Your Rating qualifies you for a tier. Your membership claims your seat at that tier, and the funded capital, growth mechanic, Floor access, and community come withmembership. Reasonable monthly fees for a real trading career.
Rating earns the eligibility.
Membership claims the seat.
Capital comes with the seat.
Each tier is a membership level. Your Rating qualifies you to claim it; your monthly fee makes you a member. Every membership comes with the funded capital, Floor access, growth mechanic, and community of that tier, at a fee that's a fraction of a percent of the capital you're trading.
A free $10K account to get started. Self-directed trading, public profile, Rating tracking, and access to Daily Funded Sessions and Trading Rooms to start earning. The starting ground for everything that follows.
The first funded tier of your Desk career. Your $25K funded account grows $2,500 every month you sustain your Rating, reaching $50K in 10 months. Full access to every Room type at the Junior community level.
The capital tier most retail traders know. $100K funded, growing $10,000/month to $200K in 10 months as your Rating sustains. The community of working career traders, all Room types open to you.
A tier above what direct-funded firms typically reach. $250K funded, growing $25,000/month to $500K in 10 months as your Rating holds. The Elite community.
The institutional milestone. $1M floor, growing $100,000/month to $2M in 10 months. The Master cohort. The best fee-to-capital ratio in the industry.
The platform's apex. $5M floor, $10M ceiling. Not purchasable at any price. Reserved for traders who have demonstrated sustained excellence at Master and earned committee invitation.
Every tier on the ladder above is unlocked through trading. Open Tier is the only one you can open today. Free $10K account, opens the moment you sign up. Start your record, build your Rating, climb.
A funded membership is the long game. But you do not have to wait for it to earn. On the free Open tier, two pay-as-you-go options turn your trading into real, withdrawable money right away, no subscription required.
Pay once and your $10,000 account goes fully funded for a full day. Trade it your way, no target and no one to beat. End in profit and you keep a quality-scored share, up to 100%, paid to your Wallet as withdrawable cash. Your Snap Quality Score sets the share, rewarding clean, well-managed trading.
How the payout is scored →Enter a timed contest against a small, Rating-matched field, usually 20 to 40 traders. Finish near the top and take several times your entry from the prize pool, withdrawable to your Wallet. Six formats run from one hour to a full month, and every Room also builds your Rating.
How Rooms work →Both are open to every member, including the free Open tier. They are how you earn before you qualify for an ongoing funded membership, and they keep paying after you do.
Membership fees on The Desk aren't arbitrary subscription prices, they're a small percentage of the funded capital that comes with each tier. As you climb, the fee gets cheaper relative to your capital. Compare it to evaluation firms or anything else in the industry: nobody offers this ratio.
| Tier | Monthly fee | Max capital | Monthly fee % of max capital | Annualized fee on max capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | $49 | $50K | 0.098% | 1.18% |
| Pro | $129 | $200K | 0.065% | 0.77% |
| Elite | $249 | $500K | 0.050% | 0.60% |
| Master | $499 | $2M | 0.025% | 0.30% |
| Evaluation prop firm baseline | $100K typical | ~0.20% | ~2.4% | |
At Master, you're paying 0.025% per month for access to $2M of funded capital that grows automatically. That's less than what evaluation firms charge in one week for $100K. The math gets better the higher you climb.
For $25K of funded capital that grows $2,500 every month, reaching $50K in 10 months. Plus public Rating, Floor (Room) competition, community, and a real career trajectory. Cancel any time. Your Rating stays.
$100K funded, growing $10K/month to $200K. The capital tier most retail traders aim for. Full access to every Room type, Pro cohort, mentor surface, and the platform that supports a career. at 0.77% annualized on max capital.
$1M to $2M of capital that grows $100K every month. 0.3% annual fee on max capital, unmatched in the industry. No prop firm offers anything close to this ratio for institutional-feeling capital with automatic monthly growth.
Traditional challenge firms sell a one-time evaluation. The Desk is a live career platform with continuous competition, scoring, funded-cycle management, and progression. Membership funds the platform; your trading funds you.
Floors are small Rooms. like the trading desks at institutions, where you trade alongside 20-40 other traders matched to your Rating. Defined window, transparent entry fee, real prize pool. Top placements take 80% of the pool. Enter as many Rooms as you want, multiple per day, this is the daily and weekly economy of your trading career.
