Amex Green Card LoungeBuddy Benefit Ends Today

Updated: January 7, 2026, 12:40am CST

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Amex Green Card Losing LoungeBuddy Benefit
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As of today, January 13, 2025, the American Express Green Card^®* no longer offers the annual LoungeBuddy credit.

This key benefit made the Amex Green card relatively appealing, but with no replacement announced, that appeal may be fading for some.

Here’s what you need to know about the change to a key benefit on the Amex Green card.

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Amex Green Card Losing LoungeBuddy Benefit

The Amex Green card has a $150 annual fee, and that fee had been justified by the card’s key benefits (rates & fees). These included up to $199 in reimbursement for your annual CLEAR Plus membership (up to $209 as of July 1, 2025) and up to $100 in annual LoungeBuddy credits to reimburse your lounge visit payments.

Both benefits require enrollment before using them, but the combination of these 2 benefits had made it easy to justify the Amex Green card’s annual fee year after year.

However, now that the Amex Green card is losing the LoungeBuddy Credit, is it worth the annual fee?

Amex Green LoungeBuddy ending — Ending date listed in my wife’s Amex Green card account. Image Credit: American Express

What if you don’t have the card? If you check the Amex Green card’s application page, you won’t see any mention of the LoungeBuddy benefit on the front page. However, if you open the card’s benefit description terms, you can find this notice: “Effective January 13, 2025, the $100 LoungeBuddy Credit benefit will no longer be available.”

Will anything replace the LoungeBuddy benefit? That remains to be seen. So far, American Express hasn’t listed any new benefits on the public-facing or cardholder-facing pages for the Amex Green card.

We also reached out to American Express, and a spokesperson confirmed that nothing else is changing at this time, meaning no benefit is replacing the LoungeBudy perk. “There are no other changes to announce at this time.” We’re hoping “at this time” may indicate that there’s a replacement benefit in the works.

Hot Tip:

The LoungeBuddy benefit was a key reason my wife got the Amex Green card recently. We’ll need to reassess our credit cards when this marquee benefit goes away.

Final Thoughts

The Amex Green card lost a key benefit today, January 13, 2025. If you were considering this card — or already have it — you may need to recalculate the value of this card’s perks going forward and reevaluate whether they justify the annual fee.

If you’re now looking for a new credit card to give you lounge access, take a look at your other options to see what’s out there.