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RBL EasySaver

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MyFirst at half the price and half the welcome — the same quarter-point per ₹100.

−₹200

a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee

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What it's worth to you, after the fee

−₹300
at ₹0.25L/month
−₹200
at ₹0.4L/month
₹200
at ₹1L/month

Welcome: 1,000 Reward Points on paying the fee and spending ₹2,000 within 30 days of issuance — first-year-free cards get nothing

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 →

Pays for itself at ₹71,000 a month

At ₹71,000 a month — ₹8,52,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹500 gross (earn ₹500) against its ₹499 fee = ₹0 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.

1 notes on the card itself: how it is issued

RBL Bank · Not published · entry

₹499 + GST
Annual fee1
None
Fee waiver

The take

EasySaver is MyFirst's cheaper twin: identical reward table, identical exclusions, half the fee and half the welcome bonus. You earn 1 Reward Point per ₹400 on ordinary spend — a quarter of a point per ₹100, or 0.06% at RBL's own valuation — and 8 points per ₹400 on education and on bill payments, which works out to 0.5%. The welcome is 1,000 points against MyFirst's 2,000, and the fee is ₹499 against ₹999. RBL totals the card at ₹1,513 a year and ₹1,200 of that is the fuel-surcharge waiver, so on the rewards alone you are earning about ₹313 for a fee that never waives. If you are choosing between the two RBL cards, this is the one; if you are choosing between this and the market, almost anything free beats it.

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.

₹71,000/mo is where it starts paying for itself

the whole desk — your spend, what changed, the downgrade →

Keep, downgrade or cancel

₹499/yr at stake · 5 spend bands

The charge ₹499/yr

Break-even ₹71,000 a month — ₹8,52,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee.

At your spend

−₹300 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend

−₹100 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend

₹200 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend

₹1,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend

₹3,000 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 →

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

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What's good

  • 8 Reward Points per ₹400 on education spends
  • 8 Reward Points per ₹400 on bill payments
  • ₹499 — half of what MyFirst charges for the identical reward table
  • Fuel-surcharge waiver up to ₹100 a month on fills of ₹500–₹4,000

Watch out

  • The ₹499 fee NEVER waives — neither RBL fee document gives this row a reversal clause
  • Base earn is 1 point per ₹400 — 0.06% at RBL's own point value
  • The welcome bonus is 1,000 points, half of MyFirst's, for otherwise identical terms
  • Fuel, auto, quasi-cash, railways, rent, insurance, government, wallet, cash and EMI earn nothing
  • ₹99 + GST reward-redemption fee, charged once per day you redeem
  • 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 · 6 pay zero

READ THE UTILITIES ROW. EasySaver is sold on exactly two accelerators — "8 Reward Points for every INR 400 spends on Education" and "8 Reward Points for every INR 400 spends on Bill Payment", each priced in RBL's own value table — and its 15-Oct-2024 footnote strikes out "Bills2pay", RBL's own bill-payment rail inside MyBank and internet banking. The card's headline benefit and the excluded rail are the same act. Separately, EasySaver's exclusion footnotes are SHORTER than the rest of RBL's shelf: the 13-Nov-2023 wave names only Insurance, Rent Payments and Wallet Load — Education and Utilities, which every Platinum card lists, are named in NEITHER wave here.

