Detailed Comparison: Funding Traders vs FundingPips (2025)

IFZA Business Park DDP Dubai U.A.E.

901 Pennsylvania Ave Suite #3-440, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Khaled Ayesh

Stan

United Arab Emirates

United States

Liquidity Provider

1 and 2 Step: Full refund with first payout

• 2-Step Pro: Refund bonus on first payout.
• 1-Step Pro: Refund bonus on second payout.
• Instant Funding: Not eligible for refund bonus.
• 150% Refund Add-On available: receive 150% of challenge fee back after first payout.

$10

• 2-Step Standard: Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly or On Demand
• 2-Step Pro: Weekly or Monthly
• 1 Step Flex and 2-Step Flex: Bi-Weekly or Monthly
• FundingPips Zero: Bi-Weekly
• Prime: Daily, any number of requests
• Labs 247: Daily

Pro accounts

• Default: first payout 21 days after first trade on funded account; subsequent payouts every 21 days.
• With 14-Day Payout Add-On: first payout 14 days after first trade; subsequent every 14 days.

Instant Funded accounts

• First payout 7 days after the first trade on the funded account; subsequent every 7 days.
• With On-Demand Payout Add-On: request payouts any time once eligibility requirements are met.

Minimum payout: $200 via Rise (bank transfer), $50 via Crypto (USDT-ERC20).

Payout requests processed within 2 business days (excluding holidays and weekends). If not, traders receive $1,000 ($500 cash + $500 account credits).

Labs 247: crypto trading and weekend holding are available 24/7 in Evaluation and Master. Other models retain their existing restrictions.

• On Demand payout: 1%
• Tuesday, bi-weekly and montly: 1%
• Prime: 1% of Prime Account size (or Scaled Prime Account Size after scaling)
• Labs 247: 1% of the account size

$200 via Rise / $50 via Crypto

• 1 Step: 30:1
• 2 Step: 100:1
• Zero: 50:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)

• 1 Step: 10:1
• 2 Step: 30:1
• Zero: 20:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

1:20

10:1

• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

Oil: 1:10

• 1 Step: 5:1
• 2 Step, Zero: 20:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

• 1-Step Pro & Instant Funding: 1:20
• 2-Step Pro: 1:15

Labs 247: 5:1

• 1 Step: 1:1
• 2 Step, Zero: 2:1
• Prime: up to 1:2000 (tiered Standard Leverage Plan)
• Labs 247: 5:1

Available as a 'Swap-free, Zero Commissions' add-on for Pro accounts. Removes $3/lot commission and enables swap-free trading.

10% discount for failing during the evaluation phase. Valid for 7 days and only for accounts of the same model and size (FundingPips Zero excluded).

Revive Feature (2-Step Pro, Phase 1 only)

Continue your Phase 1 challenge from the progress already achieved instead of restarting. Available only if the account was in overall profit at the moment of breach. Available for 48 hours after breach, one-time use only.

Cost = Paid account price + (Paid account price × % of profit target achieved).

Restrictions

• Only available in Phase 1 (not Phase 2)
• Only one recovery action per account (Revive OR Reset, not both)
• If the account fails again after using Revive or Reset, the account is permanently failed
• Using Revive removes payout refund eligibility

cTrader (+20%)
Swing: overnight and weekend holding on Master accounts for 1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Flex; selected at purchase

• Swap-free, Zero Commissions (Pro accounts)
• 14-Day Payout (Pro accounts)
• 100% Profit Split
• 30% Consistency Score
• 30% News Trading (Pro accounts)
• Hold Through News, 15% (Instant Funded only)
• On-Demand Payout (Instant Funded only)
• Double-Up (free second challenge upon funding)
• 150% Refund
• Daily Drawdown Shield, 20% (evaluation only; one Daily Loss Limit breach does not fail the account)
• No Minimum Trading Days, 25% (1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro6/Pro10; removes the requirement at every stage)

Level 1 – Launchpad (Novice)

Requires 4 payouts and 10% profit. Grants +20% capital and +1% drawdown.

Level 2 – Ascender (Intermediate)

Requires 8 payouts and 20% profit. Grants +30% capital, +2% total max drawdown, and +1% daily drawdown.

Level 3 – Trailblazer (Advanced)

Requires 12 payouts and 30% profit. Grants +40% capital and 13% max drawdown.

