Detailed Comparison: FundedNext vs Goat Funded Trader (2025)

Office No. 7, AI Robotics HUB, C1 Building, AFZ, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

The Sotheby Building, Ground Floor, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, SW18 1TA, St. Lucia

Abdullah Jayed

United Arab Emirates

St. Lucia

2022

2023

Registration (or reset) fee is refunded after the first payout. Applies to all accounts except Stellar Lite, where the fee is refunded after the third payout.

Full refund after 4th payout

3.5%

• Stellar 1-Step: Every 5 business days
• Stellar 2-Step and Stellar Lite — reward structure chosen at checkout:
  • Standard: First payout after 21 days, then every 14 days. No additional conditions.
  • 3-Day Performance Reward: Payout every 3 days after completing 3 profitable days in the cycle, each with at least 1% profit.
  • On-Demand Performance Reward: Payout on demand after reaching 2% account growth and maintaining 40% consistency.
• Stellar Instant: On-demand from day 1 (minimum 5% profit)

• Biweekly
• Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
• Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
• Instant Premium: every 10 days
• Instant HERO: every 14 days

Brand Promise: Guaranteed Performance Reward within 24 hours, or get $1,000 extra.

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

• USDT, USDC: $1,000

For the first two reward requests, traders can withdraw a maximum of 6% of the initial account balance.

• USDT: $20
• USDC, Rise: $50

$100

• 2-Step, Lite: 25:1 (Challenge) / 15:1 (Funded)
• 1-Step: 15:1 (Challenge) / 10:1 (Funded)
• Instant: 7.5:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• 2-Step, Lite: 25:1 (Challenge) / 15:1 (Funded)
• 1-Step: 15:1 (Challenge) / 10:1 (Funded)
• Instant: 7.5:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• 2-Step, Lite: 25:1 (Challenge) / 15:1 (Funded)
• 1-Step: 10:1 (Challenge / Funded)
• Instant: 5:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

2:1

• Evaluation phases: 5:1
• Funded phase: 5:1

• Evaluation phases: 100:1
• Funded phase: 50:1

• Evaluation phases: 2:1
• Funded phase: 2:1

All evaluation accounts can be reset for a fee. Reset discount: 10% off challenge price on Stellar 1-Step / 2-Step / Instant, 5% off on Stellar Lite.

If you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

• Swap-Free (+10%)
• 95% Profit Split (+30%)
• No minium trading days (+20)
• 150% Refund (+10%)
• Biweekly payout (+25%)
• 10% Max Drawdown (+25%)
• Double up: Purchase two identical accounts and receive a 60% discount on the second account
• EA (+5%)
• VPS (+5%)

• Payout On Demand (+15%)
• 100% Profit Split (+20%)
• Both add-ons (+30%)

Success Benchmarks

To trigger your first scaling event, you must meet the following Success Benchmarks:

• Proven Track Record: Successfully received a minimum of 4 Performance Rewards.
• Growth Benchmark: Demonstrate a minimum of 4% growth within each of those 4 payout cycles.
• Maturity Milestone: Maintain an active and disciplined presence for at least 2 months.
• Account Status: Finish the most recent cycle with a positive result and all positions closed before requesting the scale-up.

Pro Trader Privileges

Once you become a Pro Trader, you unlock the following privileges:

• Exponential Growth: A 25% increase in your simulated capital for every qualifying cycle, up to a maximum of $4 Million.
• Extra Performance Reward: A 15% retroactive reward from the profits earned during your Challenge phase (exclusive to Stellar 1-Step and 2-Step accounts).
• Bonus Account: Receive a $100K Stellar Lite Challenge Account completely free to diversify your portfolio.
• Loyalty Discount: Exclusive 12% discount on all your new account purchases.
• Pro Distinction: Official designation as a "FundedNext Pro Trader".

• Stellar 2-Step, Stellar 1-Step, Stellar Lite: Static
• Stellar Instant: 6% trailing. It rises with profits, never falls, is capped at the initial account balance and does not reset after a payout.

• 1-Step, 2-Step, 3-Step: Static
• Instant Funding: Trailing
• Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward

• Stellar 1-Step: 80%

• Stellar 2-Step and Stellar Lite: 80% with Standard, 60% with 3-Day Performance Reward, or 90% with On-Demand Performance Reward. The reward structure is chosen at checkout.

• Eligible Stellar accounts can reach up to 95% under the scaling plan.

• Instant: 70% on tier 1 and 2, 80% on tier 3 and above

• Stellar 2-Step and Stellar 1-Step: 15% of the profits from the evaluation phases after achieving 10% profit in the funded account

Profit split varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

Balance-based

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

• Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.

300,000

For traders in Cambodia, Mongolia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Pakistan, FundedNext allows a Maximum Allocation of $50,000 across their accounts.

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

• Stellar Lite, and Stellar 2-Step evaluation phases: 5 days
• Stellar 1-Step evaluation phase: 2 days
• Funded phase in all accounts: 0 days

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

FundedNext’s Infinity Points Program rewards traders for their activity on the platform. By completing various actions, users collect Infinity Points that can be exchanged for discount coupons on FundedNext Challenges. The program recognizes trader participation while offering savings and added value to their trading journey.

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

• You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
• Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
• There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.

Unlimited

• 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
• 5 days with 0.5% profit on all Instant Funding accounts
• Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)

EA Add-on required

EA Add-on required

Funded accounts only: minimum holding time of 1 minute for purchases from 6 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC; 2 minutes for earlier purchases, including their resets. Funded accounts follow the original challenge purchase date. Profits from shorter trades are excluded from payouts; losses still count. This is not an account breach. Evaluation accounts are exempt.

3%

• Instant HERO: 1% maximum floating loss; breach closes the account.
• The firm may impose a 1% risk-per-trade-idea limit after excessive risk-taking.

Allowed between your own GFT accounts: funded to funded, challenge to challenge, and challenge to funded in either direction. Applies to existing and new accounts. Copying other traders, or copying between GFT and personal broker accounts or accounts at another prop firm, is prohibited.

Only 40% of the profit from trades during this window will be counted toward your account balance. This applies to trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before and after a listed high-impact news event.

El beneficio máximo por cualquier operación que se abra o cierre dos minutos antes o después de un evento noticioso de alto impacto (según la designación de ForexFactory.com) está restringido al 1% del saldo de apertura de la cuenta.

Accounts (both Challenge and FundedNext) inactive for 60 consecutive calendar days are marked inactive. A warning email is sent first; if no trade is placed within 24 hours of the warning, the account is deactivated. Stellar Challenge Accounts can be reset to continue; FundedNext Accounts cannot. KYC verification must be completed within 30 days post-challenge.

30 Days

• Instant Goat: A single day cannot represent more than 15% of your total earnings when requesting a withdrawal.
• Instant Pro: A single day cannot represent more than 20% of your total earnings when requesting a withdrawal.
• Instant Premium: no consistency rule.
• Instant HERO: no single day can represent 15% or more of total profits during a payout period.

• Hyperactivity
• Latency Trading
• Copy Trading from Others
• Any form of Arbitrage Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Grid Trading
• One-sided Betting
• Account Sharing
• Hedging or Group Hedging
• Use of Guaranteed Profit with Limit Orders
• Use of Platform or Data Freezing Due to Demo Server Errors

• All or nothing
• Exploit broker/platform errors
• Use insider/non-public info
• Front-run other trades
• Excessively risky strategies
• Hedging across accounts
• Third-party EAs/strategies
• Switch strategies post-assessment
• Martingale/grid strategies banned