How we verifyevery value.

Only the firm's own public pages: its website, pricing pages, help centre or FAQ, and published terms. The firm's own page is the one that binds a trader, so it is the only one we treat as evidence.

We do not use review sites, comparison sites, affiliate pages, forums, social media or video. When a firm publishes rules on a help centre it hosts with a third-party provider, we treat it as first-party if the firm's own website links to it as its official help centre.

For every value we record four things:

1. The value, in structured form (for example, a percentage and whether it is static or trailing) and as a short label.
2. The source: the exact page on the firm's site, linked from every table cell.
3. A verbatim excerpt from that page, shown on each firm's profile, so you can see the wording the value rests on.
4. The verification date: the day we last confirmed the value against the live page.

Where a firm's evaluation and funded rules differ, the table value describes the evaluation, because that is the stage a buyer faces first, and the label and note spell out both. Where two of a firm's own pages disagree, we record the more specific page and describe the conflict in the note.

If a firm's own pages do not settle a rule, the cell reads Not yet verified. That means we could not confirm it, not that the rule does not exist. We never fill a gap with an assumption or a figure from memory.

Prop firm rules change often, sometimes without announcement. We aim to re-check every value at least every 30 days, and sooner when a firm announces a change. Any value last verified more than 45 days ago is flagged Re-check due automatically wherever it appears, so a stale value is never presented as current.

• Firms: major forex and CFD prop firms. Futures firms use a different rule structure and are not yet covered.
• Programmes: each firm's flagship offering: its standard 2-step and 1-step evaluations and one instant funding account where it sells one. Sub-variants and add-ons are described in notes rather than listed separately.
• Prices: list prices before promo codes, in the currency the firm lists. We do not convert currencies, and we do not record time-limited discounts.
• Account sizes: as the firm lists them. We show sizes without a currency symbol because firms denominate accounts differently.

Pipster is a prop firm, and that is a conflict of interest you should weigh. We manage it in the open. Our own programmes appear in every table under exactly the same method, including our lifetime payout cap per account and our definition of a qualifying trading day.

• We do not rank, score or rate firms, and we do not name a “best” firm.
• No firm pays to be included, to be left out or to have its data changed.
• Links to firms are plain source citations. None are affiliate links.
• Firms are listed alphabetically. Pipster is listed where the alphabet puts it.

Every value links to its source, so you never have to take our word for it. Pipster's own profile is held to the same standard as the rest.

What each column in the databases records.

If a value is wrong or out of date, email support@pipster.io with the value and a link to the firm's own page. Firms are welcome to write in about their own rules. We confirm every correction at the source before publishing it and record it in the changelog below.

The data is free to reuse under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Please cite Pipster Research with the verification date and a link to the page you used. Quoted excerpts remain the property of the firms that published them.

1. 28 September 2026First publication: 13 firms, 37 programmes, 652 data points from 206 first-party pages, all verified on this date.