Your Rating qualifies you for a tier. Your membership claims your seat at that tier, and the funded capital, growth mechanic, Floor access, and community come withmembership. Reasonable monthly fees for a real trading career.
Rating earns the eligibility.
Membership claims the seat.
Capital comes with the seat.
Each tier is a membership level. Your Rating qualifies you to claim it; your monthly fee makes you a member. Every membership comes with the funded capital, Floor access, growth mechanic, and community of that tier, at a fee that's a fraction of a percent of the capital you're trading.
A free $10K account to get started. Self-directed trading, public profile, Rating tracking, and access to enter Snap and Session Rooms at entry-level price points ($5-$10) to build your Rating. The starting ground for everything that follows.
The first funded tier of your Desk career. Your $25K funded account grows $2,500 every month you sustain your Rating, reaching $50K in 10 months. Full access to every Room type at the Junior community level.
The capital tier most retail traders know. $100K funded, growing $10,000/month to $200K in 10 months as your Rating sustains. The community of working career traders, all Room types open to you.
A tier above what direct-funded firms typically reach. $250K funded, growing $25,000/month to $500K in 10 months as your Rating holds. The Elite community.
The institutional milestone. $1M floor, growing $100,000/month to $2M in 10 months. The Master cohort. The best fee-to-capital ratio in the industry.
The platform's apex. $5M floor, $10M ceiling. Not purchasable at any price. Reserved for traders who have demonstrated sustained excellence at Master and earned committee invitation.
Membership fees on The Desk aren't arbitrary subscription prices, they're a small percentage of the funded capital that comes with each tier. As you climb, the fee gets cheaper relative to your capital. Compare it to evaluation firms or anything else in the industry: nobody offers this ratio.
| Tier | Monthly fee | Max capital | Monthly fee % of max capital | Annualized fee on max capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | $49 | $50K | 0.098% | 1.18% |
| Pro | $129 | $200K | 0.065% | 0.77% |
| Elite | $249 | $500K | 0.050% | 0.60% |
| Master | $499 | $2M | 0.025% | 0.30% |
| Evaluation prop firm baseline | $100K typical | ~0.20% | ~2.4% | |
At Master, you're paying 0.025% per month for access to $2M of funded capital that grows automatically. That's less than what evaluation firms charge in one week for $100K. The math gets better the higher you climb.
For $25K of funded capital that grows $2,500 every month, reaching $50K in 10 months. Plus public Rating, Floor (Room) competition, community, and a real career trajectory. Cancel any time. Your Rating stays.
$100K funded, growing $10K/month to $200K. The capital tier most retail traders aim for. Full access to every Room type, Pro cohort, mentor surface, and the platform that supports a career. at 0.77% annualized on max capital.
$1M to $2M of capital that grows $100K every month. 0.3% annual fee on max capital, unmatched in the industry. No prop firm offers anything close to this ratio for institutional-feeling capital with automatic monthly growth.
Traditional challenge firms sell a one-time evaluation. The Desk is a live career platform with continuous competition, scoring, funded-cycle management, and progression. Membership funds the platform; your trading funds you.
Floors are small Rooms. like the trading desks at institutions, where you trade alongside 20-40 other traders matched to your Rating. Defined window, transparent entry fee, real prize pool. Top placements take 80% of the pool. Enter as many Rooms as you want, multiple per day, this is the daily and weekly economy of your trading career.
Rating-matched fields, not lottery-sized arenas. 20-40 traders at your skill level. Top quintile of every Room takes a share of the pool.
Same clock, same instruments, comparable conditions. Placements are skill-measured, not luck. Post-Room breakdowns show exactly why you placed where you did.
Real money in, real money out. ~20% chance of placing. Top placement: ~10x your entry. Multiple Rooms per day adds up.
Every Room placement also moves your Rating. Income today, capital ladder tomorrow. The two paths run together.
This isn't a thousand-person lottery. A small Room. A real chance. A skilled trader places far more than 1-in-5, that's the baseline for random play.
Entry fee scales with Room length: more time in market, higher stake, bigger pool, bigger top prize. Pick the cadence that fits your trading style.
Every cycle your Rating sustains tier threshold, your funded capital grows by 10% of tier floor. predictable, flat, monthly. Junior: $2,500/mo. Pro: $10K/mo. Elite: $25K/mo. Master: $100K/mo. Ten months per tier to ceiling.
The long game. Capital you trade with, growing month over month.
Enter Rooms multiple times per day and week. ~20% chance of placing in any Room (more if you're skilled). Top placement pays ~10x entry. A consistent trader earns $500-$1,500/month from Room winnings; top performers earn $2,000+ during Major months.
The daily economy. Real income from real competition while you climb.
Membership grows your capital. Rooms fund your trading days.
A real economy, not a one-shot challenge, not a lottery.
Founder Access is a separate pre-launch package. It reserves your place as one of the first 250 traders to claim a seat at The Desk, with a permanent Founder badge, launch credit, and pricing lock for life. Pre-launch access lets you build Rating in the early cohort before the public field arrives.
Seats, pricing, refund terms, and launch guarantees on the Founders page.
Rating earns your eligibility for a tier. Membership at that tier is what you pay monthly to claim your seat, and the funded capital, growth mechanic, and tier-level Floor access come with the seat. You don't subscribe to a tier you haven't qualified for; you subscribe once your Rating qualifies and Floor record meets the tier gate.
Yes. Open membership is free permanently. You can build your Desk profile, trade self-directed, and enter any Floor type. Snap, Session, Daily, Sprint, Cup, or Major, at the entry levels that suit you. All Floor types are accessible to every member, every tier. Funded tiers start when you choose to claim them, once Rating qualifies.
Floors (Rooms) are how Rating progresses meaningfully, and how you earn supplemental income while you build. Every Floor has a transparent entry fee that goes into the pool, and top placements take 80%. Self-directed trading alone produces only modest Rating movement; serious tier progression comes through Floor participation.
Every Floor (Room) has a transparent entry fee. Fees flow into the prize pool, which splits 80% to top placements / 20% to the platform as disclosed rake, same math every Room, every time. Fees range from $5 (entry-level Snap) to $100 (top Major). Multiple Rooms run in parallel at each price point so you're always Rating-matched.
About 1 in 5 (20%) for an average trader, that's the baseline at random play in a 30-trader Room with top 6 winners. Skilled traders place much more often. 1st place wins ~10x their entry. This is a small competitive Room, not a thousand-person lottery.
Yes. You can move up when your Rating qualifies you for a higher tier, subscribe to the higher tier and the new funded capital comes with the upgraded membership. Moving down preserves your Rating; you'll just be a member of the lower tier with that tier's funded capital level.
Your funded cycle continues to its scheduled close. Final payouts process under Meritix. After cycle close, an active membership at the appropriate tier is needed for the funded account to continue. Your Rating and profile are always preserved.
Yes. Your Rating and trading record persist on your Desk profile regardless of membership status. Re-activate at any tier you qualify for and pick up where your record left off.
No. Legend is the only tier that cannot be claimed through membership alone, it's earned through sustained Master-tier excellence plus committee review. The platform's apex.
Floor (Room) entry fees and Founder Access are separate from monthly membership. Trading platform access (A-Trader, Arizet's owned platform, the only supported platform) is included at every paid tier. Funded-tier accounts are funded by The Desk, you never pre-fund capital yourself.
Open is free. Each tier above it costs less per month, as a percentage of the capital that comes with it, than anything else in the industry. Earn your seat through Rating. Claim it through membership. Trade the capital that comes with it.