Crypto/Perps
HyroTrader Zero-Step
5,000 USDT account
Selected public offer only. Buyer eligibility and other variants are outside this comparison.
Sources checked 19 September – 4 November 2026. Reviewed by a site member and AI assistants. Release pfw-release-2026-11-04-pilot-2, approved 4 November 2026. Each source shows the date it was last checked.
Costs
List price
List price: $89 one-time
Conditions and limits. $89, paid once at checkout: a challenge fee, not refunded once the challenge is activated.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Homepage (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base price of the selected account and how it is billed. A temporary public offer, available without a code, is shown beside it with any conditions the firm states, while a recent check confirms it; codes, optional purchases and unverified buyer charges are excluded.
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Read the guide: What are you buying when you pay for a challenge?
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk: $356.00USDT counted at $1
Conditions and limits. One payment: the challenge fee, paid once at checkout. Using the platform costs nothing ("available independently of any payment"). Simulated trading costs, such as commissions, slippage and funding or financing charges, reduce results and count toward the targets and limits.
How this is calculated. (List price × charges in a 30-day attempt + activation fee + platform and data fees), in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance in US dollars and multiplied by 1,000.
- List price
- $89 one-time
- Charges in a 30-day attempt
- 1
- Activation fee
- None
- Platform and data fees
- None
- Opening loss allowance
- 250 USDT
- Opening loss allowance in US dollars
- $250
- USDT price
- 1 USDT = $1 (market price $0.9993), CoinGecko at 21:38 UTC on 4 November 2026
- Result
- $356.00
US-dollar amounts count 1 USDT as $1 while its market price is from $0.99 to $1.01 inclusive; CoinGecko's price at 21:38 UTC on 4 November 2026 was $0.9993. Outside that range they use the market price. Powered by CoinGecko.
Promotions, coupons and optional add-ons are excluded.
Final buyer charges such as taxes or payment fees are not verified.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What happens after I pass the evaluation? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Crypto Trading Rules (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026).
Source: CoinGecko · Tether (USDT) price (checked 4 November 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base cost of a 30-day attempt in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000. A cost scenario for comparing accounts, not an all-in price.
Activation fee
Activation fee: None
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What happens after I pass the evaluation? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. A mandatory charge to activate a funded account after passing, if any.
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Read the guide: Reserve activation costs and keep refunds conditional
Platform and data fees
Platform and data fees: None
Official source: HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Mandatory platform or market-data charges on top of the list price, if any.
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Read the guide: What market data is included, and what costs extra?
Trading fees
Trading fees: Depends on the platform. On Hyro, simulated commissions and slippage, at rates HyroTrader does not publish. On a Bybit demo account and the Tealstreet terminal, Bybit's standard (VIP 0) rates for USDT perpetuals: maker 0.02%, taker 0.055%. On BloFin, whatever the trader's own BloFin demo account applies: HyroTrader sets "no spreads, fees or prices". On the Tiger.com terminal, not published. Costs reduce results and count toward the targets and limits.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Which platforms can I use for trading? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · Slippage and PnL Explained (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · What are Bybit’s fees? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · What are Bybit’s fees via the Tealstreet terminal? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 4 November 2026).
About this rule. The fees charged on each trade, such as maker and taker rates, and what they are a percentage of. They are not part of the account's price.
Funding and financing
Funding and financing: Not published. HyroTrader's terms say simulated costs may include funding or financing charges, with the method and current rates in the trading rules on its platform, behind a sign-in; no public page gives a rate or interval for any platform.
Official source: HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 4 November 2026).
About this rule. Periodic payments for holding a position: a perpetual contract's funding payments between long and short positions, or a financing fee the firm charges instead; how they are applied to the account, and whether they count towards the profit target and the loss limits.
Payout processing fees
Payout processing fees: None: profits are paid in USDT or USDC "with no withdrawal commissions charged".
Official sources: HyroTrader · How can I withdraw my profits? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Homepage (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Charges deducted when a payout is sent, which depend on the payment method.
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Read the guide: How do payout processing fees affect cash received?
Evaluation & risk
Opening loss allowance
Opening loss allowance: 250 USDT
How this is calculated. Opening balance minus the opening total-loss floor.
