Apex Trader Funding vs Tradeify: which prop firm is better?

Cost: Apex vs Tradeify

Both firms sell one-time evaluations. Apex adds an activation fee when you pass and gives you 30 days to pass; Tradeify charges no activation fee and offers resets. Both publish their own codes: Apex's help center points traders to SAVENOW, which took 90% off evaluations on October 25, 2026, and Tradeify's homepage advertised GEMS for 30% off until October 31.

Apex evaluations expire after 30 days with no resets. With current codes a first-time pass costs about the same at Tradeify ($115.50) and Apex Intraday ($123.90). If you need more attempts, Apex's coupon makes them cheaper. At list prices Tradeify is far cheaper ($165 against $348 for Apex Intraday with activation).

Rules and drawdown

Apex lets you pass in one day with no consistency rule and allows more contracts. Tradeify Select needs three days, but its Growth evaluation can also be passed in one day, with a soft daily loss limit.

Once funded, Tradeify keeps an end-of-day drawdown on every account, and Select has no consistency rule. Apex keeps the drawdown type you chose and requires your largest day to be under 50% of profit before each payout. See our trailing drawdown guide.

Payouts: Apex vs Tradeify

Apex pays 100% of approved payouts, but a 50K account closes after its sixth payout, at most $13,000 in total ($14,500 on an Intraday account). Tradeify pays 90%, with a daily option on Select Daily. On Tradeify funded accounts the microscalping rule applies: most of your trades and profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds before you can request a payout.

Platforms and trading rules

Apex supports NinjaTrader, Tradovate and WealthCharts. Tradeify supports Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Tradesea and WealthCharts. If you trade on TradingView, Tradeify is the option of the two.

• News: Tradeify has no news rules. Apex allows news with your normal strategy but bans chasing releases or placing orders on both sides.
• Automation: Apex does not allow automation or algorithms.
• Overnight positions: neither allows them. Close by 4:59 PM ET at Apex and 4:45 PM ET at Tradeify.
• Inactivity: Apex needs two days of $50+ profit in every 30 days on each funded account; Tradeify needs at least one trade a week.

Trust and track record

Apex Trader Funding was founded in 2021 in Austin, Texas, and reports more than $692 million paid to traders since 2022. Tradeify says it has paid more than $350 million to traders, and its affiliated broker, Tradeify Brokerage LLC, is a CFTC-registered introducing broker and NFA member, according to Tradeify.

Both publish detailed public help centers, which we used for this comparison.

Bottom line

Pick Tradeify if you want no activation fee, an end-of-day drawdown everywhere, no news rules, no funded consistency rule and TradingView. Pick Apex Trader Funding if you pass in one day, retry often while its coupon runs, want 100% of approved payouts and plan to run up to 20 accounts. For every rule in detail, read our full Apex Trader Funding review and Tradeify review.