If you have taken an LRT in Kuala Lumpur in the last few years you probably know My50. Fewer people have noticed that it is now one of six passes, or that Prasarana has renamed the whole range. Rapid says the rebranding is meant to unify the passes under a single standardised Rapid identity, to fully adopt Bahasa Melayu in support of the national language, and to reduce confusion about what each product does. The new names are Rapid Bulanan, Rapid Kembara, Rapid Kota, Rapid Keluarga and Rapid Mesra, sitting alongside My50, which keeps its name.

Two further products sit on the same Our Products shelf and are easy to miss because they are not passes at all: Rapid Pelajar and Rapid Emas, the student and senior concession cards. They are covered at the end, because for a light traveller they are the cheapest answer in the whole range.

All six cover the same network: Rapid KL's LRT, MRT, Monorail and BRT lines, Rapid KL buses, and MRT feeder bus services. What separates them is duration, price and, in three cases, whether you hold a MyKad.

The monthly passes: RM50 or RM150

My50 is RM50 for 30 days of unlimited travel, and it is described on Rapid's own page as "exclusively for Malaysians". It is now sold on the Touch n Go eWallet as well as at counters, and the eWallet version comes with a Savings Tracker showing ride history, total trips and estimated fare savings.

Rapid Bulanan is the new one, and it is the answer to a question My50 never had: what does a non-Malaysian pay for the same thing? RM150 for 30 consecutive days, on exactly the same rail and bus network, open to all users. Rapid's page notes that Malaysians may still opt for My50.

That is a threefold gap on nationality alone, and it is the single most consequential number in the whole line-up. For a foreign worker or an expatriate commuting daily in the Klang Valley, the monthly pass costs RM100 more than it does for the colleague sitting at the next desk, or RM1,200 a year.

The day passes: RM10, RM25, RM55

Rapid Kota is the Malaysian day pass, at RM10 for one day or RM25 for three days, and it runs on a day-cycle system so it can be bought and activated at any point in the month.

Rapid Kembara is the tourist-facing equivalent, open to all users, at RM25 for one day or RM55 for three days. The extra money is not buying extra transport. It buys a Promo Card, one per pass, giving seven days of discounts at the partner list from the moment the pass is activated. Rapid's published partner list, checked on 2 September 2026, now runs to more than 30 names, and the attractions are where the money is. It includes 40 per cent off normal entrance tickets at Farm In The City, 15 per cent off admission to Aquaria KLCC, 15 per cent off the entrance fee at Berjaya Times Square Theme Park, 15 per cent off a three-hour session at SuperPark Malaysia, and 15 per cent off Incubase Arena exhibition tickets with 10 per cent off its merchandise. Two of them are effectively free tickets: spend RM40 in one receipt at Chocolate Souq Putrajaya and you get two Putrajaya Story entrance tickets worth RM36, and the same RM40 at the Chocolate Museum gets two entrance tickets worth RM20. On the non-attraction side there is RM50 off selected concert tickets at both Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, 25 per cent off a Worq day pass, RM5 off at Watsons with a RM40 minimum spend on Watsons Brand products, a free game at Bomb Battle, and 10 per cent off The Music Run with code RAPID10. Rapid asks that its customer service officers fill in the serial number and validity dates on the Promo Card at the point of activation, so do not leave the counter without that done.

Rapid Keluarga is the odd one out and the best value per head in the range. RM30 buys one day of unlimited travel for up to four people, made up of one primary card carrying the RM30 product and three supplementary cards. It is Malaysians only, and it can be purchased on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays only. At RM7.50 a head it undercuts two Rapid Kota day passes for a family of four by RM10, and it is the pass to remember for a weekend museum or mall run.

The catch nobody mentions is that the RM5 minimum purse value applies to each of the four Touch n Go cards, not just the primary one. A family turning up without four cards already in hand is buying four cards and RM20 of purse value on top of the RM30 — which does not make the pass a bad deal, but it does mean the first outing costs a lot more than RM30.

Rapid Mesra: free, but there is a form

Rapid Mesra gives unlimited free rides across all Prasarana-operated trains and buses to Malaysian persons with disabilities registered with the Social Welfare Department (JKM), in the sight, hearing, psychiatric, speech, learning disability and other physical disability categories.

It is not a pass you buy. It is activated on a Rapid OKU Concession Card, which new applicants must obtain first. For Rapid KL, register in person at the Concession Registration Counter at Pasar Seni Bus Hub or Conlay MRT Station, open Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm, or apply through the online form on Rapid's Rapid Mesra page. Bring the original MyKad and the original JKM-issued OKU card for verification, plus cash of RM10 for Rapid KL or RM5 for Rapid Penang for the card itself. Existing cardholders can activate the pass at Rapid KL customer service counters or the listed bus hubs. The card must keep a minimum balance of RM5, and a deactivated card requires a fresh application and another RM5 for reissue. One detail works in the applicant’s favour and is buried in the terms: for new OKU concession card applications, Prasarana pre-loads the RM5 initial stored value itself, so the RM10 handed over at the counter is the whole cost of getting started.

