Apex Legacy Payout Rules 2026: Caps, Safety Net, PA Fee

An Apex Legacy payout needs 8 trading days, 5 of them at $50 or more of profit, no day above 30% of your profit, and, for the first three payouts, a balance at or above the safety net. The minimum request is $500. The first five payouts are capped at $1,500 (25K) to $3,500 (300K), then there is no cap. Legacy pays 100% of the first $25,000 per account, then 90%.

What is an Apex Legacy account?

Legacy is the name Apex gave its old Evaluation and Performance Accounts when it replaced them on March 1, 2026. Accounts bought before that date kept their rules: Apex says there are no retroactive changes to the Legacy program.

Then Legacy came back. Apex’s Legacy product page now sells Legacy accounts again, available now for a limited time, with six sizes on Tradovate, WealthCharts and Rithmic, and a note that these are a different program from Apex’s other products.

Three Legacy facts hold whatever the page: a passed Legacy evaluation can only become a Legacy Performance Account (PA); Legacy accounts cannot be converted into the new Intraday or EOD accounts; and your active Legacy, Intraday and EOD PAs together cannot exceed 20.

How much does an Apex Legacy account cost?

Legacy is a monthly subscription, followed by a one-time PA fee when you pass. These are the prices on Apex’s Legacy product page on October 19, 2026, the same on all three platforms:

Read this table with care. The day before, on October 18, the same product page listed the 100K at $397, the 250K at $697 and the 300K at $797 a month. On October 19 all three showed $210. Apex prices move; check the page before you buy.

The PA fee shows the same split. The product cards say $99 to $199; the help article on activating a Legacy PA lists $125 to $300. Both are one-time, and Apex says accounts bought on or after March 1, 2026 only get the one-time lifetime PA fee, no monthly option. Assume the higher figure until the checkout shows otherwise. PA fees are not refundable.

The subscription keeps running

• Billing recurs every month until you cancel it yourself. Failing an evaluation does not cancel it.
• After you pass, the monthly fee continues until you pay the PA fee.
• Resets cost extra, and Apex says Legacy evaluations are now the only accounts that can be reset. An account still failed at the close the day before renewal is reset as part of the renewal.
• Coupon: on October 19, 2026, Apex’s banner offered 90% off all evaluations, Legacy included, with the code SAVENOW, on a countdown ending October 22, 2026: $17.70 a month on a 25K. Apex has rerun this kind of coupon several times; check the banner for the current code.

Apex’s new accounts went the other way: a one-time evaluation and a PA activation fee of $89 to $159. Our Apex activation fee guide breaks down every size.

What are the Apex Legacy evaluation rules?

A Legacy evaluation has a profit goal, a trailing threshold, and no daily drawdown or scaling. At Apex’s figures:

Once you have completed the required trading days and hit the goal, Apex starts the PA process automatically after the market close on the day the goal was met, and the PA link appears in your Passed Evals tab. After payment, the PA can take up to 4 hours to be created.

What are the Apex Legacy payout rules?

A Legacy payout needs four conditions, and the first five payouts are capped. Here is the full rule set from Apex’s Legacy PA payout parameters:

What is the Apex Legacy max payout?

From the sixth payout, there is no maximum, provided the minimum balance stays in the account. Apex says a steady 8-day cycle gets you there in as little as 48 trading days, roughly two months. Each account is separate: ten 50K accounts can each request $2,000 every 8 trading days.

How does the Apex Legacy safety net work?

For the first three payouts, the balance must clear the safety net: the drawdown plus $100 above your starting balance. Apex lets you dip into it by the $500 minimum, no more.

Apex’s own 50K example: the drawdown is $2,500, so the safety net is $2,600. At $52,600 you can request the $500 minimum and leave $52,100. To request $1,200, you need $53,300. From the fourth payout, the safety net no longer applies.

How does the Apex Legacy 30% consistency rule work?

No single trading day can exceed 30% of your total profit when you request a payout. Apex’s shortcut: divide your best day by 0.3 to get the profit you need. A $1,500 best day on a 50K means $5,000 of total profit before you can request.

The count restarts after each approved payout, and the rule stops at the sixth payout or when the account moves to Apex’s live program. Our consistency rule guide shows how these percentages compare across firms.

Express to Live: no consistency rule, no minimum days

What trading rules apply to an Apex Legacy PA?

Legacy PAs add five trading rules that the evaluation does not have, and their trailing drawdown works differently. Apex lists the five on its Legacy PA trading rules page: contract scaling, the 30% negative P&L rule, the 5:1 risk to reward ratio, no hedging and one direction.

