Best AI for money questions
What 37 creators said they actually use for money questions, from podcasts and YouTube. Not benchmark scores. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
For money questions, Claude (16 creators) and ChatGPT (16) are neck and neck.
Top tools for money questions
Creators who use or recommend each"You can take this stuff and put it into Claude, and then take how can I apply this to my life, or ChatGPT it, or to my investment thinking, or to my company."
"It's actually an interesting hack. You can have ChatGPT go and hunt for properties that are in pre-foreclosure and make below-market offers and get sort of a steal on properties."
"I talk to Codex every day. I have teenagers using Codex. I would never hire a finance person didn't know how to use Excel. And I pretty much probably wouldn't hire a finance person today that doesn't know how to use a tool like Codex."
"If you have your Muse or Grok bot or personal Claude Code thing you built constantly looking at different interest rates and different bank accounts where you can then just move from one account to another with Plaid, you might as well d..."
"But then I ran it through uh perplexity and it said, "No, that implies a one quadrillion dollar valuation using the current market price earnings ratio ratio.""
"I did this whole analysis with Grok that said that the ages between 42 to 45 the optimal ages to start shifting from saving to spending given your life expectancy"
"I literally had Gemini produce an investment memorandum for something I was looking at. I looked at it. It looked pretty accurate. Like give or take I'd tweak a few things, but it seems passable. I would have had to hire a banker and a b..."
Models creators name for money questions
Most creators name the app (like Claude Code), not the model, so these counts are smaller.
Best AI for other jobs
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