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Challenge Tier (Prop Firm)
The Challenge plan is a prop-firm-optimized subscription at the same $39/month as Essential, built for traders running funded-account challenges where strict daily-loss and drawdown rules apply. It includes one trading account and a 7-day trial. This page covers what makes it different and when to pick it over Essential.
What it costs and includes
| Challenge | |
|---|---|
| Price | $39/month or $390/year |
| Trading accounts | 1 included |
| Telegram channels | Unlimited |
| Trades | Unlimited |
| Monitoring | 24/7 |
| Support | Email support |
| Trial | 7-day trial |
The plan also carries a Prop Firm Optimized designation, which signals that it is tuned for funded-account trading.
How it differs from Essential
Challenge and Essential cost the same, include the same single trading account, and run the exact same trade engine. At the billing level the only real difference is the Prop Firm Optimized label, which marks the plan as built for funded-account challenges and pairs it with prop-firm-appropriate defaults and guidance.
The Challenge plan does not unlock a richer feature set than Essential. Its value is on the trading side: the defaults and Risk Limits guidance that keep a funded account inside the firm's rules. Those live on the pages linked below.
Same price as Essential
Challenge and Essential both cost $39/month. The difference is prop-firm tuning, not price.
One trading account per Challenge plan
Essential users can buy add-on account slots. Challenge users cannot — the Challenge plan supports exactly one trading account today, with no add-on slots. If you run challenges across more than one funded account, each one needs its own arrangement for now.
One account per Challenge plan
The Challenge plan supports a single trading account, and add-on slots are not available on it. If you run multiple funded accounts, plan around this limit.
When to choose Challenge
Pick Challenge if your account is a prop-firm challenge or funded account with hard daily-loss or max-drawdown limits. Pick Essential if it is a personal account with no external drawdown rules. The price is the same either way, so the choice is about intent, not cost.
Example — funded challenge. You bought a $100k FTMO challenge. Pick Challenge, connect the funded account, and set a daily-loss Risk Limit below the firm's threshold so TTMT halts before you breach.
Example — personal account. You trade your own $5k account with no external rules. Essential is the right fit; Challenge buys you nothing extra at the billing level for a personal account.
Example — two funded accounts. You are running two funded accounts at once. The Challenge plan currently supports one account, so plan around that limit rather than expecting both under a single Challenge subscription.
Setting up for a prop challenge
The plan is only step one. The work that actually protects a challenge from a rules breach is connecting your funded account and configuring Risk Limits, so an automatic daily-loss halt stops trading before you cross the firm's limit.
The plan is step one
Choosing Challenge does not protect your account on its own. Set up Risk Limits to halt trading before a rules breach — see the prop-firm setup guide and Risk Limits & Halt.
Switching plans
You can switch between Challenge and another tier from the billing page like any plan change — upgrades prorate immediately, downgrades take effect at the end of the billing cycle. See Billing Management for the details.
Related pages
- Prop Firm Setup — connecting and configuring a funded account.
- Risk Limits & Halt — the automatic daily-loss halt that protects a challenge.
- Subscription Plans — full tier comparison.
- Billing Management — switching plans and proration.

