Funded Futures Network Now Sells a Skip the Eval Route at Checkout, and at 50K It Shows at More Than Five Times the Evaluation Price
Funded Futures Network has added a paid option that lets a trader bypass its evaluation entirely and start in a simulated funded account, and the firm now shows it as a straight choice in its own account selector: Evaluation or Skip the Eval. On the firm’s home page, with its 50 percent code applied, the two options for a 50K MAX Standard account display at $89 and $475, which puts the cost of skipping at more than five times the cost of attempting. The firm announced the option to its mailing list on 7 October 2026 under the subject line “The eval stage is now optional”. For traders, the interesting question is not whether paying to skip is good value in the abstract, but what the gap between those two numbers says about what an evaluation is actually worth to the firm.
What the Checkout Now Offers
Funded Futures Network sells two account types, both one time payments. MAX Standard uses an end of day drawdown and requires five days to pass. STEADY uses the same end of day drawdown and requires two days. Once a size is chosen, the firm presents a funding step headed with a question of its own: whether the trader wants to be eligible for a first payout in three days instead of eight. Beneath it sit the two routes, Evaluation and Skip the Eval, each with a price.
That framing is the clearest statement any futures firm has published about what the evaluation stage costs a trader in time rather than money. Under the standard route, passing takes a minimum number of trading days and then the funded account has its own clock before a first payout. The firm’s own figure for the combined wait is eight days. The Skip the Eval route removes the first part of that and, on the firm’s framing, cuts the wait to three.
The MAX Standard evaluation prices are published in full, with the discounted figure beside the list figure: $74 against $148 at 25K, $89 against $178 at 50K, $174 against $348 at 100K, $204 against $408 at 150K, and $329 against $658 at 250K. The 50K account carries a $3,000 profit target, a $2,000 maximum drawdown and five minimum trading days. Platform choices are Rithmic, Onyx, Nexus Trader and Nexus Connect, and the firm says the price includes a licence for a preferred platform, either Onyx or Quantower under its FundX branding.
The Price of Skipping, Set Against the Price of Passing
The two numbers that matter sit side by side in the same view, with the same discount applied, so the comparison is like for like. At 50K, the evaluation route shows $89 and the Skip the Eval route shows $475. That is a ratio of about 5.3 to one. Expressed differently, a trader could buy five evaluation attempts at that size for less than one direct entry, which is the arithmetic anyone weighing the two should run first.
Whether $475 is itself a discounted figure is not established. The firm displays a struck list price next to each evaluation size but shows only a single number for Skip the Eval, and it publishes no list price for that route. JoinProp is not reporting a list figure for it, because the firm has not given one.
What the gap buys is worth stating plainly: it is time and certainty, not better terms. Nothing on the firm’s page indicates that a Skip the Eval account carries different drawdown, a different target or a different profit split from an account that arrived by passing. A trader who is confident of passing a $3,000 target inside five days is paying $386 to avoid five days and the risk of failing. A trader who is not confident is paying to remove a test they might not pass, which is a different proposition and a more expensive one than it looks, because the funded account still has to perform.
The Two for One Offer Running Alongside It Closes on 31 October
Separately from the skip option, the firm is running a promotion that it describes on its own page in plain terms: two accounts for half the price of one. Buying any Steady or Max account at 50 percent off causes a second account to appear in the trader’s dashboard, activated by a click, with no email or receipt required. Only one free account can be active at a time. The firm states that the offer ends on 31 October, and that terms apply.
The closing date is the useful detail, because most firms running a code this month have published none. It also sets a boundary on the $89 figure above. After 31 October, on the firm’s own numbers, the 50K MAX Standard evaluation returns to $178, and the comparison against the Skip the Eval route changes accordingly if that price is fixed.
The one free account active at a time condition is the part worth reading twice. It means the second account is a sequential benefit rather than a parallel one: a trader cannot run both at once and double the chance of passing in the same window. That matches a pattern across the sector this month, where free second accounts are offered freely but gated so that they cannot be used to stack attempts.
What Funded Futures Network Has Not Published
Several things a trader would want to know are not on the page. The firm does not state whether the Skip the Eval price varies by account size, and the $475 figure was displayed with a 50K account selected. It does not state whether the option is available on STEADY as well as MAX Standard. It does not state whether a Skip the Eval purchase counts as a qualifying purchase under the two for one offer, or whether the free second account would be an evaluation. It publishes no closing date for the skip option itself.
On the funded side, the firm’s own comparison table lists its funded drawdown as “Static +100” against an intraday model it attributes to rivals, a profit split of up to 90/10 in live funded against 80/20, daily payout frequency in live funded, and an average support response time of ten seconds. It reports more than 259,300 accounts and says it has been in business since 2022. The split is given as “up to”, and the page does not set out which plans reach it or what the base split is before scaling, which is the single most useful number missing from the page.
One note on sourcing. The home page served normally in a browser but refuses requests from a server, so every figure here was read from the rendered page rather than from a report. The 50 percent discount code appears in the firm’s own top banner and in its own affiliate mailing, so it is the firm’s own published code and not a private link.
What This Means for the Broader Prop Industry
Paying to skip an evaluation is not new. Instant funding has existed for years, usually sold as a separate product line with its own rules, its own pricing page and often a worse payout structure. What is new here is the presentation. Funded Futures Network has not built a separate instant funding product; it has put the evaluation itself on a toggle inside the ordinary checkout, as a line item with a price, next to the alternative.
That has an effect beyond this one firm. Once a trader sees the evaluation priced as an optional step, the evaluation stops looking like a qualification and starts looking like a discount for taking on risk. The honest reading of a 5.3 to one ratio is that the firm values the filtering the evaluation performs at roughly four hundred dollars per trader at this size, and is willing to sell that filtering away to anyone who pays. Both readings are defensible and traders will land in different places on it.
The wider pattern is that pricing is becoming the place where prop firms compete on rules. A firm that will not drop its trailing drawdown may instead sell a route around its evaluation; a firm that will not raise its profit split may instead shorten its payout cycle. Comparing headline rules across firms is getting less informative as a result, and comparing total cost against realistic time to a first withdrawal is getting more so. Our 2026 prop firm comparison sets the current lineups side by side, and live codes across the sector are listed on our prop trading discounts page.
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