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Prop firm matcher

Every other prop comparison hands you a filter table and assumes you already know what daily drawdown you need. Answer six questions instead and we will score 33 firms on fit, then show you the closest one — with the reasons against it, not just for it.

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What do you actually trade?

Firms differ most here. A futures specialist and a forex specialist are not interchangeable.

Scored on fit only. Whether a firm pays us a commission contributes nothing to its score — see our methodology.

How does the prop firm matcher work?

Answer six questions — what you trade, how you want to get funded, what you can lose on the evaluation fee, how often you need paying, which platform, and whether you have run a challenge before — and the matcher scores every firm in our public catalog on fit and shows the closest one with its specific trade-offs. The score is fit-only: whether a firm pays us commission contributes nothing to it. Your top match and its cautions are shown without an email.

Why a quiz and not a filter table

A filter table is the right tool when you already know your constraints. Most people arriving at a prop comparison do not: they know what they trade and roughly what they can afford to lose, and the difference between a 4% and a 5% daily drawdown means nothing to them yet. Handing that person twelve sliders produces a confident-looking choice made on the wrong basis.

So the matcher asks about the things you can actually answer — instrument, budget, payout cadence, platform, experience — and does the translation into rule sets for you. If you do want the table, it is still there: compare every firm side by side.

What the score is not

  • Not a quality ranking.A 90 means it fits what you told us, not that it is the best firm in the industry.
  • Not commission-weighted.Partner status contributes zero. Ties break on whether we have reviewed the firm.
  • Not a prediction you will pass.Nothing here changes the arithmetic of the drawdown rule.

Frequently asked

Six weighted criteria: instrument coverage (26%), funding model (20%), evaluation fee against your budget (20%), payout cadence (14%), platform support (14%) and your challenge experience (6%). Each firm is scored from its own published account tables, platform list and payout terms in our catalog. Whether that firm pays us a commission is not an input, and ties break on whether we have published a full review of the firm — never on commission.

No. Your top match, its fit score, the reasons it matched and the cautions against it are all shown immediately. The email gate covers the ranked shortlist of the next three firms and the pre-purchase checklist. We deliberately do not gate the answer itself, or the reasons not to buy.

A two-step evaluation has two phases to clear and is usually the cheapest route to a funded account. A one-step has a single profit target to hit. Instant funding skips the evaluation entirely for a higher upfront fee, and usually a lower profit split or a tighter drawdown. Skipping the evaluation makes sense when your edge is proven and time is the constraint; it is the wrong trade if you are still looking for the edge, because you are paying to skip the part that tells you whether you have one.

Statistically, the daily drawdown rule rather than the profit target. Before buying another evaluation, write the daily loss limit down in currency terms for your account size, set a hard personal stop at half of it, and size positions so three consecutive losing trades cannot reach it. Changing firms without changing that arithmetic produces the same outcome at a new price.

Treat it as simulated capital and an evaluation of your trading against the firm's risk rules, not as a deposit you own. The amount you can lose is the evaluation fee, and you should size that accordingly. Published pass rates across the industry sit in the low tens of percent.

Keep reading

All prop trading firmsThe full catalog with ratings, fees and payout terms.
Challenge rules comparedDrawdown, consistency and news rules side by side — where challenges are actually lost.
Payout termsCadence, first-payout gates and minimum thresholds by firm.
Prop fee optimizerWork out the cheapest route to a given funded size across firms.