Rating-matched fields, not lottery-sized arenas. 20-40 traders at your skill level. Top quintile of every Room takes a share of the pool.
Same clock, same instruments, comparable conditions. Placements are skill-measured, not luck. Post-Room breakdowns show exactly why you placed where you did.
Real money in, real money out. Small fields, real odds. Top placements pay 3 to 14x the entry, and you can enter many Rooms per day.
Every Room placement also moves your Rating. Income today, capital ladder tomorrow. The two paths run together.
This isn't a thousand-person lottery. A small Room. A real chance. A skilled trader places far more than 1-in-5, that's the baseline for random play.
Entry fee scales with Room length: more time in market, higher stake, bigger pool, bigger top prize. Pick the cadence that fits your trading style.
Every cycle your Rating sustains tier threshold, your funded capital grows by 10% of tier floor. predictable, flat, monthly. Junior: $2,500/mo. Pro: $10K/mo. Elite: $25K/mo. Master: $100K/mo. Ten months per tier to ceiling.
The long game. Capital you trade with, growing month over month.
Enter Rooms multiple times per day and week. Small 20 to 40 trader fields mean placing is a realistic outcome for a trader with an edge, not a lottery. Top placement pays 3 to 14x the entry. Earnings depend entirely on your performance, the Floor rewards skill and consistency, it is not guaranteed income.
The daily economy. Real income from real competition while you climb.
Membership grows your capital. Rooms fund your trading days.
A real economy, not a one-shot challenge, not a lottery.
Open Tier opens free. No card, no membership fee, no Floor entry. Your $10K account starts the moment you sign up. The pricing on this page kicks in only once you're climbing.
Rating earns your eligibility for a tier. Membership at that tier is what you pay monthly to claim your seat, and the funded capital, growth mechanic, and tier-level Floor access come with the seat. You don't subscribe to a tier you haven't qualified for; you subscribe once your Rating qualifies and Floor record meets the tier gate.
Yes. Open membership is free permanently. You can build your Desk profile, trade self-directed, and enter any Floor type. Snap, Session, Daily, Sprint, Cup, or Major, at the entry levels that suit you. All Floor types are accessible to every member, every tier. Funded tiers start when you choose to claim them, once Rating qualifies.
Floors (Rooms) are how Rating progresses meaningfully, and how you earn supplemental income while you build. Every Floor has a transparent entry fee that goes into the pool, and top placements take 80%. Self-directed trading alone produces only modest Rating movement; serious tier progression comes through Floor participation.
Every Floor (Room) has a transparent entry fee. Fees flow into the prize pool, which splits 80% to top placements / 20% to the platform as disclosed rake, same math every Room, every time. Fees range from $5 (entry-level Snap) to $100 (top Major). Multiple Rooms run in parallel at each price point so you're always Rating-matched.
Paid places depend on the Room: Snap pays the top 3, Session and Daily the top 4, up to the top 8 in a Major. In a small 30-trader Room that is a far better shot than a thousand-person lottery, and a skilled trader places more often than the field. 1st place pays up to ~14x the entry on a Snap.
Yes. You can move up when your Rating qualifies you for a higher tier, subscribe to the higher tier and the new funded capital comes with the upgraded membership. Moving down preserves your Rating; you'll just be a member of the lower tier with that tier's funded capital level.
Your funded cycle continues to its scheduled close. Final payouts process under Meritix. After cycle close, an active membership at the appropriate tier is needed for the funded account to continue. Your Rating and profile are always preserved.
Yes. Your Rating and trading record persist on your Desk profile regardless of membership status. Re-activate at any tier you qualify for and pick up where your record left off.
No. Legend is the only tier that cannot be claimed through membership alone, it's earned through sustained Master-tier excellence plus committee review. The platform's apex.
Floor (Room) entry fees are separate from monthly membership. Trading platform access (A-Trader, Arizet's owned platform, the only supported platform) is included at every paid tier. Funded-tier accounts are funded by The Desk, you never pre-fund capital yourself.
Open is free. Each tier above it costs less per month, as a percentage of the capital that comes with it, than anything else in the industry. Earn your seat through Rating. Claim it through membership. Trade the capital that comes with it.