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What paying little costs on a revolving card: 2026 report

In our calculation with the rates of ten revolving cards, a €2,000 debt paid at 3% of what you owe each month, with a €25 minimum, takes between 82 and 121 months and costs between €694 and €2,120 in interest. With a fixed €60 payment, almost the same in the first month, it takes between 41 and 52 months.

What rates do revolving cards charge in Spain?

In Asufin’s December 2025 survey, the average APR (TAE) of ten revolving cards is 23.34%. It runs from 11.85% for Abanca’s Visa Proyecta to over 41% for BBVA’s Tarjeta Después Oro.

Asufin took its figures from each card’s public information between 14 and 17 November 2025. Its TAE includes the card’s issuance fee, so it can be higher than the issuer’s own figure. We compared each card with its issuer’s page on 16 October 2026.

Card Issuer TIN TAE per Asufin TAE on the issuer’s site Minimum payment per Asufin
Tarjeta Después Oro BBVA 19.80% 41.38% 21.76% €12
Tarjeta Después BBVA 19.80% 32.05% 21.19% €12
WiZink Now WiZink 21.58% 23.85% 23.85% €18, or €40 if taken out from 27 April 2023
Visa Pass Carrefour Servicios Financieros Carrefour 20.99% 23.13% 23.10% to 23.13% 5%
Visa & Go CaixaBank 20.40% 22.42% 22.42% 1.5% of the debt
Bankintercard Platinum Bankinter Consumer Finance 20.55% 22.60% Not on the issuer’s site 2.5%, minimum €18
Tarjeta Alcampo Dúa Oney 20.03% 21.98% 22.99% (TIN 20.87%) A percentage set so that at least 50% of the payment goes to principal and interest
Tarjeta Shopping Deutsche Bank 16.80% 18.16% 18.16% €20 or 2% of the balance
IKEA Visa CaixaBank Payments & Consumer 14.95% 16.01% 23% (TIN 20.88%) €30
Visa Proyecta Abanca 11.25% 11.85% 11.85% 1.5%, minimum €30

Notes on the table:

  • Tarjeta Después Oro. Asufin’s tables give 41.38% and its text 41.48%. The gap with BBVA’s 21.76% is the €80 annual fee, which Asufin includes in the TAE. BBVA says it doesn’t charge the fee if in a year you finance a purchase over €50 or pay a bill in revolving mode.
  • IKEA Visa and Tarjeta Alcampo Dúa. Asufin’s figures match what each issuer publishes for paying one purchase in instalments, not for revolving deferred payment. The table below uses the revolving TIN from the issuer’s site.
  • Visa & Go. CaixaBank’s page gives 22.42% for cards issued by CaixaBank Payments & Consumer without naming a specific card.
  • Tarjeta Shopping. Deutsche Bank’s document is from 2021.
  • Bankintercard Platinum. We couldn’t find it on Bankinter Consumer Finance’s site.

How much does paying little cost on each card?

Far more than a similar fixed payment. On a €2,000 debt, paying 3% of what you owe, with a €25 minimum, costs between €694 and €2,120 in interest depending on the card. A fixed €60 payment, almost the same in the first month, costs between €409 and €1,080.

Card TIN used 3% of the balance, €25 minimum Fixed €60 payment €60 plus €45 of round-ups
WiZink Now 21.58% 121 months, €2,120 52 months, €1,080 24 months, €471
Visa Pass Carrefour 20.99% 118 months, €1,993 51 months, €1,027 24 months, €454
IKEA Visa 20.88% 117 months, €1,970 51 months, €1,017 24 months, €451
Tarjeta Alcampo Dúa 20.87% 117 months, €1,968 51 months, €1,017 24 months, €451
Bankintercard Platinum 20.55% 115 months, €1,904 50 months, €989 24 months, €442
Visa & Go 20.40% 114 months, €1,874 50 months, €977 24 months, €437
Tarjeta Después and Después Oro 19.80% 111 months, €1,761 49 months, €928 24 months, €421
Tarjeta Shopping 16.80% 99 months, €1,291 46 months, €713 23 months, €343
Visa Proyecta 11.25% 82 months, €694 41 months, €409 22 months, €214
Survey average 18.62% 106 months, €1,560 48 months, €838 23 months, €389

The 3% with a €25 minimum is an example of a minimum payment, not each card’s own. Each card’s real minimum payment is in the table above, and its contract may have more conditions.

Why is paying a percentage so expensive?

Because the payment falls each month along with the debt, so each month you pay off less.

On the survey’s average card, the first 3% payment is about €61, almost the same as the fixed €60. But the 3% payment keeps shrinking and the debt takes more than twice as long to reach zero: 106 months against 48, and €1,560 of interest against €838.

How did we work it out?

With the same maths as our calculator: each month the TIN divided by 12 is added to the debt, then the payment comes off. We start from a €2,000 debt.

  • We use the TIN from Asufin’s table, except for IKEA Visa and Tarjeta Alcampo Dúa, where we use the revolving TIN from the issuer’s site.
  • We don’t add new purchases, fees or insurance. We assume you pay off what you spend each month.
  • The €45 of round-ups is 30 purchases a month with an average round-up of €0.50, multiplied by 3.
  • Banco de España publishes an average rate for credit and revolving cards, the TEDR, which excludes fees: 18.26% in August 2026, a provisional figure. It isn’t comparable with each card’s TAE.

What doesn’t this report say?

It isn’t what any one person will pay. Your cost depends on your balance, your contract, your new purchases and any fees and insurance you have.

Ten cards aren’t the whole market, and rates change. Payment protection insurance can raise the cost a lot: in Asufin’s survey, WiZink Now with insurance reaches 35.76%.

Sources

  1. IX Barómetro de tarjetas revolvingAsufin, December 2025, data from 14 to 17 November 2025
  2. Los precios de las tarjetas revolving superan el 23 %Asufin
  3. Tarjeta de crédito Visa ProyectaAbanca
  4. WiZink NowWiZink
  5. Facilidades de crédito de las tarjetasCaixaBank
  6. Solicitar la Tarjeta PASS CarrefourServicios Financieros Carrefour
  7. Tarjeta Después OroBBVA
  8. Tarjeta Alcampo DúaAlcampo and Oney
  9. IKEA VisaCaixaBank Payments & Consumer
  10. Información normalizada de las tarjetas revolvingDeutsche Bank, 16 March 2021
  11. Boletín Estadístico, table 19.4: interest rates (TEDR) on new businessBanco de España, 30 September 2026
  12. Tarjeta Después BBVA: información normalizada europea sobre crédito al consumo (contract information)BBVA, edition DES 03-26

General information, not financial or legal advice. For help or to complain: Banco de España's Portal del Cliente Bancario, Asufin, OCU, FACUA, ADICAE.

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