Take Profit Trader review: fees, rules and all-in cost

Is Take Profit Trader the right choice?

Take Profit Trader stands apart on a point no sales page puts forward: it is the only firm in this comparison whose pricing table carries a fee charged on the payout itself. Everywhere else, everything you pay is paid before you have earned anything at all — evaluation, resets, activation. Here, an extra line item fires at the moment the money leaves the account. It is public and it carries an amount, the table below counts it, but it is due on every payout and not once and for all: the reference scenario bills a single one, your payout rhythm decides the rest.

The rest of the model fits in one sentence: the evaluation is rented by the month, it is not bought outright. As long as the test is not passed, the clock runs and the bill runs with it. That is the parameter which governs everything else on this page: the price shown at the top is a monthly rent, never a total. Two traders who pass the same test do not pay the same amount — the one who takes several months pays several times. That is exactly the question weighed in subscription or one-off payment, and it is the first thing to settle before comparing this firm with another.

On publication, the firm does the work: every announced fee carries a public amount and no line is left “not published”. The total computed here is therefore a firm amount and not a floor — which is not the case everywhere in this comparison. The reservations lie elsewhere, and they are real: the drawdown hardens once you are funded, and a permanent promotion announces activation as free while the pricing table goes on billing it.

Strengths

• No announced fee without an amount: the total cost shown on this page is a firm amount, not a floor — which is not true of every firm compared here.
• The evaluation drawdown is calculated at the end of the day (EOD): the limit moves on the closing balance and not on unrealised profit passed through during the session, so you know your margin for error before opening the position.
• The reset price is published for every account size, and at every size it stays below one month's subscription: failing mid-period can be made good without buying a whole month again, which makes the mistake markedly cheaper than at firms where a failure means starting the evaluation over from scratch.
• The activation fee carries an amount and is attached explicitly to the funded account: it is neither hidden inside the headline price nor left to be discovered after passing, as it is at several competitors.

Watch out for

• The fee charged on every payout is unique in this comparison, and it comes on top of a payout split that is among the least favourable recorded here: what you actually bank is lower than the announced percentage lets you believe, and the gap widens if you take out small amounts often.
• The drawdown hardens after you pass: predictable at the close during the test, it becomes trailing on the PRO account — that is, it follows the unrealised profit you never banked. The phase where your money is at stake is therefore the less predictable of the two, and the firm belongs to the very small group in this comparison where the constraint worsens in that direction. One qualification, on a point the firm publishes and this page used to pass over: the next tier, PRO+, returns to the end-of-day drawdown, removes the buffer requirement and takes the split to 90/10 — but it is a live-market account, and the conditions for reaching it are not put in figures on the pricing table. The amounts compared here therefore remain those of the PRO tier, the one you reach by passing the test.
• The monthly subscription turns slowness into cost: the pricing table offers no one-off-payment plan at all, so a cautious trader who spreads the test out mechanically pays more than a trader in a hurry, for an identical result.
• The permanent promotion announces a lifetime discount and activation never billed, with no end date and no conditions published beside the price, while the pricing table goes on showing that activation as due. The two figures on this page therefore do not answer the same question. The cost table is computed excluding the promo code and counts activation at the pricing table's rate; the calculator, with the code applied, takes it out entirely, as the firm announces. The gap between the two is exactly what the banner's promise is worth — and it is for the firm to write it into its pricing table, not for the reader to assume it.

Who it suits

This model suits the trader who already has a settled method, who aims to pass the test in a few months rather than to explore it, and who then takes payouts in spaced-out amounts rather than in small frequent ones — since every payout triggers its own fee, a tight payout rhythm is here the most efficient way to lose margin. It suits three profiles poorly: the one who is starting out and needs time, because the subscription bills that time by the full month; the one building a regular income out of frequent payouts, because the payout fee and the split add up against them; and the one who tolerates a trailing drawdown badly, since that is precisely the regime that applies once the account is funded, after a test passed under a gentler one. Before deciding, run your own scenario: this firm's ranking changes completely depending on the number of months you allow yourself.