- opening balance
- 5,000 USDT
- opening total-loss floor
- 4,750 USDT
- Result
- 250 USDT
Daily loss limits and any trailing of the floor after the opening are separate rules.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Crypto Trading Rules (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. How much the account can lose from its opening balance before the total-loss rule is broken, using the smallest allowance across the required evaluation phases. An account bought without an evaluation uses its funded account's allowance. It is not daily headroom, live capital or a pass probability.
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Read the guide: How do you calculate the opening loss allowance?
Difficulty ratio
Difficulty ratio: 2.00
How this is calculated. For each required evaluation phase, the profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance. The results are added.
- profit target
- 10% of 5,000 USDT = 500 USDT
- opening loss allowance
- 250 USDT
- Result
- 2.00
This describes the shape of the evaluation; it is not a pass probability.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Crypto Trading Rules (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Each required phase's profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance, added together. More target per dollar of allowed loss gives a higher number; an account bought without an evaluation has no target, so its ratio is 0. It describes the shape of the evaluation, not the chance of passing.
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Read the guide: How PFW's comparison pages summarize a route
Evaluation route
Evaluation route: Zero-Step, 5,000 USDT, HyroTrader (USDT perpetuals, simulated): the checkout's Zero-Step at 5,000 USDT, with an 80% profit split, fixed, a 10% profit target, a 5% static maximum loss and a 3% daily loss limit, in one evaluation phase, then a funded account. Checked on Hyro, HyroTrader's own platform; the same challenge can be traded on a Bybit or BloFin demo account or through the Tealstreet or Tiger.com terminal.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Crypto Trading Rules (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Which platforms can I use for trading? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. The exact variant compared here and the stages between purchase and a funded account.
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Read the guide: What do one-step, two-step, three-step, and instant funding mean?
Profit targets
Profit targets: 10%
Conditions and limits. 10% of the initial balance: 500 USDT on 5,000 USDT, in one phase. No single trade counts for more than 50% of the target: profit above that stays in the account but does not count toward it, and losses count in full.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Crypto Trading Rules (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. The profit each required evaluation phase must reach, as a share of the opening balance. An account bought without an evaluation has none.
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Read the guide: How does the journey from purchase to payout work?
Total and daily loss
Total and daily loss: Maximum loss 250 USDT, 5% of the initial balance, static: a fixed floor of 4,750 USDT that never follows equity. Daily loss limit 150 USDT, 3% of the initial balance, measured from the equity at 00:00 UTC, including open profit or loss and fees: equity below the day's floor breaches. The same limits apply in every phase, including the funded account.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Crypto Trading Rules (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · How is the daily drawdown calculated? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. The overall and daily loss limits, how they move, and what balance or equity they are measured against.
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Read the guide: Why can two “5% daily loss” rules produce different limits?
Minimum days and time limits
Minimum days and time limits: 1 trading day, with no time limit. A trading day is a UTC day on which a trade worth at least 5% of the initial balance is closed with a result of at least 1% of its value, before fees. With no trade for 30 days the account fails.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Minimum trading days – how does it work? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · How long does it take to become a HyroTrader? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Do you have an inactivity rule? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. The minimum number of trading or profitable days each evaluation phase requires, including any minimum the firm states a consistency rule sets, any time limit for passing, and any inactivity period after which the account is closed.
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Read the guide: What counts as a minimum trading day?
Read the guide: Time limits and inactivity: which clock are you reading?
Leverage and position limits
Leverage and position limits: Chosen by the trader, up to each platform's maximum: on Hyro up to 100x or more depending on the pair, shown on the order ticket; on Bybit between 50x and 100x on most pairs; on BloFin up to 150x on BTC and ETH. Funded accounts only: total margin at most 25% of the initial balance and open positions worth at most 2x it. At every stage, low-cap coins (such as those under $100 million of market cap, or newly listed) at most 5% of the initial balance including leverage. Across a trader's accounts: up to $400,000 in evaluations and $200,000 funded.
Official sources: HyroTrader · What leverage can I use? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · What leverage can I use on Hyro? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · Are there any other rules for a funded account? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · What are the risk management conditions at HyroTrader? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · How many accounts can I have? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · Homepage (checked 4 November 2026).
