Best Prop Firms for Traders in Ireland, With Central Bank Checks

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We checked 20 prop firms on October 6, 2026 for traders in the Republic of Ireland and ranked 17 forex and futures products by cost per $1,000 of loss room at $50K.

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We checked 20 prop firms on October 6, 2026 for traders in the Republic of Ireland and ranked 17 forex and futures products by cost per $1,000 of loss room at $50K. Blue Guardian 2 Step Nano is cheapest at $25.40 on its fee alone, then RebelsFunding RF Copper at $33.75 on a $40K plan, Topstep at $47.50 ($95 a month), E8 Markets E8 Pro 10% at $49.80 with a euro bank payout through WorkMarket, and FundingPips 2 Step Flex at $49.83. No firm excludes Ireland and none is on the Central Bank of Ireland’s warning list. Two are run by Irish companies, SabioTrade and FXIFY Futures, and neither appears on the Central Bank’s Registers. No firm names SEPA, only FTMO and BrightFunded charge in euros, BrightFunded and E8 Markets publish euro bank payouts, Maven pays Ireland only through Rise, and Rise lists Ireland for euro withdrawals at $10. Alpha Futures and Apex Trader Funding sit in a warning group. Euro figures use the October 2, 2026 ECB rate of 1.1225.

Checked: October 6, 2026, including a full read of the Central Bank of Ireland’s warning list the same day. Firms change prices, codes and country lists without notice, so confirm on the firm’s own page before paying. Each Trustpilot figure shows its own read date. This guide covers the Republic of Ireland.

Quick answer and the top five prop firms in Ireland

Ireland is an easy country for prop firms: none of the 20 firms checked names Ireland as excluded, and every product we priced can be bought by a resident of the Republic. The differences are in how firmly the firm says yes, whether its name turns up on the Central Bank of Ireland’s warning list, and whether a payout can reach an Irish bank in euros. Ranked on what you pay for each $1,000 the account can lose, these five come first:

1. Blue Guardian 2 Step Nano: $25.40 per $1,000. Price $127 (about €113); floor $5,000, static, both stages.
2. RebelsFunding RF Copper 4-Phase $40K: $33.75 per $1,000. Price $135 for $40K (about €120); floor $4,000, static (10% of $40K).
3. Topstep Trading Combine, No Activation Fee: $47.50 per $1,000. Price $95/month (about €85); floor $2,000, end-of-day trailing.
4. E8 Markets E8 Pro 10%: $49.80 per $1,000. Price $249 (about €222); floor $5,000, static, both stages.
5. FundingPips 2 Step Flex: $49.83 per $1,000. Price $299 (about €266); floor $6,000, static (12%), all stages.

Blue Guardian’s and RebelsFunding’s leads depend on activation fees they do not publish either way, and FundingPips’ figure is fee-only too. On fully published prices the lowest are Topstep for futures and E8 Markets for forex. If you want Ireland named rather than merely missing from a list, Alpha Capital Group names it in its country guide, while Maven Trading names it on its payout page as a country it pays only through Rise. For the same checks across the whole EU, see our guide to the best prop firms for traders in Europe.

What a prop firm is for traders in Ireland

A prop firm, in the sense these 20 firms use the word, sells you an evaluation on a simulated account. You trade to a profit target without touching a daily or overall loss limit; pass, and you trade a funded account that is usually still simulated, and the firm pays you a share of the simulated profit, typically 80% to 90%. That is different from a broker, which holds your own money in a real account, which is why a search for the best prop firms in Ireland mostly returns broker lists. It is also different from two things that rank for the same search: a job at one of Dublin’s trading firms, which is an application and an interview, and a broker’s proprietary trading group account, which is a real brokerage account for a company trading its own capital. Nothing in this guide is either. For the basics, see what a prop firm is.

• For: your loss is capped at the fee, you can trade a $50,000 account for $95 to $379, and most firms here pay 80% or more of profit.
• Against: most buyers never reach a payout, a broken daily limit ends most accounts at once, the funded account is simulated, and several firms keep a discretionary live move or a right to refuse funded status.

