True cost calculator
Firms advertise one number: the challenge fee. Almost nobody pays it once. Set your assumptions and the figure on the right is what you should actually budget.
Your inputs
Attempts you expect to need
Published pass rates in this industry sit in single digits to low double digits. Three attempts is an honest median assumption.
Also include
Expected cost of one funded account
The same assumptions at other firms
Same attempts, same discount, their documented entry price.
How this is calculated
Challenge fee times the attempts you expect, less the discount on each purchase, plus one-off activation where a firm charges it, plus platform and data fees for the months you expect to hold the account. We do not assume you fail the funded stage and we do not subtract any profit — this is what leaves your account before anything comes back.