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RBL Platinum Prime

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Platinum Max's twin, one notch cheaper in RBL's own benefit maths and identical in the T&C.

₹1,000

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

Verified · 3 documents

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What it's worth to you, after the fee

₹300
at ₹0.25L/month
₹1,000
at ₹0.4L/month
₹4,000
at ₹1L/month

Welcome: 4,000 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 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 ₹1,000 gross (earn ₹1,000) against its ₹999 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

₹999 + GST
Annual fee1
None
Fee waiver

The take

Platinum Prime and Platinum Max are the same card wearing different names: 2 Reward Points per ₹100, 20 points per ₹100 on Wednesday dining to a ceiling of 1,000 points a month, a BookMyShow buy-one-get-one on any Wednesday, a 4,000-point welcome, a ₹100 monthly fuel- surcharge waiver and a ₹999 fee with no reversal clause. The only thing that separates them is RBL's own arithmetic — Prime's benefit table totals ₹6,300 a year against Max's ₹6,975, because RBL values Prime's welcome points at ₹800 and Max's at ₹1,000. Nothing in the terms differs. Read it as a 0.5% card with a real 5% rung on one weeknight's restaurant bill, and do not confuse it with World Prime, which costs ₹2,999.

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.

₹20,000/mo is where it starts paying for itself

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

Keep, downgrade or cancel

₹999/yr at stake · 5 spend bands

The charge ₹999/yr

Break-even ₹20,000 a month — ₹2,40,000 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

₹1,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend

₹4,000 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend

₹14,100 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend

₹24,200 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

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

  • 20 Reward Points per ₹100 on Wednesday dining — 5% back, to 1,000 points a month
  • 2 Reward Points per ₹100 on ordinary spend
  • BookMyShow buy-one-get-one up to ₹200, one Wednesday a month
  • 4,000-point welcome on ₹2,000 of spend in 30 days
  • Fuel-surcharge waiver up to ₹100 a month on fills of ₹500–₹4,000

Watch out

  • The ₹999 fee has NO spend-based waiver in either RBL fee document
  • The 10X dining rung is Wednesday-only and stops at 1,000 points a month
  • Fuel, auto, quasi-cash, railways, rent, education, insurance, utilities, government, wallet, cash and EMI earn nothing
  • ₹99 + GST reward-redemption fee, charged once per day you redeem
  • Not the same card as World Prime, which costs ₹2,999
  • 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

Identical exclusion regime to Platinum Max — RBL publishes the same two-wave table (13-Nov-2023 and 15-Oct-2024) with the same MCC list on this product page. Base earn 2 RP/₹100, 20 RP/₹100 on Wednesday dining capped at 1,000 RP a month.

Fuel excluded — Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172) on the product page's exclusion table; the ₹100-a-month fuel surcharge waiver (on ₹500–₹4,000 transactions) is what remains
Rent & property management excluded — Zero RP — Rent Payments since 13-Nov-2023, "Real Estate" (MCC 6513) restated 15-Oct-2024. RBL charges 1% 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) excluded — Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Utilities" (MCC 4900); RBL's own Bills2Pay rail is excluded separately. 1% fee past ₹50,000 of utility spend a month (MITC)
Insurance excluded — Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Insurance" (MCC 6300, 6310), plus "Miscellaneous" (MCC 5960) from 15-Oct-2024
Education excluded — Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Education" (MCC 8220, 8244, 8249, 8211, 8241, 8299); 1% fee on top when paid through a third-party app (MITC)
Wallet loads excluded — Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Wallet Load" / "Service Providers" (MCC 6540)
Groceries & supermarkets full — Absent from the product page's exclusion table — 2 RP/₹100, the ordinary rate. RBL markets this card on grocery, electronics and fashion spend
Dining & food delivery accelerated — 20 RP/₹100 on Wednesday dining — a 5% discount in RBL's own framing — capped at 1,000 RP a month; base 2 RP/₹100 the rest of the week
Travel (airlines, hotels, transit) full — Airlines, hotels and OTAs earn the base 2 RP/₹100; "Railways" (MCC 0066, 4011, 4112) is on the exclusion table since 15-Oct-2024 and earns nothing
Telecom full — Telecom (MCC 4814) is absent from the exclusion table — base 2 RP/₹100 (inferred from absence, flag)
Jewellery / gold full — Jewellery (MCC 5944, 5094) is absent from the exclusion table — base 2 RP/₹100 (inferred from absence, flag)
Forex / international spends full — Base 2 RP/₹100 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 on any EMI conversion — RBL's MITC states it for every card, including Split-N-Pay and EMI requested at the point of sale
  • Fuel · excluded Zero RP since 15-Oct-2024 — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172) on the product page's exclusion table; the ₹100-a-month fuel surcharge waiver (on ₹500–₹4,000 transactions) is what remains
  • Rent & property management · excluded Zero RP — Rent Payments since 13-Nov-2023, "Real Estate" (MCC 6513) restated 15-Oct-2024. RBL charges 1% 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) · excluded Zero RP since 13-Nov-2023 — "Utilities" (MCC 4900); RBL's own Bills2Pay rail is excluded separately. 1% fee past ₹50,000 of utility spend a month (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: Platinum Prime ₹999/₹999, 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