Is the fee an investment? No: it buys an attempt, and it is gone whether you pass or fail. Treat it as a cost of trading, budget for more than one attempt, and compare firms on what each attempt buys you in loss room, which is what the ranking below does. Every ranked firm describes its funded accounts as simulated or demo. FTMO says its traders trade with simulated capital only, Maven says all trading is simulated with virtual funds, and SabioTrade says all trading on its platform is strictly simulated. A few keep a live stage behind a discretionary move, covered in each firm’s section below.

Are prop firms regulated in Ireland, and what the Central Bank of Ireland warning list shows

Ireland has no licence written for prop firms. The Central Bank of Ireland authorises firms that provide financial services, keeps public Registers of them, and publishes warning notices about firms it finds operating without authorisation. In its own words, “Under the Central Bank (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2013, the Central Bank has the authority to publish warning notices naming persons or firms who are providing financial services without the appropriate authorisation or who are holding themselves out to be a regulated financial service provider where they do not have the appropriate authorisation to provide financial services.” It adds that “some firms based in the European Economic Area may be regulated in their Home State and may be authorised to provide services in Ireland under Passporting arrangements”.

We read the Central Bank’s list of unauthorised firms in full on October 6, 2026: 1,170 entries dated from August 27, 1998 to October 6, 2026. Then we searched it for every firm in this guide, every domain it uses, its group brand, the companies named in its terms and its payout processors, including Rise and WorkMarket. Of the 87 entries dated 2026, 59 are marked as clones of genuine authorised firms, and most of the rest are loan and investment offers; it is a list of scams aimed at Irish consumers, not a list of prop firms.

None of the entries names any firm in this guide. One is worth knowing so it is not confused with the firms ranked below: “Alpha Finance Ood (Clone)”, dated October 13, 2023, is a notice about a website that, in the Central Bank’s words, “has been operating as a Retail Credit Firm in the State in the absence of an appropriate authorisation”. It is a loan scam copying an authorised firm’s details, at a different website, and has nothing to do with Alpha Capital Group or Alpha Futures. A warning naming a firm here would be shown beside it as a dated warning, and we do not call any firm legal or illegal.

The Central Bank also says what you give up with a firm it does not regulate: “if you deal with unregulated firms you will not have access to the following protections: Investor compensation schemes The services of the Financial Services Ombudsman”. None of the 20 firms claims Central Bank authorisation or an Irish licence for its prop program, so treat every fee here as money that no Irish scheme would return. For firms that do hold a licence somewhere, see our guide to regulated prop firms.

Is any prop firm Irish? SabioTrade, FXIFY Futures and the Central Bank Registers

Two firms in this guide are run by companies registered in Ireland, and a reader could easily take that to mean they are regulated in Ireland. We checked both against the Companies Registration Office (CRO) and the Central Bank’s Registers on October 6, 2026:

• SabioTrade: CRO company 680139, CODEVIL IT Engineering Limited, a private company limited by shares, status Normal, registered October 21, 2020, Smithfield, Dublin 7. Central Bank Registers search for CODEVIL, SabioTrade and Sabio: no match.
• FXIFY Futures: CRO company 769468, FXIFY Futures Limited, a private company limited by shares, status Normal, registered August 12, 2024, 2 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin 2. Central Bank Registers search for FXIFY: no match.

A CRO number means a company exists in Ireland; it says nothing about Central Bank authorisation, which is a separate register. What the Irish company does give you is a contract under Irish law with Irish courts at SabioTrade, and a contract that names both Irish and English law at FXIFY Futures, covered in the consumer rights section. The FXIFY forex firm is a UK company and a separate listing, and one more firm’s terms mention Ireland only in a general line about where its payment processors are regulated, without naming a company we could look up, so we leave that line out.

