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Travel Credit Card Rewards Calculators

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Travel Rewards Calculator: Which Card Is Best For You?

Use the travel credit card rewards calculator to find out which cards will earn you the most points and miles based on the spend amounts you enter. Results will consist of top travel rewards credit cards from our partners. This includes American Express, Chase, Citi, Capital One, and small handful of other issuers.

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Calculator Options
What Type of Rewards Do You Want To Earn?
This calculator can output the best credit cards for a general rewards type or compile a list of the best credit cards for earning rewards with a specific loyalty program.
Frequent Flyer Programs
Select the frequent flyer program that you want to earn rewards for. Results will include all co-branded credit cards offered by the selected airline and all credit cards partners that allow you to transfer rewards to the selected airline.
Hotel Loyalty Programs
Select the hotel loyalty program that you want to earn rewards for. Results will include all co-branded credit cards offered by the selected hotel program and all credit cards partners that allow you to transfer rewards to the selected hotel program.
Other Loyalty Programs
Select the program that you want to earn rewards for. Results will include all credit cards offered by the selected program and all credit cards partners that allow you to transfer rewards to the selected program.
Personal Or Business?
Are you looking for personal (consumer) credit card or business credit cards? You can also include both in the results.
Include Intro Bonuses?
If set to yes, intro bonuses will be included for a card's calculation ONLY IF you have met the monthly spend criteria based on what's entered into the tool.
Do note that we do not have intro bonuses for all credit cards and we cannot calculate intro bonuses for some cards due to the complexity of some spend requirements.
Enter Your Monthly & Yearly Spend Amounts
Resets all fields in the Category Spending section for all columns. Also clears all saved spend values that carry from calculator to calculator.
Deletes all categories in the Category Spending section so you can start fresh.
Add Categories
Search for categories and click 'Add Category' to add it to the calculator. If you want to be more specific, you can specify domestic or international spend.
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About Spend Region: Some credit cards feature categories that only earn rewards when spending in a certain region. Changing this category to Domestic or International spend will calculate such for those cards, otherwise it's assumed by Default.

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Results

These estimates are to help guide you towards making the best decision when it comes to picking up a rewards credit card. They should be used for illustrative purposes only.

FAQs

Which credit card gives reward points for air travel?

There are many fantastic credit cards for air travel. Which card is best depends on how often you travel. At the top of the list is typically the Chase Sapphire Reserve and The Platinum Card by American Express.

How useful are travel cards?

If you travel often, having a travel rewards credit card can save you tons of money on airfare, hotels, car rentals and even smaller purchases such as tolls and parking.

How much is 25,000 travel points?

The average value of 25,000 travel points would be around $250, but it can easily be worth more or less depending on the program since the value of travel rewards are not equal across programs.

What is the best credit card to use while traveling?

You'll want to use a card that earns a high return on any given purchase while traveling. If you're looking for a general rewards card that you can charge all purchases to, you'll probably want to consider the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card.