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FundedNext

One of the largest CFD proprietary trading challenge firms by review volume and stated payouts (4.5/5 on Trustpilot from 77,610 reviews; $300M+ in claimed cumulative trader payouts). Sells four materially different CFD challenge models — Stellar 2-Step, Stellar 1-Step, Stellar Lite and instant-funded Stellar Instant — plus a newer Flex Challenge and a separate futures program. Cheap entry fees (from $59.99, refunded on first payout) and broad strategy tolerance (EAs, news trading, weekend holding) are real strengths; a documented review-manipulation finding traced to the firm's own staff and a notable irony — it restricts access from Bangladesh, its founder's home country — are real caveats.

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Provider score
66
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Medium
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Last fully verified
Sep 2, 2026
last checked Sep 2, 2026
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Rules & terms

Evaluation & cost

Model2-step evaluation

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Account sizes6k, 15k, 25k, 50k, 100k, 200k

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Challenge fee from$59.99

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Fee refundableYes, on funding

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Refund conditionsChallenge fee is refunded together with the first successful profit-split payout after passing evaluation and getting funded — not refunded on a failed or abandoned challenge. Confirmed directly on fundednext.com for Stellar 2-Step (refund with 1st reward) and Stellar 1-Step/Lite (refund with 3rd reward); not refundable at all on Stellar Instant, since there is no challenge fee to speak of in the same sense.

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Rules & terms

Drawdown & targets

Drawdown type decides whether a winning day raises the level you can be cut at.

Profit target8%

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Daily drawdown5%

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Max drawdown10%

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Drawdown typeStatic (balance-based)

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Minimum trading days5 days

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Time limitNo time limit stated

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Rules & terms

Payout terms

Profit split80–95%

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

First payout after21 days

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Payout rulesFigures above are for the flagship Stellar 2-Step model (8% Phase-1 / 5% Phase-2 profit target, 5% daily / 10% overall static drawdown, 5 min trading days). Other live models differ materially: Stellar 1-Step (single 10% target, 3%/6% drawdown, 2 min days, first payout in 5 business days); Stellar Lite (8%/4% targets, 4%/8% drawdown, 5 min days); Stellar Instant (no challenge, 6% trailing drawdown, no daily limit, split capped at 80%). First payout on Stellar 2-Step/Lite is available 21 days after becoming funded; subsequent cycles are every 14 days. Stated processing time is within 24 hours, with a stated $1,000 compensation if a payout is delayed on FundedNext's side. A consistency check applies at payout time on funded accounts — an outsized single trading day (commonly cited threshold: no more than ~40% of total profit) holds the payout (not the account) until it's brought back in line. News-window trades are allowed but profits during the news window count at only 40% (losses at 100%) on FundedNext Accounts and Stellar Instant. Scaling: qualifying funded accounts can grow up to $4M simulated capital and push profit split toward 95%, per criteria reworked in Jan/Apr 2026 — treat any specific scaling number found elsewhere as liable to have changed.

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Rules & terms

Strategy rules

A rule that is absent from this list is not automatically permitted — it means we have no sourced statement either way.

News tradingAllowed

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Weekend holdingAllowed

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Expert advisorsAllowed

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Copy tradingAllowed

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Consistency ruleApplies

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Scaling planYes

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Prohibited strategiesIdentical/mirrored trades placed across multiple accounts controlled by the same person are treated as abuse. Copy trading is allowed only between accounts under common ownership and is not allowed if a funded account is on either side of the copy. EAs must be used on MT4/MT5 only and must be genuinely used for the trader's own strategy rather than to run a de-facto shared signal service. No dedicated public list of banned strategies (e.g. latency arbitrage, tick-scalping) was found comparable to some competitors' explicit blacklists — this appears to be handled case-by-case under a general "abusive methods" clause rather than a named list, which is itself a fairness/predictability gap worth flagging.

Source: FundedNext — Package Comparison (account models) · last checked Sep 2, 2026 · confidence Medium

Score breakdown

How this score was built

Each dimension is scored 0–100 with a written rationale and its own weight. No single unexplained star.

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20%Rule clarity66

FundedNext publishes account-model rules in reasonable detail across dedicated help-center articles and a package-comparison page — profit targets, drawdown %, minimum trading days and profit split are all stated in writing, and were independently confirmed for Stellar 2-Step (8%→5% targets, 5%/10% static drawdown, 5 min trading days) directly from fundednext.com rather than a third-party tracker. Marked down because the rules are split across four materially different account models plus a newer Flex Challenge, each with its own consistency-rule threshold and payout cadence, and a materially different profit-split treatment for news-window trades (40% vs. 100% on losses) that isn't obvious from headline 'news trading allowed' marketing — a trader comparing account types has real work to do to find the number that actually applies to them.