• Also different, the trailing drawdown: it follows your peak unrealized balance until it reaches the safety net, then stops at your starting balance plus $100. On a 50K, it stops once the peak reaches $52,600.
• Contract scaling: half your maximum contracts until the end of day balance clears the threshold. A 50K trades 5 contracts, then 10 from the next session. Profits made over the limit are removed.
• 30% negative P&L rule: an open loss cannot exceed 30% of your profit at the start of the day, or 30% of the trailing threshold on a new or low profit account ($750 on a 50K). It moves to 50% once your end of day profit doubles the safety net. Apex says it is not a daily loss limit.
• 5:1 risk to reward: your stop cannot be more than five times your profit target.
• No hedging: no long and short positions at the same time on the same or correlated instruments.
• One direction: no orders on both sides of the market.

Apex also bans trading without a stop loss (a pending order or a mental stop both count), using the threshold as your stop, and copying trades with other traders. Breaking these rules can lead to payout denials, profit removal or account closure. Our Apex trailing drawdown guide explains how a threshold that follows unrealized peaks behaves.

Apex Legacy vs the new Apex accounts

Legacy trades a monthly bill and slower payouts for no daily loss limit and no payout cap after five payouts. The new Apex accounts, read on Apex’s site on October 18, 2026:

Our Apex payout rules guide covers the new Intraday and EOD accounts in full.

Apex Legacy vs Phidias Express to Live

Phidias first: Express to Live bought as a one-time payment bundles the evaluation and the funded account in one price, and your first payout converts the account to LIVE. No subscription, no PA fee, no 8-day cycle.

The honest reading: Legacy gives you a much bigger drawdown in dollars, sizes up to 300K, a better split on the first $25,000, more contracts (10 on a 50K, against 5 on our 50K) and up to 20 PAs, against 5 Express to Live accounts per trader, and a PA that keeps paying (up to $10,000 over the first five payouts on a 50K), where our Express to Live bonus is paid once per account, before LIVE. Ours is smaller, but it is static: it never trails your highest point, and, bought as a one-time payment, nothing renews every month on the way to LIVE. Once LIVE, payouts are available every day at 80/20, with no payout cap ($500 minimum), no consistency rule and no minimum days.

Our record from purchase to payout is 6 hours 18 minutes, and 90% of Phidias payouts are processed in under 30 minutes, every payout within 24 hours. One-time payment prices with code PHIDIAS: $69 (25K, standard $277), $144.60 (50K, $723), $180 (100K, $900), $225 (150K, $1,125).

Two honest notes. Express to Live positions must be closed before the end of the trading day, and a position left open at the close disqualifies the account. And our monthly subscription accounts do have an activation fee, from $83 to $169: only the one-time payment includes the funded account. Both are on our rules page. Our static drawdown prop firms guide explains why a fixed floor matters.

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Apex Legacy account rules 2026: frequently asked questions

What are the Apex Legacy payout rules?

To request a payout from a Legacy Performance Account you need at least 8 trading days, with 5 of them at $50 or more of profit, a balance at or above the safety net on your first three payouts, and no single day above 30% of your profit. The minimum request is $500, and the first five payouts are capped at $1,500 to $3,500 depending on size.

What is the max payout on an Apex Legacy account?

For the first five payouts: $1,500 on a 25K, $2,000 on a 50K, $2,500 on a 100K, $2,750 on a 150K, $3,000 on a 250K and $3,500 on a 300K. From the sixth payout there is no maximum, as long as the minimum balance stays in the account.

What is the Apex Legacy activation fee?

Apex’s Legacy product page lists a one-time PA fee of $99 (25K), $125 (50K), $149 (100K), $179 (150K), $189 (250K) and $199 (300K). Its help article on activating a Legacy PA lists $125, $140, $175, $200, $250 and $300. Both pages were live on October 19, 2026, so check the amount at checkout.

What is the safety net on an Apex Legacy account?

The safety net is the drawdown plus $100, and it applies to the first three payouts only. On a 50K it is $2,600, so the account needs $52,600 to request the $500 minimum, and $53,300 to request $1,200. From the fourth payout the safety net no longer applies.

Does Apex Legacy have a consistency rule?

Yes. On a Legacy Performance Account, no single trading day can exceed 30% of the total profit at the time of a payout request. Apex’s formula: your highest profit day divided by 0.3 is the minimum total profit you need. The rule applies until the sixth payout or until the account moves to Apex’s live program.

Can you still buy an Apex Legacy account?

Apex’s Legacy product page sells Legacy evaluations again as a limited-time offer, in six sizes from $177 a month. Apex’s Legacy overview in the help center still says Legacy evaluations are no longer available for purchase since March 1, 2026. The product page is the one with a checkout.

Can you convert an Apex Legacy account to the new accounts?

No. A passed Legacy evaluation can only become a Legacy Performance Account, and Legacy accounts cannot be converted or transferred into the new Intraday or EOD accounts. You can hold both, but active Legacy, Intraday and EOD Performance Accounts together cannot exceed 20.

Is the Apex Legacy profit split 100%?

Partly. Legacy Performance Accounts pay 100% of the first $25,000 paid out per account, then 90% of the profit after that. The new Apex accounts pay 100% on every payout, with 6 payout requests per account at most.