Lucid Trading vs Tradeify

Lucid Trading suits futures traders who want the cheaper entry price and resets, lower commissions and the widest choice of Rithmic platforms. Tradeify suits traders who want a higher cap on each payout, no daily loss limit on its main funded path and daily payouts from a $250 minimum. Both firms sell one time evaluations with no activation fee, and their closest plans, LucidFlex and Tradeify Select, share most of their rules on a 50K account, so the choice comes down to cost, payout size and trading costs.

Prices and rules were checked on each firm’s own website and help centre on 9 November 2026. Both firms run frequent discounts.

Lucid Trading vs Tradeify at a glance

The table compares LucidFlex 50K with Tradeify Select 50K on its Flex payout path. Both have one step, a 40% consistency rule to pass and none once funded.

Rules and drawdown

The two plans are built the same way. Both use a $2,000 end of day trailing maximum loss in the evaluation and once funded, and both lock it at $50,100. LucidFlex locks it once the account closes above $52,100, and after the first payout it moves straight to that locked level. Both ask for a $3,000 target with your best day no more than 40% of your profit, or 50% with a paid add-on, and as few as three trading days, or two with the add-on. Neither has a consistency rule once funded, and neither has a time limit on the evaluation. See end of day drawdown firms for others built this way.

The daily loss limit is the main rule that differs. LucidFlex has an optional $1,200 daily limit that stops trading for the day without failing the account, and a version without it costs more. Tradeify Select has no daily loss limit in the evaluation or on the Flex path. Funded accounts at both firms start at 2 minis and scale to 4 as profit grows. Tradeify also lets you reset a Select evaluation up to ten times a month.

Each firm has a faster route. Tradeify Growth 50K can be passed in one day, with no consistency rule to pass and a $1,250 daily limit, and LucidPro 50K can also be passed in one day. For traders who want to skip the evaluation, Tradeify Lightning 50K costs $492 and LucidDirect 50K costs $515, both funded from the start.

Pricing and fees

LucidFlex 50K costs $115 once, or $80.50 with the VAULT code on 9 November, and resets cost $80. Tradeify Select 50K costs $165 once, or $205 with the 50% consistency add-on, and resets cost $109. Tradeify’s NOV code took 30% off Select until 13 November. Neither firm charges an activation fee or a monthly fee.

Trading costs differ more than the entry price. Lucid charges $1.75 a side on ES and NQ and $0.50 a side on the micros, which is $3.50 and $1.00 a round turn. Tradeify charges $5.76 a round turn on ES and NQ and $1.82 on MES and MNQ. A trader who does 20 round turns a day on NQ pays about $45 a day more at Tradeify.

Payouts

On the Flex paths, both firms pay 90% and ask for five days of at least $150 profit before each payout. Each payout is half of your profit, capped at $2,000 at Lucid and $2,500 at Tradeify for Select accounts bought after 1 September 2026. Lucid’s minimum payout is $500, and Lucid sends funds within two business days of approval. Tradeify pays through Rise and says funds are issued within 24 hours of the withdrawal being processed. To request a Tradeify payout, more than half of your trades must last longer than 10 seconds and more than half of your profit must come from those trades.

The route to live is different. LucidFlex moves you to live after five payouts. Tradeify considers you for Elite Live after three payouts on one account or ten in total, closes your simulated accounts, starts the live account at $0 and pays 80% with daily payouts.

Both firms also sell a daily payout plan. LucidDaily pays out on any day with no cap per payout and a $500 minimum, once the balance is above $52,100, and moves you to live once you make $8,000 in a day. Tradeify Select Daily pays out daily, up to twice your profit since the last payout, capped at $1,250 with a $250 minimum, once the balance is above $52,100, and adds a $1,000 daily loss limit. See fast payout prop firms for others.

Platforms, automation and trading rules

Both firms connect NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView, and both offer Rithmic with Quantower, Tradesea, Sierra Chart and R|Trader Pro. Lucid adds MotiveWave, Jigsaw, Bookmap, ATAS and MultiCharts through Rithmic, and Tradeify adds WealthCharts. See NinjaTrader prop firms and Tradovate prop firms for more choice.

Lucid permits automated trading systems and trade copiers and bans hedging, microscalping and high frequency trading. Tradeify allows bots if you can prove you own them, may ask for a live video of you turning one on, does not allow a bot that also runs at other firms, and bans high frequency trading and hedging across accounts. News trading is allowed on LucidFlex and at Tradeify with no restrictions. Neither firm allows overnight holds: both flatten positions at 4:45 pm ET without failing the account. Both allow five funded accounts. Tradeify asks for at least one trade a week on each account, and Lucid closes accounts left inactive for 30 days.

Both restrict a long list of countries. Lucid does not accept traders from the Philippines, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya or Lithuania, which are not on Tradeify’s list, while Tradeify does not accept residents of Israel, Malaysia or Panama.

Who should choose each firm

Choose Lucid Trading if

• You want the lower price and cheaper resets.
• You trade often and want lower commissions.
• You use MotiveWave, Bookmap, ATAS or another Rithmic platform Tradeify doesn’t list.

Choose Tradeify if

• You want a higher cap on each Flex payout.
• You don’t want a daily loss limit.
• You want daily payouts from a $250 minimum, or to trade on WealthCharts.

For other matchups, see Lucid Trading vs Apex, Lucid Trading vs Topstep, Apex vs Tradeify, Tradeify alternatives, Lucid Trading alternatives, every head to head comparison and the futures prop firms hub.