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      "summary": "PocketGuard is a budgeting app for iOS, Android and the web that tracks spending, bills, debts and goals from linked bank accounts. PocketGuard, Inc. also sells a personal finance API and a white-label app to businesses.",
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      "authNotes": "A PocketGuard account in the app or on the web, protected by a PIN, biometrics and bank-side MFA. Bank data arrives read-only through Finicity, Plaid, Salt Edge and Apple Wallet (https://pocketguard.com/security/). The business API is reached only by a demo request (https://pocketguard.com/pocketguard-api/), and no credential for an outside agent is documented.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "PocketGuard Premium is $74.99 a year, $12.99 a month or $149.99 once, each with a 7-day free trial (https://pocketguard.com/pricing/, checked 14 October 2026). The App Store also lists in-app purchases from $2.99 to $74.99 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id949414211). The business API and white-label app have no published price.",
      "priceSummary": "Paid",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on pocketguard.com, the API page or the terms, checked 14 October 2026.",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
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        "finance.transactions",
        "finance.bills",
        "finance.subscriptions",
        "finance.cancellation"
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        "hosted",
        "official",
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        "paid",
        "ios",
        "android",
        "web",
        "white-label",
        "not-for-agents",
        "sales-led"
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        "score": 14.6,
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        "categoryRank": 8,
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        "verdict": "PocketGuard is a subscription budgeting app with published plan prices, a 7-day trial and iOS releases every few weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its personal finance API and white-label app are sold to businesses through a demo request, with no public documentation.",
        "bestFor": "People who want a budget built from linked accounts.",
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          "Plan prices published without login, $74.99 a year, $12.99 a month or $149.99 once, each with a 7-day trial.",
          "Bank data arrives read-only through Finicity, Plaid, Salt Edge and Apple Wallet, per the security page.",
          "Four iOS releases between 21 August and 6 October 2026.",
          "Transactions export to CSV from the app, per a help article updated 3 September 2026."
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          "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call.",
          "The PocketGuard API is reached only by a demo request, with no public docs, keys or prices.",
          "The terms forbid robots, crawlers and automated queries against the service.",
          "No status page or security.txt, and the privacy policy names no retention periods."
        ],
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          "Don't plan to call PocketGuard from another agent. There is no public API, so hand budgeting tasks to the person, or point a business to the API demo request.",
          "To move a person's data elsewhere, ask them to export transactions as CSV in the app. The emailed link lasts 24 hours."
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            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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          "payments": 20,
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          "schema": 0,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 35
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        "provenanceScore": 61
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        "legalEntity": "PocketGuard, Inc.",
        "domain": "pocketguard.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2000-05-02",
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        "terms": "https://pocketguard.com/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://pocketguard.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The terms were last updated 26 November 2024 and the privacy policy 12 May 2025.",
          "pocketguard.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. status.pocketguard.com has no DNS record.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2000-05-02 for pocketguard.com, older than the app."
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        "score": 61
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      "name": "Rocket Money",
      "vendor": "Rocket Money, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.rocketmoney.com",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "personal-finance",
      "summary": "Rocket Money is a personal finance app for iOS, Android and the web that tracks spending, budgets and net worth, finds and cancels subscriptions and negotiates bills. Its AI assistant, Rowan, works by text message.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rocket-money",
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      "license": "Closed service under the Rocket Money Terms of Service (Rocket Money, Inc., formerly Truebill, Inc.).",
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      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A Rocket Money account on the web or in the app. Bank accounts connect through Plaid or Akoya, and Rocket Money says it never sees bank passwords (https://www.rocketmoney.com/security). Rowan answers by RCS text message to the primary member on Premium+ (https://www.rocketmoney.com/llms.txt). No credential exists for an outside agent.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to use. Premium is priced by the member, typically $7 to $14 a month after a seven-day free trial, and Premium+ is $15 a month plus tax with Rowan and bill negotiation at no success fee. On the free and Premium tiers bill negotiation costs 35 to 60 per cent of first-year savings (https://www.rocketmoney.com/llms.txt). The App Store lists Premium in-app purchases from $2.99 to $9.99 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1130616675, checked 14 October 2026).",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on rocketmoney.com, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026.",
        "endpoints": []
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        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
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      "llmsTxt": "https://www.rocketmoney.com/llms.txt",
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        "finance.bills",
        "finance.budgets",
        "finance.transactions"
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        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "freemium",
        "ios",
        "android",
        "web",
        "llms-txt",
        "not-for-agents"
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      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "methodology": "0.4",
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
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        "bestFor": "People in the US who want subscription cancellation and bill negotiation done for them.",
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          "Free tier, with Premium priced by the member at about $7 to $14 a month and Premium+ at $15.",
          "Bank connections go through Plaid or Akoya, so Rocket Money doesn't hold bank passwords, per its security page.",
          "Sixteen iOS releases between 7 July and 13 October 2026.",
          "Rowan asks for the member's confirmation before acting, and cancellations go through human-verified workflows, per llms.txt."
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        "weaknesses": [
          "No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call.",
          "The terms forbid robots, scrapers and other automated access without Rocket Money's express written consent.",
          "Bill negotiation on the free and Premium tiers costs 35 to 60 per cent of first-year savings.",
          "No status page or security.txt, and the privacy policy at rocketaccount.com answered 403."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to call Rocket Money from another agent. There is no public API or MCP server, so hand subscription and bill tasks to the member in the app or Rowan.",
          "Don't use unofficial clients that take the member's session cookie. The terms forbid automated access without written consent.",
          "Tell the member bill negotiation costs 35 to 60 per cent of first-year savings unless they pay $15 a month for Premium+."
