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Credit Cards · August 2026

Apple states its card APR clearly and keeps applications in scripts

An AI agent ran five ordinary credit cards tasks on the public pages of Apple Card and scored what each page delivered.

Run 6 August 2026 · five tasks · public pages, logged out · Fintech
55/100
Mystery Agent score
Credit Cards · rank 20 of 25
Purchase APR
90Served as text
Card comparison
65Partly served
Pricing and terms
25Automated reader declined
Welcome offer
78Partly served
Application page
15Arrives after scripts
Summary

Task by task

Each task is scored out of 100 on completion, answer quality and how directly the answer was reached. Each note describes what the page delivered, with a link to the page the answer was found on.

Task 01Purchase APRServed as text90 out of 100

The flagship Apple Card page states in a footnote that variable APRs range from 17.49% to 27.74% based on creditworthiness, with rates dated as of July 1, 2026.

Read on apple.com
Task 02Card comparisonPartly served65 out of 100

Apple Card Individual and the Family Co-Owner option both carry a $0 annual fee and the same 3%, 2%, and 1% Daily Cash structure, with joint credit building as the stated difference for Family accounts.

Read on apple.com
Task 03Pricing and termsAutomated reader declined25 out of 100

Apple links directly to the Customer Agreement PDF hosted on Goldman Sachs' domain, though both the standard fetch and a retry received a bot-check loader page in place of the pricing and terms document.

Task 04Welcome offerPartly served78 out of 100

Five checked pages, home, features, family, financial health, and monthly installments, present an ongoing 3%, 2%, and 1% Daily Cash rate as the card's standing value, with no separate sign-up bonus text found on any of them.

Read on apple.com
Task 05Application pageArrives after scripts15 out of 100

The application page at card.apple.com returns 136 characters of visible text, a single sentence asking readers to enable JavaScript, while eligibility details like age, citizenship, and ID verification appear on a separate support article.

Variable APRs for Apple Card range from 17.49% to 27.74% based on creditworthiness.

The application page

What the account opening page states to a reader that runs no scripts.

2,740Bytes delivered
136Characters of visible text
0Form fields in the first response
After scripts runWhat an applicant needs

Strengths and opportunities

What is working

  • The flagship page serves a complete, precisely dated purchase APR range and a fully spelled-out Daily Cash rewards structure (3%/2%/1%) as plain HTML text, reachable in a single hop with no script execution required.
  • Apple publishes detailed, script-free support articles, including the exact credit-evaluation criteria and Family account rules, in clean HTML that answers real customer questions without any login or app requirement.
  • The no-fees policy is stated clearly and repeatedly with specific, footnoted detail (no annual, late, over-limit, or foreign-transaction fees), giving an agent an unambiguous answer with no hunting required.

Opportunities

  • Publish the Apple Card Customer Agreement (the Schumer box rates and fees table) on the apple.com domain itself, or make sure the goldmansachs.com copy loads without a JavaScript challenge, so the full pricing and terms document reaches any reader who clicks through.
  • Serve a lightweight, script-free version of the application start page at card.apple.com that states the published eligibility requirements in visible text, the way the linked support article already does, so the first hop of the apply route explains itself.
  • Add a plain sentence confirming there is no welcome or sign-up bonus, or naming the current promotional offer if one exists, so customers read a direct answer instead of inferring it from silence across five pages.
  • Publish an /llms.txt file pointing to the Apple Card content that is already delivered in clean, well-structured HTML, giving agent traffic a documented and sanctioned entry point.

Access

Every page the agent requested was delivered on the first attempt. Publishing an llms.txt file would give agent traffic a documented entry point.

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