About this rule. The most leverage and the largest positions the account allows, by instrument group, and what happens to a position that reaches its liquidation price. A liquidated position is not by itself a breach of the account's loss limits.
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Read the guide: Can the prop account breach before a position is liquidated?
Payouts
First and later payouts
First and later payouts: On demand ("Payouts on demand"): a request as soon as the funded account has at least $100 of profit after the split, with no wait between requests; after a payout at the maximum, another "as soon as you reach it again". All positions must be closed before a request.
Official sources: HyroTrader · How can I withdraw my profits? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Is there a real-capital account after the funded stage? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Homepage (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. When the first payout can be requested and how often later requests are allowed. Waiting periods, qualifying days, review and payment are separate clocks.
Payout minimums and caps
Payout minimums and caps: Minimum $100 of profit after the split. Maximum $200 per payout, the checkout's figure for 5,000 USDT; another can be requested once it is reached again. The FAQ puts the maximum at 5% of the initial balance per request (250 USDT here), and profit above that cap is not paid and does not carry over; the two figures agree only if the 5% is profit before the 80% split.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Is there a minimum withdrawal amount? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · Checkout (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · Is there a maximum withdrawal amount in one payout? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 4 November 2026).
About this rule. The smallest request allowed and any limit on how much can be withdrawn per request or cycle.
Funded consistency rules
Funded consistency rules: No profit-distribution rule once funded. Funded accounts only: total margin across open positions at most 25% of the initial balance, and their total value at most 2x it; the first breach of either limit brings one formal warning, the next fails the funded stage. With no trade for 30 days the account fails.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Are there any other rules for a funded account? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Do you have an inactivity rule? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Rules on how profit must be spread across days or trades before a funded payout, and any required profitable days.
After a payout
After a payout: Each payout restarts the 30-day inactivity count. Profit above the per-payout maximum is not paid and does not carry over, so HyroTrader advises a request once profit reaches 5% of the initial balance. No page says how a payout changes the balance or the loss floors.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Do you have an inactivity rule? (checked 4 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 4 November 2026).
About this rule. What changes on the account after a payout, such as how the loss limit resets or when the account closes.
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Read the guide: How do actual programs handle the post-payout threshold?
Published processing time
Published processing time: Within 24 hours, as HyroTrader publishes it. Identity verification (KYC) is a condition of any payout, and a payout can be withheld or delayed pending KYC, sanctions screening, tax certification or an investigation.
Official sources: HyroTrader · How can I withdraw my profits? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. How long the firm says review and payment take after a request. These are published estimates, not measured times.
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Read the guide: What do “24-hour,” “instant,” and “on-demand” payouts mean?
Refunds
Fee refund with a reward
Fee refund with a reward: None: the challenge fee is not refunded once the challenge is activated, and no payout carries it back.
Official sources: HyroTrader · What is the Refundable Challenge Deposit? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether and when the challenge fee is paid back after a successful payout.
Cancellation refund
Cancellation refund: Before activation (starting the challenge on the platform), at any time and for any reason: the fee is returned in full within 14 days, with no deduction. An unactivated challenge expires after six months and is refunded in full. Once activated, the fee is not refunded.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Can I cancel my Challenge before I activate it? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What is the Refundable Challenge Deposit? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether a purchase can be cancelled and refunded, and on what conditions.
Trading rules
News trading
News trading: No blackout window: trading during or around news releases is allowed, and positions need not be closed. A strategy may not rest solely on news trading or aim at exploiting a news event.News trading: restricted in both stages.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Is news trading allowed? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
News trading by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Allowed, with no blackout window and no need to close positions, but a strategy may not rest solely on news trading or aim at exploiting a news event.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Is news trading allowed? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Restrictions on opening, closing or holding positions around scheduled news.
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Read the guide: What does a news-trading restriction actually restrict?
Overnight and weekend holding
Overnight and weekend holding: Allowed: nothing is closed at the end of the day or the week. The daily loss limit still resets at 00:00 UTC, so a position held overnight counts against the new day's starting equity.Overnight and weekend holding: allowed in both stages.
Official source: HyroTrader · Can I hold trades overnight and over the weekend? (checked 2 November 2026).
Overnight and weekend holding by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed.
