Best Prop Firms That Use Rithmic, Ranked by What Rithmic Costs

Key takeaways

We checked 22 futures prop firms for what most Rithmic lists skip: whether choosing Rithmic changes the price, the platforms and the rules, from the evaluation through the funded account.

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We checked 22 futures prop firms for what most Rithmic lists skip: whether choosing Rithmic changes the price, the platforms and the rules, from the evaluation through the funded account. Nine 50K products pass and are ranked on Rithmic cost per $1,000 of loss room (list price, activation and any Rithmic-only fee, divided by the overall loss floor). DayTraders.com EOD 50K is cheapest at $55.00, then Bulenox Momentum 50K at $63.56 (or $152.44 if its $100-a-month third-party connection fee applies), LucidFlex 50K at $68.00, Tradeify Growth 50K at $72.50 and BluSky Launch 50K at $79.00. Phidias ($125.20), TradeDay ($126.00), Elite Trader Funding ($158.40, the only $45-a-month Rithmic surcharge) and Apex Trader Funding ($359.50) follow. Most firms charge the same for Rithmic as for Tradovate; what changes is the platform list (NinjaTrader and TradingView are often Tradovate-only), depth (Tradeify sells none on Rithmic) and Windows. OneUp Trader, LeeLoo Trading, Take Profit Trader, Earn2Trade and Ment Funding run on Rithmic but carry an account-ending rule. Topstep, MyFundedFutures, Alpha Futures, FundedNext Futures and YLOS Trading sell no Rithmic route.

Freshness: firm pages, prices and fees checked October 2 to 5, 2026. Firms change terms without notice; re-check before you buy. Each Trustpilot figure carries the date we read it.

Quick picks among prop firms that use Rithmic

• Cheapest Rithmic seat: DayTraders.com EOD 50K, $55.00 per $1,000. $105 one-time and a $5 activation on a firm that sells only Rithmic.
• Rithmic at the Tradovate price, kept at live: LucidFlex 50K Rithmic, $68.00. Nine named platforms and Rithmic Live accounts.
• No live data fee on Rithmic: Phidias Fundamental 50K, $125.20. Rithmic kept to live, with lower ES commissions than its Tradovate route.

Why a brand-level “yes, they have Rithmic” misleads: the route is sold per product and per stage. Tradeify’s Rithmic accounts cannot buy depth, Elite Trader Funding charges $45 a month for Rithmic and nothing for Tradovate, Funded Futures Family gives you Rithmic only after the move to live, and Topstep, often listed as a Rithmic firm, has no Rithmic article in its help centre at all.

What Rithmic is at a prop firm

Rithmic is a futures data and order-routing service, not a broker and not a charting package. At a prop firm you never open a Rithmic account yourself: the firm issues the credentials, you log in, and the firm’s risk rules run on the same connection. Three things follow from that.

• The firm decides the system and the login. Most sim accounts log in to “Rithmic Paper Trading” (Bulenox, Take Profit Trader, Earn2Trade, OneUp Trader and LeeLoo Trading all say so); Apex uses its own system, “Choose System: APEX”. TradeDay’s user ID carries a TD_ prefix and LeeLoo’s starts with LL.
• R|Trader Pro is Rithmic’s own platform; everything else plugs in. “All Rithmic-based platforms use the same Rithmic credentials.” Quantower, Sierra Chart, ATAS, Bookmap and the rest connect with the login the firm gave you, if the firm permits them.
• The loss limit lives on the login. OneUp Trader tells you to watch your drawdown “in Rithmic RTrader Pro under Auto Liquidate Threshold Value”, and LeeLoo Trading says “Only RTrader Pro displays your Rising Trailing Drawdown value”. Your platform shows the trade; the firm’s threshold decides when it is closed.

So the question for a buyer is not whether a firm has Rithmic, but what that firm attaches to its Rithmic login: the price, the stages, the platforms and the extra fees.

How we ranked the best prop firms that use Rithmic

1. Sources: each firm’s own checkout, plan picker, platform and fee articles and rules pages, read October 2 to 5, 2026. Third-party directories and platform vendors’ firm lists are never proof.
2. The test, per product: a buyer today gets Rithmic credentials at the evaluation and keeps a Rithmic connection on the funded account up to the first payout. The live stage is noted, not required, because few firms publish it.
3. What drops a product: no Rithmic route, Rithmic at one stage only, a dropped route, or nothing on sale. A product that passes but has a floor that follows open profit, or a daily loss that ends the account, is shown with that rule and not ranked.
4. Order: Rithmic cost per $1,000 of loss room, lowest first; one product per firm, the cheapest passing one on this number.
5. Warnings, not ranks: a discretionary move to live is named first in each firm’s watch-outs, never used to drop a firm.

