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PNB Intellect RuPay Platinum

A lifetime-free PNB RuPay Platinum variant that exists, so far, as one line in a fee table.

Not valuedno published earn rate to price

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Our verdict: keep (ranked #686)

PNB's October 2026 terms add a card called Intellect RuPay Platinum, and price it at nothing — no joining fee, no annual fee, no waiver condition to meet.

Our full review 2 good · 4 bad

That makes it one of the cheapest cards PNB issues. It is also one of the least explained: the bank has not said who Intellect is for, whether a partner sits behind the name, or what the card earns. There is no product page on PNB's card portal, no row in the Key Fact Statement, no row in the Rewardz earning table, and no announcement this desk can find. So this site carries the fee, which PNB states, and nothing it does not. The card is not valued or ranked, and the RuPay Platinum in the name is not read as a rate — PNB's own RuPay Platinum is a different row in the same table, keyed to its own card number range. The bank-wide terms still apply: 3.50% on foreign currency, 2.95% a month on revolving credit, and the service-charge schedule that moves on 1 November 2026, including a ₹99 fee on every reward redemption.

What's good

  • Lifetime free on PNB's own fee table — nil to join, nil a year, no waiver test
  • Issued on RuPay Platinum, per the row title in PNB's Most Important Terms and Conditions

Watch out

  • PNB HAS NOT SAID WHO THIS CARD IS FOR OR WHAT IT EARNS. There is no product page and no Rewardz row, so this site carries the card without valuing or ranking it
  • The MITC fee row is the only public description — no Key Fact Statement line, no credit-limit band, no launch announcement
  • 3.50% forex markup — PNB's nil-markup benefit belongs to the LUXURA metal cards alone
  • From 1 Nov 2026 PNB charges ₹99 per reward redemption and raises its cash-advance and late-payment charges bank-wide

Rewards

Punjab National Bank has not published what this card earns. Not zero: nothing stated either way. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described.

Category rules: not published. We have not found where this card earns less.

Fees & charges

₹0 — lifetime free.

Keep, downgrade or cancel?

There is no renewal arithmetic to run on this card yet — and a break-even we cannot source is not one we will print.

We cannot work out a break-even without both the fee and the earn rate. What we can source is under Sources.

Downgrade: Punjab National Bank publishes no card you can step down to, so we name none. That leaves keep or cancel.

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All charges 6 of 7 published
This card's own charges (MITC)
ChargeWhat the bank saysOur read
Forex markup3.5% over and above the currency conversion rate — PNB's nil-markup carve-out names only the LUXURA metal cards
Cash withdrawal feeFrom 1 Nov 2026, 2.5% of the amount, min ₹400 at PNB ATMs and ₹500 at other ATMs and overseas (one schedule for all RuPay/VISA variants); the current schedule's per-variant minimums do not name this card
Add-on card feenot published
Reward redemption fee₹99 a redemption request from 1 Nov 2026 — if this card earns PNB Reward Points at all, which PNB has not stated

From Punjab National Bank's most important terms and conditions, checked 10 Jul 2026.

The interest (APR), late payment fee and over-limit fee are Punjab National Bank's standard, the same on most of its cards: Punjab National Bank's standard charges.

PNB's fee row is the card's only public description: "PNB INTELLECT RUPAY PLATINUM — Nil — Nil", no waiver condition and no add-on line. No product page, Key Fact Statement row or Rewardz earning row exists, so the audience, the earn and every benefit are unpublished. The ladders above are PNB's bank-wide schedules, not lines that name this card.

The document

Who can get it Not confirmed on sale
Eligibility
RuleWhat the bank says
How you get itNot confirmed on sale
Income, salariednot published
Income, self-employednot published
Agenot published

From Punjab National Bank's terms document.

Not confirmed on sale — the issuer still documents this card but we could not confirm it is open to new applications. Treat any application path with care.

Lounges

No lounge access: opens 0 of 792 lounges we track. Find a card that gets you in.

Welcome & milestones

Welcome bonus: none published.

Spend milestones: none published.

What changed

  • Coming PNB raises late, cash, bounce and redemption charges on every credit card issuer-wide · Announced 6 Oct 2026
  • PNB EMT's cash advance charge goes to 2.5%, minimum ₹400 Fee · about the PNB EMT RuPay Platinum · not in force yet
Every change, before and after 2

We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers.

Coming 1 Nov 2026

PNB raises late, cash, bounce and redemption charges on every credit card

Before

Late fee Nil to ₹750 across four slabs; cash advance 2% with a ₹100–₹300 floor by card and ATM; a bounced payment ₹100–₹250; reward redemption free; no fee on utility payments

From 1 Nov 2026

From 1 November 2026: late fee Nil to ₹1,200 across five slabs; cash advance 2.5% with a ₹400 floor at PNB ATMs and ₹500 elsewhere; a bounced payment 2% of the amount, minimum ₹400; ₹99 per reward redemption; 1% on utility payments above ₹50,000 a billing cycle, capped ₹2,000 a transaction

: PNB EMT's cash advance charge goes to 2.5%, minimum ₹400 (about the PNB EMT RuPay Platinum, not in force yet)

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Why it ranks #686

Carried, not ranked. PNB prices this card at nothing in its own fee table and publishes nothing else about it — no earn, no audience, no benefit — so there is nothing to value.

More about this card 4 pages

Sources

Last checked . Every fact on this page comes from these 3 documents; the bank's own are marked official.

  1. Official PNB's Most Important Terms and Conditions for retail credit cards — this card's fee row, nil joining and nil annual read 18 Oct 2026
  2. Official PNB's bank-wide Key Fact Statement — read for this card and found not to name it; its 1 November 2026 schedule sets the bank-wide service charges read 18 Oct 2026
  3. Official PNB Rewardz programme page — the BIN-keyed earning table, read for this card and found to have no row for it read 18 Oct 2026

Not published by Punjab National Bank: the earn rate and the points it earns. We show these as "not published", never as zero.

How we work out the yearly value

Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. This card is not in our rankings, the calculator or the best-of lists until Punjab National Bank publishes terms we can cite.

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