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Do prop firms actually pay out? Each firm’s payout terms

What every firm we grade publishes about paying its traders: the profit split, how often a payout can be requested, any minimum, and which accounts the terms apply to. One table, every market, so the same question gets the same answer for each firm.

Do prop firms actually pay out?

We cannot tell you yet, and this page does not claim to. What it shows is what each firm says it will pay: the profit split, how often a payout can be requested, any minimum, and which accounts the terms apply to. Our team has not yet taken a payout from any firm we grade, so a published term shows what a firm promises, not that it pays. A verified payout, one our team has requested and received end to end, is a separate and stricter record, and none has been completed yet.

What a trader can check before paying is the terms themselves. Find the firm’s rows in the table and read four things: the profit split, how often a payout can be requested, the minimum payout, and whether the terms apply to a funded or a sim funded account. A firm can have more than one row, because it can publish more than one set of payout terms. Then set the payout frequency against the firm’s other rules: a fast cadence behind a consistency rule almost nobody passes is not a better term. Where a cell reads “Not stated”, our record holds no term for it, so check the firm’s own pages before you buy.

Payout terms by firm

The table below sets out each firm’s published payout terms, one row per policy, in grade order.

Every row is reported, not verified. These are the firm’s own published terms, read from its site and recorded with a source. We have not yet run a payout through any of them, so nothing here is evidence that a firm pays. It is only evidence of what the firm says it will do. Where our record is silent a cell reads “Not stated”, which is a fact about our record rather than about the firm.

25 of 25 firms on record publish payout terms · 74 policies in total.

Documented payout terms, by firm. Ordered by grade, never by payout speed.
Firm Profit split Frequency Minimum payout Applies to Evidence
Take Profit Trader 80% On demand Not stated Funded Reported
Blue Guardian 85% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
Blue Guardian 80% On demand $100 Funded Reported
Blue Guardian 90% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
Blue Guardian 90% On demand Not stated Funded Reported
Blue Guardian 90% On demand Not stated Funded Reported
Blue Guardian 90% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
Ment Funding 75% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
City Traders Imperium 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
City Traders Imperium 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
City Traders Imperium 70% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
City Traders Imperium 50% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
Orion Funded 80% Every 14 days Not stated Funded Reported
Apex Trader Funding 100% Not stated $500 Funded Reported
Apex Trader Funding 100% Not stated $500 Funded Reported
Purdia Capital 90% On demand Not stated Funded Reported
Breakout 80% On demand $50 Funded Reported
Goat Funded Trader 80% On demand $100 Sim funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 90% On demand $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $250 Funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 70% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 70% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
For Traders 60% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
For Traders 80% On demand $100 Funded Reported
Topstep 90% On demand $125 Sim funded Reported
Elite Trader Funding 100% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
FTMO 90% On demand $20 Funded Reported
FTMO 80% On demand $20 Funded Reported
My Funded Futures 80% On demand $250 Sim funded Reported
My Funded Futures 80% Not stated $1,000 Sim funded Reported
My Funded Futures 90% Not stated $500 Sim funded Reported
My Funded Futures 90% Not stated $500 Sim funded Reported
Top One Trader 80% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
Top One Trader 60% Not stated Not stated Sim funded Reported
Top One Trader 90% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
Top One Trader 90% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
Maven Trading 70% On demand Not stated Sim funded Reported
Maven Trading 80% Every 10 days Not stated Sim funded Reported
FundingPips 80% Every 1 weeks Not stated Funded Reported
FundingPips 80% Every 2 weeks Not stated Funded Reported
FundingPips 80% Every 2 weeks Not stated Funded Reported
FundingPips 95% Every 2 weeks Not stated Funded Reported
FundedElite 80% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
FundedElite 80% Every 7 days Not stated Funded Reported
ThinkCapital 80% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
ThinkCapital 80% Not stated Not stated Funded Reported
HyroTrader 80% On demand $100 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% On demand $250 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% On demand $1,000 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% On demand $1,500 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% On demand $500 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% On demand $1,000 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% On demand $250 Sim funded Reported
Tradeify 90% Every 5 days $250 Sim funded Reported
Lark Funding 90% Not stated $100 Sim funded Reported
Lark Funding 80% Not stated $100 Funded Reported
AquaFunded 90% On demand $500 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 90% Not stated $500 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 90% Not stated $500 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 90% On demand $500 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 80% On demand $500 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 90% On demand $500 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 100% Every 7 days $250 Sim funded Reported
AquaFunded 90% Every 14 days $100 Sim funded Reported
Crypto Fund Trader 80% Every 15 days Not stated Sim funded Reported
Instant Funding 80% On demand $25 Funded Reported
Instant Funding 80% On demand $25 Funded Reported
Instant Funding 80% Every 7 days $25 Funded Reported

Rows keep grade order. They are deliberately not sorted by payout speed: a fast cadence sitting behind a consistency rule almost nobody passes is not a better term, and ranking on frequency alone would say otherwise.

Verified payouts are a separate and stricter thing: a payout we have requested and received ourselves, end to end. None has been completed yet. When the first one is, it will be published as its own record rather than folded into the table above, because a term a firm publishes and a payout we have actually taken are not the same claim.