ICICI Bank Rubyx
DowngradeRailway lounges and 0.5% points — a dated card in a modern lineup.
a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee
Skip the arithmetic — the board, ranked → · nothing to sign up for
What it's worth to you, after the fee
Welcome: ₹18,000 of brand vouchers — Elivaas ₹10,000, EaseMyTrip ₹2,000 flights + ₹3,000 holidays, TataCliQ ₹2,000, Croma ₹1,000 (+ 3-month EazyDiner Prime); joining ₹3,000, renewal ₹2,000
Priced on the everyday mix — 30% groceries · 10% utilities · 20% travel · 6% fuel · 34% everything else — with this card's published category rules applied: it earns nothing on fuel here, so that spend is dropped, not paid at the headline, and stops pacing milestones and the waiver. Plus milestones, minus the fee. No accelerator credit — the ranking model on /compare adds ~20% of spend at the card's best accelerator, so its ₹ for this card reads higher.
How these numbers are computed — and why the rankings show a bigger one →
Spend tiers, milestones and fee waivers included, at our house ₹/point. Portal and category multipliers can push higher — run your exact number →
Breaks even only by erasing its fee at ₹27,000 a month
At ₹27,000 a month — ₹3,24,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹2,200 gross (earn ₹1,400 + milestones ₹800) against a fee of ₹0 — the ₹2,000 is waived, the spend having cleared ₹3,00,000 a year = ₹2,200 net — the first rung at or above ₹0. The ladder runs in ₹1,000 steps to ₹1,00,000 a month and ₹10,000 steps to ₹5,00,000; figures are rounded to the hundred, and the accelerator is never credited.
2 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · the network variants
Rubyx is the card that settles ICICI's redemption question in writing: its own membership kit says "Each reward point is equivalent to ₹0.25 when redeemed for cash" — a quarter of the ₹1.00 house value, which ICICI documents only for Emeralde Private Metal and Times Black. earn.base bakes the haircut in.
The take
Rubyx is old ICICI: 2 Reward Points per ₹100 that redeem at just ₹0.25, so about a 0.5% return, doubled to roughly 1% only on international spends (4 RP/₹100). The milestone ladder — 3,000 points at ₹3L, then 1,500 for every extra ₹1L to a 15,000-point cap — adds ₹3,750 a year at those points' ₹0.25 value, which is where most of the card's worth actually sits. Lounges are gated and thin: two domestic a quarter behind ₹75,000 of prior-quarter spend, plus the one genuinely distinctive perk, eight railway lounge visits a year. ₹2,000 fee waived at ₹3L, 3.5% forex. Against ICICI's own Sapphiro it's the cheaper twin with the identical ₹0.25 points; against anything built after 2020 it's outclassed. Downgrade.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
This card reaches break-even by ERASING its fee, not by out-earning it: the waiver is the decision.
Keep, downgrade or cancel
₹2,000/yr at stake · 5 spend bands
The charge ₹3,000 joining, then ₹2,000/yr
The waiver ₹3,00,000 of spend in the year before renewal — about ₹25,000 a month — and the renewal fee is not charged.
Break-even ₹27,000 a month — ₹3,24,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee, and it gets there by erasing the fee at the waiver rather than out-earning it.
At your spend
−₹700 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend
₹4,200 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹9,100 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹19,800 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹30,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
Everyday earn plus milestones, minus the fee — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →
Your copy of this card
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Kept on this device, in your browser. It is never sent to us, never synced, and nothing else on the site reads it yet.
The downgrade
ICICI Bank publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and the numbers above are the whole of it.
What has changed under this card
- 23 Sep 2026 Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton a program these points reach
- 10 Sep 2026 ICICI's September lounge list drops four doors and adds Bhogapuram issuer-wide
- 29 Aug 2026 ICICI un-reserves Mumbai's Adani Silver lounge — the whole Annexure-1 board gets in issuer-wide
We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers. the full archive for this card →
If you call to cancel
What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →
The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.
What's good
- Milestone points up to 15,000 RP/year (₹3,750) — the real value here
- 8 railway lounge visits a year — a genuinely rare perk
- 4 RP/₹100 (~1%) on international spends
- Fee waived at ₹3L annual spend
Watch out
- ~0.5% base reward rate; points redeem at just ₹0.25
- Domestic lounges need ₹75k of prior-quarter spend; 2 a quarter
- 3.5% forex — no reason to take it abroad
- Utilities and insurance barely earn (1 RP/₹100); fuel earns nothing at all
What these points actually fly
ICICI Reward Points move to Air India Maharaja Points and iShop (ICICI travel portal) — and those price every award dynamically. There is no published chart to quote, so we quote nothing: an estimate is not a seat.
what the cards that DO reach a chart can fly — 2,196 corridors priced →
What earns, what doesn't
13 sourced rules · 4 pay zero
Earns ICICI RP redeeming at ₹0.25: 2/₹100 domestic, 4/₹100 international, 1/₹100 utilities & insurance. Same ICICI 5-Feb-2024 exclusions as Sapphiro (rent, wallet zeroed; government treated as utility on non-EPM cards). Every reduced rate is written as "1 RP/₹100 vs 2 RP/₹100 domestic": earn.base (0.5) prices those points at the ₹0.25 they redeem for against a ₹1 house value, so a lone raw rate reads four times too high and falls back to the headline.
