Freetrade offers investors up to £200 cashback for topping up an Isa this summer - is it a good deal?

Freetrade is the latest platform to offer cashback on your investments, paying you one per cent when you top up your Isa with £5,000 or more.

The maximum you can earn is £200. To bag that amount you'd have to use your full £20,000 Isa allowance on the platform, because transfers aren’t eligible for the offer.

Freetrade will also pay cashback on pensions*, and in a reverse of the Isa deal, only transfers are eligible. But there’s more money on offer – you can get three per cent cashback, capped at £1,500. You must transfer a pension of at least £10,000.

Investment platforms periodically offer deals to entice people to open an account or transfer their money. Usually there’s a host of cashback offers at the end of the tax year, when people are thinking about how best to maximise their tax-free allowances.

Considering we’re only three months into the new tax year, deals are currently sparse. But of the offers available right now, Freetrade’s rivals a Sipp deal from Interactive Investor*, which pays up to £2,000 when you transfer a pension.

> Learn more about Freetrade's Isa cashback deal*

Topping up an Isa isn’t on everyone’s to-do list in the summer. But if you are comparing accounts and fancy giving your pot a boost, you could do worse than Freetrade’s Isa cashback offer.

Cashback shouldn’t be the only reason to choose a provider. You should check fees, investment choice, and the availability of research and customer support.

Freetrade is similar to Interactive Investor in that it charges flat fees of £5.99 a month for the standard plan, which includes an Isa.

Interactive Investor is £4.99 a month for an Isa that holds investments up to £50,000.

But Interactive Investor isn’t currently offering Isa cashback. And in terms of pensions, Interactive Investor’s deal only works out better for very large transfers. It's also not offered as a percentage of your investments, instead being offered in bands - so both a £10,000 and a £45,000 transfer each qualify for £100 cashback.

Taking Freetrade's pension deal, you'd get £300 for a £10,000 transfer and £1,350 for a £45,000 transfer.

Here’s what a pension transfer would net you with each provider:

To qualify for the pension cashback deal at Freetrade*, you must request to transfer before 31 August 2025 and the transfer must complete by 31 December 2025.

The Isa cashback deal at Freetrade* also closes on 31 August 2025. Freetrade will pay Isa cashback into your general investment account on 28 November 2025.

Make sure you read all the terms and conditions of each deal before going ahead. And before transferring a pension, check that you don't lose any valuable benefits by leaving the scheme.

Read our full round-up of the best self-invested personal pensions to see how we rate pensions from each provider and check our comparison of the best investing platforms below.