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Prop firm evaluation cost comparison
The advertised fee is the smallest part of what an evaluation costs. Put in the profit you expect on a trading day and see what each plan really costs to reach its own target, including activation and the months you keep paying along the way.
The sticker price is not the cost
Every evaluation is advertised as one number, and that number answers a question nobody actually has. What a trader spends is the fee for as long as the attempt runs, plus whatever it costs to switch the account on afterwards, plus the price of every restart after a breach. Two of those three depend on how long you take, and how long you take depends on the profit target, which the firm sets and which differs by hundreds of percent across the plans below.
That is why this page asks for a rate rather than showing a price list. A plan billed once costs the same whether the target takes three weeks or five months. A plan billed monthly does not. Give it an honest number for what you make on a day you trade and the ranking often turns over.
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Verified September 4, 2026Cheapest path to the target
$145
Time to that target
1 month
Per $1,000 of target
$96.67
MyFundedFutures Rapid is the cheapest path to its $1,500 target at this rate: $145 over 1 month. The next cheapest costs $5 more to reach its own target.
| Plan | Eval fee | Target | Time | Total cost | Per $1K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyFundedFutures Rapid25K account, target is 6% of size, no reset offered | $145one time | $1,500 | 1 month | $145 | $96.67 |
| Earn2Trade Trader Career Path25K account, target is 7% of size, reset included | $150per month | $1,750 | 1 month | $150 | $85.71 |
| Take Profit Trader Test25K account, target is 6% of size, reset fee $79, activation $130 | $150per month | $1,500 | 1 month | $280 | $186.67 |
Standard published prices; promotions are not included. Totals count the evaluation fee to the target plus any activation fee, and stop counting after twelve months.
A worked example with the defaults
Take the numbers the tool opens on: a 25K account, $250 of profit on a day you trade, twenty trading days a month. That is $5,000 a month of profit if every day goes to plan, which is a rate very few traders hold, and it is still enough to make the point.
At $250 a day the two cheapest plans are five dollars apart and the choice between them is not about money at all. The third reaches the same target in the same six days and still costs $280, because it bills monthly and charges once more to switch the account on afterwards. At $60 a day, which is a far more ordinary rate for someone still learning to trade one setup properly, the monthly plans cost two and three times the one-time plan, and the gap grows every month the target slips. Nothing about the plans changed. Only the rate did, and the rate is the input almost every comparison page leaves out.
Now add one breach. On a plan with no reset the whole fee is spent again from zero. On a plan whose restart comes with the next month's billing it costs a month. Three breaches is a difference of several hundred dollars between two plans whose sticker prices are a few dollars apart, which is why the notes beside each row matter as much as the price above them.
What the fee buys you, and what it does not
Price is the easiest thing to compare and the least useful thing to decide on. The figures below are paraphrased from what each firm publishes, and the differences that end accounts are all in this paragraph rather than in the price column.
The profit target relative to the account size. A $1,500 target on a 25K account is 6% of the size. A $9,000 target on a 150K account is also 6%. Where a plan differs, the cost per thousand dollars of target in the table is the like-for-like number, because it divides what you spend by what you have to produce.
The drawdown type. Some plans move your loss limit on the daily close and some follow it while a position is still open, and that single difference decides how many of your attempts end early. It is not in any price. Work out what your floor would actually be on each plan with the trailing drawdown calculator before you compare fees, because a cheap plan you breach twice is an expensive plan.
The daily loss limit, the minimum trading days, and the consistency rule. Each of these can stretch an attempt out by weeks, and on a monthly plan weeks are money. A consistency requirement in particular means you cannot simply take the target in one good session, so the number of months in the table is a floor rather than a forecast.
What happens after the evaluation. The payout schedule, the profit split and the buffer you have to build before the first withdrawal all differ, and none of them is a cost you pay up front. Read them on the firm's own pages. The comparison above stops at the target on purpose, because that is where the published figures stop being comparable.
For the rules side of the same question, see the rules explainer for Topstep and other futures prop firms and the daily loss limit guide.
Common questions
What does a futures prop firm evaluation actually cost?
The sticker price is only the first month. What you spend is the fee multiplied by the number of months the attempt runs, plus any activation charge, plus the cost of every restart after a breach. A plan billed once and a plan billed monthly can advertise similar numbers and end up hundreds of dollars apart, purely because one of them keeps charging while you are still working toward the target.
Why does the comparison ask for my profit per trading day?
Because the target, not the fee, decides how long you are billed for. A plan with a $9,000 target takes three times as long to finish as one with a $3,000 target at the same rate of profit, and on a monthly plan that is three times the fee. Entering a rate you actually achieve turns two sticker prices into two totals you can compare.
Is the cheapest evaluation the right one to buy?
This page will not tell you that, because it cannot. It compares arithmetic: fee, target, time, and cost per thousand dollars of target. Everything else that matters, such as the drawdown type, the daily loss limit, the payout terms and the news restrictions, differs between plans and is published on each firm’s own pages. Read those before you buy anything.
What is an activation fee?
Some firms charge a separate one-off amount to switch the account on once the evaluation stage is complete, and some charge nothing. Where a firm publishes one it is counted in the totals here, because it is money you spend before you take a single trade in the next stage.
How much do resets change the total?
A great deal, and the comparison deliberately does not guess at it. Some plans include a restart when the subscription renews, some sell resets separately, and some offer none at all, in which case a breach means buying the whole evaluation again. The notes column says which of the three applies. If you breach twice, double the number in the total cost column and read it again.
Why are prices here different from the ones I see on the firm’s site?
Standard published prices; promotions are not included. Check the firm’s page for what it costs today.
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Firms and plans appear here only where the figures are published on a page this tool can link to. Figures verified September 4, 2026; rules and prices change, check the firm's page. Sources: MyFundedFutures Rapid plan page, MyFundedFutures Pro plan page, Earn2Trade Trader Career Path page, Take Profit Trader account size and pricing cards, Take Profit Trader help center: resetting a test account.
Educational only, not financial advice. Propfy is an independent trading journal for Topstep and other futures prop firms, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any firm named on this page. Firm names are used only to identify whose published figures a number came from.