The Card Database
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Cobranded Cards
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The best first travel card in the game. Full transfer partner access for $95.
Cashback Match doubles everything you earn in year one.
3% groceries, gas, and online retail with no fee.
4x on dining is unheard of for a secured card.
A secured card that earns rewards and graduates you in months, not years.
Chase's front door for first-time cardholders. 1.5% on everything while you build history.
The iPhone-native card. Daily Cash, no fees of any kind.
The rare secured card that earns real rewards and doubles them in year one.
The longest 0% intro APR in the market, with a few rewards sprinkled on.
1.5% on everything with no fee and no FTF. The honest default.
1.5x everywhere, doubled to 3x for your entire first year.
5% rotating categories and a first-year double, on a student's credit file.
The round-up card, retired in favor of the Citi Strata.
Fixed 2% on gas and dining with no quarterly activation.
Flat 1.5% everywhere while you build credit.
3% on the categories that define a college budget.
No rewards, no frills, 21 billing cycles of 0% interest.
The fee-free starter card that proved cash flow underwriting works, now closed to new applicants.
Set-and-forget 2% on gas and dining for students who will not chase categories.
The full 3% choose-your-category structure, in a secured shell.
The card that lets a teenager turn 18 with two years of credit history already banked.
A $200 credit line for as little as $49 down.
Spend your own money like a debit card while it builds credit like a credit card.
Flat 1.5% everywhere for students who want zero complexity.
No deposit minimum, no interest, no fees: just your own money building credit.
The build-your-own charge card experiment that lasted two years.
1.5% cash back for people still building their credit score.
OpenSky's no credit check approval, now without the annual fee.
The no-fee balance transfer icon, retired in 2020. A new Slate exists, this is not that card.
A US credit file you can start before your plane lands.
Spend your Current balance like debit while the card reports it as credit.
A metal deposit-backed card whose whole personality is automating good credit behavior.
A no-fee secured card from a major bank, with a clear 18-month runway.
Chase's balance transfer and APR card, now closed to new applicants.
A pure credit-building card with no fee and no distractions.
Petal's lower-tier builder card, also closed since the Empower acquisition.
A secured card that earns like TD's unsecured Cash card, fee and all.
Turn credit builder loan savings into a secured card without new cash.
An unsecured line for damaged credit, with no deposit and no guessing at terms.
No credit check at all. Approval rests on your deposit, not your past.
One of the few US credit builders that accepts international students without an SSN.
The lowest APR in the secured card world, if you are willing to pay for it.
A virtual card that turns the Netflix bill you already pay into a credit tradeline.
A card that turns every statement into a fixed-rate installment loan, with 1.5% back along the way.
No interest ever, just a flat monthly subscription fee for your credit line.
Green Dot's plain secured card for people already banking with GO2bank.
One of the only travel rewards cards that will take fair credit, at a price.
The college credit builder that rebranded from Fizz to Mine and started charging real money.
A plain unsecured builder card with one honest fee and no gotchas.
Unsecured approval for bad credit, paid for with one of the heaviest fee schedules in the market.
An unsecured card for damaged credit that charges almost a hundred dollars a year for the privilege.
The Indigo's twin, with the same heavy fees under a different name.
The third card in the Concora trio, with the same fees and the same warning label.
A no-credit-check card whose one job, credit bureau reporting, stopped working.