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State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges vs Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Compare State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges and Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges using the controlling cost, balance, rate, tenure, liquidity, limits, eligibility and current first-party bank evidence for this product type.

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State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges vs Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

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Latest underlying reviewSeptember 10, 2026
State Bank of IndiaState Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

SBI customers comparing the practical cost of a Savings, Salary or Basic account and wanting to distinguish current charges from announced future changes.

Cost / pricing
SBI has waived Savings Bank average-balance non-maintenance penalties since 11 March 2020, but ATM, IMPS, branch, card and other service charges remain product/channel-specific. Current ordinary Savings off-us ATM pricing from 1 December 2025 is ₹23 + GST for financial and ₹11 + GST for non-financial transactions after the applicable free allowance.
Reviewed
September 10, 2026
Evidence
5 bank sources
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Axis BankAxis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Axis customers comparing account tiers and trying to understand which fees disappear with a salary/premium relationship and which remain card/channel-specific.

Cost / pricing
Axis fee economics are strongly product-specific. Current reviewed Easy Access terms use a balance-shortfall formula capped by branch category, while Liberty has its own cash and card tariff; Priority and Burgundy can waive selected debit-card fees only while programme conditions are satisfied.
Reviewed
September 10, 2026
Evidence
5 bank sources
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State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges vs Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Prepared 14 Sep 2026 · Source page: https://littleden.blog/compare-banking/sbi-banking-fees-charges-vs-axis-banking-fees-charges/

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01Does this tariff apply to your exact account?Establish tariff scope before treating any listed fee as applicable.

State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

Tariff scope
Retail fee index spanning ordinary Savings, Salary Package, BSBD/basic and selected digital/ATM services. Product-specific tariffs override generic bank guidance.
Who the tariff applies to
Applies to SBI customers only after identifying the exact deposit/account programme, debit card and service channel.

Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Tariff scope
Product-scoped retail fee index. Easy Access is a mainstream balance-fee example; Liberty illustrates separate cash/card pricing; Priority/Burgundy demonstrate relationship waivers.
Who the tariff applies to
The exact Axis Savings/Salary/premium account and linked debit card must be identified before a fee is applied.
02What maintenance costs and waivers are recorded?Keep waiver conditions attached to maintenance charges.

State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

Account maintenance
Savings Bank average-balance non-maintenance penalty is waived from 11 March 2020 under SBI's current revised-service-charge index; separate account/service fees can still apply.
Waivers
BSBD/basic, KCC, Salary Package and other programme concessions are retained as scoped overrides rather than treated as bankwide fee waivers.

Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Account maintenance
Easy Access: ₹6 per ₹100 of average-balance shortfall, capped at ₹600 metro/urban, ₹300 semi-urban and ₹150 rural under the reviewed current MID.
Waivers
Priority-linked debit-card issuance/annual fee can be nil while Priority criteria are maintained; Burgundy debit-card issuance/AMC are waived for Burgundy segment customers under reviewed material.
03Which effective-date conditions govern the charges?Check date logic and the full current cost wording before using a tariff.

State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

Effective-date logic
Current and announced-future charges are stored separately. A future-effective row cannot replace the current tariff before its effective date.
Current fee posture
SBI has waived Savings Bank average-balance non-maintenance penalties since 11 March 2020, but ATM, IMPS, branch, card and other service charges remain product/channel-specific. Current ordinary Savings off-us ATM pricing from 1 December 2025 is ₹23 + GST for financial and ₹11 + GST for non-financial transactions after the applicable free allowance.

Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Effective-date logic
Axis MIDs carry product/version context. The exact current product MID is controlling; older or different-product schedules remain separate rather than being averaged.
Current fee posture
Axis fee economics are strongly product-specific. Current reviewed Easy Access terms use a balance-shortfall formula capped by branch category, while Liberty has its own cash and card tariff; Priority and Burgundy can waive selected debit-card fees only while programme conditions are satisfied.
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Decision factorState Bank of India Banking Fees & ChargesAxis Bank Banking Fees & Charges
Current fee postureSBI has waived Savings Bank average-balance non-maintenance penalties since 11 March 2020, but ATM, IMPS, branch, card and other service charges remain product/channel-specific. Current ordinary Savings off-us ATM pricing from 1 December 2025 is ₹23 + GST for financial and ₹11 + GST for non-financial transactions after the applicable free allowance.Axis fee economics are strongly product-specific. Current reviewed Easy Access terms use a balance-shortfall formula capped by branch category, while Liberty has its own cash and card tariff; Priority and Burgundy can waive selected debit-card fees only while programme conditions are satisfied.
Account / tariff scopeFee treatment depends on the exact account class. Ordinary Savings, Salary Package, BSBD/FI/KCC and other schemes can have different waivers or transaction allowances even when they use the same SBI channels.Reviewed Easy Access MAB is ₹12,000 metro/urban, ₹5,000 semi-urban and ₹2,500 rural, with qualifying alternatives. Non-maintenance fee is ₹6 per ₹100 of shortfall capped at ₹600/₹300/₹150 by branch category.
Waivers / free-service treatmentCurrent SBI material includes nil online/digital charges in several contexts, including SBI Unipay bill payments and product-specific digital transfers, while BSBD/basic products retain their own protected basic-service treatment.Selected premium/salary programmes provide fee waivers, and reviewed Liberty material includes unlimited free online NEFT/RTGS. Those benefits remain product-scoped.
Fee thresholds / allowancesFree-transaction counts and fee thresholds are not transaction-value limits. The dated ATM tariff, account schedule and channel tariff must be matched before calculating cost.Cash free allowances and ATM counts are fee counters rather than cash/card amount limits. Axis publishes different ATM/cash structures across Savings variants.
Who the tariff applies toApplies to SBI customers only after identifying the exact deposit/account programme, debit card and service channel.The exact Axis Savings/Salary/premium account and linked debit card must be identified before a fee is applied.
Product / programme / channel relationshipThis page is a fee index over existing SBI products and channels. It does not replace the controlling Savings/Salary/BSBD/card/transfer product page or tariff.Fee waivers belong to the maintained relationship. Moving from Priority/Burgundy/salary treatment to a base Savings account can change the applicable fee schedule.
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Type-specific banking comparison terms for State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges and Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges
Decision factorState Bank of India Banking Fees & ChargesAxis Bank Banking Fees & Charges
Tariff scopeRetail fee index spanning ordinary Savings, Salary Package, BSBD/basic and selected digital/ATM services. Product-specific tariffs override generic bank guidance.Product-scoped retail fee index. Easy Access is a mainstream balance-fee example; Liberty illustrates separate cash/card pricing; Priority/Burgundy demonstrate relationship waivers.
Account maintenanceSavings Bank average-balance non-maintenance penalty is waived from 11 March 2020 under SBI's current revised-service-charge index; separate account/service fees can still apply.Easy Access: ₹6 per ₹100 of average-balance shortfall, capped at ₹600 metro/urban, ₹300 semi-urban and ₹150 rural under the reviewed current MID.
Debit-card chargesDebit-card issuance/annual/replacement pricing remains variant- and account-linked. BSBD/basic RuPay ATM-cum-Debit Card treatment is separately free under the reviewed basic-account evidence.Reviewed Easy Access product evidence lists ₹200 issuance and annual fee ₹100 rural / ₹150 other locations for the linked base card. Priority/Burgundy card fee treatment differs and can be waived.
ATM chargesFor ordinary Savings variants covered by the 1 December 2025 notice (excluding BSBD, KCC and Salary Package), five other-bank ATM/ADWM transactions are free monthly at all centres; post-free pricing is ₹23 + GST financial and ₹11 + GST non-financial.ATM/cash pricing varies by account scheme. The dedicated Axis ATM/cash profile remains the operational source; v1.44 does not turn one product's allowance into a bankwide rule.
Cash / branchBranch/cash pricing remains account/service-specific; no single SBI cash-handling rate is inferred across Savings, Salary, BSBD and business products.Liberty reviewed MID: first five cash transactions or ₹1.5 lakh monthly free, whichever is earlier; beyond that self cash ₹5/₹1,000 or ₹150 minimum, third-party ₹10/₹1,000 or ₹150 minimum.
TransfersDigital transfer pricing is rail/channel specific. The fee ledger does not convert one IMPS/NEFT/RTGS waiver or charge into a universal transfer fee.Reviewed Liberty material states unlimited free online NEFT/RTGS. Other Axis account variants can have different channel/service pricing.
Digital servicesSBI Unipay's reviewed digital bill-payment channels are nil-charge to the customer; underlying biller/card/tax charges remain separate where applicable.Digital-service fees follow the product/channel source; a free online transfer feature does not automatically waive branch or card charges.
WaiversBSBD/basic, KCC, Salary Package and other programme concessions are retained as scoped overrides rather than treated as bankwide fee waivers.Priority-linked debit-card issuance/annual fee can be nil while Priority criteria are maintained; Burgundy debit-card issuance/AMC are waived for Burgundy segment customers under reviewed material.
Effective-date logicCurrent and announced-future charges are stored separately. A future-effective row cannot replace the current tariff before its effective date.Axis MIDs carry product/version context. The exact current product MID is controlling; older or different-product schedules remain separate rather than being averaged.
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State Bank of India

