Futures prop firms compared
Evaluation pricing, drawdown rules, profit splits and payout terms for the major futures prop firms, read from each firm's own site and date-stamped. No rankings and no best-of list, just the terms side by side.
The short version
Every figure on this page was read from the firm's own site on . A futures prop firm sells you an evaluation on a simulated account with a profit target and a drawdown limit. Pass it, trade a funded account, keep most of the profits. The firms differ far less on price than they appear to and far more on two rules that decide whether you keep the account: how the drawdown trails and what the consistency rule does.
The single most useful number is not on any firm's pricing page: what reaching a first payout actually costs once you account for the published pass rate. That is worked out here.
Side by side at the $50K evaluation
The $50K tier is every firm's most quoted size, so it is the cleanest comparison. Where a firm sells the same size under several plans, the cheapest is shown and the rest are on the firm's own page. Every account is simulated during the evaluation.
| Firm | Price | Billing | Profit target | Max drawdown | Drawdown type | Split | Consistency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Topstep | $49.00 | monthly subscription | $3,000 | $2,000 | trailing | 90/10 | 55% |
| Apex Trader Funding | $24.90 was $249 | one-time, 30-day access | $3,000 | $2,000 | intraday trailing | 100% in sim funded | 50% |
| Earn2Trade | $190.00 | monthly subscription | $3,000 | $2,000 | end-of-day | 50% / 80% tiered | 30% |
| Take Profit Trader | not published | monthly subscription | $3,000 | $2,000 | end-of-day trailing | 80/20 PRO · 90/10 PRO+ | 50% |
| MyFundedFutures | $75.00 was $125 | one-time payment | $3,000 | $2,000 | end-of-day trailing | 80/20 or 90/10 by plan | 50% on Builder, none on Rapid / Rapid EOD / Pro |
What it costs to actually get funded
Headline price assumes you pass first time. The only firm here that publishes a pass rate, Take Profit Trader, puts it at 36.22% for calendar 2025. Applying that one published figure across all five as an illustration means about 2.76 attempts on average, plus any activation fee.
| Firm | All-in to funded | Working |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Trader Funding | $68.75 | $24.90 per evaluation x 2.76 attempts = $68.75 + activation fee not published, so not included |
| MyFundedFutures | $207.07 | $75.00 per evaluation x 2.76 attempts = $207.07 + activation fee not published, so not included |
| Topstep | $284.28 | $49.00 per month x 2.76 attempts = $135.28 + activation fee $149.00 |
| Earn2Trade | $524.57 | $190.00 per month x 2.76 attempts = $524.57 |
| Take Profit Trader | not published | Not enough published to compute |
This is an illustration, not a quote. It applies one firm's published pass rate to every firm because no one else publishes one, assumes one month or one purchase per attempt, and ignores platform and market data fees. Full method and the assumptions that move it most.
List price is rarely the price
Standing promotions running on September 21, 2026:
- Apex Trader Funding: ANY SIZE EVALS UP TO 90% OFF with code SAVENOW, shown with a countdown timer of about 1 day 10 hours
- Earn2Trade: Labor Day Special: 50% OFF plus a free reset with every evaluation
- Take Profit Trader: 40% off for life plus no activation fee, with code NOFEE40
- MyFundedFutures: 50% off your first evaluation
Every one of these was live on the same day. Apex's carried a countdown timer of about a day and a half, which is a discount that renews rather than expires. Treat list price as an anchor and the promotional price as the real one, and treat any comparison table that quotes list prices without a date as fiction.
Each firm in detail
FAQ
- What is the cheapest futures prop firm evaluation?
- On the day this page was checked, Apex's $50K intraday evaluation at its promotional price was the lowest headline figure of the five firms listed. Headline price is a poor guide though, because billing models differ: a monthly firm charges again every month you have not passed, while a one-time firm charges again only if you buy another evaluation.
- Do prop firm evaluations use real money?
- No. Every evaluation on this page is a simulated account. Several firms also keep the funded stage simulated and pay you from company funds rather than from trading profits; the firm pages say which.
- What percentage of people pass a futures prop firm evaluation?
- Only one firm here publishes it. Take Profit Trader disclosed that 36.22% of its Trading Tests were passed in calendar 2025. No other firm on this page publishes a pass rate, so any site quoting one for them has made it up.
- Which rule matters most when choosing?
- How the drawdown trails. An intraday trailing drawdown follows your open-position high in real time, so a trade that goes your way and comes back can fail you while still showing a profit. An end-of-day drawdown only ratchets at the close. Apex prices this difference explicitly, charging more than twice as much for the end-of-day version of the same account size.
This page compares published terms. It is not advice, not a ranking, and not a recommendation. Prop firm evaluations are a paid product with a low published pass rate. Some links on this page are affiliate links, marked as sponsored. They never change which firms appear, what the tables say, or the order of anything. No firm has paid for placement or reviewed this page. Figures verified September 21, 2026; prop firm pricing is promotional and moves constantly, so treat any price older than a few weeks as stale and check the firm before buying. Methodology.