Compare Prop Firms & Programmes
Compare prop firm fees, drawdown, profit targets, payouts and trading rules by programme and account size.
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Compare Prop Firms by Programme, Rules & Payouts
Comparing prop firms at company level can hide important differences between individual programmes. A firm may offer one-step, two-step and instant funding models with different fees, profit targets, drawdown calculations and payout conditions. FTMO vs FundedNext
The Prop Firms Compare tool lets you select the exact programme and account size you’re considering and compare its evaluation and funded-stage conditions side by side. Focus first on the rules that can cause a breach, particularly daily loss, maximum drawdown and consistency requirements, before comparing price and advertised profit split.
What should you compare in a Prop Firm?
Start with the rules that determine whether your strategy can survive the programme, then compare price and payouts.
Drawdown and evaluation rules
Drawdown rules are one of the most important parts of any prop firm comparison. Check whether the firm uses static, trailing, balance-based or equity-based drawdown. Also check whether the daily loss limit resets at a fixed time and whether open trades count against the limit.
Payouts and total cost
Look beyond the headline price. Compare the entry fee, refund policy, reset fee, activation fee and whether discount codes are currently available. You can also check the latest offers on the prop firm discount codes page.
Trading rules and platforms
Check whether the firm allows your trading style. Important restrictions include news trading, weekend holding, overnight holding, scalping, EAs, trade copying and maximum lot sizes.
If you are unsure whether your trading stats are good enough, test them with the prop firm probability calculator before buying a challenge.
How we verify and update comparison data
Our comparison database is checked against primary sources including official programme pages, pricing and checkout pages, help centres, payout policies and trading rules.
We store programme-level conditions separately because rules can differ between one-step, two-step and instant funding products. Evaluation and funded-stage rules are also separated where firms apply different conditions.
If a material condition cannot be verified, we mark it as unclear rather than estimating it.
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We test, compare and rank prop firms based on real data and actual trader experiences.
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Prop Firm Comparison Tool FAQs
The same prop firm can offer several programmes with very different rules. A one-step challenge, two-step challenge and instant funding programme may have different profit targets, drawdown limits, fees, payout schedules and trading restrictions.
For that reason, comparing only the firm can be misleading. Select the specific programme and account size you are considering to see the conditions that are most relevant to your purchase.
Yes. If a prop firm offers multiple programmes, you can compare them at programme level to see how their evaluation structure, fees, drawdown rules, profit targets and funded-stage conditions differ.
This can be useful when deciding, for example, whether a firm’s one-step programme is better suited to your strategy than its two-step programme.
Start with the rules that are most likely to cause an account breach: maximum drawdown, daily loss limits, drawdown calculation method, profit targets and any consistency requirements.
Then compare the total cost, funded-stage rules, first payout eligibility, profit split, trading restrictions and platform availability. A cheaper challenge or higher profit split is not necessarily better if the underlying rules do not suit your trading strategy.
Yes. Where the firm publishes different conditions for the evaluation and funded stage, the comparison separates them.
This is important because rules such as news trading, drawdown limits, profit splits or payout requirements can change after you pass the evaluation. Always check the funded-stage conditions as well as the challenge rules before purchasing.
The tool does not declare an automatic overall winner. Instead, it highlights differences between programmes so you can decide which conditions are more suitable for your strategy.
A lower profit target, cheaper fee or faster payout may be favourable for that individual metric, but it does not necessarily make one programme better overall. Drawdown structure, trading restrictions, payout requirements and your own trading style also matter.
We review programme data periodically and when we identify material changes such as new programmes, pricing changes, platform migrations, payout-policy updates or changes to drawdown and trading rules.
The comparison tool uses programme-level data so an update to one programme does not have to be treated as a change to every account offered by the same firm.
No single prop firm programme is easiest for every trader. A lower profit target may appear easier, but tighter drawdown limits, consistency rules or minimum trading requirements can make the programme more difficult for a particular strategy.
The better approach is to compare the rules against your own win rate, risk per trade, holding period and trading frequency. You can also use our Prop Firm Probability Calculator to estimate how your trading statistics could perform against a challenge target and drawdown limit.