How we measure, and how you can check.

PropWorld is an independent analytics site. It is not a prop firm, a broker or a funding provider, and it does not sell challenges or accounts.

It measures what can be measured from outside a firm: how much traffic its website gets, how much it has actually paid traders according to third-party verification, and what its public reputation looks like over time. It does not audit firms, verify their finances, or guarantee that any firm will pay any particular trader.

PropWorld is not a directory of every prop firm that exists, and does not try to be. The site lists the firms its operator actually trades with — so a firm you have heard of may simply not be here.

Why a short list. A page that ranks everything ranks nothing: padding the table with firms we have never funded an account at would mean publishing numbers without the judgement that makes them worth reading. The measured figures on this site come from data sources either way, but the decision to track a firm at all is editorial, and it is ours.

Inclusion is not for sale. Firms cannot pay to be added or removed, and the ones listed are not ranked by what they pay us — see How PropWorld makes money below. The list changes when our view of a firm changes, which is the only thing that moves it.

Traffic figures are third-party monthly estimates of visits to each firm's public website. We capture a snapshot once per month and keep it, so the series builds into a real trend rather than a single point in time. Cadence: refreshed monthly.

Limitations. These are estimates of website visits, produced by a third-party traffic-estimation provider — not a firm's own analytics, and not audited. The provider does not publish a per-site error margin, so a small month-to-month difference should be read as noise rather than movement, and small sites are estimated less accurately than large ones. Visits measure interest in a website, which is not the same as trading volume, funded accounts, revenue or quality. A firm that drives signups through apps, Discord or paid partners rather than its website will look smaller here than it is.

Payout figures are tracked and verified by Payout Junction, an independent service that publishes verified payout totals for prop firms. PropWorld republishes those figures, keeps them as a history, and links each firm to its source record. Payout verification is Payout Junction's, not PropWorld's. Absence of verified payouts is not evidence that a firm does not pay. Cadence: refreshed twice daily from Payout Junction.

Who Payout Junction is. Payout Junction is an independent service that tracks prop-firm payouts, verifies them according to its own published method, and publishes verified totals, counts and leaderboards per firm. As of 3 Nov 2026 it covers 44 firms. PropWorld does not produce these figures: it republishes what Payout Junction has verified and keeps a history of it, so volume can be compared over time — including past the windows the source itself displays.

Payout rails. The source groups payouts by the route they travelled: Rise, a payout provider many firms use, or Direct Crypto, the firm paying a trader directly. Where a firm uses both, the split between the two shown on its page is the source's estimate and is labelled as such.

How to check a total. Every firm's payout section links to that firm's record on Payout Junction, where the verified payouts and the verification method are published. The check is against Payout Junction rather than against us — and where our figure and theirs disagree, theirs is the one to trust. We also publish the source's own rank for each firm next to our ordering, so the two can be compared directly.

What that means for the claim. "Verified" on this site means verified by Payout Junction and attributed to them, not checked by PropWorld. Their coverage is what our coverage is: we add history, ranking and context on top of their numbers, and we do not adjust the numbers themselves.

Limitations. PropWorld shows only what Payout Junction has verified. A firm paying through channels the source does not cover will show little or no payout activity here. Absence of verified payouts is not evidence that a firm does not pay. The source publishes verified totals rather than individual payout records, so PropWorld cannot count how many distinct traders a figure represents — a count like that is left out rather than estimated. Amounts are in USD as the source records them and will not match a trader's realised amount after fees or conversion.

Ratings, review counts, rating distributions and review text are collected from TrustPilot and snapshotted monthly, which is what makes the reputation history possible. Cadence: refreshed monthly.

These ratings are TrustPilot's, not ours. They are always labelled as such on the site, and they are deliberately not marked up as PropWorld's own rating in structured data. Where PropWorld shows its own editorial score, it appears as a separate figure called "Our review"; a firm the operator has not yet rated says so.

Limitations. Public review platforms can be gamed in both directions, by firms soliciting positive reviews and by disputes producing negative ones. Treat a rating as a signal of sentiment, not a measure of solvency.

PRS is PropWorld's own metric. The full formula is published here so anyone can recompute it from the numbers shown on the page — an opaque score would be worth nothing in a category where rating integrity is the central complaint. The formula in use is version 2026-10-26; every change to it is listed below, and a score quoted elsewhere should carry the version it was computed with.

Payout Reliability Score (PRS) — PropWorld's own 0-100 score measuring how much a prop firm actually pays its traders and how sustainable that payout flow looks. Higher is better.

