90 evaluations · 27 firms · 1 figure
Every target is net of costs, and one firm says what they are
You pass an evaluation by being up by the profit target after commission and swap have come out. So the number on the pricing page is not the number you have to make, on any of the 90 evaluations here.
Breakout publish the difference:
- “Our trading fees are 0.04% per side”
- “A swap fee of 0.033% per open position per day applies on positions held overnight.”
Recorded on all 3 of their plans: 1-Step Turbo, 1-Step Pro, 1-Step Classic.
The other 26 firms read for this site publish a target and not what reaching it costs.
The assumption, before the arithmetic
A fee of 0.04% per side is 0.04% of the position, not of the account. Turning it into account terms needs a position size, and nobody publishes one because it changes with every trade.
So everything below assumes the smallest size that is defensible at all: notional equal to the account, no leverage whatsoever. Every real position is larger, so every count below is a ceiling and the true cost arrives sooner. Picking a leverage instead would produce a more dramatic number and a less honest one.
What 0.08% a round trip comes to
| Breakout plan | Target | Drawdown | Round trips = the drawdown | Round trips = the target | Overnight days = the drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Step Turbo | 9% | 3% | 37 | 112 | 90 |
| 1-Step Pro | 12% | 5% | 62 | 150 | 151 |
| 1-Step Classic | 10% | 6% | 75 | 125 | 181 |
Read the fourth column as: this many trades, every one of them break-even before costs, would end the account on their own. On the 1-Step Turbo that is 37 — at no leverage. A trader running three times the account in notional reaches it in a third of them.
Why the tightest plan is where it bites
Breakout’s 1-Step Turbo sells a 3% drawdown, and their own marketing is straight about what that means — the cheapest plan with the tightest buffer. Costs are a fixed toll on every trade, so the smaller the buffer, the larger the share of it the toll takes.
Which is the uncomfortable shape of the whole category: the cheapest evaluations are the tightest ones, and the tightest ones are the ones where an undisclosed fixed cost matters most. A trader picking on price is picking the plan most sensitive to the number 26 of 27 firms do not print.
None of the probabilities anywhere on this site include any of this. They model a run of losing trades against a cap, and a commission is not a losing trade — it is a smaller, certain one on every trade, winners included. Every figure this site publishes is therefore optimistic by an amount only one firm gives you the means to calculate.
What this does not measure
- · Whether the other 26 are dearer or cheaper. They publish nothing this reading found, which is not the same as charging more. A firm routing to a raw-spread broker could easily cost less than Breakout and simply not say so.
- · The spread. Breakout’s figures are commission and swap. The spread is a further cost, it varies by instrument and by minute, and no firm here publishes it either.
- · Your position size. The single assumption everything above rests on, set to the smallest value that makes sense so the counts come out as ceilings.
- · Where else a firm might publish this. Costs often live on a broker or platform page rather than a rules page. Absence here means absent from the rules read for this site.
Where these figures were read
Breakout — programme rules — read 2026-08-23
Questions
- Do prop firms charge commission on trades?
- Almost all of them route to a broker or platform that does, and the cost comes out of your account like any other loss. Of the 27 firms read for this site, 1 publishes the figure: Breakout, at 0.04% per side and 0.033% per open position per day held overnight. The other 26 publish a profit target without publishing what reaching it costs.
- How much does commission eat of a prop firm challenge?
- That depends on position size, which nobody publishes. At the smallest defensible assumption — notional equal to the account, no leverage at all — Breakout's 0.08% round trip means 37 trades of pure cost equal the whole 3% drawdown on their 1-Step Turbo, and 112 equal its 9% target. Any real position is larger than that, so both counts are ceilings and the real bite is bigger.
- Is the profit target net or gross of costs?
- Net. You have to be up by the target after everything has come out, which means the target on the pricing page is not the amount you have to make. No firm here publishes a target adjusted for costs, and only one publishes enough to work it out yourself.
- What about swap on positions held overnight?
- Breakout charge 0.033% per open position per day. At notional equal to the account that is 90 position-days to the 3% drawdown on their tightest plan, before a single losing trade. It is the cost that a swing approach pays and a same-day one does not, and it is invisible on every other firm's rules page here.