Chase Freedom Rise — Rewards, Fees & 2026 Review

Chase has never published this rule, but it has held since 2015 and still holds in 2026. The count covers personal cards from every issuer, not only Chase, and it includes cards where you are just an authorized user, because those show on your credit report. Store cards count only if they can be used elsewhere, so a branded Visa or Mastercard counts and a closed-loop store card does not. Auto loans, mortgages and applications that were denied do not count.

This replaced the old 48-month Sapphire family rule on January 22, 2026. Until then any Sapphire bonus in the previous 48 months blocked a new one, and Preferred and Reserve were treated as a single family. The terms on each card page now say only that the card is unavailable if you already have that same one open, and that the bonus may not be available if you previously held that card or already received its bonus. Chase adds that it may also consider how many cards you have opened and closed.

This is a community pattern rather than a Chase rule, and the data points behind it are not consistent. The usual guidance is at most two new personal Chase cards in a rolling 30-day window, and roughly one business card in that same window, with a personal and a business application close together sometimes counting against each other. Some people report being made to wait longer than 30 days. Use it for spacing applications, not as a promise.