RBL Bank DMI Finance
KeepFour milestone rungs on a ₹499 card, and a 500-point monthly ceiling under all of them.
a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee
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What it's worth to you, after the fee
Welcome: 2,000 Reward Points plus a ₹200 BookMyShow voucher — swipe within 30 days and pay the fee by the due date
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 utilities and 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 →
Pays for itself at ₹20,000 a month
At ₹20,000 a month — ₹2,40,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹3,000 gross (earn ₹500 + bonuses ₹2,000 + milestones ₹500) against its ₹499 fee = ₹2,500 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 · why it ranks #300
Why #300 Ranked below where the raw earn model puts it: the 500-point monthly ceiling caps ongoing earn at ₹1,500 a year, so the milestone ladder — not the reward rate — is what this card actually pays.
The take
The DMI Finance co-brand is the most heavily laddered ₹499 card RBL sells: 2,000 Reward Points every quarter you spend ₹50,000, a ₹500 Amazon voucher at ₹2 lakh a year, a ₹200 Swiggy voucher at ₹3 lakh, a BookMyShow buy-one-get-one every month you spend ₹5,000, and a welcome of 2,000 points plus a ₹200 BookMyShow voucher. Work all of that and RBL's own headline of ₹6,800 is roughly right. The catch sits in one sentence in the rewards section: a maximum of 500 reward points per billing cycle. At 1 point per ₹100 that ceiling arrives at ₹50,000 of monthly spend, which is exactly the spend the quarterly milestone asks for — so the ongoing earn is capped at ₹1,500 a year no matter what you put through it, and the milestones are the real product. There is also no spend-based fee waiver on this card, which is unusual given how many spend thresholds it carries.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
Here is the fee, the spend that clears it, and everything that has moved under this card since you last decided.
Keep, downgrade or cancel
₹499/yr at stake · 5 spend bands
The charge ₹499/yr
Break-even ₹20,000 a month — ₹2,40,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee.
At your spend
₹2,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend
₹3,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend
₹3,700 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend
₹3,700 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend
₹3,700 a year, net of the fee, at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend
Everyday earn plus milestones, minus the fee — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →
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The downgrade
RBL 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
- 21 Aug 2026 Club ITC pays up to 50,000 bonus Green Points for spreading 10 nights across all five brands a program these points reach
- 7 Jan 2026 RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet 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 →
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What's good
- 2,000 Reward Points every quarter you spend ₹50,000
- ₹500 Amazon voucher at ₹2 lakh a year, ₹200 Swiggy voucher at ₹3 lakh
- BookMyShow buy-one-get-one up to ₹200 every billing month you spend ₹5,000
- 2,000-point welcome plus a ₹200 BookMyShow voucher on activation
- 2 Reward Points per ₹100 on online spends
Watch out
- Hard ceiling of 500 reward points a billing cycle — about ₹50,000 of spend, then ongoing earn stops
- The ₹499 fee NEVER waives — neither RBL fee document gives this row a reversal clause
- Railway, fuel, utilities, insurance, quasi-cash, rent, education, wallets, government, cash, EMI and Bills2Pay count for nothing: not points, not the movie benefit, not any milestone
- ₹99 + GST reward-redemption fee, charged once per day you redeem
- Points are worth ₹0.11–₹0.25 depending on the redemption — RBL's own range
- RBL charges 1% on FIVE transaction types its Schedule of Charges lists separately from the reward exclusions: rent (MCC 6513, on every transaction), fuel and auto above ₹10,000 a transaction (capped at ₹3,000), utility spends above ₹50,000 a month, education paid through third-party apps such as CRED, PhonePe or Paytm (school and college websites are exempt), and — with effect from 7 January 2026 — FASTag loading and tolls above ₹10,000 a transaction. These are FEES, listed nowhere near the reward exclusions: a category can both cost you 1% and earn you nothing
What these points actually fly
RBL Reward Points move to Club ITC — and that programme prices 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
14 sourced rules · 8 pay zero
1 RP/₹100 in store, 2 RP/₹100 online, with a quarterly milestone of 2,000 RP on ₹50,000 of spend. RBL attaches ONE list to everything on this card — "reward point benefits, qualifying purchase value of monthly movie benefit and monthly, quarterly and annual milestone benefits" — so what does not earn also does not count toward the ₹50,000 quarterly bar.
