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Most Trusted Prop Firms
Last updated 2026-10-27
This ranking rewards how long a firm has been around, whether its business checks out, its review record, clear published terms and proof that traders get paid, and a big name alone earns nothing.
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The most recognized prop firms are not the most trusted ones, and this list is where that shows. The order below is worked out from the Trust Score, which measures the things a marketing budget cannot buy. Nothing on this page is ranked by reputation, sponsorships, or how often you see the name in your feed, and no firm can buy its position here, because commission has no path into any of our scores. Some big names sit lower than you would expect and some quieter firms sit higher, and in every case the score factors on the card tell you why. If a firm's third-party rating has been suspended or penalized, we say so plainly instead of dropping the firm or pretending a number exists.
Quick Picks by Use Case
Trust is not one thing, so the right pick depends on which part of it you actually care about. Four honest shortcuts, each with the reason attached.
Regulated Broker BackingTradeify
A regulated broker relationship sits behind the funded side, and its published terms are readable enough to check the claim yourself.
Long, Quiet Track RecordEarn2Trade
Years of running evaluations without building up a pattern of payout complaints, and the record only gets more valuable the longer it stays quiet. Longevity is the one trust signal nobody can shortcut.
Review Record Built Before InvitesBulenox
For years the firm did not invite reviews, so its older ratings arrived unprompted, which makes that base worth more per review than an invited one. The honest counterweight is that the firm began inviting reviews in mid-2026 and doesn't reply to its negatives, and the review covers both.
Best Move Before You Buy Anything
Check which firms are wobbling first. Our prop firm stability tracker documents the term changes, pauses, and shutdowns that turn a trusted firm into a cautionary tale, and it is the fastest sanity check in prop trading.
Futures Prop Firms
- #1
Tradeify
79/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $99 to $796
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: On demand
- 90% profit split
Trust is the one layer you cannot test-drive before you pay, so start with what can be verified: Tradeify clears the hardest checks, a regulated broker relationship behind the funded side and an operating record long enough to mean something. Its review base reads clean.
- #2
Earn2TradeSale
73/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- was
Evals from $150 to $550now Evals from $75 to $275 - Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Weekly
- 80% profit split
Sale: 50% off evals and resets for the first 90 days (seen October 26, 2026).
Earn2Trade has been running evals since before 12 of the other 14 firms on this page existed, and a record that long is the single hardest trust signal to fake. Across those years it has built up no pattern of payout complaints, and that is the complaint that matters most. What the years have not bought is stability of terms: the firm reworked its profit split in mid-2026 and told its own customers so, which is more disclosure than most and still a change traders did not ask for. Longevity is not everything, but it is the part of the score that only time can build.
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- #3
Apex Trader Funding
70/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $199 to $2,290
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Weekly
- 100% profit split
Apex carries one of the largest review bases in futures funding and enough payout reports from traders to reach our stronger evidence grade, which matters more than any single glowing review. There is real community noise around its rule changes, and the score doesn't ignore that, but a payout trail this wide and this public is exactly the kind of evidence this page exists to weigh.
- #4
Take Profit Trader
76/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $150 to $360
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: On demand
- 80% profit split
Take Profit Trader pairs a multi-year operating record with terms that are actually readable, and the trust picture is mostly what you want it to be. The top complaint in its reviews is the drawdown switching from end-of-day to intraday once you are funded, and our review goes through it rather than around it. The record you can check holds up: years in business, published rules, and an active review base.
- #5
Topstep
73/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $49 to $229
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: After a set number of days
- 90% profit split
Here is the anomaly worth understanding: age alone doesn't decide this list. Topstep has been running evals longer than nearly anyone on this page and that part of its score is maxed, but trust is measured on more than age, and its third-party rating trails firms with a fraction of its history. Reputation says legacy. The record says solid but not untouchable, and we rank the record.
