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Sally French

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

So Bill announced that their partnership with Wells Fargo was ending.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

This was back in November and that they were going to introduce three new cards.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

So we finally have the details about those.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

There are three cards.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

One still does have a $0 annual fee.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

That's the built blue card.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Then there's the built obsidian card.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

This one has a $95 annual fee.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

And then the fancy one is the built palladium card, which has a $495 annual fee.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

The only problem is that Bilt needed to figure out how to make this all profitable.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Yeah.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

And this is where we should put this into perspective.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

According to NerdWallet's valuations, bill points are worth about 1.8 cents each.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

So going back to that $4,000 rent example, you'd only be earning about $36 worth of points for your rent payment.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

This is not a life-changing amount of points that you're earning on rent.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

And one point per dollar is probably what most people want.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

It's the standard that built, kind of established under their old system.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Are we calling that built 1.0?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Because we're calling this one built 2.2 maybe.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Bilt Card 2.0 and the Points Math: What’s a “Good” Return in 2026?

Who knows what version we're on?