these answers. A bank’s own fees and rates still reach them, because they sit in the transactions Claude reads.