Monthly fee
$5
$0 a year for an everyday customer: fees and interest, $2,000 kept.
Amerant Bank · Checking account
Amerant Value Checking
$0 a year for an everyday customer. $5 a month. $50 to open.
- A year, everyday customer
- $0
- Monthly fee
- Receipt · Monthly feeChecked Nov 8, 2026
Issuer document · media.amerantbank.com · PDF
The source states this figure; we have no exact sentence on file yet.
- To open
- Receipt · Minimum to openChecked Nov 8, 2026
Issuer's page · amerantbank.com
The source states this figure; we have no exact sentence on file yet.
Against the market
How it ranks
#348of 1043 checking accounts, by a year’s value for an everyday customer
All 1043 checking accounts, rankedFeatures
- Bill pay
- Branch access
- Card lock
- Debit card
- Instant external transfers
- Mobile check deposit
- Mobile wallet
- No minimum balance
- Online opening
- Overdraft protection transfer
- Spending alerts
- Zelle
From the bank’s own pages. A feature not listed may still be offered: we list only what the bank states.
In the bank’s words
Terms
Rate conditions
- Interest compounds
- Monthlymedia.amerantbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Fees
- Monthly fee
- $5 a monthmedia.amerantbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Ways to avoid the monthly fee
- Any one of these:
- Enroll in Online Statements
- Monthly Direct Deposit
- complete four debit card transactions per statement cycle
- Minimum to open
- $50amerantbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- ATM network
- Mastercard, Maestro, Cirrusamerantbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- ATMs in the network
- 2,000,000amerantbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Who can open it
- Minimum age
- 18media.amerantbank.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
FDIC-insured, up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category: FDIC BankFind.
Rates and fees change; the bank’s own page is the final word. Report a mistake · How we make money · Not stated: 1 item counted at typical fees