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Capital One VentureOne Rewards


Overview

This is one of only two free cards that enable transfer partners, the other being the niche Bilt card. This pairs well with the free SavorOne which earns 3x in important categories.

Basic Information

Cardholder Type
Personal
Network / Type
Mastercard
Earns
Capital One Rewards
Annual Fee
$0
Card Type
Credit
Foreign Transaction Fees
No

Earnings

  • 5x Portal Rental Cars
  • 5x Portal Hotels
  • 1.25x Everywhere Else

Travel and Purchase Protections

We stopped listing protections for Capital One cards. Recently, they changed some cards from Visa to Mastercard while others changed from Mastercard to Visa. Product pages often make it unclear which type of card you will receive and tend to under-advertise the features in the underlying card. To us, this implies benefits could change.

Further muddying things, Capital One is in the process of acquiring Discover, which performs a similar function to Mastercard and Visa. Since many protections stem from the card type (ie. Visa Signature/Infinite vs World Elite Mastercard), it’s hard to know what the actual benefits are and how long they might last for any given card.

Capital One maintains guides for all benefits by underlying card type, but this only helps if you are reasonably certain of the card type.