Now Claude Can Help With Your Finances Too

But should you?

Anthropic has begun testing a new personal finance experience inside of Claude. Starting this week, Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US can connect their financial accounts to Claude in order to get personalized financial advice from the chatbot. Like OpenAI did with ChatGPT Finances in May, Anthropic has partnered with Plaid to allow users to connect their bank accounts. Plaid's backend has connections to more than 12,000 financial institutions, including many major US banks like Citi and Chase.

When you connect a financial account to Claude, Anthropic notes the chatbot will be limited to read-only access. "Personal Finance can't move, manage or invest your money," the company says, adding it didn't design the tool to give people investment advice, and that Claude can only access up to two years of transactions.

Anthropic is also quick to distance its offering from OpenAI's, pointing to the...

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