Which Card Should I Get? Comparing the Capital One Venture and Chase Sapphire Preferred

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People who are new to points and miles often ask me what credit card they should sign up for when starting out. The Capital One Venture and Chase Sapphire Preferred have historically been in the conversation. Last June, I did a comparison between the two cards. The landscape has shifted since then and my answer to which of these two cards is better has changed as well.

I’ve had both the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Capital One Venture cards and so has my wife. The Preferred was the first annual fee card we signed up for back in 2011. We were on our honeymoon which was a 13 month round the world trip and the foreign transaction fees on my Chase Freedom…

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