The fine print that costs people money

Three details apply across the range and are easy to miss.

First, every price above excludes the Touch n Go card itself, and Rapid states that a minimum purse value of RM5 must sit on the card for the pass to work. Turning up with an empty card is the most common way to be stopped at a gate holding a valid pass.

Second, buying online is not the same as buying at a counter. Purchasing through the Touch n Go eWallet requires all three of an eKYC-verified TNG eWallet account, an Enhanced NFC-enabled Touch n Go card, and a smartphone with working NFC. An ordinary non-NFC Touch n Go card will not do.

Third, counter coverage is narrower than it looks. Passes are sold at Rapid KL customer service counters in LRT, MRT, Monorail and BRT stations, and at seven named bus hubs: Pasar Seni, Chow Kit, Sri Nilam, Puchong Utama, Pearl Point, Greenwood and Seksyen 2 Shah Alam. Rapid Keluarga in particular is listed only at counters and hubs, not on the eWallet.

The two cards that are not passes: Rapid Pelajar and Rapid Emas

Neither of these buys unlimited travel. Both cut the fare in half, every trip, with no monthly commitment — and for anyone who travels a few days a week rather than daily, that is the cheaper answer.

Rapid Pelajar is a personalised stored-value concession card for Malaysian students, giving up to 50 per cent off adult cash fares on Rapid KL LRT, MRT, Monorail, BRT, Rapid KL buses and MRT feeder buses. It covers primary, secondary, college and university students. For primary and secondary pupils the discount applies up to 17 years old, based on year of birth, and the original MyKad is all that is needed. College and university students must renew yearly and register with a passport-sized photo, the original MyKad, the original student card and an original student confirmation letter dated within the last three months — Rapid is explicit that offer letters are not accepted and that the letter must state a study duration of more than six months from the date of application. All Rapid Pelajar applications are made online.

Rapid Emas is the same idea for Malaysian senior citizens aged 60 and above: a personalised concession card giving 50 per cent off adult fares across the same network. You can register in person at the Pasar Seni Bus Hub or Conlay MRT Station concession counters, Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm, or online.

Both cards cost RM15 on application — RM5 for the card plus RM10 of purse value — and both require the usual RM5 minimum purse value to travel. The one exclusion worth knowing: the 50 per cent discount does not apply at any Park n Ride facility.

When the concession card beats My50. A single LRT trip across town runs a few ringgit each way, so a student or senior paying half fare has to travel most days of the month before RM50 of half-price fares adds up. If you commute daily, My50 at RM50 still wins because it is flat. If you travel two or three days a week, the concession card is cheaper and you never have to remember a renewal date. You cannot stack them — the pass replaces the fare, so there is no half-price pass.

Working out which one you need

The arithmetic is simple once the prices are in one place. My50 at RM50 pays for itself against the RM10 Rapid Kota day pass from the fifth day of travel in a month, which most weekday commuters clear in the first week. Rapid Bulanan at RM150 needs about six days of travel to beat buying Rapid Kembara day passes at RM25, or a little over eight days to beat the RM55 three-day pass. A family of four out for one weekend day should buy Rapid Keluarga rather than four separate day passes, and should remember it is not sold on weekdays.

For Penang, the equivalent is the Mutiara Pass, which Rapid describes as offering the same 30 days of unlimited travel on Rapid Penang bus services, exclusively for Malaysians. Rapid lists eight places to buy or renew it: Rapid Penang headquarters at Lorong Kulit, Weld Quay Bus Terminal (Terminal B), Komtar Bus Terminal, Bukit Jambul Bus Hub, Balik Pulau Bus Terminal, Bukit Mertajam Bus Terminal, Kompleks Dato Kailan Bus Hub in Kepala Batas, and Penang Sentral. Rapid still does not print a price on the My50 page where the Mutiara Pass is introduced, and that omission has a reason: for the user there is almost nothing to pay. The federal Ihsan MADANI portal lists Pas Mutiara as a first subscription of RM10, with every subsequent 30-day renewal free, funded by a RM50-per-pass subsidy split between the federal government and the Penang state government. The RM10 is the card, not the travel, and the renewal is free only for as long as that subsidy is funded — it is renewed budget by budget, so confirm at a kiosk rather than assuming it is permanent. So the honest comparison is not RM50 against an unknown number — a Penang bus commuter pays RM10 once, and a Klang Valley one pays RM50 every 30 days.

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*Cover image: RapidKL LRT Kelana Jaya Line train departing KL Sentral, photograph by Kaerumy, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons*