Crypto/Perps
Vest Markets 2-Step
$10,000 account
Selected public offer only. Buyer eligibility and other variants are outside this comparison.
Sources checked 19 September – 31 October 2026. Reviewed by a site member and AI assistants. Release pfw-release-2026-10-31-pilot, approved 31 October 2026. Each source shows the date it was last checked.
Costs
List price
List price: $35 one-time
Conditions and limits. $35, a one-time payment; no subscription and no recurring charge.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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: $58.33
Conditions and limits. One payment: the one-time fee. Vest names no activation, platform or data fee. Each trade pays the market's trading fee, simulated in the Evaluation Phase but counted toward the loss limits, and open positions pay or receive funding.
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 and multiplied by 1,000.
- List price
- $35 one-time
- Charges in a 30-day attempt
- 1
- Activation fee
- None
- Platform and data fees
- None
- Opening loss allowance
- $600
- Result
- $58.33
Promotions, coupons and optional add-ons are excluded.
Final buyer charges such as taxes or payment fees are not verified.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 30 October 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: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 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 sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 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: Vest's market fees, charged per fill: maker 0%; taker 0.0025% on index and commodity markets, 0.0015% on FX and 0.01% on all other markets. In the Evaluation Phase they are simulated but count toward the loss limits like a realized loss.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Markets (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Order types (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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: Funding is paid between longs and shorts and settled hourly, on position notional at the index price, from each market's base interest rate and the perpetual's premium over its index: crypto 10.95% a year over a 24-hour interval, CME index futures 0% over 48 hours, other CME futures 0% over 120 hours, all other markets 5% over 120 hours. Vest's terms list funding charges among the account's modelled trading costs.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Funding (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 31 October 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 on a profit claim: the split is applied "with no further fees or deductions". Vest names no fee for withdrawals.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Withdrawals (checked 31 October 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: $600
How this is calculated. Opening balance minus the opening total-loss floor, for each required evaluation phase. The smallest result is used.
- Phase 1 opening balance
- $10,000
- Phase 1 opening total-loss floor
- $9,400
- Phase 2 opening balance
- $10,000
- Phase 2 opening total-loss floor
- $9,400
- Result
- $600
Daily loss limits and any trailing of the floor after the opening are separate rules.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 30 October 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: 2.50
How this is calculated. For each required evaluation phase, the profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance. The results are added.
- Phase 1 profit target
- 10% of $10,000 = $1,000
- Phase 1 opening loss allowance
- $600
- Phase 2 profit target
- 5% of $10,000 = $500
- Phase 2 opening loss allowance
- $600
- Result
- 2.50
This describes the shape of the evaluation; it is not a pass probability.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 30 October 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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Evaluation route
Evaluation route: 2-Step $10,000, Vest Capital (Vest Markets' perpetual futures): a fixed build with two Evaluation Phase steps (10%, then 5%), a 6% maximum drawdown, a 3% daily loss limit and an 80% profit split, then a Live Funded Account.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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% then 5%
Conditions and limits. Step 1: 10% of starting capital, $1,000; step 2: 5% of starting capital, $500.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 30 October 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 drawdown $600 (6% of starting capital): a fixed floor at $9,400, set when the account is created, the same in the evaluation and once Live. Profits do not raise it. Account equity, including unrealized P&L, is checked against it at all times, intraday or otherwise, and the account closes immediately and permanently below it. Sources differ on a touch: Vest's Loss Limits page says equality alone does not breach a limit; its FAQ says touching the floor closes the account. Daily loss limit 3% ($300 on $10,000), at both stages: each day's floor is the reset balance at 20:00 ET (balance plus reserved collateral, without unrealized P&L) less 3%, moved dollar for dollar by transfers in or out, and equity is checked against it. Vest's FAQ instead takes the account's equity at 20:00 ET.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 31 October 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: None: no minimum number of trading days and no time limit, in the Evaluation Phase or once Live.
Official source: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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: Sources differ on funded leverage: Vest's documentation gives up to 75x by market, with a table (for example BTC 25x, ETH 15x) and text below it saying BTC and ETH are capped at 15x; its FAQ says up to 50x. No position or order size limits; cross margin across all markets. The order form shows a Fail Price for the loss limits. From Friday 4:00 PM ET leverage on index, FX, gold and silver is cut (see Overnight / weekend).
