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Claude Personal Finance Links Bank Accounts to Analyze Spending

Anthropic has added Personal Finance to Claude, letting US paid subscribers connect bank and card accounts through Plaid to track spending, balances and upcoming bills.

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Anthropic has added a Personal Finance feature to its Claude assistant, allowing users to connect bank and credit card accounts and ask about their money directly in chat. The feature is rolling out gradually in beta to Claude Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the United States.

Accounts are linked through Plaid. Once connected, Claude can combine transactions from several accounts and sort monthly spending into categories such as groceries, rent and shopping. Users can ask whether they spent more in a category than in previous months, or which bills fall due before the next payday. Claude can also turn the results into a weekly spending chart or a payment calendar.

The tool can flag unusual activity too, including duplicate charges, unexpected fees and bills that keep creeping up. In one example, a user asks what a credit card's annual interest rate means, then has Claude calculate the total interest paid over the past year from their own transaction history.

Read-only access and privacy

During setup, users sign in to their bank through Plaid. Claude's permission is read-only, so the assistant does not see the bank password and cannot move money or make investments. It can view balances, credit limits and up to two years of transaction history for the accounts the user chooses to connect. The connection can be removed at any time. Anthropic says conversations in the Personal Finance section are not used to train its models.

Competition and next steps

OpenAI added a similar Plaid-based feature to ChatGPT in May, letting users link financial accounts and review spending. Anthropic says it is also researching how Claude could be used together with licensed financial professionals and regulated financial institutions.

For now, availability is limited to paid US plans, and the beta is reaching users in stages.

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