Which Cards Credit Your Travel Subscriptions in 2026?

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Start from the membership you want, not the card. As of July 2026, Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS are each reimbursed up to about $120 by the premium travel cards — once every four years — while CLEAR Plus is credited only by the Amex Platinum (up to $219/year) and, at an unconfirmed amount, the Capital One Venture X. The credit is free if you hold the card; the membership is only worth it if you travel enough to use the line.

Every premium travel card advertises a "Global Entry credit," and the copy blurs together fast. This guide flips the question: pick the expedited-travel membership you actually want — Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, CLEAR Plus, or NEXUS — and see which card reimburses it, for how much, and how often the credit comes back around. As of July 2026, the government Trusted Traveler programs reset only about once every four years, CLEAR is annual and lives outside that system entirely, and one card credits CLEAR that the others do not. Every card figure below is reported from secondary sources — confirm on the issuer's own page.

Best for: Travelers who already want an expedited-security membership and need to know which card reimburses it — organized by membership, not by card.

For the full card-by-card view — every card and its complete credit stack in one table — see the companion cards that pay for your subscriptions. This page does the reverse: you name the membership, it names the card.

Key takeaways

Work from the membership, not the card. Global Entry ($120/5 years), TSA PreCheck (about $78 new), and NEXUS ($120/5 years) are Trusted Traveler programs; CLEAR Plus ($219/year) is a private service that sits outside that system.
The Amex Platinum is the one major card that credits CLEAR — up to $219/year as of July 2026, after CLEAR raised its price on July 1 — on top of a $120 Global Entry or up to $85 TSA PreCheck credit once every four years.
The Chase Sapphire Reserve credits up to $120 toward Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, or NEXUS (one, once every four years) but does not credit CLEAR. Its annual fee is now $795 — not the Amex's reported $895.
The Capital One Venture X credits up to $120 for Global Entry or TSA PreCheck once every four years, plus an annual CLEAR credit whose exact cap is unconfirmed here — confirm the amount on capitalone.com.
The Trusted Traveler credits reset only about once every four years, so a single card can cover one household member's enrollment per cycle, not the whole family at once.
The credit is only as valuable as the membership under it — and the membership is only worth it if you travel enough to skip the line.

Two different systems, easy to confuse

Before any lookup, separate the two things these credits touch, because they behave nothing alike. Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS are U.S. government Trusted Traveler Programs — you enroll once, the membership lasts about five years, and a card reimburses the one-time application fee roughly once every four years. CLEAR Plus is a private company's biometric service that speeds you to the front of the identity check; it is billed annually and is not a Trusted Traveler Program, which is precisely why most cards that credit Global Entry do nothing for CLEAR.

Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS are one-time government enrollments credited every four years. CLEAR is an annual private subscription — and only one major card touches it.

That distinction drives everything below. A card can credit your Global Entry and still leave your $219 CLEAR bill entirely to you. As of July 2026, only the Amex Platinum credits both sides in full.

Look up your membership

Here is the membership-first view. Rows are the expedited-travel memberships people actually buy; columns show what each costs, which cards reimburse it, and how often the credit resets. Every card figure is reported from secondary sources.

Membership	What it costs	Cards that credit it	How often the credit resets
Global Entry	$120 / 5 years (kids under 18 free)	Amex Platinum (up to $120); Chase Sapphire Reserve (up to $120); Capital One Venture X (up to $120)	About once every 4 years
TSA PreCheck	About $78 new; $70 online renewal	Amex Platinum (up to $85); Chase Sapphire Reserve (up to $120); Capital One Venture X (up to $120)	About once every 4 years
CLEAR Plus	$219 / year (raised July 1, 2026)	Amex Platinum (up to $219/year); Capital One Venture X (annual CLEAR credit, amount unconfirmed)	Annual
NEXUS	$120 / 5 years	Chase Sapphire Reserve (up to $120)	About once every 4 years

Which card credits each expedited-travel membership, as of July 2026 — card figures reported; confirm current terms on the issuer's own page

Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS

These three share one credit slot on most cards. As reported, the Amex Platinum reimburses either a $120 Global Entry fee or up to $85 for TSA PreCheck, once every four years. The Chase Sapphire Reserve is the flexible one: up to $120 toward Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, or NEXUS — your choice of one per cycle — which makes it the standout card for anyone who crosses the Canadian border and wants NEXUS. The Capital One Venture X reimburses up to $120 for Global Entry or TSA PreCheck on the same roughly-four-year cadence. A useful quirk: because the credit posts against whichever application you charge, a couple can each get reimbursed by holding their own eligible card.

CLEAR Plus

This is where the cards diverge sharply. CLEAR raised CLEAR Plus to $219/year on July 1, 2026, with additional family members at $125 each (kids are free in the lane). As of July 2026, the Amex Platinum is the one major card that credits CLEAR Plus, up to the full $219/year. The Capital One Venture X also carries an annual CLEAR credit, but the exact dollar cap is unconfirmed here — confirm the current amount on capitalone.com. The Chase Sapphire Reserve credits none of it, because CLEAR is not a Trusted Traveler Program.

