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TreasuryBench put both through the same 59 money questions with the same accounts and the same financial life, then had an independent AI judge score every answer. See the method.
Treasury 95
Monarch 53Overall advice score, out of 100, across 59 money questions.
| Dimension | Treasury | Monarch |
|---|---|---|
| GroundingUses your real numbers | 98 | 44 |
| CorrectnessGets the facts right | 98 | 63 |
| ResolutionActually answers it | 96 | 46 |
| PrudenceWon’t steer you wrong | 96 | 66 |
| SpeedMedian time to an answer | 9.4s | 86.2s |
9× faster to an answer, and it is the better answer on every dimension measured.
Monarch's AI only knows what you type into a settings form, and its tags can't actually run a budget.
Monarch is a polished budgeting and net-worth tracker popular with ex-Mint users, with collaborative household budgets. Treasury is an AI money coach and personal-finance command center that answers your money questions in plain English.
Bottom line: Treasury is the AI-first Monarch alternative — an AI money coach at $12.99/mo (or $95/yr) that scored 95 to Monarch’s 53 on the TreasuryBench advice benchmark.
See what Monarch missed.
Both apps had the same accounts and the same data. Selected examples of Treasury's strengths — verbatim excerpts, trimmed for length; emphasis added.
“Are any of my subscriptions or recurring charges worth changing?”
Maria, who works at Microsoft
Treasury Submit ClassPass to Microsoft Perks+ — … an annual reimbursement of up to $1,500 for qualifying physical, mental, and financial wellbeing expenses. … submitting your $89.00 monthly ClassPass receipts ($1,068.00/year) would effectively cover this expense.
Found a work perk that could cover her $89/mo ClassPass
Monarch ClassPass – $89/month: Great if you’re going regularly, but pricey if you’re not. If your cost per class is high or you’ve been skipping weeks, pausing or downgrading would make sense.
Found ClassPass, but suggested pausing or downgrading instead of claiming the perk
“Is there a smart way to earn rewards on daycare without giving back the value in fees?”
Priya, a parent with a toddler in daycare
Treasury A pre-tax Dependent Care FSA beats credit card points by an order of magnitude. The 2026 statutory limit for married couples filing jointly is $7,500. … giving you over $2,100 in guaranteed tax savings with zero fee leakage.
Put the dependent care FSA ahead of card points
Monarch Dependent Care FSA: lets you pay up to a set amount per year with pre-tax dollars, which usually beats 1–2% credit card rewards.
Prioritized tax benefits, but used a hypothetical daycare bill
“What checking-account buffer should we keep before moving extra cash to savings or investments?”
Priya and Daniel, homeowners in Denver
Treasury Keep a baseline buffer of $7,500 to $9,000 in your Chase Premier Plus Checking account. … A $7,500 baseline ensures your single largest outflow—the $3,850.00 mortgage payment—clears smoothly on the 1st of the month alongside daycare even if a deposit falls on a weekend or holiday.
Sized the buffer around the $3,850 mortgage due on the 1st
Monarch Comfort target range: $10,000–$12,000 (about 1.1–1.3 months of expenses)
Grounded its buffer in the household’s actual bills
What Monarch can't do
AI that learns as you talk
Treasury picks up your goals, patterns, and past questions from conversation and carries them into every session.
AI works from a profile form
Monarch’s AI Assistant personalizes from household details you fill in under Settings — dependents, income, filing status.
Tags drive real budgets
One transaction can feed several budgets at once.
Tags are cosmetic
Monarch's tags can't drive budgets or budget-specific reports.
95 on TreasuryBench
Higher-quality, safer advice — verified by our 59-task benchmark, with math routed to deterministic tools.
53 on TreasuryBench
Weaker advice quality, with 5 financially-dangerous answers out of 59 tasks.
One flat price, forever
$12.99/month or $95/year — one tier, no forecasting paywall, no $199 upsell.
New $199 Plus tier
Monarch moved Forecasting to a $199/year tier in April 2026 — long-time subscribers called it a bait-and-switch.
Bring your Monarch history with you.
Treasury reads Monarch’s own export — transactions and balance history — so the years you spent tagging and categorising come with you. Nothing is retyped and nothing is left behind.
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Connect your accounts
Link your banks and cards first, so Treasury is live from day one.
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Export from Monarch, upload the file
Monarch’s transactions CSV, plus its balance history file for the net-worth chart.
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Keep your categories
Yours are listed next to Treasury’s, and you pick which to keep.
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Review, then confirm
You see everything before it is written, and nothing lands twice.
Measured on TreasuryBench
Where the gap is widest
Same connected accounts, same financial life — then an independent AI judge scored every answer. Treasury scored 95 overall to Monarch’s 53, and led biggest on Credit Cards & Rewards (95 vs 38).
Treasury 95 Monarch 38 Treasury 98 Monarch 44 Treasury 91 Monarch 37 Treasury 93 Monarch 43 Treasury 94 Monarch 50 Treasury 93 Monarch 51Explore detailed benchmark evidence
9× faster than Monarch.
A great answer is useless if you’ve given up waiting for it. Treasury replied in 9.4s; Monarch took 86.2s.
9×
faster to answer
Monarch gave 5 dangerous answers.
We flagged every answer that could actually cost you money — a wrong contribution limit, a stale tax figure, a bad payoff order. Treasury gave none across 59 tasks; Monarch gave 5 on the same 59.
0 dangerous answers
5 dangerous answers
Treasury vs Monarch questions
Is Treasury a good Monarch alternative?
Yes. Treasury matches Monarch on budgets, net worth, and subscription tracking, then adds an AI money coach with persistent memory and multi-budget tagging — and scored 95 vs Monarch’s 53 on TreasuryBench.
How much does Treasury cost compared to Monarch?
Treasury is $95/year ($12.99/mo). Monarch is $99.99/year ($14.99/mo) — its monthly price is the #1 complaint in reviews.
Is Treasury’s AI better than Monarch’s AI Assistant?
Treasury’s AI learns your goals from conversation and remembers them across sessions (Monarch’s personalizes from household details you enter in Settings) and scored 95 vs 53 on our 59-task financial-advice benchmark — with zero financially-dangerous answers to Monarch’s 5. See treasury.sh/benchmarks for the methodology.
Does Treasury do couples budgeting like Monarch?
Monarch leads on dedicated couples features today; shared budgeting is on Treasury’s roadmap. If collaborative household budgeting is your top priority right now, Monarch is a fair pick.
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