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Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express Card

$650 annual feeNo foreign feeTransfers to partners
Checked against the issuer's page Aug 29, 2026Source
American Express
Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express CardMarriott Bonvoy points
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Earn rates, as stated

6XMarriott Bonvoy participating hotelsIssuer wording: 6 points per U.S. dollar
3XRestaurants worldwide & flights booked directly with airlinesIssuer wording: 3 points per U.S. dollar
2XAll other eligible purchasesIssuer wording: 2 points per U.S. dollar

Credits, as stated

$421 / yr if fully used
Dining Creditup to $25 in statement credits per month, up to $300 back annually, for eligible purchases at restaurants worldwidemonthly, up to annual calendar-year cap
Free Night Awardone Free Night Award redeemable for a one-night stay at participating Marriott Bonvoy hotels with a redemption level at or under 85,000 Marriott Bonvoy pointsannually, after card renewal
Property Credit$100 USD property credit for qualifying purchases on property including dining, spa services and hotel recreational activitiesnot specified on fetched source page
TSA PreCheck or Global Entry Credit$85 credit for TSA PreCheck or $120 credit for Global Entryevery 4 years
Priority Pass Select membershipcomplimentary enrollment; cardholder may bring two guests for no chargeongoing membership benefit
Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite statuscomplimentary Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite statusongoing while card is open
Elite Night Credits25 Elite Night Credits ('ENC') toward the next level of Marriott Bonvoy Elite statusdeposited within 60 days of account opening (per fetched source; recurrence in later membership years not confirmed by fetched text)

Welcome offer, as stated by the issuer

150,000 Marriott Bonvoy® bonus points and a $250 statement credit after you spend $6,000 or more in eligible purchases on your Card within your first 6 monthsas of 2026-08-29

What we couldn't confirm
  • Property Credit cadence not explicitly stated on the fetched americanexpress.com terms pages (text only gives the $100 USD value and eligible use categories, no stated frequency) — recorded value as-is without an invented cadence.
  • Elite Night Credits (25 ENC) confirmed via fetched Amex terms page as deposited 'within 60 days upon opening'; whether this repeats in subsequent card-membership years was not confirmed by the fetched text, so cadence is recorded conservatively.
  • Transfer partners: fetched americanexpress.com printable terms/benefits page for this exact card confirms an airline-transfer bonus mechanic verbatim as 'Marriott International, Inc. will add 5,000 bonus miles for every 60,000 points you transfer to airlines miles,' confirming the transfer benefit exists for this card. The commonly cited base transfer ratio (3 Bonvoy points : 1 airline mile) could NOT be confirmed verbatim from any page fetched today — marriott.com transfer-ratio pages (points-to-miles.mi, redeem/travel.mi) and the global.americanexpress.com card-benefits detail page all returned HTTP 403 on WebFetch. transferPartners is set to true based on the confirmed bonus-miles wording above, but the exact base ratio is UNCONFIRMED by a fetched source as of this research.
  • The primary marketing page (americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/card/marriott-bonvoy-brilliant/) returned truncated/JS-rendered content via WebFetch and could not be used directly; all fee, earn-rate, credit, and welcome-offer figures above were instead confirmed from the Amex 'Terms, Conditions & Disclosures' page and the printable partner terms page for this exact card (both americanexpress.com).

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