True cost

The sticker price lies. Here’s the real one.

True cost to first payout = the evaluation price you actually pay (with code, where verified) + the activation or funded-stage fee waiting after you pass. Ranked cheapest first — every input on the table, so you can audit the math. Cheapest 50K right now: Goat Funded Futures EOD Challenge at $69.

True cost at a glance — checked November 2, 2026

Cheapest verified path to a first payout, by account size: 25K: Tradeify Growth Evaluation — $59.40 · 50K: Goat Funded Futures EOD Challenge — $69 · 100K: Goat Funded Futures EOD Challenge — $132 · 150K: BluSky Trading Propel — $119.

Every total below is built from figures verified against the firms’ own pages and real checkouts. Where a firm doesn’t publish a verifiable activation figure, the plan is not ranked — it’s listed with the reason instead of a guessed number. Download the full table as CSV — all four sizes, ranked and unranked.

42 50K evaluations ranked — cheapest first. 8 more are listed unranked below because their firms don’t publish a verifiable activation figure.

#FirmPlanEval priceActivation / funded-stage feeTrue costBilling
1
Goat Funded Futures logoGoat Funded Futures
EOD Challenge$69
with Code: AUTUMN50
$0 — none$69—
2
FundedNext Futures logoFundedNext Futures
Flex$74.99
with Code: PFL
$0 — none$74.99—
3
Goat Funded Futures logoGoat Funded Futures
Flex Challenge$79
with Code: AUTUMN50
$0 — none$79—
4
Take Profit Trader logoTake Profit Trader
Trading Test$85 (1 month)
with Code: NOFEE50
$0 — none
$130 — waived with Code: NOFEE50
$85Monthly
5
Tradeify logoTradeify
Growth Evaluation$87
with Code: NOV
$0 — none$87—
6
MyFundedFutures logoMyFundedFutures
Builder$92
from with Code: CLUB
$0 — none$92—
7
Topstep logoTopstep
Trading Combine — No Activation Fee$95 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$95Monthly
8
Goat Funded Futures logoGoat Funded Futures
1-Day-Pass Challenge$109
with Code: AUTUMN50
$0 — none$109—
9
BluSky Trading logoBluSky Trading
Propel$112 (1 month)
with Code: PFL
$0 — none$112Every 30 days
10
Lucid Trading logoLucid Trading
LucidFlex$115
list price
$0 — none$115One-time
11
Tradeify logoTradeify
Select Evaluation$115.50
with Code: NOV
$0 — none$115.50—
12
FTMO Futures logoFTMO Futures
Growth$119 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$119Monthly
13
Goat Funded Futures logoGoat Funded Futures
Daily Payouts Challenge$119
with Code: AUTUMN50
$0 — none$119—
14
Lucid Trading logoLucid Trading
LucidDaily$122
list price
$0 — none$122One-time
15
MyFundedFutures logoMyFundedFutures
Rapid (Intraday)$125
with Code: CLUB
$0 — none$125—
16
Alpha Futures logoAlpha Futures
Standard$129 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$129Monthly
17
Blue Guardian Futures logoBlue Guardian Futures
Express$130
list price
$0 — none$130One-time
18
TradeDay logoTradeDay
Quick Pay — Intraday$131 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$131Monthly
19
MyFundedFutures logoMyFundedFutures
Rapid EOD$135
with Code: CLUB
$0 — none$135—
20
Earn2Trade logoEarn2Trade
Gauntlet Mini$136 (1 month)
with Code: PFL
$0 — none$136Monthly
21
FTMO Futures logoFTMO Futures
Pro$139 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$139Monthly
22
Bulenox logoBulenox
Momentum — Trailing (Option 1)$143
list price
$0 — none$143—
23
Bulenox logoBulenox
Momentum — EOD (Option 2)$143
list price
$0 — none$143—
24
BluSky Trading logoBluSky Trading
Launch$49 (1 month)
with Code: PFL
$99
launch fee, due after passing
$148Every 30 days
25
Earn2Trade logoEarn2Trade
Trader Career Path$152 (1 month)
with Code: PFL
$0 — none$152Monthly
26
MyFundedFutures logoMyFundedFutures
Pro$159
with Code: CLUB
$0 — none$159—
27
FundedNext Futures logoFundedNext Futures
Rapid Pro$159.99
with Code: PFL
$0 — none$159.99—
28
Alpha Futures logoAlpha Futures
Zero$169 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$169Monthly
29
FundedNext Futures logoFundedNext Futures
Rapid Daily$169.99
with Code: PFL
$0 — none$169.99—
30
Lucid Trading logoLucid Trading
LucidPro$172
list price
$0 — none$172One-time
31
TradeDay logoTradeDay
Quick Pay — EOD$175 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$175Monthly
32
TradeDay logoTradeDay
Fast Pass — EOD$189 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$189Monthly
33
Topstep logoTopstep
Trading Combine — Standard$49 (1 month)
list price
$149$198Monthly
34
Alpha Futures logoAlpha Futures
Advanced$209 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$209Monthly
35
Blue Guardian Futures logoBlue Guardian Futures
Standard$209
list price
$0 — none$209One-time
36
Blue Guardian Futures logoBlue Guardian Futures
Reserve$210.67
list price
$0 — none$210.67One-time
37
Top One Futures logoTop One Futures
Elite Daily V2$218 (1 month)
list price
$0 — none$218Monthly
38
Top One Futures logoTop One Futures
Elite Access$39
entry fee
$189$228One-time entry
39
Elite Trader Funding logoElite Trader Funding
1-Step Evaluations$207 (1 month)
list price
$177
one-time (or $87/mo)
$384Monthly
40
Elite Trader Funding logoElite Trader Funding
Static Evaluations$497
list price
$297$794—
41
Apex Trader Funding logoApex Trader Funding
Intraday Trail — No Activation Fee$799
list price
$0 — none$799One-time
42
Apex Trader Funding logoApex Trader Funding
EOD Trail — No Activation Fee$1,190
list price
$0 — none$1,190One-time