Level 4 – Hot Seat (Elite)

Requires 16 payouts and 40% profit. Doubles initial balance, offers 100% reward split, on-demand payouts, up to $2M capital, and monthly bonuses.

Level 5 – Elite Trader Status (Advanced Hot Seat)

Unlocks advanced tools, +1% additional max drawdown (4% total cumulative), +1% additional daily drawdown (2% total), customized trading conditions, and monthly bonuses based on initial account size ($100–$500).

Prime

The first four scale-ups require +5% total profit; from the fifth onward, +10%, measured against the starting size of the current level. Required profitable days: none for the first scale-up, 2 for the second and third, 4 for the fourth, and 10 from the fifth onward. Each profitable day must close at +1% or more of the account size; the counter resets after each scale-up. Each scale-up adds +10% to the current level's starting size, up to $2M. At Level 10 or $2M: Certified FundingPips Trader status, listed on the Tradin Investor Marketplace with 20% profit share on investor capital.

Labs 247 → Prime

After 5 rewards or $20,000 in total rewards across one or all Labs 247 accounts, the trader becomes eligible for an invitation to a $50,000 Prime account. The Labs 247 accounts close when the trader moves to Prime.

Account grows by 25% (of original balance) every 2 consecutive profitable months with at least 8% total profit. Maximum account size: $2,000,000. Extra +25% bonus after 3 months active.

• 1 Step Flex, 2 Step: Static
• Zero: Trailing
• Prime: 8% static below the starting balance; recalculated only after a scale-up
• Labs 247: 4% static in Evaluation and Master

• 1-Step Pro: 10% trailing. Trails higher as account balance increases.
• 2-Step Pro PRO6: 6% static. Fixed, does not trail.
• 2-Step Pro PRO10: 10% static. Fixed, does not trail.
• Instant Funding: 6% trailing until 3% profit is made, then locks at initial account size.

Reward split depends on the selected reward cycle and account configuration.

• 2-Step Standard: Weekly (60%), Bi-Weekly, On Demand (90%) or Monthly (100%)
• 2-Step Pro: Weekly or Monthly (100%)
• 1 Step Flex: Bi-Weekly or Monthly (100%)
• 2-Step Flex: Bi-Weekly, with an alternative 95% split selected at purchase at the same price, or Monthly (100%)
• FundingPips Zero: fixed Bi-Weekly cycle
• Prime: 80%, Daily, any number of requests
• Labs 247: Daily

The Monthly cycle requires consistency and profitable days. Earlier purchases retain their legacy conditions.

80% default profit split (trader/firm 80/20) on all account types.

• 90% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on
• 100% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on

Free $1,000 Try Out on the 1-Step Pro, not available from the regular sign-up. TheGodFunded users can claim it here: get your free Try Out. New users only, one per person, MT5. Passing it gives a real funded account with an 80% split and a $500 lifetime payout cap.

Higher of the opening balance or equity for the trading day

• Prime: 3% (soft breach, pauses trading for the rest of the day, account stays open, resumes at 00:00 UTC+3)
• Labs 247: 2% of the starting balance in Evaluation and Master

• 1-Step Pro: 3%. Based on starting day's balance.
• 2-Step Pro PRO6: 3%. Based on starting day's balance.
• 2-Step Pro PRO10: 5%. Based on starting day's balance.
• Instant Funding: 3%. Based on higher of starting day's balance or equity.

• Pro accounts: Maximum $300,000 in funded accounts.
• Instant Funded: Capped at $400,000 across all instant funded accounts.
• Unlimited evaluation accounts allowed.

Labs 247: maximum 5 accounts per user. These accounts are separate from the standard capital allocation.

A Master account can only be merged with another Master account from the same evaluation model.

Merging accounts is not supported in the FundingPips Zero Model.

• Prime Accounts: any Prime accounts can merge, regardless of the originating model. Request through the dashboard; the resulting account takes the higher of the two scale-up levels. Merged size respects the $2M maximum.

• Only for funded accounts.
• Both accounts must have the same payout schedule and profit split.
• Accounts must not have been traded and must be at initial balance.

Labs 247: 6 months for the Evaluation phase and a separate 6-month period for the Master account.