Which prop firms accept traders in Ireland

We read each firm’s own restricted-countries page, terms, help article or checkout for Ireland, reading every list to the end; alphabetical lists put Ireland between Iraq or Iran and Israel, Italy or Jamaica. No firm restricts Ireland. Four groups come out:

• Ireland named as accepted: Alpha Capital Group lists Ireland among 48 European countries in its country guide.
• Named on a payout page instead: Maven Trading names Ireland as a country it pays only through Rise, covered in the payout section below.
• Missing from a named list with no “including” wording: Topstep, E8 Markets, FundedNext, Goat Funded Trader, The5ers, BrightFunded, FTMO, Tradeify, My Funded Futures, FXIFY Futures and Tradeify 247.
• Missing from a list worded “include” or “including”: Blue Guardian, RebelsFunding, FundingPips, FXIFY and SabioTrade. They rank, but their wording leaves room for a country they have not named.

This guide covers the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, so traders there fall under each firm’s UK rules; see our guide to the best prop firms for UK traders. A firm that restricts the UK does not thereby restrict Ireland, and the reverse.

Neighbours fare differently, which is why a country check beats a Europe-wide one. Germany is on Topstep’s Express-only table, Bulgaria and Iceland are on Tradeify’s and My Funded Futures’ lists, and Alpha Futures restricts Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovenia. Directory pages that say a firm accepts Ireland usually mean only that Ireland is missing from a list. Each firm also tests something different, which matters if you are an Irish citizen living abroad or a foreign resident in Ireland:

Paying a prop firm from Ireland with SEPA, cards or euros

SEPA transfers are how most Irish bank payments move, so it is a natural thing to look for. None of the 20 firms we checked names SEPA at checkout or in its help pages. What Irish buyers can use instead:

• Bank transfer without a country line: FTMO takes bank wire, Maven Trading lists bank transfers, and SabioTrade shows a bank transfer option. FundedNext’s instant bank transfer covers Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and Belgium, not Ireland.
• Wallets: FTMO takes Revolut Pay free and PayPal at 3%, FundedNext PayPal and Skrill, RebelsFunding, Goat Funded Trader and Tradeify 247 PayPal, and Topstep Apple Pay and Google Pay.
• Cards and crypto: most firms take cards and crypto; The5ers, FXIFY, E8 Markets and FundingPips show their methods only after sign-up.

Currency matters as much as the method. FTMO and BrightFunded price in euros. FundingPips lets you pick a payment currency, but it says “All FundingPips accounts are issued in USD, regardless of the currency you select during checkout”. Everyone else prices in US dollars, so your card issuer converts and adds its margin. Topstep adds VAT at checkout where it applies.

How prop firm payouts reach an Irish bank in euros

No firm checked names SEPA for payouts, and only one names a euro bank payout of its own: BrightFunded says bank transfers are processed in euros. E8 Markets pays through WorkMarket, whose own fee page names Ireland on a euro bank-account row at €1.75 plus 2-3% conversion. Most of the others pay into Rise, whose help page, dated September 3, 2026, lists Ireland for euro withdrawals to a local bank and says “The withdrawal fee is $10, and the maximum timeframe is 2 business days.” In each of those cases the euro line is the provider’s, not the firm’s.

Two firms are specific about Ireland. Maven Trading lists Ireland, right after the United Kingdom, among countries that can only be paid through Rise, at $20 a withdrawal before Rise’s own $10. FundingPips runs a local bank payout for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, and Ireland is not on that list, so Irish traders there use Rise. Goat Funded Trader’s bank transfer covers eight African countries only, and Topstep’s Wise route covers China, Canada and the UK, so Irish traders at both use other rails; Topstep’s is a US dollar wire. Fees add up before the conversion: Blue Guardian and Goat Funded Trader take 3% of every payout, The5ers 3.5%, FundedNext up to 3.5%, Topstep $30 per wire and Maven $20 per Rise transfer. FTMO, BrightFunded, E8 Markets and SabioTrade charge no fee of their own. For how each rail works across firms, see prop firms that pay by wire, bank, Rise, Deel or Wise.

A worked example: a $2,000 payout through Rise at a firm with no fee of its own arrives as about €1,782 at the October 2 rate, less Rise’s $10 and whatever margin Rise builds into the conversion. The same payout at a firm that takes 3% first loses $60 before Rise sees it, and at Maven it loses $20 plus $10.