Rithmic cost per $1,000 of loss room = (50K list price of the Rithmic version, one month if monthly + activation fee + any fee charged only because you chose Rithmic, for one evaluation month and one funded month) ÷ overall maximum-loss floor at its smallest stage × 1,000

Worked example, Elite Trader Funding Direct to Funded 50K: $747 one-time, $0 activation and one $45 Rithmic month (there is no evaluation month), so $792 ÷ $5,000 × 1,000 = $158.40. A second figure adds any fee the firm charges because you connect your own platform; it is shown, never ranked. The floor is the overall maximum loss, never a daily limit. List prices set the rank, and a fee a firm does not publish is marked, never treated as $0. Full method: how we rank.

Prop firms that use Rithmic compared, cost and stages

Prop firms that use Rithmic compared, platforms and live stage

Notes on this ranking: * Lucid’s plan cards showed “Get final price at checkout” when we checked, so we rank on its store’s regular price for LucidFlex 50K Rithmic, $136 with the daily loss limit on; the $146 version without the limit is $73.00. † TradeDay’s pages give its Funded Live floor as $1,500 in one place and the evaluation’s $2,000 in another; we rank on $1,500 ($94.50 on $2,000, which would put it sixth). ‡ TradeDay does not state that its Rithmic accounts stay on Rithmic in Funded Sim; we infer it from its one-broker rule and the Rithmic Paper Trading sim system. § Elite Trader Funding’s $45 Rithmic fee is counted once, because Direct to Funded has no evaluation month; counting two months gives $167.40. ¶ Monthly products count one month; with a two-month evaluation BluSky is $108.50, Phidias $190.80 and TradeDay $252.00. The last column adds only fees the firm itself charges because you connect your own platform; vendor licences (Sierra Chart, Bookmap, Jigsaw) are the vendor’s price and are left out. Codes never set a rank.

Ranked prop firms that use Rithmic

Nine 50K products pass: Rithmic at the evaluation and on the funded account, on sale today, with no rule that ends the account on open profit or a single bad day. Each block carries the same fields, in the table’s order.

DayTraders.com EOD 50K is the cheapest Rithmic seat, on a firm that sells nothing else

DayTraders.com has no second route to compare: its platform selector shows Rithmic, with its own ArcTrader marked coming soon, and the 50K checkout link ends in 50K-EOD-Rithmic. Passing happens inside the same login. After the $5 activation, “Restart your trading platform to see the new Pro Account.” Pricing is flat by design: “One standard price. A flat $5 activation fee. No codes, no gimmicks”.

Video: no official DayTraders.com video covers its Rithmic setup; its channel’s evaluation overview does not show the login, and we do not substitute creator videos.

• Rithmic at each stage: Evaluation and Pro account on the same Rithmic credentials. Live accounts are named too, with an ONYX licence provided; other Rithmic platforms need your own licence there.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader Pro, Quantower (“licence linked to the firm’s Rithmic account”), Bookmap, WealthCharts, ATAS, Finamark, Jigsaw, MotiveWave, Sierra Chart, Volfix and the firm’s ONYX. NinjaTrader is not on the list.
• Rithmic premium and fees: No Rithmic surcharge (there is nothing to compare it with). A second login session is $30 a month, and depth is $10 per exchange or $30 for all four. Both lapse at month end whatever day you buy them.
• Cost: $105 one-time plus the $5 Pro activation: $110 ÷ $2,000 × 1,000 = $55.00 per $1,000 of loss room. The Static 50K ($50, a fixed $1,000 floor) ties at $55.00 with half the room.
• Payouts: Pro: every 8 qualifying days of $200 or more, $500 minimum in $500 steps, 30% consistency.
• Watch out for: Traders “may be transitioned to a live account at any time based on performance and risk evaluation”; the firm says it moves around 1% of sim-funded traders, and decline terms are not published. The EOD 50K also carries a $1,250 daily loss limit and a 50% consistency rule on the evaluation.
• Trustpilot: 4.6/5 on 499 reviews, read October 5, 2026. DayTraders.com profile.

