RBL World Prime
Keep₹2,999 for 8 lounge visits and 20,000 milestone points. The earn is 0.5% and stays there.
a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee
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What it's worth to you, after the fee
Welcome: 12,000 Reward Points on paying the fee and spending ₹2,000 within 30 days of issuance — nothing at all on a first-year-free card
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 ₹15,000 a month
At ₹15,000 a month — ₹1,80,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹3,300 gross (earn ₹800 + milestones ₹2,500) against its ₹2,999 fee = ₹300 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 · the network variants
The take
World Prime is the middle of RBL's World family and the card a reader is most often offered on an upgrade call, so it is worth being precise about what it is: a lounge card with a small milestone ladder attached, at 0.5% base earn. Eight domestic lounge visits a year, two a quarter, unlocked by ₹35,000 of spend in the previous calendar quarter — the same quota World Plus gives for ₹2,000 more. The ladder is 12,000 points to welcome you, 10,000 at ₹1.5 lakh and 10,000 at ₹3.5 lakh, so a ₹3.5 lakh spender collects 32,000 points — ₹8,000 against a ₹2,999 fee, which is the case for the card in one line. Everything else is thin. The online accelerator doubles the base to 4 points per ₹100, worth 1%, and stops dead at 1,000 points a month — ₹25,000 of online spend and no more — with education, insurance, utilities, rent and wallet loads carved out of it. Forex is a full 3.5%. RBL headlines "bonus and annual rewards worth INR 30,600+" on the page; that is a marketing sum and not a valuation. Buy it for the lounges and the milestones, and swipe something else the rest of the year.
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
₹2,999/yr at stake · 5 spend bands
The charge ₹2,999/yr
Break-even ₹15,000 a month — ₹1,80,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee.
At your spend
₹800 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend
₹4,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend
₹7,000 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend
₹17,100 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend
₹27,200 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 →
Your copy of this card
You hold this card.
Kept on this device, in your browser. It is never sent to us, never synced, and nothing else on the site reads it yet.
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
- 8 domestic lounge visits a year, 2 a quarter, on ₹35,000 of previous-quarter spend
- 32,000 Reward Points across the welcome and both milestones — ₹8,000 against a ₹2,999 fee
- 2X on online spend: 4 points per ₹100, worth 1%
- 1+1 BookMyShow ticket up to ₹200, twice a month, any day of the week
Watch out
- 0.5% base earn, and the online 2X caps at 1,000 points a month — ₹25,000 of online spend
- Education, insurance, utilities, Bills2Pay, rent and wallet loads are excluded from the online accelerator
- The ₹3.5 lakh milestone excludes rent, insurance, fuel and utility spend
- Lounge access is gated on ₹35,000 of spend in the PREVIOUS calendar quarter, excluding rent
- A first-year-free card earns no welcome points at all
- 3.5% forex markup, and 1 point = ₹0.05 on any redemption that is not a flight or a hotel
- 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
13 sourced rules · 8 pay zero
World Prime earns 2 Reward Points per ₹100 with a 2X online band capped at 1,000 points a month, and pays 10,000-point milestones at ₹1.5 lakh and ₹3.5 lakh of annual spend — the milestone clause names its own exclusions (rental, insurance, petrol and utility) as well. No dedicated product T&C PDF exists for this card; the exclusions below are the product page's own two footnotes — a standing one (Education, Insurance, Utilities, Rent Payments, Wallet Load) and a dated one effective 15 October 2024 adding Fuel & Auto, Quasi-Cash, Railways, Real Estate, Service Providers, Government Services, Contracted Services, Bills2Pay, EMI, Miscellaneous and Cash.
- Fuel · excluded No points — "Fuel & Auto" (MCC 0032, 2541, 4001, 5542, 5541, 5172) sits on the product page's two stacked exclusion footnotes; the 1% fuel surcharge waiver is the only fuel benefit
- Rent & property management · excluded No points — "Real Estate/Rental" (MCC 6513) on the product page's two stacked exclusion footnotes. RBL also levies a 1% fee on every rental transaction, bank-wide
- Wallet loads · excluded No points — "Wallet/Service Providers" (MCC 6540) on the product page's two stacked exclusion footnotes
- Utilities (electricity/water/gas) · excluded No points — "Utilities" (MCC 4900) on the product page's two stacked exclusion footnotes. RBL also levies a 1% fee on utility spend past ₹50,000 a month, bank-wide
Does your spend count toward the milestones?
not published — and we say which
₹1,50,000 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.
Not published. RBL Bank states what the RBL World Prime earns and does not earn, but has not published which spend categories count toward the milestones — the ₹1,50,000 bar. We won't guess it from the earn table or from a sibling card: Axis published three cards' rules on one day and all three lists differed. If you hold this card and have it in writing from the issuer, send us the document and we'll source it.
Lounge access
40 of 793 tracked doors
Gate: ₹35k spend in the preceding calendar quarter (rent excluded)
Opens 40 of 793 tracked lounge doors across 23 airports — see the full map →
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.
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.
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.
Fee ₹2,999 + GST both years, no spend waiver — the same figure as World Max, which gives two fewer lounge visits. Base earn 2 Reward Points per ₹100 (0.5%), doubled to 4 on online spend and capped at 1,000 points a month, with education, insurance, utilities, Bills2Pay, rent and wallet loads carved out. Milestones 10,000 points at ₹1.5 lakh and 10,000 more at ₹3.5 lakh, excluding rent, insurance, fuel and utilities. Lounge is 8 domestic visits a year, 2 a quarter, on ₹35,000 of previous-quarter spend excluding rent; no Priority Pass and no international lounge. Fuel surcharge waiver up to ₹150 a month on ₹500–₹4,000 fills. RBL publishes no income or age criteria for this card.
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 — 4 of them, each with the day we read it
- official Product page — 12,000-point welcome on ₹2,000 in 30 days, 2 Reward Points per ₹100 with a capped online 2X, the ₹1.5 lakh and ₹3.5 lakh milestones, and 8 domestic lounge visits a year
- official Schedule of Charges — "World Prime: INR 2,999 (1st Year) / INR 2,999 (2nd Year onwards)" with no spend waiver, and the ₹99 + GST reward-redemption fee
- official Bank-wide MITC — up to 3.5% forex markup (the 0% carve-out names only the Safari family and Lumière) and bureau-tiered finance charges
- official RBL's Mastercard/Visa India lounge programme list — the domestic doors this card's 8 visits open