- #6
TradeDay
72/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $100 to $500
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: On demand
- 50% profit split
TradeDay is the quiet one. No aggressive marketing, no drama cycle, just a Chicago firm with verifiable business details, a clean review base, and years of operating without a pattern of complaints. Firms like this get outranked in ad spend and outrank in trust, which is the entire point of working this list out instead of winging it.
- #7
Bulenox
69/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $145 to $535
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Weekly
- 100% profit split
Bulenox's review base was built the slow way: for years the profile carried no invitation history, so the ratings walked in on their own, and only in mid-2026 did the firm start asking customers to review. That older base, built without invites, is worth more per review than an invited one. The honest caveat is that the firm doesn't reply to its negative reviews, and a funded-side term change is logged on its record, both of which the score already weighs.
- #8
MyFundedFutures
69/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $105 to $477
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Varies by plan
- 80% profit split
MyFundedFutures holds the strongest third-party rating on this page on a large, clean-positive base, and if this list ranked ratings alone it would sit at the top. It doesn't, because operating history is a separate part of the score and MFFU simply has not existed long enough to max it. That ceiling lifts a little every year the record stays clean.
- #9
Alpha Futures
72/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $89 to $859
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: On demand
- 90% profit split
Alpha Futures is where our verified-over-claimed rule earns its keep. The firm's site claims a review count about three times larger than what its live profile displays, a number that matches its whole group, not this brand. So we score the number anyone can check. What that number shows is genuinely strong, and the review covers both halves.
- #10
BluSky Trading
71/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $59 to $799
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing, Static
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Daily
- 90% profit split
BluSky's rating reads clean and positive on a solid base, and it has enough payout reports from traders to reach our stronger evidence grade, the one that separates firms people praise from firms people can show they were paid by. Dated complaints exist around its move to a live brokerage account, and the review carries them, because a trust read that leaves out the caveats is not a trust read.
- #11
Funded Futures Family
68/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $79 to $529
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: On demand
- 90% profit split
Funded Futures Family scores on a shorter record than the longer-running firms here, and the score treats that honestly: a strong rating and payout reports from traders, with mixed reports on payments that its review lays out with dates. Young firms are not untrustworthy, they are unproven, and the difference between those two words is exactly what this score measures.
- #12
Leeloo Trading
60/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $250 to $850
- Drawdown: Intraday trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: Monthly
- 100% profit split
Leeloo is Topstep's pattern pushed further: one of the longest operating records on this page attached to the weakest third-party rating on it. Years in business earn real score, but a rating this far below the other firms here, built without invites before the firm began inviting reviews in mid-2026 and with dated payout-denial complaints behind it, drags harder. Age proves a firm can survive. It doesn't prove traders enjoyed the experience.
- #13
Lucid Trading
63/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $100 to $840
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: After a set number of days
- 90% profit split
Lucid's rating is built mostly on invited reviews, and its homepage claims a higher rating than its live profile shows. We do not score suspicion, we score evidence: the firm's operating history is among the shortest on this page, and that is one of the things holding the score down. Every clean year that passes moves it up. There is no shortcut, which is the point.
- #14
18th Street Trading
61/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $265 to $1,595
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing
- How Often You Can Get Paid: After a set number of days
- 90% profit split
A brand-new firm, a Nevada company formed in July 2026 with no Trustpilot reviews and no payout proof yet. Its founder is named on the site and signs its posts, but a track record is what builds trust, and that takes time.
- #15
Phidias Propfirm
60/ 100TrustCostPayoutRules- Evals from $88 to $1,125
- Drawdown: End-of-day trailing, Static
- How Often You Can Get Paid: After a set number of days
- 75% profit split
Phidias is the case this page promises to handle in the open. Trustpilot removed reviews it identified as fake and marked the rating unavailable, and a recalculated 3.4 was published in August 2026. The rating went unavailable again in early September, and since mid-September the profile has shown 3.2 with Trustpilot's penalty still on it. We score that history as the trust event it is, and the rest of the Trust Score is what keeps Phidias at the bottom of this page.
