Capital One VentureOne Rewards
Capital One, Visa, no annual fee. Earns Capital One Miles, valued at 1.80¢ a point.
Rates checked against the issuer 2026-09. Foreign transaction fee: none.
The short version
- Best at: nothing in particular — no category puts it in the top three of the catalogue.
- A year's rewards: about $595, with no fee to pay.
Is the annual fee worth it?
No annual fee, so everything it earns is kept: about $595 a year on the illustrative household's spending, which puts it number 5 of 59 the no-fee cards in the catalogue. All of them, ranked.
Price its credits, perks and sign-up bonus your way — tick what you would use and say what it is worth to you.
Priced on an illustrative household spending $2,205 a month on a card — the assumption, in full. Credits and perks are not priced: they are worth their face value only if you would have spent that money anyway.
What it earns, category by category
| Earns on | Rate | ConditionsWhat the issuer attaches to this rate: a spending cap, a category you have to switch on, or a booking you have to make through its travel portal. |
|---|---|---|
| Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Car Rental, Entertainment | 5x | Only through the issuer's travel portal. Booked through Capital One Travel |
| Everything else | 1.3x |
Where a year's rewards come from
| Spending on | Earns a yearWhat this card earns on each kind of spending over a year, for the illustrative household on the method page. Before the annual fee. |
|---|---|
| Groceries | $135 |
| Everything Else | $135 |
| Restaurants & Bars | $81 |
| Gas Stations | $41 |
| Online Shopping | $41 |
| Utilities | $41 |
Priced on an illustrative household spending $2,205 a month on a card — the assumption, in full. Credits and perks are not priced: they are worth their face value only if you would have spent that money anyway.
Protections and travel benefits
From the issuer's own benefit summary as of 2026-09. These are read from summaries rather than the full guide to benefits, which has the exclusions — check it before relying on one.
What the issuer lists besides rewards
- No annual fee and no foreign transaction fee, which is rare together
- Secondary rental car coverage
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- The best two- and three-card combinations
Point values: published industry valuations, read 2026-09. How every number here is worked out.