How Much Does a Prop Firm Passing Service Cost? (2026 Pricing)

A prop firm passing service runs your evaluation for you. You buy the challenge in your own name, hand over the trading credentials, someone else trades it until it passes, and you keep the funded account. Prices run from a few hundred euro to several thousand depending on account size, and the structure of the deal matters more than the headline number.

This page covers what these services actually cost, how the delivery works step by step, the three pricing models and which one leaves you exposed, and the specific things to check before you hand anyone your login.

• Expect roughly 1 to 2 percent of the account size for a single evaluation, on top of the firm's own fee.
• Three pricing models exist: flat fee, profit share, and fee plus share. They are not equivalent.
• The account must stay in your name. If a service wants it in theirs, walk away.
• A dedicated IP per account is the difference between passing and being flagged for account sharing.
• Nobody can guarantee a pass. Any service that does is selling you something else.

What a prop firm passing service costs

Two costs, always. The prop firm's evaluation fee, which you pay directly to the firm, and the service fee. Only the second is negotiable.

The firm's own evaluation fee sits on top and is typically a few hundred euro for a 100K account, depending on firm and promotion. Budget both. Full terms and the current packages are on our prop firm challenge passing service page.

Run the comparison honestly before you buy. A 100K funded account paying out at a standard split returns the combined cost quickly if it performs, and returns nothing at all if it does not. The service fee is a cost you carry whether or not the funded account later makes money, because passing an evaluation and running a funded account profitably are two different problems.

The three pricing models

Flat fee

You pay once and keep everything the funded account produces. The service carries the work; you carry the risk that the funded account underperforms. This is what we sell, and the reason is simple: it is the only model where the incentive after the pass stays with you.

Profit share

No fee, or a small one, and the service takes a percentage of your payouts indefinitely. It looks cheaper on day one. Over a funded account's life it is usually the most expensive option by a wide margin, and it gives a third party an ongoing financial interest in an account registered in your name.

Fee plus share

Both. Common, and the one to read most carefully, because the share is often described in the checkout page rather than the headline.

How it works, step by step

1. You pick the package. 100K, 2 × 100K, or 4 × 100K. Compatible with FTMO, FundedNext, FXIFY and the other major firms.
2. You buy the challenge in your own name. Your identity, your KYC, your payout details. This is not a detail, it is the whole basis of your claim to the account.
3. You hand over trading credentials only. The trading login, never the dashboard or withdrawal credentials.
4. We set it up on a dedicated IP. One IP per account. Firms flag accounts sharing an IP as account sharing, which is a terminable breach, so this is not an optimisation, it is a requirement.
5. It runs until it passes. If an evaluation fails within the rules, it is re-run. That is what "until passed" means and it is the term to check in writing with any provider.
6. You collect the funded account. You change the password, the account is yours, and we take no share of your payouts.

What to check before handing over a login

• Whose name is on the account? Yours, always. A service that buys the challenge itself and promises to transfer it later is selling you an account you cannot claim.
• What credentials do they want? Trading login only. There is no legitimate reason for a passing service to hold your dashboard login or your withdrawal method.
• Dedicated IP, or shared? Ask directly. If they run many clients from one IP, the firm can flag every one of those accounts.
• What happens if it fails? Get the retry terms in writing before paying, including how many retries and who pays the new evaluation fee.
• Is there a profit share, anywhere? Read the checkout page and the terms, not the landing page.
• Do they guarantee a pass? Nobody can. A guarantee means either an undisclosed profit share, a plan to open evaluations until one passes at your cost, or marketing that will not survive contact with the payout review.

How long it takes

Longer than most buyers expect, and the reason is structural rather than sales-related. Every firm imposes a minimum number of trading days, so there is a floor no amount of performance can go under. Above that floor, the time depends entirely on the risk level being run.

We aim for 3 to 5 percent a month on a challenge account. Against a typical 8 to 10 percent profit target that puts a safe pass at roughly three to four months. It can be compressed to around two by raising the risk per trade, and the trade is exactly what it sounds like: a faster pass and a materially higher chance of breaching the drawdown rule instead and starting again.

We will run it either way, but the choice belongs to the buyer and it should be made with the arithmetic visible rather than on a promise. If a provider quotes you two weeks, they are describing a risk level, not an ability.

Does it break the prop firm's rules?

This deserves a straight answer rather than a footnote. Firms prohibit third parties from trading your account. A passing service is, by definition, a third party trading your account. Most services operate in that space and most buyers are not told so plainly.

What follows from that is worth being clear about. The account is in your name, so the consequence of a review lands on you and not on the provider. The realistic exposure is the evaluation fee and the service fee, since a breach at review means the funded account is withdrawn rather than anything worse. Whether that is an acceptable trade is a decision to make with the information, not one to discover afterwards.

What reduces the exposure in practice is unremarkable operational discipline: one dedicated IP per account rather than a shared address, trading behaviour that looks like a person rather than a fleet, and no copying of identical fills across several of your accounts. The last one matters most, because simultaneous identical fills across accounts is the single easiest pattern for a firm to detect in its own data.

What happens after you are funded

This is the part almost nobody plans for, and it is where most of the value of a passed evaluation gets lost. Passing an evaluation and running a funded account profitably are two different problems, and the second one is harder. The rules do not relax once you are funded; on most firms the drawdown limit stays and the consistency rule still applies at payout review.

Three honest options once the account is live:

• Let us keep running it. Our challenge passing service continues on the funded account under a separate agreement, so the same people who passed it keep trading it.
• Trade it yourself. Sensible if you already have a repeatable method and the evaluation was purely a time problem.
• Automate it. The EA Hub at €797 is the same rule-aware software we use on the evaluations, with the drawdown and daily loss controls that keep an account inside the limits. You run it yourself.
• Take the rulebook out of the equation entirely. The JPTC Algo runs on your own account at your own broker, hosted by us. There is no evaluation, no consistency rule and no drawdown limit set by somebody else, because the capital is yours.

Buying a pass and then trading the funded account with no plan is the most common way this purchase ends up costing money rather than making it. Decide which of the three you are doing before you buy, not after the account arrives.

When a passing service is the wrong purchase

If you want to learn to run the system yourself, this is not it. You get a funded account and none of the process that produced it. Buy the software instead: the EA Hub at €797 gives you the same rule-aware automation to run yourself, and the automated forex trading guide covers what that involves operationally.

If you are trying to solve a capital problem rather than a time problem, do the arithmetic first. Between the evaluation fee and the service fee you are spending personal capital to control notional capital under a rule set that can withdraw it. That is a reasonable trade for some traders and a poor one for others, and it depends entirely on what you do with the account after it is funded.