Real ChatGPT answer · index seedf3xBCBe6FKUcompleteFinance and banking · personal loansinformational

How does checking my loan rates with SoFi affect my credit score, and is it a hard inquiry or a soft pull when I use their pre-qualification tool?

ChatGPTgpt-61 query10/31/2026
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The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
How does checking my loan rates with SoFi affect my credit score, and is it a hard inquiry or a soft pull when I use their pre-qualification tool?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
SoFi prequalification personal loan soft credit inquiry hard inquiry officialGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDYes / no

Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

ChatGPT real searches (1)
Short factOther / navigationalComparisonConsequenceReasonDefinitionInstructionYes / no100%

Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model). 1 of 1 calls are low-confidence (under 50%) — hover a query in the table to see its confidence.

Searches and sources

ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
SoFi prequalification personal loan soft credit inquiry hard inquiry official Google ↗

Queries

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Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
SoFi prequalification personal loan soft credit inquiry hard inquiry official
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