The issuer board

Every Indian Overseas Bank credit card.

9 cards on the desk, ranked #246 to #709 against every other card in India — not against each other. Fees run ₹0 to ₹750, and 5 of them are genuinely free for life. 3 of the 9 we carry without ranking, because Indian Overseas Bank publishes no fee or no earn table for them — they are listed at the bottom, with what we do know.

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Ordered by our board, best first. The rank is the card's position among all Indian cards we price, so a gap between two rows is other issuers' cards sitting between them.

RBI, July 2026: 1,88,124 cards in force — 0.2% of every credit card in India · ₹185 cr spent on them that month, 20% of it online.

The one worth having

#621 in India Keep

Indian Overseas Bank RuPay Select

Eight domestic lounge visits a year, two international, and 2.50% forex — from a PSU bank almost nobody checks.

₹9,000 ranking value a year at ₹3L/month
₹0 joining + ₹500/yr what it costs
0.3% headline earn rate
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Narrow 9 Indian Overseas Bank cards

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The first seven narrow the board — a card that isn't what you asked for is hidden, not greyed, because six hundred dimmed rows are a hazard rather than a filter. Income is different: it greys the cards you can't be approved for and prints the reason, since "you can't get this" is worth knowing. Spend categories come from each card's own MITC/T&C exclusions; a card that publishes no rule for a category stays, because silence isn't a claim. Abroad and late fee read the issuer's own MITC line: 3.5% is India's norm, so "under" means cheaper than standard, and a card whose document states neither is filed under "not published" rather than assumed cheap. Your picks live in the URL, so the link you copy is the board you're looking at.

The board

All 6 priced cards, best to worst.

rank · card · fee (what you pay to get it) · headline earn rate, per ₹100 of ordinary spend · verdict

  1. #621 Indian Overseas Bank RuPay Select ₹0 joining + ₹500/yr 0.3% Keep
  2. #622 Indian Overseas Bank RuPay Platinum ₹0 joining + ₹250/yr 0.3% Keep
  3. #623 Indian Overseas Bank RuPay Classic ₹0 fee 0.2% Downgrade
  4. #650 IOB SalarySe Rise UP ₹299 joining 0.4% Keep
  5. #708 IOB Gold Credit Card ₹0 fee 0.2% Downgrade
  6. #709 IOB Classic Credit Card ₹0 fee 0.2% Downgrade

Carried, not ranked

3 cards Indian Overseas Bank won't put a number on.

Each of these is missing the fee, the earn table, or both, in every document Indian Overseas Bank publishes. We keep the card — its page, its lounge row, its sources — and we refuse to rank it, because a net-value number computed against a fee nobody published would be wrong by exactly that fee. Each promotes itself onto the board above the day the document lands.

  1. IOB VISA Signature Credit Card ₹750 fee earn n/p
  2. IOB VISA Platinum Credit Card ₹250 fee earn n/p
  3. IOB ZET Card ₹0 fee earn n/p

Our standing verdicts

6 keep · 3 downgrade · 0 cancel