Owning a vehicle is more than looking at the sticker price. Kelley Blue Book helps look at the big picture, and how a vehicle purchase affects your pocketbook in the long term. To that end, the 2013 Jeep® Patriot won the Kelley Blue Book® 5-Year Cost to Own Award⁺ for the Compact SUV/Crossover segment. The award honors the vehicles and brands (luxury and non-luxury) with the lowest projected ownership costs, based on Kelley Blue Book's 5-Year Cost to Own data for new cars for the initial five-year ownership period.

The 2012 Jeep® Patriot makes Consumer Guide Automotive's fun "10 Coolest Cars Under $18,000" list. According to Consumer Guide Automotive publisher Tom Appel, "We chose cars that were cool to look at – interior and exterior – fun to drive, and reasonably practical."

The 2013 Jeep® Patriot with optional side torso airbags⁺ has earned a TOP SAFETY PICK award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), placing it in an elite class for Safety & Security. This award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rear and rollover crashes based on "Good" ratings in Institute tests.

The 2012 Jeep® Patriot 4x4 was recently recognized by NADAguides.com as a "Top 10 Most Versatile Car Under $20,000". To achieve this lofty status, a Top 10 vehicle needs to offer outstanding value with rich feature sets and deliver versatility for real life needs – all while staying within economical-minded budgets. To that end, Jeep Patriot 4x4 stood out, delivering legendary Jeep 4x4 capability with an outstanding level of equipment, an outstanding highway fuel economy rating of 28 mpg⁺ and an affordable price.