Why it exists
Most credit card comparison sites paraphrase the issuer's terms, bury the real numbers under sponsored placement, and stop updating once the launch traffic settles. The problem is that card terms do not hold still. Welcome offers, annual fees, and bonus categories all shift over the course of a year, and a page written once goes stale without anyone noticing.
ccdeck takes the opposite approach: automate the data so it stays honest, and reserve the writing for where it actually helps. A scraper re-reads every cited issuer page each morning, so the numbers track what the issuer currently publishes. A card only ships once its figures are traced to that source, and the editorial gets written when there is something genuinely useful to say, not to chase a search ranking.
How it's built
- Every numeric or terms-based claim is traced to the issuer's own page, then scraped, hashed, and re-verified each day, so a figure that drifts from the source gets caught rather than quietly lingering.
- A card only ships once the verifier passes, which means the data in the database matches what the card page renders and both match the cited source. The methodology page covers how that check works in full.
- The site is static and served from Cloudflare's edge network, which keeps it fast and means there is nothing to track, no account to create, and no newsletter to decline.
What it's building toward
- A complete index of the cards most Americans actually consider, with verified, current data on each one, so a comparison is worth trusting the day you read it.
- Filters built the way a serious cardholder would build them, covering lounge networks, transfer partners, elite status programs, and the real benefit caps, so you can narrow to the card that fits your situation rather than the one a site is paid to surface.
- Comparison pages that work the breakeven math for you, since the question that decides most card choices is whether the rewards clear the annual fee, and that calculation is tedious enough that few people run it.
- Editorial that is willing to disagree with the conventional wisdom when the numbers warrant it, because advice that only ever agrees with the crowd is rarely worth the read.
Get in touch
Corrections, suggestions, and missing cards are all welcome. The fastest way to reach a real inbox is to email support@ccdeck.com.