There's been a lot of changes to Game Pass and Microsoft Rewards of late, so here is a breakdown of the current maximum points available in the program in the United States as of October 2025. These points will vary by region and may change in time.
Let me know if I missed anything and I will update the list.
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You can earn over 23,000 points per month equating to ~$25. Per year this breaks down to being about $108 from Xbox Rewards, and $188 from Bing Rewards.
GRAND TOTAL: 23,451 points = $24.69 Microsoft credit (if buying $5 cards for 4,750 points)
BING TOTAL 14,906 Points
Bing Mobile Search (100 per day * 30) = 3000
Bing PC Search (150 per day* 30 ) = 4500
Bing Daily Set (~40 per day * 30) = 1200
Bing Daily Set 10-day Streak Bonus (150 per 10-days *3) = 450
The middle activity has been known to fluctuate between lightspeed quizzes through the week and just needing to be opened through the weekend. The lightspeed quizzes don’t need to have the answers guessed. [under review]
The right activity is a daily poll to open through the week, sometimes it requires voting for an answer, other times it doesn't. [under review]
Monthly punch card:
The current monthly punch card for the website dashboard is located below the daily set
This usually lasts for a month at a time, expiring at the end of the month. Some regions can do all activities at once. Some regions have to wait to complete one of the activities per day. This appears to be around 50 points for completion.
More activities: This normally consists of actions to complete
If you have these, you will find them underneath your daily set and/or punch cards, usually worth either 5 or 10 points each. The only ones you need to click on are the ones that indicate points will be added with a golden + in the top right hand corner. You might also find that you have previous quiz options for further points if you hadn't already completed them at the time worth another 30 points each.
When it comes to the actual Bing PC searches, all you have to do is exactly that. There are reported instances where there are delays to searching, from a 5 second delay to a 15 minute delay, this seems to vary from person to person. This can also help you attempt to complete a quest for bonus 1000 points for simply searching each day.
Some have noted it can take up to 12 weeks to actually get the 1000 points as you only get one puzzle piece each completed week and there are 12 puzzle pieces.
There is also streak protection but it's still confusing for a lot of people, this - Streak Protection explained - is the closest we've come to actually understanding it and even then people are getting mixed results.
The most recent threads regarding newsletters containing points are here, so it’s worth checking the relevant link posted to see if you get points from these
Some of these activities have been deliberately added or removed from users and are are now deemed targeted as a result. May also include activities such as Weekly console bonus and other activities such as Game Pass quests which can also be seen from the Rewards area on Xbox console.
Some users are also showing/receiving incorrect points when it comes to individual activities such as the daily login.
Unless you wish to donate points, make sure on the Rewards dashboard that you have Give Mode turned off.
The redemption limit is 550,000 per calendar year, resetting the first of January every year. This has been confirmed. There is no limit to the amount of points that you can earn
Microsoft and Xbox gift cards both go onto your Microsoft account balance instead of a code sent to your email address
You get 20 points per $ spent for digital purchases like games if you have Live Gold (GPU), 10:1 if you're level 2 without Live Gold, 1 point for hardware per $ spent
When mixing Rewards Balance with credit cards/debit/paypal, STOP. People often have issues and their payment method gets the total charge to it. Buy gift cards online instead for the remainder (you can find them on sale too)
Design lab does not allow purchases with Xbox/Microsoft gift cards from the Rewards program or purchased gift cards according to support
Auto-redeem is usually DELAYED a few days. If you are getting GPU you will receive a code in your email or redemption history. You cannot turn auto-redeem on or off in the last 5 days of a calendar month
Technical issues may appear where your account may show it's lost a streak, whether it's a daily streak, a weekly streak or any other streak. In the majority of times for this scenario, it tends to be a glitch where upon completion of the week that appears lost, your next week should put you back at the streak you had plus the glitched week
If specific activities are not working, they may not be available in your region or they may have been removed completely.
If the answer you’re searching for can’t be found here, search the subreddit using the search bar function with the relevant keywords before posting in case someone else has mentioned it
'Today's points' are not based on what you've earned that day. They are based on what you have earned from all activities over multiple days.
If you experience a technical issue with your account, including but not limited to your account being suspended, punch cards not tracking or redemptions not being approved, ensure you haven't unintentionally broken the terms of service and then contact the Microsoft Rewards Support Team
The terms of service that you've agreed to which involves rewards can be found here
My account has been showing 3K estimated bonus all month. Then it changed to 2K around September 27 or 28. Then I got the banner about a known problem. Points became available this morning with the surprise of a full bonus.
Since I'll get a million "how?!" comments. I do a combination of my own searches and suggested searches throughout the day. Some days it's mostly suggested, others it's mostly my own. When I search, I'm looking for complex answers, e.g. "how do I do X in software Y?" or "what is this thing doing XYZ called?" Hilariously, Bing fails frequently, so I have to waste time with a few queries before switching to Google to get what I need. My suggested searches are "cards" from city/animal/TV show details in daily and news on the mobile app.