What are the trading rules at Take Profit Trader?

The structural point is the change of drawdown regime between the two phases. During the evaluation, the maximum loss is measured on the closing balance: a position that runs up hard during the session and then comes back down moves nothing, only what is left in the evening counts, and you can work out the next day's limit in advance. Once funded, the threshold becomes trailing: it climbs with the highest point the account reaches, including on gains never realised. The practical consequence is counter-intuitive — the strategy that got you through the test is not necessarily the one that survives afterwards, because letting a gain run and then giving it back cost nothing before and costs margin after.

On billing, three events follow one another and they do not fall in the same phase. The evaluation subscription runs as long as the test is not passed: it is a rent, it renews, and it is what explains the gap between the headline price and the page's total. The reset is a catch-up option, published size by size, and since it costs less than one month's subscription on every account, it is almost always more rational to reset immediately than to let the period run out. The activation fee, finally, only fires on success, on the funded account: it never appears in the price you see first, and it is the most common reason a trader finds that their bill does not look like the advertisement.

The payout fee deserves separate treatment, because it changes the logic of the gain. Every other line item is an entry cost: you pay it for the right to trade. This one is an exit cost, taken from the transfer, regardless of the amount requested — it therefore weighs proportionally far more heavily on a small payout than on a large one. Added to the profit split, which is here one of the least generous in the comparison, and to a capped payout model, it forms a whole in which the question “how much do I make” is answered less by the advertised percentage than by how often you intend to take money out. This page's reference scenario counts a single payout; multiply it in your head by your real rhythm.

One clarification about the rules table below: it now carries the evaluation's thresholds size by size — profit target, maximum loss limit, consistency rule, minimum trading days and contract limit — read off the official pages. What stays marked “not recorded” is marked so plainly: it never means the firm is hiding it, but that this comparison has not verified it at source. Confusing the two would saddle the firm with an opacity that would be ours. On the pricing side, by contrast, the finding is positive and entirely backed by figures.

"Not checked" means this comparison did not verify the point on the pass of August 16, 2026 — not that the firm hides it. Gaps that are the firm's own doing are listed separately below.

How much is the Take Profit Trader activation fee?

Activation fee at Take Profit Trader: the firm charges $130 (one-off) on 5 plans. Recorded August 16, 2026.

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How much does a reset cost at Take Profit Trader?

Reset fee at Take Profit Trader: the firm charges from $79 to $199 (per reset) on 5 plans. Recorded August 16, 2026.

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Does Take Profit Trader charge monthly or data fees?

In evaluation, Take Profit Trader bills a monthly subscription: from $150 to $360. No data fee and no monthly fee line was recorded at Take Profit Trader on this pass: that silence is ours — the firm has not stated that there are none.

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How does the Take Profit Trader drawdown work?

The Take Profit Trader drawdown is EOD in evaluation, and TRAIL once funded. Maximum threshold: from $1,500 to $4,500, depending on account size. No plan imposes a daily loss limit. From the pass of August 16, 2026.

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What is the Take Profit Trader consistency rule?

In evaluation, Take Profit Trader imposes a 50% consistency rule. On the funded account, the firm states no consistency rule. The maths: best day divided by total profit, kept at or below the stated rate. From the pass of August 16, 2026.

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What are Take Profit Trader's payout rules?

Payouts at Take Profit Trader: split 80/20, payouts capped per request, first payout after 0 trading days, payout fee $50 (per payout). From the pass of August 16, 2026.

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What does Take Profit Trader cost to first payout?

The price a prop firm advertises covers the evaluation alone. The table below adds activation, resets and recurring fees on a realistic scenario.

Reference scenario, the same for every firm on this site: 2 months in evaluation, 1 reset, 1 funded month, before any promo code. Change the scenario →

What are Take Profit Trader's prices, tier by tier?

Take Profit Trader publishes 5 evaluation plans across 5 account sizes — from $150 to $360 (per month). Recorded August 16, 2026.

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Is there a promo code for Take Profit Trader right now?

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