Two ways to write one rule
A minimum payout written in dollars is 20 different rules
6 programmes here publish a smallest payout. 2 write it as a share of the initial balance, which asks the same thing of every account. 4 write it as a fixed sum and sell the account across a ladder spanning 20 times — so one sentence is 10% of the balance at the bottom rung and 0.5% at the top.
It bites hardest where the account is smallest. Moneta Funded's $500 floor is 10% of their $5K account — the same figure their own evaluation asks for, to be made a second time before any money moves.
Written in money
The sum is fixed and the account is not, so the share it represents falls as you buy bigger.
| Account | $5K | $10K | $25K | $50K | $100K |
| The floor is | 10% | 5.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.50% |
Its own evaluation asks 10%. On the $5K account the payout floor is 10%.
The payout gate is stricter than the cadence suggests: 14 days since your first trade, an available profit of $500 or more, AND no payout in the prior 14 days. A fortnightly cycle with a floor attached is not a fortnightly cycle.
| Account | $5K | $10K | $25K | $50K | $100K |
| The floor is | 10% | 5.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.50% |
Its own evaluation asks 15%. On the $5K account the payout floor is 10%.
The same payout gate as the 1-Step: 14 days since the first trade, $500 available profit, and no payout in the previous 14 days.
| Account | $5K | $10K | $25K | $50K | $100K |
| The floor is | 10% | 5.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.50% |
Its own evaluation asks 15%. On the $5K account the payout floor is 10%.
The same Second Chance promotion applied while it ran, and the same payout gate.
| Account | $2.5K | $5K | $10K | $25K | $50K |
| The floor is | 4.0% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.40% | 0.20% |
Base profit split 80%, stated as flat for this product. Payouts every 14 days on $100 minimum realised profit. High-impact news trading is not permitted, and the product is not eligible for resets.
Written as a share
The same demand at every size, and the sum it comes to rises with the account rather than the difficulty.
$5K → $50 · $10K → $100 · $25K → $250 · $50K → $500 · $100K → $1,000 · $200K → $2,000
Leverage 1:30 on FX, 1:10 on metals, indices and commodities, 1:2 on crypto. Payouts every 14 days, minimum request 1% of the initial balance. Thirty consecutive days without a closed trade closes the account.
$10K → $100 · $25K → $250 · $50K → $500 · $100K → $1,000 · $200K → $2,000
Payouts are bounded at both ends: the minimum is 1% of the initial balance and the maximum 10% of it per payout.
Which unit a rule is written in is a decision
Everything else on a prop firm’s pricing page scales: the profit target is a percentage, the daily loss limit is a percentage, the drawdown is a percentage. They mean the same thing on a $5K account and on a $100K one, which is what makes a ladder of account sizes a ladder of the same product.
A payout floor in dollars breaks that. It is the one rule that does not scale, and it moves against the buyer in the direction people buy when they are starting: the smallest account carries the largest demand. Nothing suggests that is designed — a round number is easier to publish than a percentage — but the effect is real and no pricing page shows it, because the pricing page shows the sum.
The two firms writing it as a share have the same rule and no such effect. That is the whole finding: not that one floor is higher than another, but that one of them is a single rule and the other is 5 rules wearing one sentence.
What this does not measure
- · Firms that publish no floor. Most do not, on the pages read here. Absence from this page means nothing was recorded, not that no minimum exists.
- · The rest of the gate. Moneta’s floor sits inside a fuller condition — fourteen days since the first trade and no payout in the previous fortnight — and Blue Guardian require five profitable days before a payout without publishing a sum at all.
- · Whether the payout is made. A published minimum is a rule about requesting money, not about receiving it, and no published rule answers the second question.
- · Any failure probability. None of the arithmetic elsewhere on this site reads this field; a payout floor governs what happens after the challenge is behind you.
Where these rules were read
Moneta Funded — product offerings — read 2026-08-23
Blueberry Funded — help centre — read 2026-08-23
Era Trade — challenge rules and pricing — read 2026-08-22
Questions
- What is the minimum payout at a prop firm?
- Where it is published at all, it takes one of two shapes. Blueberry Funded and Era Trade write it as 1% of the initial balance, so it is 1% whatever size you buy. Moneta Funded and Blueberry Funded write it as a fixed sum — $500 and $100 — which is a different demand at every rung of the ladder they sell it on.
- Why does a fixed dollar minimum matter?
- Because it is largest exactly where the account is smallest. Moneta Funded's $500 floor is 10% of their $5K account and 0.5% of their $100K one. On the smallest account that is 10% — the same figure the evaluation itself asked for, to be made again on the funded account before any money moves.
- Is there a maximum payout too?
- One firm publishes both ends. Era Trade bound each payout to no less than 1% and no more than 10% of the initial balance, so a good month on their funded account cannot be withdrawn in one request. No other firm read here publishes a ceiling.
- Do most prop firms publish a minimum payout?
- No. It is recorded on 6 of the programmes read here, at 3 firms. For everyone else the figure is either not published or was not on the pages read, and a payout minimum is not something a pricing page usually carries.