Apex Trader Funding vs E8 Markets

Product-level: Apex Trader Funding vs E8 Markets

The table above compares the two firms. This one compares the products you actually buy — 7 of them, each with its own price, split, drawdown rule and source date.

We track 4 Apex Trader Funding products and 3 from E8 Markets that pass the 30-day source-freshness gate, last verified 2026-08-11. These firms sell different instruments — Apex Trader Funding runs futures products and E8 Markets runs CFD — so treat the tables below as a fit comparison, not a like-for-like price race.

E8 Markets is the cheaper route at the one tier both firms sell on the same currency and billing model. At $25K, the cheapest verified route is E8 Signature Forex at $110 (One-time fee), which needs $138 of profit at a 80% split before the fee is back in your pocket.

Apex Trader Funding's own products disagree on 10 terms. On drawdown method it is eod trailing on EOD Trail - Standard and EOD Trail - No Activation Fee, versus trailing on Intraday Trail - Standard and Intraday Trail - No Activation Fee. Which product you buy decides that rule, not which firm you sign with — a firm-level table cannot show this.

Cost to funded, matched by account size

Rule-by-rule, product by product

Each cell shows every value that firm's current products hold. Where a firm disagrees with itself the products are named — those are the rows a firm-level table has to flatten, and the ones that decide whether your strategy is allowed. 10 of 16 rows split this way in this matchup.

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