- Fuel · excluded Zero RP and no milestone credit — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172). RBL also charges 1% on fuel/auto transactions above ₹10,000, capped at ₹3,000 (MITC)
- Rent & property management · excluded Zero RP and no milestone credit — "Real Estate/Rental" (MCC 6513); 1% fee on every rental transaction bank-wide (MITC)
- Wallet loads · excluded Zero RP and no milestone credit — "Wallets/Service Providers" (MCC 6540)
- Utilities (electricity/water/gas) · excluded Zero RP and no milestone credit — "Utilities" (MCC 4900), with Bills2Pay struck separately; 1% fee past ₹50,000 of utility spend a month (MITC)
Does your spend count toward the milestones?
14 of 15 categories answered
₹2,00,000 a year is the bar for the first milestone. A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.
Put your number in
₹80,000 a month of rent & property management is ₹9,60,000 a year that counts ₹0 toward the milestones.
"Purchases made under below mentioned merchant categories will be excluded from reward point benefits, qualifying purchase value of monthly movie benefit and monthly, quarterly and annual milestone benefits: Railway, Fuel & Auto, Utilities, Insurance, Quasi-Cash, Real Estate/Rental, Education, Wallets/Service Providers, Government Services, Contracted Services, Cash, Miscellaneous, Bills2Pay and EMI conversion of retail transactions (Split-N-Pay & EMI conversion requests placed at the time of making transactions at POS/Web/Mobile App)." The quarterly ladder is 2,000 RP on ₹50,000 of eligible spend
14 of 15 categories answered · per RBL Bank's own document
Lounge access
0 of 793 tracked doors
No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →
Can you get it?
the route in — no cutoffs published
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.
RBL Bank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.
per the official RBL 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.
RBL Bank MITC cum Key Fact Statement, read 2026-08-17, plus the Schedule of Charges RBL-CC-SOC-V2-12-12-2025. FEE COLUMN PROVENANCE: RBL's tables have two columns headed "Annual membership Fee (1st year)" and "Annual membership Fee (2nd year onwards)" and they are NOT inverted — the first is the charge to GET the card, the second is the recurring charge. This card: RBL Bank DMI Finance Credit Card ₹499/₹499, with no fee-reversal clause. RBL publishes no income or age criteria for any card in the MITC. Other card-wide charges: cash deposit at an RBL branch ₹100; cheque return or auto-debit reversal ₹500; merchant EMI processing 1.5% or ₹150, whichever is higher; 1% on rent (MCC 6513); 1% on fuel and auto transactions above ₹10,000, capped ₹3,000; 1% on utility spends above ₹50,000 a month; 1% on education payments made through third-party apps; 1% on FASTag loading and toll transactions above ₹10,000 with effect from 7 January 2026; fuel surcharge 1% or ₹10, whichever is higher. All charges attract GST at 18%.
per the official RBL Bank MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026
What's changed for this card
6 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.
- 22 Aug 2026RBL relaunches the Shoppers Stop co-brand as a Gold / Platinum / Black trio
- 21 Aug 2026Club ITC pays up to 50,000 bonus Green Points for spreading 10 nights across all five brands
- 7 Jan 2026RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet
- 1 Jul 2025RBL gates domestic lounges behind ₹35k a quarter
- 15 Oct 2024RBL strips points from education, government and wallet spends
Verified against RBL Bank's own documents on · the net-annual-value engine, at our house ₹/point
Every document behind this page — 3 of them, each with the day we read it
- official Product page — 1 RP per ₹100 in store and 2 online under a 500-point monthly ceiling, the quarterly and annual milestone ladder, the ₹5,000 monthly movie benefit, ₹499 fee
- official Schedule of Charges — "RBL Bank DMI Finance Credit Card INR 499 / INR 499", with no spend-waiver clause; ₹99 + GST reward-redemption fee
- official MITC — "RBL Bank DMI Finance Credit Card INR 499 | INR 499 | INR 200", no reversal clause