20%Drawdown fairness70

The flagship Stellar models use static (balance-based) drawdown rather than an equity-trailing one — the more trader-friendly convention, and it matches long-running competitors like FTMO at the same 5%/10% daily/overall thresholds on the 2-step model. Stellar Instant swaps this for a 6% trailing drawdown with no daily limit at all — a materially harder risk profile hidden behind the same brand and marketed as the "easy, no-challenge" option. No evidence found of drawdown thresholds being changed retroactively on accounts already funded under the old terms.

18%Payout-term transparency56

FundedNext states specific, checkable payout mechanics — first payout after 21 days on Stellar 2-Step/Lite (5 business days on Stellar 1-Step), 14-day cycles after that, processing within 24 hours, and a stated $1,000 compensation for payouts delayed on FundedNext's own side. Trustpilot's fast-payout theme (4.5/5, 77,610 reviews, 82% five-star) is a real positive signal at a scale most competitors don't have. Marked down hard for a documented, multiply-corroborated finding (via Forex Peace Army, referenced independently by several other trackers) that in January 2024 a batch of coordinated fake positive reviews was traced to an IP address associated with someone identifying as FundedNext's own Partner Manager — a genuine review-manipulation red flag that undercuts trust in the aggregate rating, alongside scattered trader complaints of accounts being closed after multiple successful payouts. Could not independently verify either claim against a primary, FundedNext-independent source, since both Forex Peace Army and Myfxbook blocked direct fetch (403 both times) — this rests on secondary corroboration only and should be re-checked when those pages become fetchable.

14%Fee / value relationship76

Genuinely inexpensive relative to the funded capital on offer: the smallest challenge (a $6K account) lists at $59.99, and the fee is refunded with the first payout if the trader passes and gets funded — so the net cost of a successful attempt is $0. A running 50%-off promo code was live on the $6K tier at the time of writing. Profit split starts at 80% and can reach 95% via a paid checkout upgrade — real money, but disclosed as a checkout line item rather than a bait-and-switch.

12%Platform & strategy compatibility78

Broad strategy tolerance for a prop firm: EAs allowed on MT4/MT5, weekend/overnight holding allowed, news trading allowed (at a reduced 40% profit share during the news window rather than banned outright), and copy trading allowed between accounts under common ownership. Platform coverage spans MT4, MT5, cTrader and TradingView for CFDs, plus NinjaTrader/Tradovate/Match-Trader for its newer CME futures product. Not scored higher because the news-trading profit-split penalty and the same-owner-only copy-trading condition are exactly the kind of fine print that catches traders who only read the headline 'EAs & news trading allowed' marketing line.

10%Rule-change stability60

FundedNext has iterated its rule set repeatedly — introducing a new Flex Challenge model in May 2026 and reworking scaling-plan qualification criteria in January and April 2026 — which is ordinary pace for a firm this size, but means a rule read about six months ago may no longer be current. No evidence found of a change being applied retroactively to accounts already funded under the old terms (the more serious version of this risk); every change found was forward-looking — new products or more lenient future qualification, not a clawback on existing accounts.

6%Dispute transparency48

This is the dimension most affected by the January 2024 review-manipulation finding: a firm whose own staff (per Forex Peace Army's tracking, corroborated by other trackers) were linked to coordinated fake positive reviews has a credibility problem specifically around how it handles feedback and disputes, separate from how it actually resolves individual payout complaints. FundedNext does run an official support/payout-review channel and a stated $1,000 delay-compensation policy — more than many peers commit to in writing — but no independent dispute-resolution audit or ombudsman-style process was found, and this whole dimension rests on secondary sourcing that could not be independently re-verified (see payout_transparency note on the 403s).

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Verification statusRecently checked
Data confidenceMedium
Last checkedSep 2, 2026
Last fully verifiedSep 2, 2026
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Editor note: Prop firm — regulatory status is intentionally not a scoring dimension here (matches PROP_DIMENSIONS in src/lib/scoring.ts and the house convention that prop-firm 'funding' is a simulated-capital services contract, not a regulated brokerage relationship; FundedNext's own ToS explicitly disclaims being a regulated financial services provider — see Source #3). Core rule/pricing/company facts (Sources #1–4, #8–10) came from fundednext.com and its help centers directly — good primary coverage. Two significant claims rest only on secondary corroboration because the primary pages returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch: (a) the January 2024 fake-review finding attributed to Forex Peace Army, and (b) general payout-dispute complaint patterns (Myfxbook also blocked). Re-check both against the primary FPA/Myfxbook pages when accessible. The Bangladesh CFD-access restriction (Source #4) is verified directly and is specifically worth surfacing prominently for this site's audience, independent of the general FERA 1947 remittance caveat used on broker entries — here funds would never even reach a Bangladesh resident's own account in the first place. The referral link's `?fpr=` tracking parameter does not match the Everflow-based tiered Partners Program described in the help center; it is presumed to route through the simpler customer-facing Refer & Earn scheme (Source #9), not independently confirmed.