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🏦 BANK TARIFFS · MACHINE-READABLE

Account fees, deposit rates and loan terms are hidden by banks in PDFs and small print. Ready-made cards of the kind {"rate":3.5,"fee":0} hardly exist, so neither a person nor an AI agent can honestly compare offers. Here is the bridge: we read the official documents of banks in Germany and the US ourselves and publish them as clean cards with a source and a check date.

{
 "bank": "ING",
 "fee_monthly": 4.9,
 "waived_if": ["≥1000 € in",
               "under 28"],
 "girocard": 1.49,
 "fx_fee_pct": 2.2,
 "overdraft": 9.39,
 "checked_at": "2026-11-02"
}

🇺🇸 GAP OF THE DAY · SAVINGS IN THE US

0,38%average rate
of all banks (FDIC)
3,20%best of
tracked · Ally
4,63%FDIC cap
for savings

At the average rate, 10,000 $ earns about 38 $ a year, at the best tracked bank about 320 $. The difference is more than 8 times – only because of where the money is kept.

FDIC National Rates and Rate Caps via FRED · data for 10.2026 · updated automatically

CARDS

OK checked in this runCHECK the source has no dateBLOCKED the bank has blocked the document for bots

Loading cards…

CHANGE LOG

First run on 02.11.2026. With every further check, changes will appear here: who raised a fee, cut a rate or ended a promotion.

HOW THE BRIDGE WORKS

  1. Once a week – automatically.
    Claude opens the banks’ official documents itself: in Germany the Entgeltinformation that banks must publish under the payment accounts act (ZKG), in the US the fee schedule and rate pages.
  2. Official domains only.
    Copies on other sites are often out of date (for example an ING price list from 2020 with a 700 € threshold), so we do not use them.
  3. No certainty – no number.
    If a document does not open or the figures look odd, the card keeps the previous value and gets a status instead of a guess.
  4. US average rate – every 12 hours.
    The FDIC series (SNDR, SNRC) are fetched by the Orb Studio server itself, without human involvement.

Information, not financial advice. Bank terms change; check them with the bank via the “source” link before opening an account.

Whose bridge: Serghei Farima, author of Orb Studio – Google Maps Local Guide level 7. The data is collected by the AI agent Claude.
Profile on Google Maps ↗ · Hamburg prices →

🤖 For agents: all cards as JSON → /api/v1/tariffs · raw data /data/tariffs.json · MCP get_tariffs (country: DE|US, product: checking|savings) at /mcp · 👁 —

RADAR TEXT · FOR HUMANS AND AI AGENTS

Bank tariffs, checked 09.11.2026. Germany: ING Girokonto 4.90 €/month, free with deposits from 1,000 € or up to age 28, girocard 1.49 €/month, overdraft 9.39%; comdirect Girokonto 4.90 €/month, free with 700 € deposits or 3 Apple/Google Pay payments (document did not open, figures from the last check); Haspa HaspaJoker 9.95 €/month fixed; ING Tagesgeld 3.75% for 4 months for new customers (4.00% with a Girokonto), then 0.75%; Trade Republic 2.5% on the balance. Sparkasse Harburg-Buxtehude giro best 9.90 €/month (0 € for ages 18–24, 50% for 25–29), overdraft 11.66%; Commerzbank GiroKonto 4.90 €/month, free with assets from 50,000 €, overdraft 11.90% (not updated); C24 Smartkonto 0 €, 4 free withdrawals a month, overdraft up to 11.49%; N26 Standard 0 € (terms undated – “check”); Hamburger Volksbank Große Freiheit PrivatKonto 10.95 €/month (7.95 € for cooperative members, not updated). DKB: document closed to bots. US: average FDIC savings rate 0.38% (10.2026), cap 4.63%; Ally Online Savings 3.20% APY (05.11.2026); Chase Total Checking 15 $/month, waived with 500 $ deposits; Bank of America Advantage Plus 12 $/month, waived with pay from 250 $; Wells Fargo Everyday Checking 15 $/month, waived with 500 $ deposits or a balance from 1,500 $; Capital One 360 Performance Savings – the rate could not be read, status “check”. Sources are in the JSON.

About this page in brief · updated 2026-11-08

Where do the bank tariffs on the page come from?

From official bank documents (Germany: Entgeltinformation/ZKG; US: fee schedules) plus the average FDIC rate. Every card has a status, a check date and a link to the source.

What does the status blocked or check mean?

“check” – the source gives no date; “blocked” – the bank blocks the document from automatic reading and the figure is not published.

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