A-Trader is the only prop firm platform that pays you back. $40B+ in volume traded across the network last month. Sub-15ms execution via A-Connect. Institutional-grade risk controls built in. The kind firms typically license separately for ~$30K/month. And 14 premium apps that 30%+ of active traders subscribe to, generating recurring revenue that flows back to your firm via a negotiated share. The first platform license that's a revenue stream, not a cost. Custom pricing per engagement. Live in 7 days. Your operations stay yours. Your traders finally get the platform they've been asking for, and one that genuinely helps them become better.
Funded traders try your platform on day one. They reach a verdict in about ninety seconds. If it feels like 2010 (sluggish, ugly, missing tools they have on their personal terminal) your retention is broken before the marketing dollar that brought them even closes the loop. The platform is the product. For most prop firms running MT5 in 2026, the product is unrecognizable to a serious trader. That's a business problem, not a technology problem.
A prop firm running MT5 in 2026 is a hotel running a 2010 booking site. The room can be beautiful. The guest decides before they get to it.
The trading platform category has four serious competitors and one dinosaur. The dinosaur (MT5) is what most prop firms still run, mostly out of inertia. The three modern options (cTrader, Match-Trader, TradeLocker) are each missing something fundamental. Apps, programmability, integrated risk, revenue upside, or polish. A-Trader is the only one with all of it. Compare across every dimension that matters and the conclusion isn't subtle.
A-Trader for Prop Firms is the complete platform license, not a stripped-down B2B variant of the consumer product. Your traders get the full A-Trader experience: the platform that becomes a natural extension of the trader, with the apps that help them become their best version, the Arena that keeps them engaged, the Desk that supports their growth. Six core capabilities, all included, all live from day one.
The full A-Trader experience: desktop, web, iOS, Android, watch. Drag-less precision charting. 800+ instruments. Multi-asset. Your firm's brand on every surface, your domain on the web, your colors throughout.
The execution layer behind A-Trader. Sub-15ms p99 latency. Multi-venue smart order routing. Institutional-grade risk controls built in. Pre-trade checks, exposure limits, drawdown enforcement, news-window lockouts. The kind of risk infrastructure firms typically license separately for ~$30K/month. Plus simulated execution that actually matches live. Your traders' paper accounts use the same fill engine as production, so what they see in practice is what they get in funded.
Candle Intelligence, Market Scanner, Trade Analytics, Risk Exposure, VaR Analysis, Scenario Testing, Trading Psychology, plus seven more in pipeline. 30%+ of active traders subscribe to one or more apps. Every subscription is recurring revenue, and a negotiated share flows back to your firm. The apps help your traders become better, and turn your platform into a revenue line, not a cost center.
The systematic trading layer. Your serious traders who code get a real Python SDK, an institutional-grade backtester, and access to a marketplace of forkable strategies. The advanced layer that retains your best traders, and the apps revenue share applies to Strategy Lab Pro subscriptions too.
Ranked tournaments. Duels. Seasons. Sponsored cups. The competitive layer that turns your traders into community members, and community members into long-tail LTV. Your firm sponsors cups; your brand sits on the prize.
REST, gRPC, and webhook surfaces for every platform primitive. Account creation, rule configuration, trade events, risk events, payouts. Plug A-Trader into your existing CRM in 2–4 weeks. Keep what works. Add what doesn't.
Every prop firm has a CRM story. Some built it in-house. Some run FPFX or Axcera or YourPropFirm. Some duct-taped HubSpot and a developer. Whatever you've built, you don't have to throw it away. A-Trader for Prop Firms is API-first. Account events, trade events, risk events, payout triggers. All available via REST, gRPC, or webhooks. Plug A-Trader into your existing operations in 2–4 weeks. The platform is the upgrade. The plumbing is the same.
The standard A-Trader for Prop Firms integration ships in a 2–4 week engagement with our integrations team. We provision the platform tenant. You point your CRM's account-provisioning at our API. Trade and risk events flow back to your CRM via webhook. Your operations team sees the same dashboards they see today; your traders see a vastly better platform.
What we plug into:
Every platform we listed on the comparison table is a pure cost line on your P&L. MT5 license, bridge, hosting. Outflow, every month, forever. A-Trader breaks the pattern in a way no competitor can copy: 30%+ of active traders on our network subscribe to one or more premium apps. Every subscription is recurring monthly revenue, and a negotiated share flows back to your firm. The first prop firm platform where your trading tech is not just cheaper than the alternatives. It's net positive.
Of active traders on the A-Trader network subscribe to one or more premium apps. Higher among prop firm traders specifically. They have skin in the game and reach for tools that compound their edge.
