Now Claude Can Help With Your Finances Too

Anthropic began testing a personal finance feature inside Claude this week, letting Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US link bank accounts through a Plaid partnership covering more than 12,000 financial institutions, including Citi and Chase. Access is read-only and capped at two years of transaction history, and Claude cannot move, manage or invest funds. Anthropic is positioning the tool against OpenAI's ChatGPT Finances, launched in May, by promising no ads or sponsored recommendations, no proprietary credit cards, loans or savings products, and no use of Personal Finance conversations for model training. The move matters because it inserts Anthropic into the consumer finance assistant race while keeping the company clear of product cross-selling. Next, watch adoption among paid US subscribers, whether Anthropic extends the feature beyond its top tiers or internationally, and whether the no-ads, no-training stance pressures OpenAI to match those terms.