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            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
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          "transparency": 31
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        "provenanceScore": 55
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        "terms": "https://www.rocketmoney.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.rocketaccount.com/#/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The terms are effective 2 October 2026, with earlier versions archived under /terms/.",
          "The privacy policy is linked from llms.txt at rocketaccount.com, which answered 403 to our fetch, so it was not read.",
          "rocketmoney.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. status.rocketmoney.com has no DNS record.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2012-05-13 for rocketmoney.com."
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        "score": 55
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        "a": "no (local only)",
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        "a": "no",
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        "b": "not found in the text",
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
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      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, PocketGuard or Rocket Money?"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rocket-money-vs-scribeup.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rocket-money-vs-snoop.json",
        "title": "Rocket Money vs Snoop",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copilot-money-vs-pocketguard.json",
        "title": "Copilot Money vs PocketGuard",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copilot-money-vs-rocket-money.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-quicken-simplifi.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-snoop.json",
        "title": "PocketGuard vs Snoop",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-ynab.json",
        "title": "PocketGuard vs YNAB",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-ynab"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rocket-money-vs-ynab.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plum-vs-pocketguard.json",
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      "rocket-money": "Rocket Money combines budgeting, subscription cancellation and bill negotiation for people in its app and through Rowan, a text-message assistant, with weekly iOS releases. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today, the terms forbid automated access without written consent, and no status page or security contact was found."
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rocket-money.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rocket-money.json\n- Best subscription, bill and budgeting tools for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-finance/index.md\n- All 43 personal finance comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-finance/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### PocketGuard (F)\n\nGood for: People who want a budget built from linked accounts.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 48 against 43\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call.\n\n### Rocket Money (F)\n\nGood for: People in the US who want subscription cancellation and bill negotiation done for them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 10 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nWatch for: No public API or MCP server an outside agent can call.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | PocketGuard | Rocket Money | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 10 | Rocket Money +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Rocket Money +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 56 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 43 | PocketGuard +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **14.6 · F** | **17 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | PocketGuard | Rocket Money |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | PocketGuard, Inc. | Rocket Money, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the PocketGuard Terms of Use (PocketGuard, Inc.). | Closed service under the Rocket Money Terms of Service (Rocket Money, Inc., formerly Truebill, Inc.). |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-13 |\n| Terms last updated | 2024-11-26 | 2023-12-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-05-12 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**PocketGuard.** PocketGuard is a subscription budgeting app with published plan prices, a 7-day trial and iOS releases every few weeks. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today. Its personal finance API and white-label app are sold to businesses through a demo request, with no public documentation.\n\n**Rocket Money.** Rocket Money combines budgeting, subscription cancellation and bill negotiation for people in its app and through Rowan, a text-message assistant, with weekly iOS releases. There is no public API or MCP server an outside agent can call today, the terms forbid automated access without written consent, and no status page or security contact was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### PocketGuard\n\n1. Don't plan to call PocketGuard from another agent. There is no public API, so hand budgeting tasks to the person, or point a business to the API demo request.\n2. To move a person's data elsewhere, ask them to export transactions as CSV in the app. The emailed link lasts 24 hours.\n\n### Rocket Money\n\n1. Don't plan to call Rocket Money from another agent. There is no public API or MCP server, so hand subscription and bill tasks to the member in the app or Rowan.\n2. Don't use unofficial clients that take the member's session cookie. The terms forbid automated access without written consent.\n3. Tell the member bill negotiation costs 35 to 60 per cent of first-year savings unless they pay $15 a month for Premium+.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, PocketGuard or Rocket Money?\n\nRocket Money scores 17 (F) on agent readiness against PocketGuard's 14.6 (F), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. PocketGuard leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-rocket-money.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-rocket-money.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"pocketguard\", \"b\": \"rocket-money\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare pocketguard rocket-money`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pocketguard.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rocket-money.json\n\n## Other comparisons with PocketGuard or Rocket Money\n\n- [Emma vs PocketGuard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emma-vs-pocketguard.md)\n- [Emma vs Rocket Money](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emma-vs-rocket-money.md)\n- [Hiatus vs PocketGuard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hiatus-vs-pocketguard.md)\n- [Hiatus vs Rocket Money](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hiatus-vs-rocket-money.md)\n- [PocketGuard vs ScribeUp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-scribeup.md)\n- [Quicken Simplifi vs Rocket Money](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/quicken-simplifi-vs-rocket-money.md)\n- [Rocket Money vs ScribeUp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rocket-money-vs-scribeup.md)\n- [Rocket Money vs Snoop](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rocket-money-vs-snoop.md)\n- [Copilot Money vs PocketGuard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copilot-money-vs-pocketguard.md)\n- [Copilot Money vs Rocket Money](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/copilot-money-vs-rocket-money.md)\n- [PocketGuard vs Quicken Simplifi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-quicken-simplifi.md)\n- [PocketGuard vs Snoop](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-snoop.md)\n- [PocketGuard vs YNAB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pocketguard-vs-ynab.md)\n- [Rocket Money vs YNAB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rocket-money-vs-ynab.md)\n- [Plum vs PocketGuard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plum-vs-pocketguard.md)\n- [Plum vs Rocket Money](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/plum-vs-rocket-money.md)\n",
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