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How the Pal Score works
Every ranking on this site is produced by one formula. Here it is.
The Pal Score - the short answer
The Pal Score rates a prop firm from 0 to 100 across five weighted pillars: verification (25), trader rating (30), review volume (20), web traffic (15) and profile completeness (10). It is recomputed from the database on every build, currently across 110 compared firms and 680 tracked in total. Scores are never sold, and paid placement is labelled separately and never changes the order.
The five pillars
Each pillar’s weight out of 100, read from the same constant the ranking uses.
Pal Score weights
10025/100
Verification
Whether a person has checked the firm’s rules, pricing and payout terms against its own documentation.
30/100
Trader rating
The mean score traders give the firm across trading conditions, payout process, customer care and user friendliness.
20/100
Review volume
How many traders have reviewed it, on a log scale to a ceiling of 1,000 - so a firm with 40 reviews is not treated as forty times more proven than one with a single review.
15/100
Web traffic
Estimated monthly visits, on a log scale to a ceiling of one million. A proxy for how many traders actually use the firm.
10/100
Profile completeness
How much of the firm’s data we hold: platforms, challenges, description, founding year and reviews.
What the score cannot see
The limits of any ranking built from published terms and trader feedback.
What the score cannot see
A score built from published terms and trader feedback cannot tell you whether a firm will still be solvent next year, whether its risk desk will find a reason to deny your payout, or whether the rules you agreed to will change after you pass. No comparison site can measure those, and one that implies it can is selling you something.
It also cannot tell you which firm suits you. A trailing drawdown is nearly irrelevant to an intraday scalper and disqualifying for a swing trader; the score treats both the same. Use it to shortlist, then read the rules.
Where a firm does not publish a figure, we record that it does not publish it. We never infer one, and a blank is never rendered as a zero - a firm that is silent about its consistency rule is not a firm without one.
How prices are compared
Two prices per firm, and why only one of them is comparable.
How prices are compared
Every price on this site is quoted two ways. The entry price is the cheapest evaluation a firm sells at any account size - the honest “from” figure. The cost to a $100,000 funded account is what it costs to pass an evaluation at that specific size, and it is the number the rankings and comparisons use.
The second exists because the first is not comparable. A firm whose smallest account is $5,000 will always show a lower “from” price than one starting at $50,000, without being cheaper in any sense that matters. Instant funding is reported separately and never averaged into evaluation pricing - it costs several times more per $1,000 of funding because there is no challenge to pass, and comparing the two directly is a category error.
FAQs - Methodology
How the ranking is produced, and what it does not claim.
No. The Pal Score is computed from the five pillars below and nothing else. Featured placement is a paid label - it is shown as a label, it never reorders the organic ranking, and it is disclosed on every page it appears on.
A person has read the firm’s rules, pricing, drawdown model and payout terms against the firm’s own published documentation and recorded them field by field. It is a statement about our data, not a judgement about the firm - and it cannot be bought.
Because it exists and traders search for it. An unverified listing carries only what we can state accurately without a check - name, website and monthly traffic history - and says so plainly. Absence of verification is not evidence of anything.
A third-party estimate of monthly website visits, collected once a month and stored against the month it describes rather than the date it was collected. They are estimates, and small sites carry a wide margin of error, so the score uses them on a log scale and treats the trend as the signal.
Email the page URL and what is wrong to the contact address on our contact page. Corrections are made against the firm’s own documentation and dated. We would rather remove a figure than leave an unverifiable one up.
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FAQs - Prop Trading Questions Answered
Answers on prop firms, funded accounts, challenges and how our platform works
To save money on a funded trading account, traders can use verified prop firm discount codes available on Prop Firm Pal. By applying these promo codes during checkout, traders reduce the cost of evaluation challenges. Combining structured comparisons with active discounts helps traders choose competitive programs while lowering upfront costs.
Prop trading is generally legal in most countries, but the regulatory status of specific prop firms can vary. Some jurisdictions have introduced rules affecting how prop firms operate or market their services. Certain prop firms also restrict access to traders in specific countries. Prop Firm Pal includes restricted country information on individual firm pages so you can quickly check whether a firm is available to traders in your region.
Yes, most prop firms charge a one-time challenge fee to enter an evaluation program. This fee typically ranges from around $50 for smaller account sizes to several hundred dollars for larger funded accounts. The fee covers access to the evaluation environment. If you pass, some firms refund the challenge fee with your first payout. Firms offering free challenges are rare and often compensate by taking a larger profit split or applying stricter conditions.
The best prop firm for futures trading will offer access to CME or exchange-listed contracts, clear rules around leverage and contract limits, and a payout structure suitable for high-frequency or systematic futures strategies. Futures prop firms often operate differently from forex-focused ones, with different fee structures and account types. Prop Firm Pal includes futures-focused firms in its comparisons so you can evaluate which programs support your preferred instruments and trading approach.
Each prop firm page on Prop Firm Pal includes a detailed company overview, evaluation rules, profit targets, drawdown limits, profit split information, available account sizes, trading instruments, restricted countries, FAQs, and user reviews. We aim to provide everything a trader needs to evaluate a funded trading program in one place.
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