Official source: HyroTrader · Can I hold trades overnight and over the weekend? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether positions can be held overnight and over the weekend.
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Read the guide: Does no expiry mean you can hold indefinitely?
Expert advisors and copying
Expert advisors and copying: Bots and automated strategies are allowed if the strategy is the trader's own, through the Bybit or BloFin demo API or on the Hyro platform; AI agents on Hyro only. Prohibited: someone else's strategy, ready-made bots, copy-trading services, account mirroring and signal providers, and mirror or coordinated trading across two or more accounts, the trader's own included.Expert advisors: restricted in both stages.Copying your own trades: prohibited in both stages.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Can I use trading bots or signal bots during the challenge or on a funded account? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
Expert advisors by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Only the trader's own strategy, through the Bybit or BloFin demo API or on the Hyro platform (AI agents on Hyro only); no ready-made bots, copy-trading services, mirroring or signal providers.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Can I use trading bots or signal bots during the challenge or on a funded account? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · HyroTrader Relaunch 2026: What Is New and What Changed (checked 2 November 2026).
Copying your own trades by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Prohibited.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Is copy trading allowed? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Can I use trading bots or signal bots during the challenge or on a funded account? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether automated strategies are allowed and whether trades can be copied between your own accounts.
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Read the guide: Automation and copying: what actually needs permission?
Contractual penalties
Contractual penalties: A breach of a loss limit or the inactivity rule fails and closes the account, and profit left on it cannot be paid out. After a review HyroTrader can issue a warning, remove profits, adjust a payout, reduce the split for a time, reject withdrawals or terminate the account; hedging between accounts brings an immediate restriction with no refund and a ban. Losses on funded accounts are never owed back.
Official sources: HyroTrader · What happens if I fail the account but it’s still in profit? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What are the risk management conditions at HyroTrader? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Are traders responsible for any financial obligations to HyroTrader? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Do you have an inactivity rule? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Penalties the terms set out for rule breaches beyond failing the account.
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Read the guide: Is it a prohibition, a condition or a review trigger?
Platforms & eligibility
Trading environment
Trading environment: Simulated at every stage: challenges and funded accounts are demo accounts on real market data, and no trade is executed in a live market. There is no real-capital stage. Rewards are paid in real money, calculated from the simulated results.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Is there a real-capital account after the funded stage? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Whether the account you trade is simulated or live in each stage, where its prices come from, and whether the firm copies trades into positions of its own. A firm copying your trades does not make your account live.
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Read the guide: Does a perpetual prop account trade live money?
Platforms
Platforms: The same challenge on any of five, picked after buying: Hyro, HyroTrader's own platform on live Bybit market data, which needs no exchange account; the trader's own Bybit or BloFin demo account, connected by API; or the Tealstreet or Tiger.com terminal on Bybit market data, with API keys HyroTrader creates. The terminals are not available in the United States or where Bybit is restricted. HyroTrader decides which platforms a trader can use and may change that.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Which platforms can I use for trading? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · When will I get the account? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What are the country restrictions on the Tealstreet and Tiger terminals? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. The platforms the firm offers in this market, with any extra charge or country limit it states. It is the firm's list for all its accounts in the market.
Platform access and eligibility
Platform access and eligibility: Hyro, HyroTrader's own platform, which needs no exchange account; a Bybit or BloFin demo account, or the Tealstreet or Tiger.com terminal (not in the United States or where Bybit is restricted), are the alternatives. Not for residents or citizens of, companies incorporated in, or anyone located in Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma (Myanmar), the Central African Republic, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen or Zimbabwe, or the Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine; a further list of countries is served case by case. 18 or older. KYC with HyroTrader (Sumsub) after the pass, and a Demo Funded Trader Agreement, before the funded account.
Official sources: HyroTrader · Which platforms can I use for trading? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What are the country restrictions on the Tealstreet and Tiger terminals? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Terms and Conditions (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · Do I need KYC to trade on Hyro? (checked 2 November 2026); HyroTrader · What is the legal relationship between a trader and HyroTrader during account management? (checked 2 November 2026).
About this rule. Who can buy the account: age, identity checks and country restrictions, and any platform limits by country.
Ratings
Not rated. Overall program scores and reliability ratings are not published yet; the figures above are measurements of stated terms, not a verdict.