Best credit card for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN
Two Disney Visa cards pay a high rate on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN bought directly. Both charge an annual fee, and a streaming subscription is a small bill, so the rate alone rarely justifies the card.
Only 2 cards in our database pay a bonus that applies at Disney+, Hulu and ESPN — Disney Inspire Visa Card at 10.0¢ per dollar. Everything else earns its base rate, where Capital One Venture Business leads at 2.6¢.
Updated 2026-09-16
Cards with a bonus that applies at Disney+, Hulu and ESPN
Ranked by real value — the printed rate multiplied by our conservative value for the currency it pays, so a big multiplier in a weak currency can't win on the number alone. The "what the rate covers" column is the issuer's own printed wording, because that is what decides whether the bonus reaches this merchant at all.
| # | Card | Value | Rate | What the rate covers | Cap | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disney Inspire Visa Card Chase |
10.0¢/$ | 10% | Disney+ / Hulu / ESPN only: purchases made directly at DisneyPlus.com, Hulu.com or Stream.ESPN.com (subscriptions,… | uncapped | $149 |
| 2 | Disney Premier Visa Card Chase |
5.0¢/$ | 5% | Disney+ / Hulu / ESPN only: purchases made directly at DisneyPlus.com, Hulu.com or Stream.ESPN.com (subscriptions,… | uncapped | $49 |
The best flat-rate cards for Disney+, Hulu and ESPN
General-purpose cards ranked by the real value of the rate they pay on everything — what Disney+, Hulu and ESPN earns when no bonus category applies. Store cards and single-retailer cobrands are excluded here: rewards you can only spend at one chain can't answer "what should the rest of my spending go on?"
| # | Card | Base value | Base rate | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Capital One Venture Business Capital One · business |
2.6¢/$ | 2x | $95 |
| 2 | Capital One Venture Rewards Capital One |
2.6¢/$ | 2x | $95 |
| 3 | Capital One Venture X Business Capital One · business |
2.6¢/$ | 2x | $395 |
| 4 | Capital One Venture X Capital One |
2.6¢/$ | 2x | $395 |
| 5 | Citi Double Cash® Card Citi |
2.0¢/$ | 2% | $0 |
| 6 | U.S. Bank Smartly Visa Signature Card U.S. Bank |
2.0¢/$ | 2% | $0 |
| 7 | Fidelity Rewards Visa Signature Elan Financial Services |
2.0¢/$ | 2% | $0 |
| 8 | Wells Fargo Active Cash Wells Fargo |
2.0¢/$ | 2% | $0 |
| 9 | Apple Card Goldman Sachs |
2.0¢/$ | 2% | $0 |
| 10 | Capital One Spark Cash (Spark 2% Cash) Capital One · business |
2.0¢/$ | 2% | $95 |
A high rate on a small bill
The Disney Inspire and Disney Premier Visa cards pay their streaming rate only on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN purchased directly. Even a full bundle is a monthly bill of tens of dollars, so a high percentage of it is a few dollars a month. Set that against each card's annual fee before choosing one for the streaming rate.
What a general streaming card does instead
Several no-fee cards pay a bonus on streaming services generally, and a flat-rate card pays the same on everything. The table above ranks by value after the rate, not by the headline percentage.
The honest caveat
Merchant coding is set by the payment networks, not by us: a store can change how it codes, a franchise can code differently from a corporate location, and an issuer can revise its exclusions without announcing it. Everything above comes from the printed terms in our maintained database, valued at our conservative point values — but the only way to know what a specific card pays on your charges is to score them. That is exactly what the optimizer does.
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