50K plans we could not rank — and why

A total is only honest if every component is published. These 50K evaluations charge an activation or funded-stage fee whose figure we cannot verify, so they are listed here instead of ranked with a guessed number:

DayTraders logoDayTraders
Trail$70Applies — firm’s own pages conflict ($5 / $99 / $130) — so no honest total exists yet.
DayTraders logoDayTraders
EOD$105Applies — firm’s own pages conflict ($5 / $99 / $130) — so no honest total exists yet.
DayTraders logoDayTraders
Static$50Applies — firm’s own pages conflict ($5 / $99 / $130) — so no honest total exists yet.
BluSky Trading logoBluSky Trading
Orbit$139.30See firm page — so no honest total exists yet.
Apex Trader Funding logoApex Trader Funding
Intraday Trail — Standard$249Applies — amount on firm site — so no honest total exists yet.
Apex Trader Funding logoApex Trader Funding
EOD Trail — Standard$590Applies — amount on firm site — so no honest total exists yet.
Elite Trader Funding logoElite Trader Funding
End-of-Day Evaluations$347Applies — amount by size, not published — so no honest total exists yet.
Bulenox logoBulenox
Qualification (classic)$175Applies — figures not published — so no honest total exists yet.

Read this before you quote the ranking

Monthly plans at one month. The ranking assumes the fastest possible pass. A second month on a subscription plan adds a full month at list price once any first-month code expires — Earn2Trade’s Code: PFL, for example, is 20% off the first month only (verified Nov 2, 2026).

Apex is ranked at list. Apex runs a 90%-off code (SAVENOW) but sets per-plan prices inside its checkout picker, which we have not verified plan-by-plan — so its no-activation lines are ranked at their published list prices and would very likely cost far less at checkout today. Its Standard lines sit unranked: the activation fee applies, but Apex doesn’t publish the amount.

“From” prices. MyFundedFutures Builder shows a “from” with-code price in the firm’s own data; it is ranked at that figure and flagged in the table.

Elite Trader Funding’s activation. ETF publishes its funded activation as a one-time figure for some sizes ($177 for 25K–50K 1-Step; $297 for 50K Static) and an $87/mo option. Where no one-time figure is published for a size, the ranking uses the $87/mo figure and says so on the row.

Instant and direct-funded accounts aren’t in this ranking — there’s no evaluation to cost. Compare every plan, including those, in the all-plans table, and see the week’s verified discounts on the Deals page.