What are the five Vitality status levels?

Discovery Vitality has five status levels, in order: Blue, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond. Every member starts at Blue, and moves up as their points total grows across a year. For one adult, Bronze is reached at 7,500 points, Silver at 25,000 points, Gold at 40,000 points and Diamond at 50,000 points.

Every member begins at Blue Vitality status, the starting point that needs no points at all. From there, the ladder is cumulative. Each threshold builds on the one before it, so the points that get you to Bronze also count towards Silver, Gold and Diamond. You don't need to earn points from scratch to reach each new status level.

You earn Vitality points across the year, with your health assessments, workouts and healthy grocery purchases adding to the same running total.

Your status doesn't reset at the end of the year. If you reach Gold in 2026, you keep it for all of 2027, giving you the full year to earn enough points to hold onto it, or move higher, going into 2028. This means a strong year of engagement protects your status level the following year.

The Discovery app tracks this total in real time. It shows your membership's current Vitality status and Vitality points progress.

How you earn Vitality points towards your status

Vitality points come from three broad categories, each with its own annual total. Know Your Health can contribute up to 25,000 points a year, Get Active up to 35,000 points a year, made up of up to 25,000 for exercise and up to 10,000 for your Vitality Cardio Fitness Level, and Eat Well up to 12,000 points a year. Together, these three categories are the entire route to a higher status level.

Know Your Health covers the Vitality Health Check, the Vitality Age assessment and a range of other health screenings, from a Mental Wellbeing Assessment to routine checks like a dental exam or flu vaccine. Get Active rewards the exercise you already do, from gym sessions and parkruns to tracked workouts, and includes your Vitality Cardio Fitness Level, based on your VO2 max. Eat Well tracks healthy grocery purchases through the HealthyFood benefit, with points added when you buy qualifying foods at partners such as Checkers and Woolworths.

Because each category has its own annual total, a family that focuses on only one category will eventually reach its limit. Earning points across health checks, physical activity and nutrition helps keep progress moving throughout the year while supporting healthier habits overall.

How many points can you earn from the Vitality Health Check?

You can earn up to 22,500 points when you do a Vitality Health Check, based on how many of your results are in range across five measures: blood pressure, blood glucose, cholesterol, weight assessment and a non-smoker's declaration. Doing other screenings and assessments earns you even more points. This includes the Mental Wellbeing Assessment, dental health check, getting a flu vaccine and more.

What is the Vitality Age assessment and how many points does it earn you?

The Vitality Age assessment is a simple online calculator that measures how healthy you are relative to your actual age. It evaluates aspects of your health, including healthy eating, physical activity and stress management, helping you learn more about healthy lifestyle choices. Completing it adds 1,500 points to your Know Your Health total.

A healthy member who does their Vitality Health Check, finds out their Vitality Age and does one or 2 other screenings can reach Silver Vitality status without doing any other points earning activity.

Why a benefit reward percentage is not the same thing as your status level

Your status level and your benefit reward percentages are two separate systems within the programme. Your Vitality status level, Blue through Diamond, is set purely by your Vitality points total. The specific percentage you get on a benefit, such as your HealthyFood reward or gym discount, is set by separate, specific actions rather than by the status level itself.

HealthyFood rewards depend on specific actions, not on your status level. You get 10% back in Ðiscovery Miles on activation, 25% back once you complete a Health Check and Vitality Age assessment, and up to 75% back with a qualifying Discovery Bank account. A member on Bronze Vitality status who has completed those steps can earn a higher HealthyFood percentage than a member at Diamond who hasn't.

The gym discount follows the same principle. You get 75% off your monthly gym fees when you visit at least 36 times in a 12-month period. That condition is about gym attendance, not about your status level. You can see the full range of Vitality rewards and how each one is earned.

How your Vitality status connects to your wider Discovery relationship

Vitality status and Vitality points sit alongside a wider set of cross-product benefits across Discovery Bank, Discovery Insure and Discovery Life, and these follow the same rule as the benefit percentages above: they respond to specific actions and qualifying products, not to your Blue-to-Diamond status level directly.

Vitality Money rewards healthy financial behaviour through Discovery Bank, while Vitality Drive rewards safe driving through Discovery Insure. Both have their own status levels, separate from your Vitality status.

Discovery Life's PayBack benefit works differently: it can return up to 50% of your qualifying premiums every five years, rising to up to 100% if you choose to defer your PayBack by a further five years. Discovery Life calculates your PayBack percentage each year based on your Vitality status, your Vitality Money status, and your Discovery Bank account spend, depending on which of these products you've linked to your Life Plan. So, while Vitality Money and Vitality Drive run on their own separate status systems, your Vitality status itself is one of the direct inputs into your Discovery Life PayBack.

Each benefit has its own qualifying conditions, so it's worth checking which products you already hold and how they connect to your Vitality membership.

How to check your status and start moving up

Your current Vitality points total and Vitality status level are shown inside the Discovery app or by logging on to the Discovery website, along with how many points sit between you and your next level. This is the fastest way to see exactly where a family stands, rather than estimating from memory.

Open the Discovery app and go to the Vitality section to see your current points total, your status level, and the gap to your next threshold. The app also shows where your points are coming from, including health screenings (Know Your Health), fitness activities (Get Active) and nutrition (Eat Well), making it easy to see your strongest area and where you still have opportunities to earn more points.

For a family, Vitality points can be earned by different members on the membership, while progress towards status is tracked at membership level. Setting a target for the next status level, then planning which assessments or activities will close the gap, is the most practical way to move up. The app updates your status automatically when you cross a threshold, so there's no need to claim or activate a new level.