No Annual Fee Credit Cards

The no-annual fee Hilton Honors American Express Card comes with complimentary Hilton Silver status, earns bonus Hilton points on Hilton stays, US restaurants, US gas stations, and US supermarkets*. Terms apply.

*American Express defines a supermarket as offering a wide variety of food and household products such as meat, fresh produce, dairy, canned and packaged goods, household cleaners, pharmacy products and pet supplies. (Superstores, convenience stores and warehouse clubs are NOT considered supermarkets.)

NOTE: For the purposes of calculating your expected rewards, we are assuming that the spend you put in "Hotels" is all spent at Hilton portfolio hotels and resorts. If some is spent at other hotels, your actual rewards will be slightly lower.

There are no credit card bonus categories - not even for Hotels.com itself.  All spend is equal. There are no foreign transaction fees.

For every $500 you spend, you earn a stamp. 10 stamps has a free night maximum value of $110.  If you only earn stamps through credit card spend (and not through paying for stays), then you will earn a free hotel night up to $110 in value for every $5,000 you spend.  That represents a potential value of 2.2% return on your card spend.

Simple and straightforward.

Note: The Your Best Credit Card Rewards calculator assume you will redeem for maximum value making this credit card an effective 2.2% cash back card - but only good for redemption on Hotels.com bookings. 

• 2 miles per dollar on United Airlines purchases and earn 25% back on United inflight purchases
• 2 miles per dollar at gas stations,  and on local transit and commuting charges
• Earn 3 miles per $1 spent at grocery stores, on up to $1,500 per month through 9/30/2021
• Earn 1 mile per $1 spent on all other purchases
• No foreign transaction fees

Note that in calculating your rewards on this card, we are counting all airfare as 2X miles since we don't capture your spend by airline. However, please note that the 2X multiplier on airfare will only apply to United flights.

A no-fee Chase card offering 1.5x Ultimate Rewards points on everything, except as noted below. It's best combined with a Chase Sapphire Reserve or Chase Sapphire Preferred, or Chase Ink Business Preferred to unlock the power of transfer partners.

Chase Freedom Unlimited Rate:

• 5X on travel when purchased through the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal*
• 5X on Lyft until March 2022
• 3X on dining (including takeout and delivery)
• 3X at drugstores
• 1.5X on everything else

NOTE: This card can be used as cash back or as an Ultimate Rewards points card. In valuing your rewards, we assume you also have a Chase Sapphire Reserve or Chase Sapphire Preferred, or Chase Ink Business Preferred. You can then transfer points from this card to one of those to unlock the power of transfer partners. If you have this card without one of the above cards, your rewards value will be lower with each point worth exactly 1 cent.

0% Interest APR Intro Offer:

Get a 0% Intro APR for 15 months (Terms Apply)

Note: Our rewards optimization calculator will count all travel on this card at 5X, but please note the limitations around that above. 

o% APR Offers - Balance Transfers

Get a 0% Intro APR on both balance transfers and purchases for 15 months. Then, the variable APR will be 13.49% - 23.49%, depending on your creditworthiness. There is a balance transfer fee, which is either $5 or 3% of the amount of each transfer, whichever is greater.

Earning ThankYou Points

Earn 2x at supermarkets and gas stations for the first $6,000 combined per year, and 1x everywhere else, before rounding up. Excellent for small purchases. Round up to the nearest 10 points on all purchases.

Note: Your earnings will be larger than those shown in our calculations because we cannot factor in the "round up" feature of this card as it correlates to each exact transaction you will make.

The Blue Cash Everyday® Card from American Express has no annual fee and earns cash back with several popular bonus categories.

It features bonus cashback on groceries, gas, and department stores.

- Earn 3% cash back at US supermarkets for up to $6,000 in annual purchases; 1% thereafter.

- Earn 2% cash back at US gas stations and certain US Department Stores

- Earn 1% cash back on everything else.

American Express defines a supermarket as offering a wide variety of food and household products such as meat, fresh produce, dairy, canned and packaged goods, household cleaners, pharmacy products and pet supplies. (Superstores, convenience stores and warehouse clubs are NOT considered supermarkets.)

0% Intro APR

Enjoy a 0% APR on new purchases for 15 months starting when you are approved for the Blue Cash Everyday card; then 13.99% to 23.99%. (Rates and Fees)

This no-fee card offers 1.25x on all purchases.

Compare this card with the standard Venture which earns 2x miles on all purchases. Spend your miles to erase purchases or transfer them to more than a dozen airlines.

Most people would fare better with the standard Capital One Venture card, despite its annual fee, because it earns at the rate of 2x per dollar instead of 1.25x.

The bonus value for the early spend bonus on this card assumes you will transfer the points to miles. If you use as a purchase eraser, the early spend bonus value will be $200, exactly.

You can transfer to more than 18 airline and hotel partners. See the full list of Capital One Miles transfer partners and transfer times.

Earns 1.5% cash back on all purchases with no annual fee and no foreign transaction fees. For those with good credit.