Apex Trader Funding vs Tradeify
Apex Trader Funding
Computed verdict
Apex Trader Funding costs less per unit of risk: $51.57 vs $72.5 per $1,000 of drawdown. On the overall score, Apex Trader Funding comes out ahead (78 vs 58).
The verdict is computed from verified data and recomputes when the data changes. It is not an opinion and no commercial arrangement alters it. Methodology
Rule by rule
Trailing drawdown of $1,000–$4,000 by size (EOD or intraday line) that locks at starting balance + $100 in the PA, with unrealized P&L counting toward a breach even on the EOD line.
All plans use an end-of-day trailing drawdown ($1,000 to $5,250 by plan and size) that updates end-of-day but is enforced in real time. On Sim Funded accounts it locks into a fixed floor $100 above start once you profit past the drawdown amount; evaluation accounts do NOT lock.
Soft daily limit of $500–$2,000 by size that pauses your session without failing the account; intraday evaluations have no daily loss limit at all.
Soft daily limit that pauses the session without failing the account. On Growth and Lightning it starts at $600 on the 25K, $1,250 on the 50K and $2,500 on the 100K; Select Daily funded accounts run lower, at $500, $1,000, $1,250 and $1,750 by size, and Select Flex and Select evaluations carry no daily limit at all. At 6% profit the limit is raised on current accounts; it is fully removed only on legacy pre-Sep-2025 accounts. Tradeify's own pages disagree on the 150K: the Growth evaluation article says “$3,750” and the Daily Loss Limit article says “$3,000”. Accounts bought before 2026-03-31 keep $3,750, so both figures can be true at once for different accounts — the Growth article does not say so. Our planning assumption, not Tradeify's statement: size a 150K to $3,000 unless you bought before that date.
No consistency rule in the evaluation; in the PA no single day may account for 50% or more of total profit since your last approved payout, checked when you request one.
Consistency only blocks payouts, never the account: 35% on funded Growth, 40% in the Select evaluation only, and a progressive 20/25/30% by payout number on Lightning.
50K: $3,000 profit target against a $2,500 drawdown, no minimum days.
50K Growth: $3,000 target, 1-day minimum, no consistency rule in the evaluation.
On the Legacy account we rank: payouts from 8 trading days, of which 5 must close with $50 or more of profit, $500 minimum, and 8 trading days between requests. The split is 100% of the first $25,000 paid out per account and 90% of anything after that. The first five payouts are capped by size ($2,500 on the $100,000) and from the sixth the cap disappears. A 30% consistency rule also applies: no single day may account for more than 30% of profit, through the fifth payout. The 4.0 Sim-Funded account is a different product and works differently: a 100% split, 5 qualifying days, and a hard cap of 6 payouts after which the account closes.
A 90/10 split across plans, with payouts every 5 winning days on Growth and Select Flex, daily on Select Daily, and instant on Lightning, always subject to per-payout caps. On Select the cap depends on when you bought: accounts purchased from 1 September 2026 have lower caps on Flex (down to $4,500 on the $150,000, previously $5,000) and higher ones on Daily (up to $1,750 on the $100,000, previously $1,500). Minimum $250.
50K: we publish no verified list price. Apex's checkout sits behind script and login, and our second-hand figures disagree by more than double. Apex's own homepage runs "Any Size Evals up to 90% Off | Use code: SAVENOW". A one-time PA activation fee exists and falls due within 7 calendar days of passing, and promo codes do not apply to it; we hold no verified amount for it. There are no reset fees: "If an Evaluation fails, the only way to continue is by purchasing a new one."