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Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

digitek — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:57:27 GMT

Just got an email that Experian will now give you free FICO 8 score monthly if you have one of their free accounts with them. They will show you your free credit report with them and also free credit monitoring.

If you have a free Credit Karma account you can see your free TransUnion and Equifax credit reports, too. Scores on Credit Karma are Vantage, though, and not FICO 8.

Just thought I'd share the info, Experian's phone app is pretty well done and I'd recommend that as well.

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

AllZero — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 19:14:12 GMT

Thanks for the tip.

I use wallethub.com for free daily VantageScore reports too.

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

M_Smart007 — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 20:19:16 GMT

@digitek wrote:
Just got an email that Experian will now give you free FICO 8 score monthly if you have one of their free accounts with them. They will show you your free credit report with them and also free credit monitoring.

If you have a free Credit Karma account you can see your free TransUnion and Equifax credit reports, too. Scores on Credit Karma are Vantage, though, and not FICO 8.

Just thought I'd share the info, Experian's phone app is pretty well done and I'd recommend that as well.

I second Experian phone app!

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:38:24 GMT

I've had Experian App for a month or two... It's pretty good.

I also use Credit Sesame, Credit Karma, WalletHub, NerdWallet, Rocket HQ, CreditWise (with Cap1), and Turbo.

I downloaded them all one day apart, so basically I have free daily reporting (Vantage 3.0 anyway). It's my little "hack" and works quite well.

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 01:06:40 GMT

Hmm. That sounds like Experian CreditWorks Basic. Its been around at least a year and a half (I started using it August of 2018). Montly free report and FICO 8 score. It even has alerts

https://www.experian.com/consumer-products/compare-credit-report-and-score-products.html

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

babbles — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:26:42 GMT

just noticed someting about EX's credit 3 bureau monitoring service, it dosen't actually alert you to activity on your other reports, only their files so for that reason I will only use FICO.com

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:22:57 GMT

@babbles wrote:
just noticed someting about EX's credit 3 bureau monitoring service, it dosen't actually alert you to activity on your other reports, only their files so for that reason I will only use FICO.com

Actually it does alert you to inquiries on your other reports but it's correct that you would have to have myFICO to get balance and other alerts. They're delayed anyway on myFICO so I just use Experian app for daily Experian, WalletHub for daily Transunion, and Credit Karma for Equifax when I need it.

No way will I pay $40 a month unless I'm going for a mortgage and even then I get my EQ5 free from DCU and me EX2 free from EX so I know my middle is at least the lower of those two numbers so I could still avoid spending the money.

Re: Experian Monthly Free FICO 8

babbles — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:22:54 GMT

I compared Fico to EX for alerts from last month and EX caught nothing but their activity, that's a fact that I saw