How We Ranked This List
Every firm here is ranked by its Trust Score, highest first. The score is built from things you can check: operating history confirmed against business registries rather than the firm's own about page, and third-party ratings taken at their live displayed value, never at a claimed number. It also counts how clear the published terms are, stability events like sudden term changes or ownership changes, and payout evidence, graded as backed by many trader reports or as reported but not verified. The full method is published on our score calculation method page, so you can check the math instead of taking our word for it. Ties break on the overall score, and a firm whose overall score is withheld never gets one invented for it. When the underlying data changes, the order is worked out again, so this list can and does move.
What Actually Makes a Prop Firm Trustworthy
Strip away the marketing and trust in a prop firm comes down to five things you can check. Operating history, because a firm that has paid traders through multiple market cycles has made it through the hard stretches that have closed many prop firms. A firm under a year old has not been tested yet, no matter how good the offer looks. Verifiable business details, a real registered entity with a traceable address, because you are sending money to this company and you should be able to find it. The third-party review record, read carefully: the live displayed rating, whether reviews are invited or not, whether the firm replies to its negatives, and whether the profile has ever been suspended or penalized. All of those change what a number means. Transparent rules, because vague terms are the raw material of payout denials, and a firm that publishes its rules plainly is signing its name to them. And payout evidence, the strongest signal of all, which is why we grade it instead of taking screenshots at face value: evidence backed by many trader reports outranks reported but unverified claims, and marketing claims rank nowhere.
One more thing: a high rating and a trustworthy firm are not the same claim. Read the rating together with the base it sits on.
How to Check a Prop Firm Yourself
You do not need us for a basic trust check, and honestly we would rather you ran one. Look the entity up in a business registry and see when it was actually formed, not when the website says the story began. Pull the Trustpilot profile and read the one-star page, not the five-star page, because the negatives tell you what failure looks like at this firm and whether the firm shows up to answer it. Search the firm's name next to the word payout on Reddit and read the threads with dates on them. Then read the funded-account rules before you pay, front to back, because that document, not the sales page, is the contract you will actually have to abide by.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most trusted prop firm?
By our Trust Score, the firm at the top of the ranked list above is the current answer. The list is worked out again when the data changes, so we do not type in a name here that could be out of date by the time you read it. The more useful answer is that the top handful separate from the pack on the same few inputs: long verifiable operating history, strong live third-party ratings, transparent terms, and real payout evidence.
Which prop firms actually pay out?
We grade the payout evidence behind each ranked firm on this list: 11 are backed by many trader reports, 3 are reported but not verified today, and 1 has none on record yet. Each firm's review shows which grade its evidence has, along with the dated complaints where they exist. No firm gets a pass on this question, including the popular ones, and the payout sections of our reviews are where the specifics live.
How do I check if a prop firm is legit?
Registry lookup for the entity, the live Trustpilot profile including the one-star page and whether the profile has ever been suspended, dated community threads on payouts, and a front-to-back read of the funded rules before you pay. The How to Check a Prop Firm Yourself section above goes over each step, and our per-firm reviews do this work in depth so you can compare your read against ours.
How risky are prop firms?
Riskier than the marketing suggests and less risky than the horror stories suggest, with the risk concentrated in two places: firms that change terms after you have paid, and firms that fail entirely. Many prop firms have shut down in the last few years, which is why our stability tracker exists and why operating history carries real weight in the Trust Score. Your eval spend is the most you can lose, the fee plus any subscription months and resets you feed it, so size that spend like the at-risk capital it is.
What is the safest prop firm?
Safest and most trusted are the same question wearing different clothes, and this page answers both: the safest choice is the firm with the longest verified record, the cleanest live rating, the most transparent rules, and real payout evidence, which is exactly what the Trust Score ranks. If safety is your priority, weight the top of this list and check the stability tracker before you buy anything.
Which prop firm is the most reliable?
Reliability is trust measured over time, so look at the firms that combine a high Trust Score with a long operating record rather than a high score alone. A young firm can post a great rating on a short record; a reliable firm has posted one across years and market cycles. The score factors on each card show which firms are which.