Bulenox Momentum 50K is all Rithmic, until you plug in a third-party platform

Bulenox runs one route: every account logs in through R|Trader Pro on Rithmic Paper Trading, and NinjaTrader 8 comes with a free licence on that connection. The low figure holds only while you stay there, because “If a trader chooses to connect to Rithmic through a Third-Party API or Trader Composite Software, a $100 monthly fee applies.” Bulenox does not list which platforms count, so a Quantower, ATAS or Bookmap user should ask before buying. Charged for the evaluation month and the first funded month, that fee lifts the figure from $63.56 to $152.44, which would drop Bulenox from second to seventh.

Video: no official Bulenox video covers its Rithmic setup; a search returned only creator tutorials, which we do not substitute.

• Rithmic at each stage: Qualification or Momentum, then the Master account, all on the same Rithmic connection instructions. Bulenox names no platform or broker for its live Funded Account.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader Pro, NinjaTrader 8 (free licence), Quantower, Sierra Chart, MultiCharts, ATAS, Bookmap, MotiveWave, Photon Trader, Trade Navigator, TSLab and ScalpTool; its FAQ says more than 20 work.
• Rithmic premium and fees: No Rithmic surcharge. $100 a month for a third-party API or composite-software connection. Depth price not published. Professional data is $112 per exchange on one page and $116 on another.
• Cost: $143 one-time with no activation fee (“Pass Momentum once and your Momentum Master is activated free of charge”): $143 ÷ $2,250 × 1,000 = $63.56. The Qualification 50K ($175 plus a $148 Master activation, $2,500 floor) is $129.20.
• Payouts: Momentum Master: 5 qualifying days of $150 or more per cycle, 35% consistency, $1,000 minimum request, first payout capped at $1,500.
• Watch out for: The move to a live Funded Account is at Bulenox’s discretion, and “If you do not consent to the transition, the applicable Master Account will be closed and no additional Reward will be issued from that account.” “Please note that Rithmic runs on Windows and is not supported on macOS or ChromeOS.” No overnight or weekend positions.
• Trustpilot: 4.7/5 on 1,800 reviews, read October 3, 2026. Bulenox profile, rules.

LucidFlex 50K on Rithmic costs the same as its CQG twin and keeps Rithmic at live

Lucid sells each plan twice in its store, once as Rithmic and once as TDV/NT, at one regular price: LucidFlex 50K Rithmic and LucidFlex 50K TDV/NT are both $136. It is also one of four ranked firms that name Rithmic at the live stage, with a rule worth knowing first: “Traders may hold positions until 4:45 PM EST on Tradovate Live accounts, or 4:15 PM EST on Rithmic Live accounts”. That is half an hour less on Rithmic.

Video: no official Lucid Trading video covers its Rithmic setup; its channel has a brand story only, and we do not substitute creator videos.

• Rithmic at each stage: Evaluation and funded: “All listed platforms work with all Lucid account types.” Live: Rithmic Live accounts are named.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader Pro, MotiveWave, Quantower, Tradesea, Sierra Chart, Jigsaw, Bookmap, ATAS and MultiCharts. NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView are listed only under Lucid’s CQG route.
• Rithmic premium and fees: Nothing beyond the account price: no Rithmic surcharge, no platform fee, and no depth, data or extra-login price on any Lucid page.
• Cost: $136 one-time with the daily loss limit on and no activation fee: $136 ÷ $2,000 × 1,000 = $68.00. Turning the daily limit off adds $10 ($146, $73.00). LucidPro 50K ($172) is $86.00.
• Payouts: LucidFlex: after 5 profitable days of $150 or more, $500 minimum, 90/10 split.
• Watch out for: “All live transitions occur at the discretion of the Lucid risk team.” “All simulated prop accounts are closed when a trader is moved live.” A cashout of 50% of the live starting balance is offered instead. Microscalping is prohibited, and Lucid says nothing about Mac use or second logins for Rithmic.
• Trustpilot: 4.3/5 on 6,235 reviews, read October 4, 2026. Lucid Trading profile.

Tradeify Growth 50K adds Rithmic at no surcharge, but the Rithmic route has no Level 2

Tradeify fixes the broker at checkout and prices every broker alike: “All brokers are the same price”. Two limits come with the Rithmic choice. Depth is not sold on it, since “Level 2 depth data and EUREX data are not yet available on Rithmic accounts and cannot be purchased”, and the choice is permanent: “you cannot switch between brokers (e.g., from Tradovate to Rithmic) without purchasing a new account.”

Video: no official Tradeify video covers its Rithmic or Tradesea setup; its platform episode covers Tradovate only, and we do not substitute creator or vendor videos.