Chase Sapphire Reserve benefits page showing the Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS application fee credit — Chase's public Sapphire Reserve benefits page, captured July 2026, showing the up-to-$120 Trusted Traveler credit. Figures here are as reported — confirm current amounts, eligibility, and the annual fee on the issuer's own page.

What the credits are actually worth

The reimbursement itself is free money only in a narrow sense: it costs you nothing extra if you already hold the card, but the card's annual fee bought it. As of July 2026, the Chase Sapphire Reserve carries a $795 annual fee and the Amex Platinum's is reported at $895 — do not conflate the two. Neither fee is justified by a travel-membership credit alone; the Trusted Traveler credit is one line in a much larger stack. The honest test is whether the whole stack of credits you will genuinely use clears the fee, the same arithmetic we run in the $550 travel-card annual-fee breakeven.

There is also the cadence to respect. A Trusted Traveler credit that resets only once every four years cannot cover a family of four in one year — it reimburses one enrollment per card, per cycle. CLEAR's annual credit is the exception, refreshing each year, which is part of why it anchors the Amex Platinum's travel-credit pitch. Weigh all of it against whether you fly often enough to skip a line, then read the broader case in is going premium worth it for how the same "value depends on how much you travel" logic applies to deal-alert subscriptions.

Who should chase a travel-membership credit?

Pros

You already want an expedited-security membership and hold (or will hold, for its full stack) a premium travel card that reimburses it.
You fly often enough that Global Entry or TSA PreCheck genuinely saves you time at the airport.
You cross the Canadian border and want NEXUS — the Chase Sapphire Reserve is the card that credits it.
You use CLEAR every trip and want the Amex Platinum's up-to-$219/year credit to absorb its higher 2026 price.

Cons

You rarely fly, so the underlying membership sits unused whether or not a card pays for it.
You expected one card to reimburse the whole family at once — the Trusted Traveler credit is one enrollment per card, per four-year cycle.
You assumed your Global Entry card also credits CLEAR — as of July 2026, only the Amex Platinum reliably does.
You are drawn to a $795 or $895 card for this single credit, without the rest of its stack clearing the fee.

Our pick

Free if you hold the card, but only worth it if you travel enough to use the membership — and only the Amex Platinum reliably credits CLEAR

As of July 2026, the membership you want decides the card. Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS are each reimbursed up to about $120 by the premium travel cards, once every four years — with the Chase Sapphire Reserve uniquely covering NEXUS and carrying a $795 fee. CLEAR Plus, now $219/year, is credited in full only by the Amex Platinum (reported fee $895), with the Capital One Venture X adding an annual CLEAR credit at an amount you must confirm on capitalone.com. None of these figures is confirmed here; treat them as reported. The credit costs nothing extra once you hold the card — but the membership under it is only worth buying if you travel enough to skip the line.

From here, pressure-test whether the card itself earns its keep in the $550 travel-card annual-fee breakeven, see the complete stack in cards that pay for your subscriptions, and, before you trust any of these figures as savings, read the skeptic's capstone, do credit-card subscription credits actually save you money. The full points hub maps the rest of the flywheel.

Frequently asked questions

Which card credits Global Entry in 2026?

As of July 2026, three premium cards reimburse the $120 Global Entry application fee as a statement credit: the Amex Platinum (up to $120), the Chase Sapphire Reserve (up to $120, or you can apply it to TSA PreCheck or NEXUS instead), and the Capital One Venture X (up to $120). All three post the credit roughly once every four years, and all three figures are reported from secondary sources here — confirm current terms on the issuer's own page.

Does any card credit CLEAR Plus?

As of July 2026, the Amex Platinum is the one major card that credits CLEAR Plus, up to $219 per year after CLEAR raised its price on July 1, 2026. The Capital One Venture X also carries an annual CLEAR credit, but the exact dollar cap is unconfirmed here — confirm the current amount on capitalone.com. The Chase Sapphire Reserve does not credit CLEAR, because CLEAR is not a government Trusted Traveler Program.

Does the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit CLEAR or NEXUS?

As of July 2026, the Chase Sapphire Reserve credits up to $120 toward Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, or NEXUS — you pick one, once every roughly four years — but it does not credit CLEAR Plus. Its annual fee is now $795. That is a separate card from the Amex Platinum, whose fee is reported at $895, so do not conflate the two when you compare their credit stacks.

Are these travel-membership credits worth it?

As of July 2026, the credits themselves cost you nothing extra if you already hold the card — they simply reimburse a membership you were going to buy. The honest question is whether you travel enough to use the underlying membership. Global Entry, TSA PreCheck, and NEXUS reset only about once every four years, and CLEAR is annual, so their value tracks how often you actually stand in an airport line.