Fuel excluded — Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172); the ₹100-a-month fuel surcharge waiver on ₹500–₹4,000 fills is the only fuel benefit
Rent & property management excluded — Zero RP — Rent Payments from 13-Nov-2023, "Real Estate" (MCC 6513) restated 15-Oct-2024; 1% fee on every rental transaction bank-wide (MITC)
Government / tax excluded — Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Government Services" (MCC 9400, 1490, 2490, 2995, 7800, 9406, 9222, 9405, 9399, 9211, 9402, 9401, 9311, 9223)
Utilities (electricity/water/gas) accelerated — CONTRADICTED ON THE ISSUER'S OWN PAGE. The benefit table promises 8 RP per ₹400 (2 RP/₹100) on Bill Payment; the 15-Oct-2024 footnote on the same page says transactions on "Bills2pay" are not eligible — Bills2Pay being RBL's own bill-payment facility in the MyBank app and internet banking, keyed on transaction codes 71 and 72. Utilities (MCC 4900) itself is named in neither footnote, so a utility bill paid at the biller rather than through Bills2Pay may well earn. Every value surface here credits the card's base rate rather than the headline, and RBL charges a 1% fee on utility spend past ₹50,000 a month regardless (MITC)
Insurance excluded — Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Insurance" (MCC 6300, 6310); "Miscellaneous" (MCC 5960) added 15-Oct-2024
Education accelerated — 8 RP per ₹400 = 2 RP/₹100, eight times the card's 1-per-₹400 base. Education is named in NEITHER exclusion footnote on this page — the 13-Nov-2023 wave lists only Insurance, Rent and Wallet, and the 15-Oct-2024 wave does not add it — even though Education (MCC 8220, 8244, 8249, 8211, 8241, 8299) appears in the page's MCC glossary and is excluded on every Platinum card. Taken at its published word this is the one RBL card that pays on school fees; RBL's 1% third-party-app fee still applies (MITC), so pay the institution directly
Wallet loads excluded — Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Wallet Load" / "Service Providers" (MCC 6540)
Groceries & supermarkets full — Absent from both exclusion footnotes — the base 1 RP per ₹400
Dining & food delivery full — Absent from both exclusion footnotes — the base 1 RP per ₹400
Travel (airlines, hotels, transit) full — Airlines, hotels and OTAs earn the base 1 RP per ₹400; "Railways" (MCC 0066, 4011, 4112) is excluded since 15-Oct-2024
Telecom full — Telecom (MCC 4814) is absent from both footnotes — the base rate, or the 2 RP/₹100 bill-payment rung if RBL bills a mobile top-up as a bill payment (inferred from absence, flag)
Jewellery / gold full — Jewellery (MCC 5944, 5094) is absent from both footnotes — the base 1 RP per ₹400 (inferred from absence, flag)
Forex / international spends full — Base 1 RP per ₹400 on international spend with RBL's 3.5% currency-conversion assessment on top (MITC)
UPI (RuPay-on-UPI only) not applicable
EMI conversions / merchant EMI excluded — No base reward points survive an EMI conversion — named in the card's own 15-Oct-2024 footnote and applied bank-wide by RBL's MITC
  • Fuel · excluded Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172); the ₹100-a-month fuel surcharge waiver on ₹500–₹4,000 fills is the only fuel benefit
  • Rent & property management · excluded Zero RP — Rent Payments from 13-Nov-2023, "Real Estate" (MCC 6513) restated 15-Oct-2024; 1% fee on every rental transaction bank-wide (MITC)
  • Wallet loads · excluded Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Wallet Load" / "Service Providers" (MCC 6540)
  • Utilities (electricity/water/gas) · accelerated CONTRADICTED ON THE ISSUER'S OWN PAGE. The benefit table promises 8 RP per ₹400 (2 RP/₹100) on Bill Payment; the 15-Oct-2024 footnote on the same page says transactions on "Bills2pay" are not eligible — Bills2Pay being RBL's own bill-payment facility in the MyBank app and internet banking, keyed on transaction codes 71 and 72. Utilities (MCC 4900) itself is named in neither footnote, so a utility bill paid at the biller rather than through Bills2Pay may well earn. Every value surface here credits the card's base rate rather than the headline, and RBL charges a 1% fee on utility spend past ₹50,000 a month regardless (MITC)

per RBL Bank T&C · rank every card by spend category →

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.

Route Direct application
Income · salaried not published
Income · self-employed not published
Age band not published

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.

Forex markup Up to 3.5% on foreign-currency, dynamic and static conversion transactions; also levied on rupee transactions at an international location or at a merchant registered overseas
APR Up to 3.99%/mo (47.88%/yr) on both revolving credit and cash advances; interest-free grace period up to 50 days
Late fee 12.5% of the total outstanding amount, min ₹5, max ₹1,300
Cash advance 2.5% of the cash amount withdrawn, min ₹500
Add-on card ₹200/yr per add-on card
Overlimit Nil
Redemption fee ₹99 + GST per redemption day — one fee covers all redemptions made that day; the exempt list is Lumière, Nova, Insignia, Insignia Prime and World Xclusive only

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: EasySaver ₹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

Full tracker →

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 2026
    Partner major Axis Bank
    Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton
    Accor 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 2026
    Launch minor RBL Bank
    RBL relaunches the Shoppers Stop co-brand as a Gold / Platinum / Black trio
  • 21 Aug 2026
    Buff minor Club ITC
    Club ITC pays up to 50,000 bonus Green Points for spreading 10 nights across all five brands
  • 7 Jan 2026
    Fee minor RBL Bank
    RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet
  • 1 Jul 2025
    Lounge moderate RBL Bank
    RBL gates domestic lounges behind ₹35k a quarter
  • 15 Oct 2024
    Devaluation moderate RBL Bank
    RBL strips points from education, government and wallet spends