Side-by-side analysis of both prop firms. Entry account starting from $15.00.
Each category shows the winner between the two firms.
Full price and the final price with the coupon applied at checkout, plan by plan.
MARKETSCOUPONS| Plan | Account | Full price | With coupon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gauntlet Mini | 50K | $170/mo | $85/mo |
| Gauntlet Mini | 100K | $315/mo | $157.50/mo |
| Gauntlet Mini | 150K | $375/mo | $187.50/mo |
| Gauntlet Mini | 200K | $550/mo | $275/mo |
| Trader Career Path | 25K | $150/mo | $75/mo |
| Trader Career Path | 50K | $190/mo | $95/mo |
| Trader Career Path | 100K | $350/mo | $175/mo |
MARKET| Plan | Account | Full price | With coupon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct | 25K | $307 | $230.25 |
| Direct | 50K | $494 | $371 |
| Direct | 100K | $659 | $494 |
| Direct | 150K | $824 | $618 |
| Express | 50K | $178 | $134 |
| Express | 100K | $282 | $212 |
| Express | 150K | $386 | $290 |
| Reserve | 25K | $110 | $83 |
| Reserve | 50K | $154 | $116 |
| Reserve | 100K | $248 | $186 |
| E2T | Blue Guardian | |
|---|---|---|
| Activation fee | Yes | None |
| Consistency rule | Yes | Not required |
| Minimum days | 10 | 1 |
| Payout speed | Monthly | 5 days |
| Scaling | Up to $400K | Yes |
| Platforms | Rithmic, NinjaTrader, Finamark, Tradovate, TradingView | Tradovate, DeepCharts, MetaTrader 5, Match-Trader |
Cheapest entry: Blue Guardian, from $15.00 with the coupon.
Biggest discount: Earn2Trade, at 50% OFF.
Better reputation: Earn2Trade, rated 4.6 on Trustpilot.
Blue Guardian charges no activation fee, the cost most comparisons forget.
Numbers read at each firm checkout, not from their marketing pages. When a code stops working it leaves this page the same day.
Five points that decide the purchase, read from each firm official data.
E2T runs a EOD → Trailing drawdown and Blue Guardian runs EOD Trailing.
Trailing means the limit rises with your equity peak, open positions included: giving profit back can end the account even without a real loss. EOD only recalculates at the session close, which forgives intraday swings.
In practice that is $1.5K a $3.5K of room at E2T and 5-7% trail at Blue Guardian.
The cheapest entry is Blue Guardian, from $15.00 with the coupon applied at checkout, against $75.00 at E2T.
The discount differs too: 50% OFF at E2T and 25% OFF at Blue Guardian.
Add the activation fee at E2T before comparing: it is charged after you pass and never shows up in the evaluation price.
Blue Guardian charges no activation fee, so the price you see is the full cost up to the funded account.
On the split, E2T pays 80% and Blue Guardian pays 90%.
Blue Guardian allows a payout from the first profitable day, which shortens the path between passing and getting paid.
Declared speed: Monthly at E2T and 5 days at Blue Guardian.
E2T enforces a consistency rule (Yes), which stops a single day from carrying the whole result.
Blue Guardian has no consistency requirement, so one strong day counts in full.
Minimum trading days: 10 at E2T and 1 at Blue Guardian.
E2T explicitly bans: HFT, Latency arbitrage.
Blue Guardian explicitly bans: Copy trading entre contas, Latency arbitrage, HFT scalping bots.
If the goal is testing the model on the smallest possible budget, Blue Guardian has the cheaper entry.
If reputation matters more than price, E2T is rated 4.6 on Trustpilot.
Platforms: E2T runs on Rithmic, NinjaTrader, Finamark, Tradovate; Blue Guardian, on Tradovate, DeepCharts, MetaTrader 5, Match-Trader. A strategy tied to one platform decides this on its own.
There is no better firm in the abstract: there is the one that matches your drawdown, your trading hours and how fast you need to withdraw.