Costs
Credit cards that pay for Global Entry and PreCheck
Pick a card and a program: the tool shows the credit the issuer publishes and what the fee leaves you to pay.
What your card’s fee credit leaves you to pay
Left for you to pay
$0
| Credit | up to $120, once every 4 years |
| Covers: Global Entry, TSA PreCheck or NEXUS | |
| Annual fee of the card | $795 |
Issuer’s page read on October 26, 2026. The fee must be charged to the card.
Many travel credit cards refund the application fee of Global Entry or TSA PreCheck as a statement credit. TSA lists 40 such cards on its own page, from premium travel cards to airline, hotel and credit union cards, and notes that it endorses none of them. The usual form, published by the issuers we read, is a credit of up to $120 once every four years when the fee is charged to the card: enough for the $120 Global Entry fee, and therefore for PreCheck, which costs less. Some cards cap the credit at $100, which leaves $20 of a Global Entry fee to pay. One issuer gives either $120 for Global Entry or up to $85 for PreCheck. A few premium cards add a separate credit for CLEAR+, counted per calendar year. Since the fee credit covers Global Entry fully on most cards, a cardholder with a passport gains nothing by choosing PreCheck alone: Global Entry includes it.
What Global Entry costs on top of PreCheck
Extra for Global Entry, per return trip
$8.05
| Gap over five years | $40.25 |
| Gap at renewal | $61.25 |
| Global Entry includes | TSA PreCheck |
Against the cheapest PreCheck enrollment (IDEMIA, $79.75). Global Entry also needs a passport and an interview.
Fees and rules read on tsa.gov and cbp.gov by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and sources
What five issuers publish
| Card | Fee credit | How often | Covers | Annual fee | CLEAR+ credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Sapphire Reserve | up to $120 | every 4 years | Global Entry, TSA PreCheck or NEXUS | $795 | none stated |
| American Express Platinum Card | up to $120 (GE) or $85 (PreCheck) | every 4 years | $120 for Global Entry, or up to $85 for TSA PreCheck | see issuer | up to $219 a calendar year |
| Capital One Venture | up to $120 | every 4 years | Global Entry or TSA PreCheck | $95 | none stated |
| Citi Strata Elite | up to $120 | every 4 years | Global Entry or TSA PreCheck | see issuer | none stated |
| Bank of America Premium Rewards | up to $100 | every 4 years | TSA PreCheck or Global Entry | $95 | none stated |
These five are examples, not a ranking. TSA's list counts 40 cards with a PreCheck credit, including cards of credit unions, airlines and hotel chains with lower annual fees. If you already hold a card, check its benefits page before applying: the credit is often there unnoticed.
What the credit leaves you to pay
A credit of $120 covers any program fee. A credit of $100 covers PreCheck at any provider and leaves $20 on Global Entry. A PreCheck-only credit of $85 covers the PreCheck fee of every provider, the highest being $85. The tool below shows the gap for each card, and the one under the citable summary compares Global Entry with PreCheck when no card pays.
What Global Entry costs on top of PreCheck
Extra for Global Entry, per return trip
$8.05
| Gap over five years | $40.25 |
| Gap at renewal | $61.25 |
| Global Entry includes | TSA PreCheck |
Against the cheapest PreCheck enrollment (IDEMIA, $79.75). Global Entry also needs a passport and an interview.
Conditions that trip people up
- The fee must be charged to the eligible card, directly to CBP or to the TSA provider; payments through third-party sites may not count, and those sites are not official anyway.
- Once every four years means four years after the last credit, not per calendar period.
- The credit posts even if the application is denied, but the fee itself is never refunded by CBP or TSA.
- Paying for a relative uses your credit for the period.
- A CLEAR+ credit is separate and is usually counted per calendar year, with auto-renewal.
Why we name issuers but link to no offer
The amounts above are facts read on each issuer's public page and dated. This site earns nothing from any card, has no partner and shows no "apply" button. If an issuer changes its terms, the figure here is wrong until we read the page again; tell us through the contact page and we correct it with the new date.
Cards and the CLEAR+ credit
Some premium cards add a yearly credit toward CLEAR+, separate from the Global Entry or PreCheck credit. On the issuer pages we read, it is counted per calendar year and applies to the membership charged to the card. CLEAR+ is billed yearly, so the credit can apply each year you keep both the card and the membership, and stops when you close the card. The CLEAR vs PreCheck page weighs whether CLEAR+ is worth having at all.