Compare 7 current products across 4 first-party source pages — funded cost, split, drawdown and payout rules without flattening one product into a firm-wide answer.
Disclosure: We may earn a commission if you sign up via eligible links on this page, at no cost to you. Partnerships never change our scores; partner placements are labelled. How we make money.
Built from product captures checked Oct 20, 2026
Pick Apex Trader Funding if…
Pick FTMO if…
| Fact | Apex Trader Funding | FTMO |
|---|---|---|
| Our score | 8.4/10 | 9.2/10 |
| Lowest $100K fee | $590 (Intraday Trail - No Activation Fee) | €499 (1-Step) |
| Base split | 100% | 80–90% |
| Max loss | — | 10% |
| Earliest first payout | Day 5 (Intraday Trail - Standard) | Day 14 (2-Step) |
| Platforms | Rithmic · Tradovate · WealthCharts | MT5 · MT4 · TradingView · cTrader |
Fees are in different currencies (EUR and USD), so they are shown as published and not ranked against each other.
Available product sources · earliest check Oct 20, 2026
We track 4 Apex Trader Funding products and 3 from FTMO that pass the 30-day source-freshness gate; source checks range from 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-22. These firms sell different instruments — Apex Trader Funding runs futures products and FTMO runs CFD — so treat the tables below as a fit comparison, not a like-for-like price race. Apex Trader Funding offers USD one-time; FTMO offers EUR one-time at this tier. No currency-and-billing class appears on both sides, so we neither convert currencies nor rank a recurring floor against a fixed total.
Compare the 7 source-checked products available here, each with its own fees, split, drawdown and date.
We track 4 Apex Trader Funding products and 3 from FTMO that pass the 30-day source-freshness gate; source checks range from 2026-10-20 to 2026-10-22. These firms sell different instruments — Apex Trader Funding runs futures products and FTMO runs CFD — so treat the tables below as a fit comparison, not a like-for-like price race.
Apex Trader Funding offers USD one-time; FTMO offers EUR one-time at this tier. No currency-and-billing class appears on both sides, so we neither convert currencies nor rank a recurring floor against a fixed total.
FTMO's own products disagree on 11 terms. On evaluation steps it is 1-step on FTMO Challenge: 1-Step, versus 2-step on FTMO Challenge: 2-Step, versus instant funding on FTMO Instant Account. Which product you buy decides that rule, not which firm you sign with — a firm-level table cannot show this.
Not in the cost tables: Apex Trader Funding EOD Trail - Standard and Intraday Trail - Standard. The latest capture records no complete entry price for them, so they are not ranked on cost.
Apex Trader Funding offers USD one-time; FTMO offers EUR one-time at this tier. No currency-and-billing class appears on both sides, so we neither convert currencies nor rank a recurring floor against a fixed total.
| Product | Cost to funded | Break-even profit | R-multiple | Days @ 1%/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTMO Challenge: 1-StepFTMO · One-time · 90% split | €199Published fee (EUR) | €221at 90% split | — | — |
| FTMO Challenge: 2-StepFTMO · One-time · 80% split | €250Published fee (EUR) | €313at 80% split | — | — |
| FTMO Instant AccountFTMO · One-time · 90% split | €749Published fee (EUR) | €832at 90% split | — | — |
| Intraday Trail - No Activation FeeApex Trader Funding · One-time · 100% split | $690Fee + tier activation | $690at 100% split | 0.69vs $1,000 tier max loss | — |
| EOD Trail - No Activation FeeApex Trader Funding · One-time · 100% split | $1,090Fee + tier activation | $1,090at 100% split | 1.09vs $1,000 tier max loss | 5 |
R-multiple is break-even profit divided by that product's own maximum permitted loss — under 1.00 means you can lose more than you need to make to win the fee back. Day count assumes 1% account growth per day, capped by the product's own daily loss limit. Blank cells are figures the firm does not publish.
Apex Trader Funding offers USD one-time; FTMO offers EUR one-time at this tier. No currency-and-billing class appears on both sides, so we neither convert currencies nor rank a recurring floor against a fixed total.
| Product | Cost to funded | Break-even profit | R-multiple | Days @ 1%/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTMO Challenge: 1-StepFTMO · One-time · 90% split | €319Published fee (EUR) | €354at 90% split | — | — |
| FTMO Challenge: 2-StepFTMO · One-time · 80% split | €345Published fee (EUR) | €431at 80% split | — | — |
| FTMO Instant AccountFTMO · One-time · 90% split | €1,499Published fee (EUR) | €1,666at 90% split | — | — |
| Intraday Trail - No Activation FeeApex Trader Funding · One-time · 100% split | $490Fee + tier activation | $490at 100% split | 0.24vs $2,000 tier max loss | — |
| EOD Trail - No Activation FeeApex Trader Funding · One-time · 100% split | $1,190Fee + tier activation | $1,190at 100% split | 0.59vs $2,000 tier max loss | 3 |
R-multiple is break-even profit divided by that product's own maximum permitted loss — under 1.00 means you can lose more than you need to make to win the fee back. Day count assumes 1% account growth per day, capped by the product's own daily loss limit. Blank cells are figures the firm does not publish.
