Choice Privileges Avis and Budget: How Many Points Do You Earn?

Rent a car through Avis or Budget and enter your Choice Privileges number, and you’ll earn 1,000 points — whether the rental lasts one day or ten. That flat structure surprises people used to earning by the night or by the dollar, and it changes how you should think about when this partnership is actually worth using. Here’s exactly how the earning works, and what else comes with it.

The Earning Rate: Flat 1,000 Points Per Rental

This is the detail worth correcting up front: Choice doesn’t pay Avis and Budget points per day or as a percentage of what you spend, the way most credit card and hotel earning works. It’s a flat 1,000 points per qualifying rental, full stop. Rent a compact car for a single day and you get 1,000 points. Rent a full-size SUV for a week and you still get 1,000 points — the length and cost of the rental don’t change the payout on their own.

That makes the math straightforward but also means the value per dollar spent drops sharply the longer or more expensive your rental gets. A quick one-day rental earning 1,000 points is a noticeably better rate, dollar for dollar, than a week-long rental earning the same flat 1,000.

How to Actually Make Sure You Earn the Points

Booking a random Avis or Budget rental won’t automatically credit Choice points — you need to book through the partnership’s specific discount codes and add your Choice Privileges member number at the time of reservation:

The discount applies only to base time-and-mileage charges — taxes, fees, and optional add-ons like loss damage waiver or refueling packages are charged separately and don’t affect your point earning either way. Car group X is excluded from the discount, and the offer can’t be combined with other coupons or promotions.

Once the rental is complete, budget some patience: Choice’s own terms note it can take 6 to 8 weeks for points to actually post to your account, noticeably slower than the near-instant crediting you get from a hotel stay.

Bonus Points on Longer Rentals — When It’s Running

Choice and Avis periodically run a bonus promotion that adds 2,000 points on top of the standard 1,000 for rentals of four or more consecutive days — effectively tripling the payout to 3,000 points for a longer rental. This isn’t a permanent, always-on feature of the partnership; it’s a recurring promotional offer with its own registration and specific date windows, and it isn’t guaranteed to be live whenever you happen to be renting. Check Choice’s current Avis/Budget offer page before you book if a longer rental is on the calendar — if the bonus happens to be running, it meaningfully changes the math in favor of consolidating into one longer rental instead of several short ones.

What Elite Members Get With Avis

Choice Privileges Platinum and Diamond elite members have historically been able to register for complimentary Avis Preferred Plus status, which adds counter-skip pickup, complimentary upgrades when available, and access to a dedicated reservation line — on top of the same 1,000 points per rental everyone else earns. That status is granted for a 12-month period and has to be re-earned through Avis’s own Preferred Plus requirements after that if you want to keep it. One thing worth flagging: this benefit predates Titanium, Choice’s newest top-tier status introduced in 2026, and it’s not clear from current program materials whether Titanium members are included — if you’re at that tier, it’s worth confirming directly with Choice rather than assuming either way.

Is It Worth Booking Through This Partnership?

At roughly 0.6-0.8 cents of value per Choice point, 1,000 points comes out to about $6-$8 in redeemable value — plus whatever the discount itself saves you off the base rate. For a short rental where you were booking Avis or Budget anyway, entering your Choice number costs nothing and adds free value on top of a discount you’d want regardless. It stops being a compelling reason to choose Avis or Budget specifically over a cheaper competitor, though — 1,000 points rarely closes a meaningful price gap on its own.

Pro Tips

• Always enter your Choice number at booking, not at pickup. Adding it after the fact risks the points not crediting at all.
• Use the exact discount codes (Avis AWD# O418900, Budget BCD# T134900) rather than a generic rate — booking outside these codes can mean no points and no discount.
• Don’t count on points posting quickly. Budget 6-8 weeks before following up if they haven’t shown up in your account.
• If you’re renting for 4+ days, check for an active bonus offer first — the difference between 1,000 and 3,000 points is worth a two-minute check on Choice’s current promotions page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Bottom Line

Avis and Budget rentals earn a flat 1,000 Choice Privileges points per rental, regardless of length or cost — plus a real discount off the base rate when you book through the correct AWD or BCD code. It’s a nice bonus layered onto a rental you were probably making anyway, not a reason on its own to pick Avis or Budget over a better-priced alternative. The exception is a longer rental during an active bonus period, or if you’re a Platinum/Diamond elite eyeing the Avis Preferred Plus reciprocal status — both are worth checking before you assume the standard 1,000-point rate is all that’s on the table.