Guides
Each guide answers one question with numbers from our dataset. When a firm changes its rules, the guide updates on the next build.
- Best crypto prop firms (2026)Crypto prop firms ranked by a published score: crypto-native perps firms and multi-asset firms with crypto, with fees, splits and payout cycles.
- Crypto prop firms that pay out in USDTWhich crypto prop firms pay out in USDT or USDC, payout methods per firm, KYC requirements and payout cycles.
- Prop firms with no time limitProp firms whose evaluations have no deadline, which still set one, and the inactivity rules to watch.
- Cheapest $100K prop firm challengeEvery $100K prop firm challenge we track, cheapest first, with the target, drawdown and split of each program.
- Prop firms with the fastest payoutsProp firms with daily, on-demand and weekly payouts, days to first payout and the payout terms that slow things down.
- Static vs trailing drawdown, explained with numbersStatic, trailing and end-of-day drawdown explained with a worked $100K example, plus which prop firms use each type.
- Prop firms that allow news tradingWhich prop firms allow trading through high-impact news, which restrict it, and how the restrictions usually work.
- One-step vs two-step challenge: the numbersMedian fees and drawdown limits of one-step vs two-step prop firm challenges across our dataset, and when each wins.
- Prop firms that refund the challenge feeProp firm refund and retry policies side by side: who refunds the challenge fee, when, and on which programs.
- Cheapest $50K futures prop firm evaluation$50K futures prop firm evaluations compared on fee plus activation fee, reset price and drawdown type.