• Rithmic at each stage: Evaluation and Sim Funded on the Rithmic credentials (Tradeify’s Tradesea guide covers evaluation and sim funded accounts). Tradeify names no broker or platform for Elite Live.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader (desktop, web and mobile), Tradesea, Quantower and Sierra Chart (which needs a paid Sierra Chart subscription). “NinjaTrader connects through Tradovate only.” TradingView is Tradovate-only too.
• Rithmic premium and fees: No Rithmic surcharge and no platform fee. No depth can be bought on Rithmic at any stage.
• Cost: $145 one-time with no activation fee (“There are no activation fees for any current Tradeify account type.”): $145 ÷ $2,000 × 1,000 = $72.50. Select 50K ($165) is $82.50.
• Payouts: Growth Sim Funded: every 5 qualifying days, $500 minimum, 90/10 split from the first payout.
• Watch out for: “Once you are selected for Elite Live transition, it is mandatory”, and “Elite Live accounts are issued with a $0 starting balance.” R|Trader Pro desktop needs Windows 10 or later, and “Mac and Linux users should use the web version instead”.
• Trustpilot: 4.4/5 on 4,976 reviews, read October 4, 2026. Tradeify profile, rules.

BluSky Launch 50K opens Rithmic for a $59 first month, one of six broker choices

BluSky prices each plan once and lets you pick the broker at checkout: Rithmic, Tradovate, Volumetrica, Tradesea, Tickblaze or BlackArrow, all at the same price. Rithmic carries into the funded stage: “We’ve created new Tradovate, Rithmic, and Volumetrica SIM Funded accounts.” The cost to watch is the launch fee. “The launch fee is charged when you pass”, $99 on Launch, while Propel and Orbit have none.

Video: no official BluSky video covers its Rithmic setup; its channel’s payout walkthrough does not show the login, and we do not substitute creator videos.

• Rithmic at each stage: Evaluation and Sim Funded on Rithmic. The live brokerage partner is Sweet Futures; BluSky does not say which feed live accounts use.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader Pro, NinjaTrader (evaluation, BluLive and Sim Funded only), Tradesea, MotiveWave, Quantower, Jigsaw, ATAS, Sierra Chart, Bookmap, VolSys/DeepChart, VolBook/Deepdom and “Most other Rithmic Platforms”. TradingView is Tradovate-only.
• Rithmic premium and fees: None on Rithmic. No Level 2 price or add-on is published. Live data on Rithmic is “Set by the applicable clearinghouse”, where its Tradovate and Volumetrica live data is $156 per exchange a month.
• Cost: $59 for the first month plus the $99 launch fee on passing: $158 ÷ $2,000 × 1,000 = $79.00 for one month ($108.50 with a two-month evaluation). Propel 50K ($160 a month, no launch fee) is $80.00.
• Payouts: Launch Sim Funded: daily payouts Monday to Friday, $500 minimum.
• Watch out for: When BluSky approves a live move you choose to “go live or take the buyout”; the buyout is “a one-time cash buyout equal to half of your qualifying account’s drawdown”. NinjaTrader on Rithmic stops before live, and BluSky publishes no Mac or login terms.
• Trustpilot: 4.7/5 on 910 reviews, read October 5, 2026. BluSky profile.

Phidias Fundamental 50K keeps Rithmic to live and charges no live data fee on it

Phidias lets you choose the platform when you start the evaluation (“any platform compatible with Rithmic”) and the plan price does not move. Rithmic turns out cheaper later: CME commissions on ES are $2.20 a side on Rithmic against $2.68 on Tradovate or NinjaTrader, and at the live stage “On Rithmic and dxFeed, no data feed fees are charged.” Canadian residents outside Ontario go live through Dorman Trading, “using Rithmic data feeds”.

Video: “How To Setup Your First Rithmic Account, Phidias Prop Firm Guide,” Phidias official YouTube channel, February 2, 2026. Source type: firm-produced. Why selected: Phidias’ own walkthrough of a first Rithmic account setup, the closest official video to this guide’s subject.

