Blink Funding Review: Plans, Rules, and How It Compares

Blink Funding is a United States based proprietary trading firm selling paid skill assessments on CFD markets. It offers three evaluation routes - 1-Step, 2-Step and 3-Step - across seven account sizes from $5,000 to $500,000, with test fees running from $50 to $4,500. The firm does not publish a founding date, an incorporation number or a registered address on its website, and its established date is recorded here as unknown. Trading is on DXTrade, Match Trader and cTrader, with pricing and execution provided by broker ThinkMarkets, and the trader dashboard is a white-label supplied by Prop Account. This review covers what Blink Funding publishes about its plans, its rules and its payout terms, where its own sources disagree with each other, and how its pricing sits against three other CFD firms we track.

Plans and pricing

Blink Funding prices each of its three evaluation routes separately at every account size. The 3-Step route is the cheapest at every size, and the 1-Step route is the most expensive at every size. The full published fee grid is below, taken from the firm's own evaluation tables.

Two features of this grid are worth noting because they do not follow the usual pattern. First, the gap between routes widens sharply with size: at $5,000 the 1-Step route is $75 against $50 for the 3-Step route, while at $500,000 it is $4,500 against $1,800. Second, on the 3-Step route the $100,000 account is priced at $375 against $350 for the $50,000 account, an almost flat step up, whereas the same step up on the 1-Step route runs from $450 to $850. Traders comparing routes should price the specific size they intend to buy rather than assuming a consistent ratio across the grid. The firm's evaluation tables also advertise the code BLINK20 for a 20% discount applied at checkout.

Rules by route

The three routes differ in more than price. Each carries its own profit target, daily loss limit and maximum drawdown, and the drawdown type changes between them, which matters more than the headline fee for most traders.

Across all three routes the firm publishes the same secondary rules: no time limit on any phase, weekend holding permitted, a stop loss required on positions, Expert Advisors permitted, and a 30 day inactivity rule under which a trade must be placed to keep the account open. The 1-Step route is the only one using a trailing drawdown, which moves up with account equity and is generally harder to survive than a static figure of the same size. The 3-Step route removes the daily loss limit entirely but pairs that with the tightest overall drawdown in the range at 5% static, spread across three separate 5% targets.

On payouts, the firm states that a trader may request the first withdrawal of Live Account gains at any time, and thereafter no more frequently than once every 30 days, with all gains distributed via Deel. The standard virtual profit share is 75%, rising to 90% with a paid add-on rather than through a scaling plan.

Where Blink Funding's own sources disagree

Three material points are stated differently in different places on the firm's own website, and we have left the affected fields unresolved rather than pick a side.

The second disagreement concerns whether funded accounts are live or simulated. The how-it-works page states that after passing the assessment "we provide you with a live account, backed by our capital" and that the capital "is notional and may not match the amount of capital on deposit with the Broker", while the terms and conditions state that "no live trading is provided directly by the Company" and that the company does not provide "the opportunity to invest actual currency". The homepage labels every evaluation metric as "Virtual Profit Share", "Virtual Leverage" and "Virtual Profit Target" while also stating "we don't believe in demo accounts". The firm separately discloses that it may act as direct counterparty to trades, which it identifies as an inherent conflict of interest.

The third concerns news trading. The how-it-works page states that trading during news is permitted provided broker pricing continues, excluding stocks going into earnings. The terms and conditions state that opening a position within 3 minutes before or after a news event is prohibited and may result in the account being breached, with the company holding sole discretion over what constitutes a news event. The two pages were last modified in September 2024 and July 2024 respectively.

One further point of record: the published terms are the white-label vendor's, naming the Prop Account group of companies, and do not name any Blink Funding entity, founding date or address.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Three evaluation structures at every account size, so a trader can choose between a single 10% target, a split 10% and 5% target, or three 5% targets.
• No time limit on any phase of any route, and weekend holding and Expert Advisors are both permitted.
• The first withdrawal of Live Account gains can be requested at any time rather than after a fixed waiting period, and payouts are distributed through Deel.

Cons

• No TrustPilot rating is available because the profile is suspended for a breach of TrustPilot's guidelines, so independent user feedback cannot be assessed.
• The firm publishes no founding date, incorporation number or registered address, and its terms name only the white-label vendor's entities.
• The website contradicts itself on whether funded accounts are live or simulated and on whether news trading is permitted.

How the pricing compares

Measured at the $100,000 account size against three other CFD firms we track, Blink Funding is priced above all three on every comparable route.

On the 1-Step route at $100,000, Blink Funding's $850 fee sits above FXIFY at $549, E8 Markets at $488 and Maven Trading at $342. The rule sets are not identical, so the fee is not the only variable. Blink Funding's 1-Step route asks a 10% profit target against a 6% trailing drawdown and a 5% daily loss limit; FXIFY's 1-Step at this size asks a 10% target against a 6% trailing drawdown with a tighter 3% daily loss limit; E8 Markets asks a lower 8% target against a 6% dynamic drawdown with a 4% daily loss limit; and Maven Trading asks an 8% target against a 5% drawdown with a 3% daily loss limit. Blink Funding's daily loss allowance on this route is therefore the most generous of the four, while its profit target is level with FXIFY's and higher than the other two.

On the 2-Step route the distance is wider: $550 at Blink Funding against $260 at E8 Markets, $396 at Maven Trading and $549 at FXIFY. On the 3-Step route, Blink Funding's $375 sits between Maven Trading's $270 and FXIFY's $399. Blink Funding's standard 75% profit share is also the lowest of the four before the paid add-on is purchased, and the only one of the four that requires a purchase to reach its advertised headline rate.

Verdict

Blink Funding publishes a complete and internally consistent fee grid, a clear three-route structure, and payout terms that allow a first withdrawal at any time. Those are the concrete points in its favour. Against that, it is priced above the three comparable CFD firms above at the $100,000 size on every route, its standard profit share of 75% requires a paid add-on to reach the 90% figure in its marketing, it discloses no corporate identity of its own, and its TrustPilot rating is suspended for a guidelines breach so there is no independent record of trader experience to weigh. Its own pages also contradict each other on two points that decide real outcomes: whether funded accounts are live or simulated, and whether news trading is permitted. This firm suits traders who want a no-time-limit evaluation with a choice of three drawdown structures and who are willing to pay above the comparable rate for it, and who will confirm the news trading and account-type positions with support in writing before purchasing.

Sources: blinkfunding.com, how-it-works, terms and conditions, about us and TrustPilot, all retrieved 2026-08-20. Comparison figures from PropFirmMap firm records.