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Prop firm challenges, ranked by real cost

Real cost is what it takes to get funded for each $1,000 of maximum drawdown: the price you pay, plus the activation fee after passing when the firm publishes one, plus any fee the firm takes from your first withdrawal. Monthly plans are marked: their price comes back each month until you pass.

Accounts, lowest real cost first

13 accounts · lowest real cost on top

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How to read the challenge ranking

What it costs to get funded

Real cost here is the whole bill to reach the funded account, for each $1,000 of maximum drawdown: the price, plus the activation fee after passing when the firm publishes one, plus any fee taken from the first withdrawal. A fee a firm does not publish counts as none in the order, and the row says it is not published.

Plans billed every month

66 of the 1,104 challenges are billed every month until you pass. Their real cost counts the first month, so the longer you take, the more they cost: weigh the price against the minimum days and the size of the target.

Phases, targets and days

Phases among the 1,104 challenges: 720 with one phase, 350 with two phases, 29 with three phases and 5 with four phases. Each phase has its own profit target, and the minimum number of trading days, the time limit and the consistency rule to pass are on each account's ticket.

Price the attempts that fail

The ranking counts one attempt. If you expect to need two, you pay the price twice; the risk planner simulates a plan under the account's own rules and prices the attempts it takes.

Questions, answered from the data

What is a prop firm challenge?

A paid evaluation: you trade an account under loss rules until you reach a profit target, in one or more phases, then you get the funded account. 1,104 challenges from 55 firms are compared here: 720 with one phase, 350 with two phases, 29 with three phases and 5 with four phases.

Which prop firm challenge costs the least to get funded?

Blue Guardian 2 Step Nano $200,000, at $17.25 per $1,000 of maximum drawdown ($345 for $20,000 of drawdown). The lowest price alone is Maven Trading Buy Now, Pay Later $2,000 at $5.

Do prop firm challenges have a time limit?

547 of the 1104 accounts state that there is no time limit, from AquaFunded, Blue Guardian, BrightFunded, BrightFunded Futures, E8 Markets, FTMO, FTMO Futures, FTUK, Funded Futures Network, Funded Trader Markets, FundedSquad, FunderPro, FuturesElite, Goat Funded Futures, Goat Funded Trader, Hola Prime, HyroTrader, Leeloo Trading, My Funded Perpetuals, OneFunded, Orion Funded, Phidias, Phoenix Trader Funding, Rebels Funding, The5ers, ThinkCapital, TopOne Trader, Trade The Pool, TradeDay, TraderScale and Vanta Trading. 456 do not publish a time limit either way.

Do prop firm challenges charge a fee after passing?

Of the 1,104 challenges, 105 charge an activation fee after passing, 319 state that there is none and 680 do not publish it. Real cost adds the published fee; an unpublished one counts as none.

How many trading days does a challenge require?

Of the 1,104 challenges, 288 state no minimum number of trading days and 640 ask for between 1 and 10. 176 do not publish one.

Are challenges paid once or every month?

Of the 1,104 challenges, 1,038 are paid once and 66 are billed every month until you pass; on a monthly plan the real cost counts the first month.