• Rithmic at each stage: Evaluation, then the funded CASH account (“Once the evaluation is passed, your account is converted to a funded CASH account with the same rules.”), then LIVE, all available on Rithmic.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader Pro, Sierra Chart, Quantower (free version), ATAS (31-day free licence through a partnership), Bookmap and MotiveWave. NinjaTrader connects through its Tradovate route and DeepCharts through dxFeed.
• Rithmic premium and fees: No Rithmic surcharge. Depth is $16 a month per exchange or $46 for all four, though the help article’s summary quotes €11 and €33.
• Cost: $164 for one month plus a $149 activation fee charged when you pass: $313 ÷ $2,500 × 1,000 = $125.20 ($190.80 with a two-month evaluation). The one-time Fundamental ($580, activation included) is $232.00.
• Payouts: Fundamental CASH: a withdrawal every 10 counted days, $500 minimum, through the Phidias wallet to Rise.
• Watch out for: “The transition from a simulated (funded) CASH account to a LIVE trading account is not automatic and is strictly discretionary.” Decline terms are not published. Phidias states no Mac or login rules for Rithmic, and its Trustpilot rating is hidden (see below).
• Trustpilot: rating hidden behind Trustpilot’s “breach of our guidelines” banner, 336 reviews, read October 4, 2026. Phidias’ depth prices sit beside other firms’ in our guide to prop firms for order flow traders.

TradeDay Fast Pass 50K names twelve third-party Rithmic platforms at its Tradovate price

TradeDay shows twin product cards, Tradovate and Rithmic, at the same price, and it names more third-party Rithmic platforms than any other ranked firm: twelve, beside R|Trader Pro. Two things hold it at seventh. TradeDay never says in words that Rithmic carries into Funded Sim; we infer it because “Traders can only have multiple accounts on 1 broker” and the sim system is Rithmic Paper Trading. And its pages disagree on the Funded Live floor (“Using a $50K account as an example, the TMD is $1500” in one article, the evaluation’s End of Day drawdown in another), so we rank on $1,500.

Video: no official TradeDay video covers its Rithmic setup; a search returned a trader testimonial and creator tutorials, which we do not substitute.

• Rithmic at each stage: Evaluation: stated. Funded Sim: inferred, not stated. Funded Live: not stated for Rithmic; it is a sub-account of the firm’s master account at its broker.
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader Pro, Quantower, ATAS, MotiveWave, Bookmap (your own paid licence, and it needs Level 2), Jigsaw (your own paid licence), Sierra Chart, EdgeProX, Finamark, Volfix, WealthCharts, MultiCharts and Overcharts. TradeDay states that “we do not support NinjaTrader Desktop with Rithmic accounts”.
• Rithmic premium and fees: No Rithmic surcharge. Its $49 Level 2 bundle covers the Tradovate side; a Rithmic depth price is not published.
• Cost: $189 for one month with no activation fee: $189 ÷ $1,500 × 1,000 = $126.00, or $94.50 on the $2,000 evaluation floor ($252.00 with a two-month evaluation on $1,500).
• Payouts: Fast Pass: cycles of 5 profitable $150 days, $250 minimum; payouts on 50K accounts opened from July 26, 2026 are capped at $1,500.
• Watch out for: The move to live is a fixed rule, not a call-up: “You will be moved to funded live on your fifth payout request.” The new Funded Live account starts at $0, and “Market data is $156 per month, per Exchange for Funded Live traders.” R|Trader Pro desktop is Windows only, with a web version for macOS and Linux.
• Trustpilot: 4.6/5 on 1,442 reviews, read October 4, 2026. TradeDay profile, rules.

Elite Trader Funding Direct to Funded 50K is the one ranked account with a Rithmic surcharge

Elite Trader Funding bills extra for choosing Rithmic: “starting January 28, 2026, new accounts that select a Rithmic data feed will incur an additional separate monthly connection cost of $45 per account”, and accounts labelled NinjaTrader or Other pay it too when they run on a Rithmic feed. It still ranks because the Direct to Funded account starts on a $5,000 end-of-day floor, the most loss room here, and its live stage is Rithmic-only: “Not supported in LIVE ELITE: Tradovate and NinjaTrader.”

Video: “R|Trader Pro Connection Guide,” Elite Trader Funding official YouTube channel, May 15, 2023. Source type: firm-produced. Why selected: Elite Trader Funding’s own R|Trader Pro connection walkthrough; it predates the $45 monthly fee.

• Rithmic at each stage: Direct to Funded has no evaluation. The funded account and LIVE ELITE both run on Rithmic credentials: “Always use your Rithmic credentials provided by Elite Trader Funding for evaluations and live trading.”
• Platforms on the Rithmic login: R|Trader (web, iOS and Android) and R|Trader Pro, ATAS, Bookmap, EdgeProX, eSignal, Finamark, Investor/RT, MotiveWave, NinjaTrader (not at LIVE ELITE), Quantower and Sierra Chart. TradingView needs the Tradovate Bundle.
• Rithmic premium and fees