Prop Firm Evaluation Cost Calculator

What is a prop firm evaluation fee?

An evaluation fee is money you pay for an attempt at a programme’s rules. The advertised account size is the simulated or conditional balance inside those rules. It is not cash you can withdraw, and paying the fee does not create a funded account or a payout.

One-time and subscription pricing

A one-time model charges the purchase fee and then stops. A subscription charges a cycle for as long as the scenario says the billing continues. Hybrid charges both. The one-time model on this page ignores a recurring amount you may still have typed, and the subscription model ignores the purchase fee. Switch to hybrid when a programme really uses both.

How subscription renewals are counted

Weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual cycles are counted as whole bills. Billing in advance includes a cycle that starts inside the scenario, and that cycle is charged in full. Billing in arrears includes a cycle only after it has finished, so a short horizon can show no renewal yet. Nothing is prorated. Without a start date, weekly bills use 30-day months and the periods are labelled Week 1 and Month 1. With a start date, the labels are calendar dates, including month-ends and leap years.

Resets, new attempts and activation

A reset restarts the evaluation you already bought, at the reset fee you type. Another attempt buys a new evaluation at the retry price. A subscription renewal is neither of those. Programme rules decide whether a reset is allowed. This page does not assume that a reset extends the subscription or produces a funded account. An activation fee that would follow a pass stays out of the main total until you mark it as already paid. The page still shows the total with that fee added, labelled as assumed.

Conditional refunds

A refund that depends on a pass, a first payout, or any other condition is shown as a potential refund. It is not subtracted from the out-of-pocket cost. You can turn on a hypothetical result in which the condition is met. That result can be zero. It is not the amount due today, and it is not income. A discount or a credit is subtracted only when you enter it as already confirmed.

Comparing programme costs

The lowest advertised fee can be the highest cost once renewals, resets and activation are included. Compare programmes over the same length unless you deliberately give one row its own length. The comparison rows are scenarios you type. WiT Markets has not stored verified challenge prices in the prop research file, so this calculator does not offer firm presets.

Other programme conditions

Cost is only one term. Profit targets, daily loss limits, maximum and trailing drawdown, minimum trading days, inactivity rules, deadlines and payout conditions can end an attempt before the months you modelled. The drawdown calculator uses the floor you type. This page does not turn those rules into a chance of passing.

Common mistakes

• Ignoring a renewal that the billing cycle still charges.
• Treating a refund after a payout as a fee you will not pay.
• Counting a reset and a new purchase as the same event.
• Forgetting an activation fee, or including one that has not been incurred.
• Comparing a one-month price with a six-month subscription.
• Reading the advertised account size as withdrawable capital.
• Assuming every firm bills on the same day and allows a partial-month refund.

Worked examples

One-time fee 100, no subscription, three months, no resets and no activation. Out-of-pocket cost 100.00. The same 100 remains at one month and at six months, because the purchase is not billed again.

Subscription of 50 at the start of each month, for three months, with no purchase fee. Payments 3. Out-of-pocket cost 150.00.

Purchase 100 and two resets at 75, with no subscription. Out-of-pocket cost 250.00.

Purchase 100 and a conditional refund of 100 that has not been earned. Out-of-pocket cost 100.00. Potential refund 100.00. Hypothetical cost after the refund 0.00. The dashboard keeps 100.00 as the amount due.