Apex Trader Funding offers USD one-time; FTMO offers EUR one-time at this tier. No currency-and-billing class appears on both sides, so we neither convert currencies nor rank a recurring floor against a fixed total.
| Product | Cost to funded | Break-even profit | R-multiple | Days @ 1%/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTMO Challenge: 1-StepFTMO · One-time · 90% split | €499Published fee (EUR) | €554at 90% split | — | — |
| FTMO Challenge: 2-StepFTMO · One-time · 80% split | €540Published fee (EUR) | €675at 80% split | — | — |
| FTMO Instant AccountFTMO · One-time · 90% split | €2,999Published fee (EUR) | €3,332at 90% split | — | — |
| Intraday Trail - No Activation FeeApex Trader Funding · One-time · 100% split | $590Fee + tier activation | $590at 100% split | 0.20vs $3,000 tier max loss | — |
| EOD Trail - No Activation FeeApex Trader Funding · One-time · 100% split | $1,590Fee + tier activation | $1,590at 100% split | 0.53vs $3,000 tier max loss | 2 |
R-multiple is break-even profit divided by that product's own maximum permitted loss — under 1.00 means you can lose more than you need to make to win the fee back. Day count assumes 1% account growth per day, capped by the product's own daily loss limit. Blank cells are figures the firm does not publish.
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. 11 of 16 rows split this way in this matchup.
| Term | Apex Trader Funding | FTMO |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation steps | 1-step | 1-stepFTMO Challenge: 1-Step 2-stepFTMO Challenge: 2-Step Instant fundingFTMO Instant Account |
| Profit split | 100% | 90%FTMO Challenge: 1-Step, FTMO Instant Account 80%FTMO Challenge: 2-Step |
| Drawdown method | EOD trailingEOD Trail - Standard, EOD Trail - No Activation Fee TrailingIntraday Trail - Standard, Intraday Trail - No Activation Fee | EOD trailingFTMO Challenge: 1-Step StaticFTMO Challenge: 2-Step TrailingFTMO Instant Account |
| Daily loss cap | Fixed $ per tierEOD Trail - Standard, EOD Trail - No Activation Fee Not publishedIntraday Trail - Standard, Intraday Trail - No Activation Fee | 3%FTMO Challenge: 1-Step, FTMO Instant Account 5%FTMO Challenge: 2-Step |
| Max loss cap | Fixed $ per tier | 10% |
| Funded drawdown | EOD trailingEOD Trail - Standard, EOD Trail - No Activation Fee TrailingIntraday Trail - Standard, Intraday Trail - No Activation Fee | EOD trailingFTMO Challenge: 1-Step StaticFTMO Challenge: 2-Step TrailingFTMO Instant Account |
| Min trading days | 0 | UnverifiedFTMO Challenge: 1-Step, FTMO Instant Account 4FTMO Challenge: 2-Step |
| Max trading dayssame | Unverified | Unverified |
| Consistency rule | Unverified | 30%FTMO Instant Account 50%FTMO Challenge: 1-Step UnverifiedFTMO Challenge: 2-Step |
| First payout after | 5 days | 14 daysFTMO Challenge: 2-Step, FTMO Challenge: 1-Step Not publishedFTMO Instant Account |
| Payout frequency | Weekly | On demandFTMO Challenge: 2-Step, FTMO Challenge: 1-Step Not publishedFTMO Instant Account |
| News trading | Conditional | ConditionalFTMO Challenge: 2-Step, FTMO Challenge: 1-Step Not publishedFTMO Instant Account |
| Weekend holding | Not allowed | Conditional |
| Overnight holding | Not allowed | Conditional |
| EAs / algos | Not allowed | ConditionalFTMO Challenge: 2-Step, FTMO Challenge: 1-Step Not publishedFTMO Instant Account |
| Copy trading | Conditional | Not published |
Apex moved new purchases to 4 one-time evaluation paths
Older Apex reviews can describe a different billing and drawdown structure. Match the exact product shown at checkout, verify the dynamic fee, and note that the current evaluation may pass in one day without a minimum-day rule.
Every figure above is read from these pages. Products older than 30 days are removed from the comparison until they are recaptured, so a missing product means stale data, not a discontinued plan.
These directory fields describe the firms, not a universal product rule. The sourced product tables above decide the exact fee, split, drawdown and trading conditions. Directory context is not independently refreshed by this comparison; verify platform and payment availability for the exact programme and country.
Scored out of 5 by Trustpilot users, not by us. Where Trustpilot has pulled a firm's aggregate rating we say so rather than leaving a blank.
These links are selected by asset and platform overlap, then limited to matchups where both sides have current first-party product evidence.
8 current products · 2 first-party source pages · checked Oct 22, 2026
Open comparison7 current products · 2 first-party source pages · checked Oct 22, 2026
Open comparison7 current products · 7 first-party source pages · checked Oct 21, 2026
Open comparison13 current products · 10 first-party source pages · checked Oct 21, 2026
Open comparisonBrowse pairs with current product sources, or open the full firm directory. Missing comparison evidence does not mean a firm has closed.