Official sources: Vest Markets · Cross margin and leverage (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Perpetual contract specifications (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Order types (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Temporary leverage limits (checked 31 October 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: a profit claim can be submitted at any time, as often as you like, with no threshold before the first; open positions or orders may need closing first.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 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: No minimum and no cap on a profit claim. A withdrawal from the Primary Account to a wallet has a 1 USDC minimum, and withdrawals over $50,000 in a rolling 24 hours wait 24 hours.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital accounts and purchase selector (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Withdrawals (checked 30 October 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: None: no consistency rule, no cap on profit from a single day and no minimum trading days.
Official source: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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: The maximum drawdown floor stays fixed: a claim lowers the balance, not the floor. The daily loss floor is lowered by the full amount of a transfer out.
Official source: Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 31 October 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: A profit claim is credited to the Primary Account in USDC within 24 hours; a withdrawal to an external wallet then has a 24-hour processing period. Vest's homepage says "Withdrawals hit your wallet immediately".
Official sources: Vest Markets · Claiming profit (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Withdrawals (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Homepage (checked 31 October 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 stated: no page offers the fee back with a profit claim.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 31 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether and when the challenge fee is paid back after a successful payout.
Cancellation refund
Cancellation refund: Within 3 days of purchase, if the account has not been used: no trades placed. Failing the Evaluation Phase does not qualify. Refunds go back to the original payment method in 5 to 10 business days.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Refund policy (checked 30 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether a purchase can be cancelled and refunded, and on what conditions.
Trading rules
News trading
News trading: None: positions may be opened and held before, during and after any news release.News trading: allowed in both stages.
Official source: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026).
News trading by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed.
Official source: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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: no rule requires closing positions at any time. Non-crypto markets lock over the weekend, with positions held open, and from Friday 4:00 PM ET until they reopen Vest Capital accounts' leverage is cut to 5x on index and FX markets and 3x on gold and silver; positions more than 2% above it are reduced, unless the account is not in drawdown and covers the new margin.Overnight and weekend holding: restricted in both stages.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Temporary leverage limits (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Markets (checked 30 October 2026).
Overnight and weekend holding by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. Allowed, but from Friday 4:00 PM ET until markets reopen, leverage on index and FX markets is cut to 5x and on gold and silver to 3x; positions more than 2% above it are reduced unless the account is not in drawdown and covers the new margin.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Temporary leverage limits (checked 30 October 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: API trading is not available on Vest Capital accounts, in the Evaluation Phase or Live. Copying trades between your own accounts is not addressed; the terms bar misusing multiple accounts, and the FAQ restricts coordinating across funded accounts, such as opposite sides of one market on different accounts.Expert advisors: restricted in both stages.Copying your own trades: not stated by Vest Markets for either stage.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital overview (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 31 October 2026).
Expert advisors by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Restricted. API trading is not available on Vest Capital accounts.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital overview (checked 30 October 2026).
Copying your own trades by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Not stated by Vest Markets.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 30 October 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 breached loss limit closes the account immediately and permanently, without warning or grace period. For a prohibited use, Vest may suspend access or payouts while it investigates, invalidate affected trades or results, deny or recover compensation, and end access.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital loss limits (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 31 October 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 both stages: Vest's Prop Trading Terms of Service say "All Accounts, including Instant Funded Accounts, are simulated" and users "do not execute live trades". Vest may trade or hedge for its own account with its own capital, which does not make the account live. Vest's FAQ and documentation describe the funded account as live, with real capital.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital overview (checked 31 October 2026); Vest Markets · Homepage (checked 31 October 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: Vest Markets, Vest's own perpetual futures platform. Both Vest Capital paths, with an evaluation and Instant, use the same platform and the same execution. API trading is not available on any Vest Capital account, in the Evaluation Phase or Live.
Official sources: Vest Markets · About Vest Markets (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Vest Capital overview (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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: Vest Markets' own platform, the same for both Vest Capital paths. Not for citizens or residents of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria or the Philippines, the Government of Venezuela, or anyone on US, EU, UK or UN sanctions lists; 18 or older. Up to 10 Live Funded Accounts per user.
Official sources: Vest Markets · Vest Capital overview (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Prop Trading Terms of Service (checked 30 October 2026); Vest Markets · Frequently asked questions (checked 30 October 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.