State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

  • SBI's generic ATM information and its dated 1 December 2025 ATM/ADWM charge notice are not fully aligned; the dated tariff notice is kept as the pricing anchor for the ordinary Savings scope it explicitly covers.
  • SBI has already announced a Salary Package other-bank ATM free-count revision effective 1 October 2026. Because the review date is 10 September 2026, that future rule is stored as future-effective and is not applied as today's charge.
  • BSBD/FI/KCC and Salary Package exclusions mean an ordinary Savings charge must never be copied to every SBI customer.
Axis Bank

Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

  • Axis does not have one useful bankwide Savings fee table for every customer; current MIDs differ by product, and v1.44 keeps those differences instead of inventing a universal Axis tariff.
  • Liberty cash allowances and Easy Access balance penalties come from different products and are not combined into one fictional account.
  • Premium debit-card waivers are relationship-dependent and can cease after programme downgrade or loss of eligibility.
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State Bank of India

State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

Reviewed
September 10, 2026
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State Bank of India Banking Fees & Charges

Reviewed September 10, 2026 · 5 attached first-party sources

  1. Fee / charge schedulehttps://sbi.bank.in/en/web/personal-banking/information-services/kyc-guidelines/revised-service-charges
  2. Fee / charge schedulehttps://sbi.bank.in/documents/16012/22770835/NOTICE%2B%2BREVISION%2BIN%2BATM%2B%2BADWM%2BTRANSACTION%2BSERVICE%2BCHARGES.pdf/7c66ae2b-74ba-67cc-dbfa-01725136c709?t=1761913196404
  3. Issuer product pagehttps://sbi.bank.in/web/salary-account/sbi-rishtey
  4. Issuer product pagehttps://home.sbi.bank.in/web/personal-banking/accounts/saving-account/basic-savings-bank-deposit-account09b7.html
  5. Issuer product pagehttps://sbi.bank.in/hi/web/business/sme/digital-collection-products/sbi-unipay

Axis Bank Banking Fees & Charges

Reviewed September 10, 2026 · 5 attached first-party sources

  1. Issuer documenthttps://www.axisbank.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/savings-account/axis-bank-easy-access-savings-account-mid.pdf
  2. Issuer documenthttps://www.axisbank.com/docs/default-source/default-document-library/liberty-digital-savings-mid.pdf
  3. Issuer product pagehttps://www.axisbank.com/retail/accounts/savings-account/priority-savings-account
  4. Issuer product pagehttps://www.axisbank.com/retail/accounts/savings-account/burgundy-savings-account
  5. Issuer product pagehttps://www.axisbank.com/retail/cards/debit-card