Compare

Apex Trader Funding vs Topstep.

Side-by-side: published figures, trader-reported estimates, the categories each operates in. Numbers are ranges, not verdicts.

Side-by-side

2 published figures · trader-reported estimates · terms

Dimension	Apex Trader Funding	Topstep
Jurisdiction	not published	not published
Regulator	None (proprietary trading firm; simulated accounts)	None (proprietary trading firm; simulated accounts)
Profit split	—	90%
Evaluation	not published	not published
News	not published	not published
Weekend	not published	not published
EAs	not published	not published
Payout rules	not published	Up to 50% of account reward balance, max $5,000 (Standard) / $6,000 (Consistency XFA) per payout
Denial-rate estimate	no published figure	no published figure
Tier	No data yet	No data yet
Verified	0	0
Reported	0	0
ZPD	—	—
Denial clauses	not yet extracted	not yet extracted
Controversy	1	2

Firm dossiers

2 full profiles · sources · corrections record

Dossier · accessed 2026-08-03

Apex Trader Funding

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Dossier · accessed 2026-08-03

Referral programs

2 affiliate CPA · does not change the denial-rate

Apex Trader Funding

No public referral program verified for Apex Trader Funding.

Topstep

No public referral program verified for Topstep.

Affiliate CPA — where a program is verified — does not change the denial-rate. The leaderboard is ordered by the published denial-rate estimate, not by affiliate yield. See the conflict-of-interest section.

Sources

4 primary documents · accessed dates verbatim

Apex Trader Policies (not fetchable — HTTP 403; numeric fields pending) accessed 2026-08-03
Apex Rules page (not fetchable — HTTP 403) accessed 2026-08-03
Topstep homepage (profit split 90%, payout cadence, self-reported performance stats) accessed 2026-08-03
Topstep Express Funded Account Rules (payout paths, consistency, profit split) accessed 2026-08-03