Monthly fee
$25
−$300 a year for an everyday customer: fees and interest, $2,000 kept.
Wells Fargo Bank · Checking account
Wells Fargo Prime Checking
−$300 a year for an everyday customer. $25 a month. $25 to open.
- A year, everyday customer
- −$300
- Monthly fee
- Receipt · Monthly feeChecked Nov 8, 2026
Issuer's page · wellsfargo.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 · wellsfargo.com
The source states this figure; we have no exact sentence on file yet.
Against the market
How it ranks
#991of 1043 checking accounts, by a year’s value for an everyday customer
All 1043 checking accounts, rankedFeatures
- ATM fee rebates
- Bill pay
- Branch access
- Card lock
- Check writing
- Debit card
- Early direct deposit
- Free checks
- Interest bearing
- Joint accounts
- No minimum balance
- Online opening
- Overdraft grace period
- 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
- $25 a monthwellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Ways to avoid the monthly fee
- $20,000 or more in statement-ending qualifying balances in your linked accounts.wellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Minimum to open
- $25wellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Overdraft fee
- $35wellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Most overdraft fees in a day
- 3wellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Out-of-network ATM fee
- Nonewellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- International ATM fee
- Nonewellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Foreign transaction fee (debit card)
- 3%wellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Cashier’s check
- Nonewellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
- Stop payment
- Nonewellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
Who can open it
- Minimum age
- 18wellsfargo.com, checked Nov 8, 2026
FDIC-insured, up to $250,000 per depositor, per ownership category: FDIC BankFind.
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