Monthly fee
$5
−$60 a year for an everyday customer: fees and interest, $2,000 kept.
First Horizon Bank · Checking account
First Horizon Essential Checking
−$60 a year for an everyday customer. $5 a month. $25 to open.
- A year, everyday customer
- −$60
- Monthly fee
- Receipt · Monthly feeChecked Nov 8, 2026
Issuer's page · firsthorizon.com
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 · firsthorizon.com
The source states this figure; we have no exact sentence on file yet.
Against the market
How it ranks
#735of 1043 checking accounts, by a year’s value for an everyday customer
All 1043 checking accounts, rankedFeatures
- Branch access
- Card lock
- Mobile check deposit
- No minimum balance
- Online opening
- 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
Fees
- Monthly fee
- $5 a monthfirsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Ways to avoid the monthly fee
- The monthly service charge is refunded within three (3) business days if the primary account owner is 18-24 years old.firsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Minimum to open
- $25firsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Overdraft fee
- $35firsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Returned item (NSF) fee
- Nonefirsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Most overdraft fees in a day
- 3firsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Fee for each withdrawal over the limit
- $2firsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- ATM network
- First Horizon ATMs; non-First Horizon ATM owners or networks may charge a feefirsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Out-of-network ATM fee
- Nonefirsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- International ATM fee
- Nonefirsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Paper statements
- $2 a monthfirsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Who can open it
- Minimum age
- 18firsthorizon.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
FDIC-insured, up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category: FDIC BankFind.
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