- Fuel · excluded Zero RP; 1% surcharge waiver on fuel txns (community)
- Rent & property management · excluded Zero RP (ICICI-wide 6513/7349, 5-Feb-2024); 1% rent fee applies
- Wallet loads · excluded Zero RP; ICICI-wide wallet-load exclusion (5-Feb-2024)
- Utilities (electricity/water/gas) · reduced 1 RP/₹100 (vs 2/₹100 domestic) per the official earn table
Does your spend count toward the fee waiver?
not published — and we say which
₹3,00,000 a year is the bar that waives the ₹2,000 fee. A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.
Not published. ICICI Bank states what the ICICI Bank Rubyx earns and does not earn, but has not published which spend categories count toward the fee waiver and the milestones — the ₹3,00,000 bar. We won't guess it from the earn table or from a sibling card: Axis published three cards' rules on one day and all three lists differed. If you hold this card and have it in writing from the issuer, send us the document and we'll source it.
Lounge access
90 of 793 tracked doors
Gate: ₹75k prior-quarter spend
Opens 90 of 793 tracked lounge doors across 40 airports and 19 railway stations , via DreamFolks Railway — see the full map →
Memberships included
1 included · ₹2,000/yr
- EazyDiner Prime ₹2,495 ₹2,000welcome 3-month EazyDiner Prime (worth ₹1,095) inside the joining voucher pack; one-time, not renewed
Not counted in our net-value math above — worth ₹2,000 a year only if you'd actually use it. Sticker prices struck through; our number assumes you show up. The full matrix →
Can you get it?
income, age and the route in
The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.
Direct application — no invite list, no banking relationship required.
per the official ICICI Bank MITC — figures marked (community) aren't in the PDF; the issuer won't say · filter the board by what you can get →
The fine print
7 of 7 MITC rows published
What the MITC actually says — the rates, fees and cutoffs the brochure skips.
Joining ₹3,000; renewal ₹2,000 waived at ₹3L annual spend. Offered on Visa, Mastercard, RuPay and Amex rails. Full 3.5% forex. Income/age criteria aren't in the MITC — they come from the product page's eligibility block (seen 2026-08-01).
per the official ICICI Bank MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026
What's changed for this card
8 dated changes
Devaluations and buffs that touch this card directly, its issuer, or the points and programs it earns and transfers to. Every one is dated here; the tracker carries each one's before → after and the write-up.
- 23 Sept 2026Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and HiltonAccor and Marriott off the grid since 2 April 2026; Club ITC live; no Cathay, Miles & More or Hilton → Accor live at the punished rates; ITC removed; Cathay, Hilton and Miles & More live; Marriott still gone
Axis's own Travel EDGE terms, re-read 25 September 2026, already show the grid that went live on 23 September. Accor ALL is back, and not at the old Atlas 1:2: EDGE Miles convert at 2:1 (Olympus 1:2) and EDGE Rewards at 5:1, with Magnus for Burgundy at 5:2 and only Burgundy Private still at 5:4. Club ITC is off the table. Three partners are new. Cathay Asia Miles sits on that same punished grid. Hilton Honors is the ordinary one: EDGE Miles 1:2, EDGE Rewards 5:2, Burgundy 5:4. Lufthansa Miles & More is the exception on Atlas, which converts 1:1 there while every other standard airline on that card is 1:2; the EDGE Rewards side of Miles & More is the ordinary 5:2. Marriott stays removed. Qatar Privilege Club was already back. Flying Blue, Air India and Qantas moved into Group A, which is the capped group. The Axis Rewards credit card's Amex network is advertised as joining-fee and annual-fee nil for a limited period; there is no separate Amex variant on this board, so that offer is not modelled as a fee change.
- 10 Sept 2026ICICI's September lounge list drops four doors and adds Bhogapuram
- 29 Aug 2026ICICI un-reserves Mumbai's Adani Silver lounge — the whole Annexure-1 board gets in
- 25 Aug 2026Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles opens a broad SkyTeam status match — up to Elite Plus
- 20 Aug 2026IHG Hotels & Resorts becomes a Maharaja Club earning and conversion partner
- 6 Aug 2026MaxCoins' full transfer catalogue surfaces — Accor at 2:1 re-prices the coin to ₹1.08
- 3 Aug 2026SBI drops Etihad Guest from the MILES transfer table — the last SBI door into the programme
- 2 Aug 2026Flipkart SuperCoins into Maharaja Club improve to 2:1
Every ICICI Bank change we've dated → 10 events since 2019, 7 of them nerfs — worst year 2026.
Verified against ICICI Bank's own documents on · the net-annual-value engine, at our house ₹/point
Every document behind this page — 5 of them, each with the day we read it
- official Product page — ₹3,000 joining + ₹2,000 annual (waived at ₹3L), 2 RP/₹100 domestic and 4 international, 1 on utility/insurance, 3.5% forex
- official Rubyx membership kit — the primary source for ICICI's ₹0.25: "Each reward point is equivalent to ₹0.25 when redeemed for cash"
- official MITC (last updated 2 Jul 2026) — ₹3,000 joining + ₹2,000 annual, fee reversal at ₹3,00,000; 3.50% forex mark-up with no Rubyx exception; ₹99 redemption handling fee
- community CardInsider review (Visa/RuPay/Mastercard/Amex variants)
- official ICICI RuPay lineup (lists Rubyx RuPay)