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

Zenit Funding is a Belgian futures proprietary trading firm operated by Rhea Digital Partners SRL, which publishes a Brussels registered address (Avenue Louise 231, 1050 Brussels) and enterprise number BE0764.873.605. Its established date on file is 10 October 2024. Zenit sells access to a simulated trading environment with real market data as a recurring monthly subscription, and it structures the journey in three phases: a Challenge evaluation, a simulated Funded account, and a Live phase on a real Zenit account for traders whose trading is validated after 10 payouts. Traders keep 90% of profits on simulated funded accounts and 80% on the Live phase. The distinguishing feature is that Zenit runs two different drawdown models side by side at the same account size, which is unusual among futures firms.

Plans and pricing

Zenit sells two plan families. The Classic family uses a real-time intraday trailing drawdown and comes in three account sizes. The Expert family, which the firm labels as new, uses an End of Day drawdown and is offered only at $50,000. Every plan is a recurring monthly subscription rather than a one-time evaluation fee, so the cost repeats at each anniversary date of account activation. Zenit states that this renewal is not automatic and that an account which is not renewed is permanently lost.

At the time of writing the homepage displays a limited promotional price on the Classic plans with the coupon SAVE70, showing $49.5, $119.7 and $197.7 per month against the regular $165, $399 and $659. No promotional price is displayed on the Expert plans. The checkout page for the Classic 50K plan renders the same figure in euros, as EUR 165.00, alongside a EUR 149 funded one-time fee.

The two Expert variants differ only in how the activation fee is billed. The $49 plan charges the $149 funded activation separately once you pass, while the $115 plan is an all-in pack with the activation included. Across both families a funded account reset costs $649 and can be used a maximum of one time.

Rules that shape the account

The drawdown model is the main decision point. On Classic plans the trailing drawdown is calculated intraday in real time and follows the account's positive performance upward without ever coming back down: on a $50,000 account the initial floor is $47,500, and a $500 intraday gain raises that floor to $48,000 permanently. If the threshold is touched, positions are liquidated and the account is closed. On Expert plans the same threshold is measured only at session close, so intraday fluctuations do not trigger liquidation. Expert also carries a $1,000 daily loss limit, described as soft during the challenge and hard once funded, and a Max Loss Limit that locks at $50,100 once the balance reaches $52,000 at session close. Zenit states that a payout does not reduce that locked floor.

Consistency rules apply only after funding on Classic plans, where no single trading day may represent 30% or more of cumulative profits. Expert applies 50% during the challenge and 40% per payout cycle once funded. Minimum trading days are 2 on every challenge. To request a payout, Classic requires 7 validated trading days, where a day counts only if it clears a minimum daily profit of $150, $450 or $650 depending on account size. Expert requires 5 qualifying days with net daily profit of at least $150 since the previous request, a balance higher than at the last request, and cycle consistency respected. Expert funded accounts also start at 1 mini or 10 micros and unlock progressively toward 5 minis or 50 micros as cumulative profit grows, with the level reassessed at the close of each session in both directions.

Payout requests can only be submitted between the 1st and the 4th of the month and between the 16th and the 20th. Validation takes up to 5 business days and payment up to 15 days after validation, and payments are made exclusively through the RISE platform. Minimum payout on Classic is $500, with maximums of $1,600, $2,750 and $3,500 by account size. Prohibited practices include HFT, cross-account and cross-client hedging, copy trading, account lending, bracketing and challenge-passing services. Positions may not be opened in the minute before or after NFP, CPI, PPI, FOMC and several other releases. All purchases are final and non-refundable, and Zenit does not accept residents of a published list of restricted countries that includes Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa, Romania and Russia.

Pros and cons

Pros

• The 90% / 10% split applies from the first dollar, and the platform license plus the CME Bundle L1 data feed are included in the subscription rather than billed separately.
• Two drawdown models are offered at the same $50,000 size, so a trader who cannot work under an intraday trailing floor has an End of Day option without changing firm.
• On the Expert plan the Max Loss Limit locks at $50,100 once the balance closes at $52,000, and Zenit states that taking a payout does not reset that floor back down.

Cons

• Every plan is a recurring monthly subscription, and the $149 activation fee applies in addition for all Classic sizes and the $49 Expert plan. All purchases are non-refundable.
• Payouts are restricted to two fixed windows per month, and a Classic payout needs 7 separate days that each clear the minimum daily profit, so the first withdrawal cannot be fast.
• Overnight and weekend holding are impossible, which rules out swing strategies entirely, and Eurex market data costs $25 per month in addition to the subscription despite Eurex appearing in the homepage headline.

How Zenit compares at $50,000

The $50,000 tier with a $3,000 profit target is a crowded segment, which makes it a fair place to compare. The table below sets Zenit's two entry plans against three established futures firms in our directory at the same account size and the same target.

Firm and plan	Monthly fee	Drawdown	Daily loss limit	Activation	Split
Zenit Expert 50K	$49	$2,000 EOD	$1,000	$149	90%
Zenit Classic 50K	$165	$2,500 trailing	None	$149	90%
Topstep Trading Combine 50K	$49	$2,000	Not stated	$149	90%
Tradeify Growth $50K	$145	$2,000 EOD trailing	$1,250	Not stated	90%
MyFundedFutures Rapid 50K	$157	$2,000 EOD trailing	Not stated	$0	90% (Rapid)

On headline price the Expert plan lands at $49, matching Topstep's Trading Combine at the same size and target, and both charge a $149 activation fee at the funded stage. Against Tradeify's Growth $50K at $145 and MyFundedFutures' Rapid at $157, the Expert plan is cheaper per month and carries a $1,000 daily loss limit against Tradeify's $1,250, though MyFundedFutures charges no activation fee at all, which changes the total cost of reaching a funded account. Zenit's Classic 50K at $165 is the most expensive entry in this group, and what the extra buys is the removal of the daily loss limit in exchange for a trailing floor that moves intraday. Where Zenit differs structurally from all three is the payout mechanism: fixed twice-monthly request windows and a stated Live phase on a real account after 10 validated payouts, rather than continuous withdrawal eligibility.

Verdict

Zenit Funding scores 5.1 on the PropFirmMap score with a safety grade of B, and holds a TrustPilot score of 4.0 across 39 reviews on a profile claimed in February 2026. Those reviews are mixed: several one-star reviews posted in April and May 2026 report the dashboard not displaying active accounts and problems with the trading terminal, and Zenit has replied to 88% of negative reviews according to the profile. The firm states plainly that it is not regulated by financial authorities, that it is not a broker-dealer, and that it does not hold or manage customer funds.

Zenit suits a futures trader who works strictly intraday on CME, COMEX, CBOT or NYMEX products, wants a 90% split from the first dollar with the platform and Level 1 data included in one monthly fee, and can accept payout requests being limited to two windows per month. The Expert plan at $49 is the cheaper entry and is the one to look at if an intraday trailing floor is what has ended previous evaluations. It does not suit anyone who holds positions overnight or over a weekend, needs withdrawal on demand, or wants a one-time evaluation fee rather than a subscription that must be actively renewed. Traders in the firm's published list of restricted countries are not accepted at all.

Sources verified for this review: the Zenit Funding homepage, plan cards and published rules, the Classic 50K checkout page, and the firm's TrustPilot profile. Competitor figures are drawn from our own firm records for Topstep, Tradeify and MyFundedFutures. See the full Zenit Funding profile for the current plan grid.