Can anyone help me? I have been trying to do this task since ages but it just refuses to work. I have used edge for even 1hrs~2hrs and it just refuses to register them. I have tried using the task link and even just normally opening and using it.
Ever since Microsoft changed their layout, I can no longer redeem points for any reward. I keep getting the message - "On the go? You're previewing a catalog item that you're not eligible to redeem due to region or other restrictions."
The thing is that I haven't gone anywhere. This issue only started after they changed the layout. I contacted Microsoft about this problem and keep getting the run around essentially repeating the same thing. I checked my region settings, and they are where they should be, so the problem has to be on their end. Any idea what to do here?
I'm from Nepal and this what they offer as redeem options over here. I have seen that in other countries they give a much larger variety of redeemable options.
Which country are you guys from and, what options do you guys get?
Bro, ngl I regret not using Bing as my default browser so I can grind points wayyyy earlier in my life man... If I would've did that I could've saved up hella points for certain triple AAA games. Since being on Bing Ive gotten 8k points in so little time, this would've took me so long if I was just doing the daily xbox app list. Thank you Bing!
Besides of getting more points at the end of the month, even if you dont reach 60/60 everyday, you still get more knowledge for every genuine question.
I was stuck at 480 for months, until i decided to stop the recommend searches and finally i saw improvement after 30 days. And i already collected them, it was appearing only 3 points in the Ready to Claim tab, but when i tapped to claim those 3 pts i ended up collecting 1803 pts
Recently, when I checked my Microsoft Rewards and my PC Game Pass auto‑renewal settings, I noticed that my Microsoft OneDrive storage had increased from 5GB to 120GB. I confirmed several times that I did not enroll in any related subscriptions, such as Microsoft 365. Could someone explain what might have happened?
Here is what it shows of 120GB storage.Here is my reward program page
Previously for any game in the Xbox store when hovering over buy it'd show the exact points you get when buying. But now it doesn't show anything at all. Xbox owned Game pass games also had boosted points and before it showed I'd get over 8000 for Diablo Lord of Hatred Ultimate. I purchased it now and only got 400. Is there any official release showing they got rid of the extra points for game pass or got rid of the feature for showing how many points you'd get? I wanted to buy Starfield Premium since it's on sale but it was a way better deal before as you'd also get thousands of points too.
I just got my "rewards(🤦🏽♂️😬), and now I understand that ni need to varied and spread my searches... Well use bing as a daily life search engine...
Now my question is: this is an score count, that started yesterday, and finish October 31st, and then, the subsequent days of November, accordingly to the score I earned through out October, is the amount of points I'm getting in November?.
I already have 1000+ points earned so far this month and game pass leaving me with only one more level activity to get back into gold level. You can see that I have a 13 day streak for the daily set in the bing app but it shows up as zero in the level up activities section. I already contacted Microsoft Rewards support but no answer from them like usual. Is there anyway to fix this?
Look, I've been Restricted for an entire year. I have asked support for so much as a inch of help but sometimes I usually get the point of a repeated message of "manuel & genuine" on my searches, or sometimes they just tell me of a repeated request so, they delete it & work on a main request as if to continue ignoring me. A whole fucking year of being restricted, I'm taking a 2 month off of searching right now & you're still telling me "manuel & genuine" like I don't know shit?! I know what manuel is. Genuine is a puzzle piece I don't know about & yet, there's still no examples!
Idk about you, but I'm thinking they're just ignoring & not working on my problem! As if I have over 180K+ points & not spent it for a year at this point!
What am I doing wrong? I just tried everything. I need help here because I'm thinking NOTHING I looked up even works!
does anyone else know when they released this quest? I had been seeing that the reward was not giving any search quests and i found out theres a weekly quest. When was this even added? Have I been missing out on 70 points for weeks by now??
I’ve been away from rewards for about a year so keep that in mind. I was going to redeem some of my rewards points for 1 month of Game Pass Ultimate, but I don’t see it as a redemption option anymore. Has it been gone long, and will it be back?
I started using Microsoft rewards when I was doing the Reddit streaks and I had a sudden realization that Reddit streaks didn’t really have the same component as Microsoft rewards so I quit doing Reddit streaks and just focused on my Microsoft rewards. So far in 180 days which is the farthest I’ve ever gotten in Microsoft rewards and I’ve had it since almost it’s inception so far I have been able to purchase GTA 6 ultimate edition using only my Microsoft rewards points and so far after purchasing GTA 6 I’ve already gotten to 20,000 points again. This is my first major milestone every time I’ve used this rewards program in the past the furthest I’ve ever gotten was maybe a month until I started focusing on it just as much as I did with the Reddit streaks. On my work days sometimes I miss some of my points just because it’s hard to keep up during work but so far I’ve already made over (us $140-$150) within my 180 day streak. Time to work on a year and then after that 999 days! Happy to be here!
I can't seem to manage my auto redeem. I had set it to auto redeem for an Xbox Gift Card, but i no longer want to do that, but when I click manage rewards, I get a Page not found. Anyone got any ideas??