Traders elsewhere in the eurozone face the same euro payout leg but a different regulator and a different set of country lists. We ran the same checks in our guides for traders in France, traders in Italy, traders in Spain and traders in the Netherlands.

How we checked prop firms for Ireland

1. Read each firm’s own restricted-countries page, terms, help article or checkout for Ireland, product by product, reading every list to the end and noting whether it is called complete.
2. Treat a brand’s forex, futures and crypto arms as separate listings, and keep the crypto-only product in its own table.
3. Price every $50K variant at list price, add any activation fee, and convert euro prices at the October 2, 2026 ECB rate; codes go in the firm notes only.
4. Divide by the smallest overall loss limit in dollars at any stage, never a daily limit or a per-asset rule, and multiply by 1,000.
5. Search the Central Bank of Ireland warning list for each firm, domain, company and payout processor, check the two Irish-registered firms on the CRO and the Central Bank Registers, then note the ways to pay, the payout routes that reach an Irish bank, live stage terms and Trustpilot.

Prop firms in Ireland ranked by cost per $1,000 of loss room

Lower is better. A $2,000 floor at $95 and a $5,000 floor at $249 both cost under $50 for each $1,000 you are allowed to lose, which is the comparison that matters if you expect to buy more than once.

Notes on this ranking: Cost per $1,000 is the list price of the firm’s cheapest $50,000 product that a resident of the Republic of Ireland can buy, plus any activation fee, divided by the smallest overall loss limit in dollars at any stage, times 1,000. Daily loss limits and per-asset, per-symbol or per-position rules (Alpha Capital Group’s 2% Max Risk Rule, Goat Funded Trader’s Goat Guard) are not used; they are named as watch-outs. Euro figures convert at the European Central Bank reference rate of October 2, 2026, EUR/USD 1.1225, with prices rounded to the nearest euro; your card or bank rate will differ. Only FTMO and BrightFunded charge in euros. “Via Rise” means the firm pays into Rise, whose own help page lists Ireland for euro withdrawals to a local bank at $10. Ties would share a rank. ^a Blue Guardian publishes no activation fee for 2 Step Nano and does not say there is none, so $127 is the evaluation fee alone; an activation fee above $41.75 would drop it below RebelsFunding, and one above $110.50 below Topstep. Its restricted list is introduced with the word “include”, so Ireland is missing from a list the firm does not call complete. ^b RebelsFunding sells no $50,000 plan; its $40,000 Copper plan is the nearest size, with a $4,000 static floor, and it needs four phases. It publishes no activation fee either way, so $135 is the plan price alone; a fee above $55.00 would drop it below Topstep. Its three-phase Bronze plan, also $40,000, works out at $44.75. ^c Monthly billing: the figure covers one 30-day cycle. A second month at $95 would make it $95.00 per $1,000, behind every product in this table except SabioTrade and FXIFY Futures. ^d FundingPips publishes no activation or Master fee either way, so $299 is the evaluation fee alone; a fee above $21.40 would drop it below Alpha Capital Group. Its terms bar residents of “certain jurisdictions, including” countries on the FATF and EU or UN sanctions lists; Ireland is an FATF member and is on neither FATF list dated June 19, 2026. ^e Maven Trading shows no activation line and does not state that there is none, so $220 is the evaluation fee alone; a fee above $10.00 would drop it below FundedNext. ^f FundedNext does not name an activation fee for Stellar Lite and does not say there is none; a fee above $16.41 would drop it below Goat Funded Trader. ^g Goat Funded Trader’s checkout total equals the product price and shows no activation line, but the firm never states the fee is $0; a fee of $3.25 or more would put it level with or behind The5ers. Its checkout calls the fee 100% refundable while its terms say there are no refunds, so the figure assumes you never get it back. ^h The5ers’ High Stakes $50K size table shows an 8% overall loss ($4,000) while its FAQ says 10% ($5,000). We rank on the tighter figure; on the FAQ figure it would be $49.80 and tie E8 Markets