No limit

New purchases and resets from 28 September 2026:

• 2-Step Standard: 3 trading days per evaluation phase; no minimum with the 3% daily-loss configuration
• 2-Step Pro: no minimum trading days
• 1 Step Flex: no minimum trading days
• 2-Step Flex: 1 trading day per phase on the standard reward configuration; the alternative configuration requires profitable days
• Labs 247: no minimum trading days
  Earlier purchases retain their legacy conditions.

• 1-Step Pro: 2 trading days (challenge and funded)
• 2-Step Pro: 4 trading days per phase (8 total for challenge), 2 trading days funded
• Instant Funding: No minimum
• Optional No Minimum Trading Days add-on: removes these requirements at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro6/Pro10; +25% of base price

FT Points and Challenge Convert let KYC-verified traders use an approved payout to buy a new account immediately or convert it into points for a later purchase. $1 of payout converts to 2.2 FT Points; each point covers $1 of listed account price, an effective 55% discount. The conversion is final; any unused payout balance follows the normal payout method.

Participant Limit: Up to 50,000 participants. Registration closes once full.

Prizes

• 1st: 100K Evaluation + $1,500
• 2nd: 100K Evaluation + $1,200
• 3rd: 100K Evaluation + $1,000
• 4th: 100K Evaluation
• 5th: 50K Evaluation
• 6th–10th: 25K Evaluation
• 11th–20th: 10K Evaluation
• Bonus Prize: 13 random participants (ranked 4th–1000th) receive $100 each.

Rules

• Max loss: 10%
• Daily loss: 5%
• No EAs
• No exploiting unrealistic demo fills
• One account per person

Zero: Minimum of 7 days with 0.25% profit or more by the end of each 30-day period. Failure to meet this requirement will result in a rule violation.

• Monthly reward cycle (1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Flex): 7 profitable days per cycle, each with at least 0.5% of the starting Master account size; the count resets after each reward
• 2-Step Flex alternative reward configuration: 3 profitable days per evaluation phase and per Bi-Weekly Master reward cycle, each with at least 0.5% of the starting account size

2-Step Pro (PRO6 and PRO10)

• Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
• Phase 2 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
• Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days

1-Step

• Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 2 trading days
• Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days

Instant Funded

• No minimum trading days requirement.

Optional add-on

• No Minimum Trading Days removes the requirement at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro6/Pro10; +25% of base price.

Default rule (third-party EAs): Permitted ONLY when used strictly as a trade or risk manager. Any other use of a third-party EA = denial of evaluation/reward and account closure.

Personal EA Exception
Full automation allowed only with proof of ownership of the EA code.

Account-type exceptions

• 1K Instant Account: third-party EAs and trade copiers permitted (full automation OK).
• Monthly Competition: ALL EAs prohibited (including personal with proof).

EAs and Bots permitted ONLY if focused on risk management (e.g. position size calculators, auto position size execution bots).

Not allowed

• Off-the-shelf EAs purchased/downloaded online (unless solely for risk management)
• EAs that automatically place trades (unless developed personally by the trader)
• Grid Trading EAs/Bots
• Hedge Trading EAs/Bots

AI-generated EAs
Allowed if the trader fully understands the code (strategy, entry/exit logic, risk parameters) and can explain it to the Risk Team.

There is a limit on simultaneous open lots:

• $5K–$10K: no limit
• $25K: 10 lots
• $50K: 20 lots
• $100K or more (including merged accounts): maximum 40 lots

Penalties

• 1st violation: warning
• 2nd violation: removal of excess profits, reward reduced to 30%, and account closure

1 Step Flex, 2-Step Flex, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Standard

Risk Per Trade Idea and the Striking System are removed in Evaluation and Master for new purchases from 28 September 2026. Earlier purchases retain their legacy conditions.

• Pro accounts: Maximum 2% risk per trade idea (of initial balance).
• Instant Funding: Maximum 1% floating PnL loss (of initial balance, all active trades combined).
• Instant Funding lot size limit: 20 lots per trade maximum.

Permitted

• Copying trades between your own FundingPips accounts (registered under same individual).
• Using your FundingPips account as MASTER to copy to external accounts (as slave).

Prohibited

• Copying between FundingPips accounts of different users.
• Coordinated trading across master accounts not owned by same individual.
• Inbound copy trading (external source as master, FundingPips as slave).
• Third-party account management (immediate termination).

