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Card Match

Which card suits your spending?

Three quick questions, then the cards that pay you most, out of 114 cards from 21 UAE banks. No sign-up, nothing leaves your device.

  1. Spending
  2. You
  3. Matters
What do you spend the most on?
Tap up to 3, biggest first
Roughly how much goes on your cards a month?
A guess is fine. Leave out rent and bills you pay by bank transfer: most UAE cards earn little or nothing on rent.

Answer the questions and your cards will appear here.
How we pick. For each card we work out a year of rewards on the spending you entered, using the rate the bank publishes for each category. Cashback is shown after the annual fee. Points are turned into dirhams only where the bank publishes what a point is worth; miles are never turned into dirhams. A category the bank doesn’t state a rate for is shown as “not stated” and not counted. Monthly earning caps are applied where the bank publishes them; read each card’s conditions too. How CardMax ranks cards.
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Questions

I don’t know what I spend on each thing. Can I still use it?

Yes. Tap what you spend the most on and roughly how much goes on your cards each month. We split that amount across your picks (half to the first, then less for each) and show you the split, so you can change it if it looks wrong.

Do I need to sign up?

No. The picker runs in your browser and shows the full result straight away. Your answers stay on this device; nothing is sent to us or to any bank.

Why are cashback, points and miles shown separately?

They are different things. Cashback is dirhams. Points are only worth what the bank says a point is worth, and miles depend on the flights you book. Adding them into one number would mean inventing an exchange rate, so we rank each type on its own.

Are monthly caps included?

Minimum monthly spends are included: if your spending is below a card’s minimum, we use the lower rate the bank states, or leave the card out of the ranking when the bank doesn’t say. Monthly caps on what you can earn are included where the bank publishes them: once a category or the whole card reaches its cap, it earns nothing more that month. Each result still shows the card’s own conditions, so read them before you apply.

What does “not stated” mean?

The bank’s published terms don’t give a rate for that category, so we can’t count it. We don’t treat it as zero, and we don’t guess.

Does the ranking depend on who pays CardMax?

No. CardMax may earn a commission when an application is approved, but the order is only the reward your spending would earn, minus the annual fee where we can compare in dirhams.

CardMax may earn a commission if you're approved for a card. This never affects how cards are ranked.