How we value Monzo Premium

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The average total value of our worldwide travel and mobile insurance is £256 a year. Monzo Premium costs £180 a year total (£15 a month). With just your travel and mobile insurance, you'll save £76 a year with Monzo Premium.


Recently, we launched Monzo Premium – our new account with our new metal card. It comes with everything you already love about Monzo, and much more.

You also get extensive phone insurance, worldwide travel insurance for you and your partner or family, and discounted access to airport lounges. As well as 1.50%/1.49% AER/Gross (variable) interest on up to £2,000 in your balance and regular Pots, and much, much more.

We want to make sure we're providing real value for our customers so we asked independent market research group Consumer Intelligence to see what it would cost if you bought comparable insurance policies and lounge access separately. We've included a summary of that data in this blog post, and have attached a report from Consumer Intelligence with a breakdown of the methodology and data if you'd like to see it.


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🛫 Our travel insurance is worth an average of £159 a year.

Using our travel policy, Consumer Intelligence sought pricing information on comparable travel insurance policies from the following comparison sites:

  • Compare The Market

  • GoCompare

  • Money Super Market

  • Confused.com

They obtained 33 quotes for comparable travel insurance from the following providers:

  • Puffin

  • Big Blue

  • Post Office

  • Leisure Guard Travel

  • Insurefor

  • Direct Travel

  • World First

  • Spectrum

  • Fit2Travel

  • Insure & Escape

  • Debenhams

💰 The average annual cover value across the market was £158.54


📱 Our phone insurance is worth an average of £97 a year.

Using our mobile phone policy, Consumer Intelligence compared the prices across 6 popular mobile devices:

  • iPhone 11 64GG (RRP £729.00)

  • Galaxy Note10+ 256GB (RRP £999.00)

  • P30 Pro 128GB (RRP £599.99)

  • Pixel 3a XL 64GB (RRP £469.00)

  • Xperia 1 128GB (RRP £849.00)

  • 9 Pureview (RRP £549.00)

They obtained quotes for each device from the following providers:

  • Loveitcoverit.com

  • uk.protectyourbubble.com

  • swipeinsurance.co.uk

  • Lycainsure

  • So-sure

  • Gadget Cover

  • CoverCloud

  • Next Gen

  • Trusted

  • Post office

💰 The average annual cover value across devices for all was £97.07


Read the full research report here.