Allowed: copy trading between your own FundingTraders Pro accounts; copying trades from your own accounts on other brokers/firms into your FundingTraders account.

Not allowed: copying trades from accounts owned by other traders; sharing signals with other traders.

Evaluation Stage (1 Step, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Flex, 2 Step Pro)
No restrictions on holding trades during news events. Purposely trading news = account closure.

Master Account (1 Step, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Flex, 2 Step Pro)
Trades opened/closed within 5 minutes before/after a high-impact (red folder) news event have their FULL profit deducted, UNLESS the trade was executed 5+ hours before the event.
Speech window: 5 min before speech start to 5 min after speech end.

FundingPips Zero
HARD BREACH if any position is opened/closed/held within 10 minutes before/after a high-impact news event on affected currencies.
Speech window: 10 min before speech start to 10 min after speech end.

Labs 247
Evaluation: news trading is allowed on every instrument.
Master: profits may be deducted from trades opened or closed 5 minutes before or after high-impact news affecting the corresponding currency. For high-impact speeches, the window runs from 10 minutes before the speech begins until 10 minutes after it ends. Trades opened at least 5 hours before the event are exempt.

Challenge phase

• News trading fully permitted, no restrictions.

Funded phase — Pro accounts

• News trading allowed but max 30% of total profits can come from news-influenced trades.
• News Trade window: 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after high-impact (Red Folder) event.
• If the 30% limit is exceeded, payout processing is delayed until additional trades bring the percentage back under the limit.
• Trades held for 5+ hours before a high-impact news release are NOT considered News Trades.

Funded phase — Instant Funded accounts

• News trading is strictly prohibited by default: having any open trades during a high-impact news event results in account termination.
• Timing restriction: no opening, closing or triggering pending orders within 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after a high-impact news event (10-minute window). Applies even with the add-on.
• Optional Hold Through News (15% Add-On): allows positions opened outside the 10-minute window to be held through high-impact events without breaching the account.

30 consecutive days without completed trades results in hard breach. Applies to all account types including Master accounts.

The 30-day inactivity period begins on the day the account is purchased, not from last activity. If no trades are placed within this period, the account is automatically failed for inactivity and permanently closed (no restoration). Applies to Challenge and Funded accounts.

• On Demand (2-Step Standard): no single trading day may account for more than 35% of total profit
• Monthly (1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Flex): 35% consistency score, reset after each reward
• Bi-Weekly (FundingPips Zero): 15% consistency score; the biggest losing day cannot exceed the biggest winning day
• Bi-Weekly (1 Step Flex and 2-Step Flex): no consistency score
• Profit Concentration Policy: removed for new purchases from 28 September 2026; qualifying legacy accounts retain their existing conditions
• Labs 247: no consistency rule in Evaluation or Master

Pro accounts (1-Step & 2-Step)

Default: Largest profit day must not exceed 50% of total profits. With 30% Consistency Score Add-On: threshold increases to 30%.

Instant Funding

Largest profit day must not exceed 15% of total profits.

1 Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro and 2-Step Flex
Evaluation: overnight and weekend holding allowed on all instruments.
Master: overnight and weekend holding require the Swing add-on selected at purchase. Without Swing, positions are automatically closed each trading day; this is not an account breach and does not count as a valid trading day.

FundingPips Zero
Weekend holding is a hard breach on Master accounts. Close all positions before Friday market close, including crypto.

Prime
Weekend holding allowed.

Labs 247
Trading and weekend holding allowed 24/7 in Evaluation and Master.

Weekend holding permitted on all account types (Pro and Instant Funded). Positions can be held across the weekend on all instruments, including crypto. No forced Friday flatten. Gap risk and widened spreads around the Asian open still apply; swap fees still charged.

• Gap trading
• High-frequency trading
• Server spamming
• Latency arbitrage
• Toxic trading flow
• Hedging
• Long-short arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Tick scalping
• Server execution
• Opposite account trading

• Grid trading (3+ positions same pair/direction)
• Hedge trading
• Arbitrage, latency trading
• High-frequency trading (trades ≤15 seconds)
• Reverse trading across accounts
• Account rolling/stacking (risking all on multiple accounts)
• Overleveraged trades (>30% margin on single trade)
• One-sided trading (stacking positions to hit targets)