Activation Fees at Futures Prop Firms

What is an activation fee?

An activation fee is a separate charge some futures prop firms collect to activate a funded account after you pass evaluation — distinct from the evaluation/purchase price you pay to start the challenge itself. Not every firm charges one, and where a firm does, the amount and timing are set entirely by that firm.

Activation fee vs. other prop-firm fees

LegitPropFirm tracks several distinct, independent fee concepts. Knowing one does not tell you the others — a firm may charge some, all, or none of them.

• Evaluation/purchase price — what you pay to start the evaluation challenge itself.
• Activation fee — a separate, one-time charge some firms collect to activate the funded account once you pass.
• Evaluation reset fee — what some firms charge to restart a failed evaluation attempt rather than purchasing a new one.
• Funded reset / reactivation fee — a separate charge, at some firms, to reset or reactivate a funded account after a breach — independent of the evaluation reset fee above.
• Recurring / monthly fees — ongoing charges some firms apply at the funded stage, or a data-feed add-on — where applicable, tracked separately from every one-time fee above.

This page’s catalogue below covers the activation fee only — it is not a complete fee summary for any single firm.

How promotional activation-fee waivers work

Some currently applicable promotions can waive a firm’s activation fee entirely. LegitPropFirm’s catalogue represents this as a simple binary fact — waived or not currently waived — for the specific promotion certified against that account, never a partial reduction resolved to a specific reduced amount. Not every evaluation-price promotion also affects the activation fee. A promo that discounts the evaluation price is a separate fact from one that waives the activation fee — the two are never assumed to travel together.

In LegitPropFirm’s current catalogue, activation fees are represented as one-time charges; recurring fees are tracked separately.

Current LegitPropFirm catalogue comparison

Standard activation fee and current promotional waiver status for every account across the futures prop firms listed on LegitPropFirm, kept current as the underlying data changes.

How to read LegitPropFirm’s table

Standard Activation Fee is the certified baseline fee — Free, a formatted dollar amount, or “Not yet certified” when LegitPropFirm has not yet independently verified that specific fact for that account. Currently Waived shows only a certified, currently-active promotional waiver — never an inferred or expired one. “Not yet certified” is never the same as free or $0 — it means the fact itself is unverified, not that no fee applies.

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