Formula version 2026-10-26: weights unchanged since 2026-07-29, payout brackets refitted on 2026-10-26. The version history is published on the methodology page.

PRS = scale (0-30) + activity (0-20) + audience (0-15) + momentum (0-10) + operator rating (0-20) + tenure (0-5)

1. Scale (30 pts) - total USD paid to traders, lifetime, as verified by Payout Junction.
   Scored on a log scale from $100,000 (0 pts) to $500,000,000 (full marks).
2. Activity (20 pts) - number of verified payouts over the last 30 days, log-scored
   from 10 (0 pts) to 40,000 (full marks). A high payout count cannot be produced
   by one large payout the way volume can.
3. Audience (15 pts) - monthly website visits, log-scored from 10,000 (0 pts) to
   20,000,000 (full marks). Visits proxy the inflow of new customers that funds the
   payouts. This term counts FOR a firm on purpose: an earlier version divided payouts by visits
   and rewarded the ratio, which praised exactly the wrong firms - a small audience paying out
   heavily is not "efficient", it is burning cash. That case now triggers a separate cashflow
   warning instead of points.
4. Momentum (10 pts) - month-over-month change in payout volume and in visits (last two
   complete months), averaged, clamped to ±50%. Flat = 5 pts; a firm winding down
   loses points before it stops paying entirely.
5. Operator rating (20 pts) - PropWorld's editorial 0-10 rating of the firm's rules, terms
   and payout friction. The one human input, so it is disclosed on every firm's page; unrated
   firms take the neutral midpoint (10 pts), never a penalty.
6. Tenure (5 pts) - years on the market, capped at 10; unknown founding year takes the
   neutral midpoint. Deliberately the smallest weight: longevity earns a nudge, not a verdict.

Every log component is scored across a published floor-to-cap bracket rather than from zero, so
the real distribution spreads across the full range instead of everyone landing near the top. The
payout brackets were last fitted on 2026-10-26, against a tracked field spanning $507,000 to
$418,000,000 in lifetime verified payouts and 5 to 28,100 payouts per 30 days.

Bands: 80-100 Exceptional, 60-79 Strong, 40-59 Moderate, 20-39 Thin, below 20 Minimal.

PRS is reported as "not available", never as 0, when a firm has no Payout Junction verified payout
record or no traffic data - "we have no data" and "they pay nothing" are different claims.

Related disclosures, shown as badges next to a firm's name:
- Cashflow warning: audience between 10,000 and 100,000 monthly visits while payouts exceeded
  $3,000 per 1,000 visits across the last two complete months - heavy outflow relative to the
  likely inflow. Below 10,000 monthly visits the traffic reading itself is too thin to divide by, so
  no ratio is computed and no flag is raised; that case is what the "Limited data" badge is for.
- Limited data: the operator's manual flag that a firm's numbers rest on thin data (a very low
  traffic reading, or a short payout-verification history) and should be read with caution.

Limitations: PRS counts only payouts Payout Junction has verified. A firm paying traders through
channels Payout Junction does not cover - bank transfer, or a rail it does not track - will score
low or show as unavailable, which is a gap in coverage and not a finding about the firm. The payout
figures are Payout Junction's, not PropWorld's: PropWorld republishes them and links each firm to
its source page. PRS measures observed payout activity and public commercial signals (third-party
traffic estimates, years on market and the operator's published rating), not a firm's solvency or
trading conditions. PropWorld audits nothing.

Version history. The weights have not changed since 2026-07-29; the brackets were refitted when the payout source changed. Scores computed before a change are not restated.

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Affiliate relationships never affect the numbers. Traffic, payout and reputation figures come from data sources, not from commercial arrangements. No firm can pay to raise its ranking, change its PRS, hide a payout, or be removed from a comparison.

If a figure on this site looks wrong, it may well be. Data sources change formats, a scraped source can break on a layout change, a firm's record can move to a different slug at the source, an estimated rail split can drift, and firms rebrand. Report it through the About page, naming the page and the figure. We will check the source and correct or withdraw the figure, and a correction that changed a published number is noted on the page it affected.

Attribute figures to PropWorld and link the specific page the number is on, so a reader can check the date it applies to. Always include the period for traffic figures (they are monthly) and the "as of" date for payout totals. Do not describe PropWorld's traffic estimates as a firm's own analytics, do not describe TrustPilot ratings as PropWorld ratings, and do not describe payout verification as PropWorld's own — payouts are verified by Payout Junction and republished here.

Suggested form. "Source: PropWorld (propworld.org), https://www.propworld.org/prop/{firm}, data as of {date}; payout figures verified by Payout Junction."

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