Payout Junction vs PropFirmMatch: How to Check a Prop Firm Actually Pays Before You Buy

Payout Junction and PropFirmMatch both answer the question traders type before buying an evaluation: does this firm actually pay? They answer it from different data. Payout Junction counts only payouts it can match to a transaction on a public blockchain. PropFirmMatch is a full comparison site, with a payout tracker beside reviews, challenge tables and discount codes, and it may earn money when you buy through it.

We read both sites on October 4, 2026. Every figure below comes from their own pages on that day. MyTradingBuddy is not affiliated with either site or with any firm named here.

Why prop firm payout trackers exist

A prop firm sells an evaluation today and pays traders later. That gap is the whole risk. Screenshots of payout certificates on social media were the old prop firm payout proof, and a screenshot proves very little.

A prop firm payout tracker tries to replace the screenshot with a record of prop firm payouts. The question to ask of any tracker is simple: where does the record come from, and what does it leave out? That one question separates these two sites more than any feature list. We cover the wider warning signs in prop firm red flags.

What Payout Junction shows and where its data comes from

Payout Junction describes itself as an independent tracker of prop firm payouts that settle on public blockchains. On October 4 its footer listed $1,645,335,099 across 948,172 payouts, tracked since October 2023, across 39 firms.

Its methodology page explains the process. It identifies the wallets a firm pays traders from, then for each outgoing payout it finds the transaction hash, checks the token contract, and records the amount and settlement time. Only then does a payout count. Each firm row names the rail tracked: Rise, direct crypto or on-chain.

What it shows:

• Totals, payout counts, largest and average payout per firm
• Views for the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all time
• Weekly and monthly archives, records and industry statistics

What it says it leaves out: bank transfers, card payouts and any rail it cannot observe on-chain. It also warns that firm wallets may be used for other things, including operational expenses, so not every transaction is a trader payout.

That last point matters for futures traders. Topstep, Apex and Lucid were not among the 39 firms on its all-time table when we checked. If your firm pays by ACH, this tracker cannot see it.

How it makes money is not spelled out. Its About page says a firm cannot pay to be listed or ranked. The homepage also carried a Tradeify Futures banner with a 30%-off code and "Visit" buttons whose links carry referral tags. Read that as a commercial link, the same way you would on any site.

What PropFirmMatch shows (and how it makes money)

PropFirmMatch (often searched as "prop firm match") is a much larger site. On October 4 its homepage claimed 60+ listed firms, 1,500+ challenges, 12,000+ trader reviews and 6M+ monthly page views, across forex, futures and crypto tabs.

What you get there:

• Side-by-side challenge tables, firm rules pages and spreads
• Star ratings and written reviews per firm
• Best Sellers and Favorite Firms rankings
• A payout tracker with totals, counts, largest and average payout and median payout time
• Discount codes on most listings, often code MATCH

Its transparency page is direct about money: PropFirmMatch "may earn revenue through affiliate and commercial partnerships" with listed firms, including when you buy a challenge through its links. It says commercial deals do not set rankings or listing, and that listings cannot be bought. It also says 300+ firms applied and 96 were approved.

Two details worth knowing. Best Sellers is built from purchases made through PropFirmMatch, so it measures that site's traffic, not the market; the site says so itself. And its sign-up box tells members they can earn more loyalty points by writing reviews. Neither makes the data wrong. Both tell you what it measures. Our PropFirmMatch review in one line: strong for comparing rules, prices and codes, open about being paid by the firms it lists.

On payout data, PropFirmMatch says it tracks payouts itself instead of relying on what firms claim. It does not publish how it collects them, and the tracker page asks anyone who wants to share payout data to reach out in their dedicated Slack channel. Its own FAQ adds that higher totals do not necessarily mean a firm is better.

Payout Junction vs PropFirmMatch side by side

Here is the same firm and month on both sites. For Tradeify, the last 30 days on October 4:

The totals sit $4.47 million apart. The largest payout differs by $140,000. Neither is necessarily wrong. They count different things, and Payout Junction itself warns that firm wallets also pay other expenses, so one huge transfer is not proof of one huge trader payout.

Now take Lucid Trading. PropFirmMatch's 30-day table put Lucid at the top, with $93,782,130 across 59,575 payouts and a median wait of about 3 hours. Payout Junction does not list Lucid at all. A firm missing from an on-chain tracker is not a warning sign by itself; it may simply pay another way.

What neither site can tell you

Payout trackers count money that left. They do not count the requests that never got paid.

• Denied payouts. A denial produces no transaction, so it is invisible to both trackers. Our guide to a prop firm payout denied covers what to do when it happens.
• Your odds. $40 million paid to 24,584 requests says nothing about how many evaluations were sold to reach them.
• Rule fit. PropFirmMatch's FAQ says its payout page does not show payout rules. A consistency rule can block your request long before speed matters; see prop firm consistency rule explained.
• The future. A strong 30 days is history. The Funded Trader shutdown is the reminder that a firm can pay for years and still stop.

A 5-step check before you buy an evaluation

1. Find the firm on both trackers. If it is on Payout Junction, note the 30-day total and count. If it is missing, check how the firm pays; an ACH-only firm will never appear there.
2. Compare the same window. Line up 30 days against 30 days. If the two sites disagree by more than a few percent, look at count and largest payout before trusting either total.
3. Read the firm's own payout policy. Not the tracker's summary. Work out what lands from a typical request. Topstep's help center gives its own example: a $500 ACH request minus the 10% split minus a $30 fee leaves $420.
4. Price the full path. Evaluation, resets or repeat purchases, activation fee. A discount code changes this number more than anything else, which is why trackers show them.
5. Check how many payouts you can take. Some funded accounts close after a set number of payouts; others cap each request. Our Lucid payout rules page shows how much the details vary between plans.

If a firm passes all five, the payout risk is as low as public data can make it. The rest is your trading.

After you buy: protect the payout

The payout policies we read for this article point at the same two traps on the trader's side: one oversized day that breaks a consistency rule, or a loss that drags the balance under a payout threshold after a request.

That part is in your hands. Before each entry, a calm second read across timeframes, checked against the rules you just read, catches the trade that does not fit. MyTradingBuddy does that read. It does not place trades, and you still make the call.

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