7 live, 7 in pipeline. Candle Intelligence, Risk Exposure, VaR Analysis, Trade Analytics, Scenario Testing, Trading Psychology, plus Sentiment Compass, Order Flow, Correlation Hub, Event Impact, and more. Each a credible standalone product; each generating per-subscriber recurring revenue.
A negotiated share of app subscription revenue flows back to your firm. Monthly, automatically, scaling with your trader base. The exact split is negotiated as part of your engagement. No other prop firm platform offers this.
The math on the right is one operator's actual setup at ~5,000 active accounts on the Growth tier. Platform license, minus the institutional risk system they would otherwise license separately (~$30K/month from typical providers), minus the bridge + LP setup costs they'd carry on MT5, plus the recurring revenue share from app subscriptions.
Same operator running MT5 at the same scale: roughly $400K–$1M annual outflow with zero revenue back. A-Trader at the same scale is structurally net positive in dollars actually flowing into the firm.
It's not just cheaper than MT5. It's the only platform that pays.
Most prop firms still pay MT5 because the alternative looks like a project. It isn't. The honest year-one cost comparison below (MT5 stack vs A-Trader for Prop Firms at equivalent scale) adds a column that didn't exist before: net revenue back to your firm. The numbers are operator-reported; we've seen them in dozens of conversations with founders who switched.
Public costs from MT5 operators running ~5,000 accounts. The bridge and risk-engine costs are real; the "MetaQuotes risk" doesn't show on the spreadsheet until it does. Notice every line is an outflow.
Equivalent scale on the Growth tier. Platform-only path. No Prop Depot partnership, no equity, no exclusivity. Notice the revenue lines that simply don't exist anywhere else in the category.
No surprise per-account fees. No nickel-and-diming on features. Three tiers scoped by account count, with pricing custom-quoted based on your operational scale, integration depth, and revenue-share negotiation. All tiers include the A-Connect institutional risk system (worth ~$30K/month from typical separate providers) and access to the premium app revenue share program. Most prop firms land on Growth. It's the sweet spot for established operators with under 5,000 accounts.
Most operators have lived through 2–4 month MT5 setups, six-month CRM rebuilds, and "two-week" integrations that actually took two quarters. A-Trader for Prop Firms ships in seven days, end to end, in the standard configuration. The reason is structural: we operate the platform, you operate the firm, and the integration surface is well-defined REST and webhooks rather than a black-box bridge to a 2005 server.
We provision your platform tenant. You provide brand assets (logo, colors, domain). The platform comes up at your-firm.app within the first business day, fully branded.
Your CRM developer (or ours, custom-scoped) connects your existing CRM to our account-provisioning API. Trade and risk events route to your existing systems via webhook. No data migration required.
Your programs (1-step, 2-step, custom challenge structures) get configured in the platform. Pool-level rules. Drawdown logic. News-window restrictions. App entitlements per program tier.
Your team runs a controlled UAT. Test trades on test accounts, verify event flow, check brand assets across surfaces. Day 7: you flip the switch. New traders onboard onto the new platform. Existing book stays on whatever it's on, migrates over the following quarter at your pace.
Arizet Labs has shipped institutional risk infrastructure for over two decades. The team behind A-Trader has cleaned up after every kind of platform disaster you can imagine. Exchange outages, broker insolvencies, regulatory shutdowns, vendor lock-in bankruptcies. The thing we built first wasn't a flashy frontend. It was the boring, paranoid, compliance-grade infrastructure underneath. The frontend came after, because we wanted it to.
The Arizet team has built the risk and execution layers that institutional desks rely on. Quietly, under the hood, at scale. The same paranoia that keeps a hedge fund's PMs out of trouble is built into A-Trader from day one. The risk system included with A-Connect reflects that pedigree.
A-Trader processed more than $40B in volume across the network in the last month alone. The platform is battle-tested at scale. Peak load, news events, flash moves, the lot. When you bring your firm's flow onto A-Trader, you're joining a stack that's already handling institutional-grade throughput.
Arizet owns A-Trader end-to-end. No MetaQuotes equivalent who can pull the rug. Our shipping cadence is weekly, the roadmap is public, and we share revenue with you via the apps. Meaning when your traders win, we win too. The incentives are structurally aligned.
Below: the questions we get on every initial call. Answered honestly. If your question isn't here, you'll find us responsive. We generally reply to demo requests within a couple of hours during business hours.
Our calls are short and direct. We run a live A-Trader instance, you tell us what your operators care about, we show you what the integration looks like, and we send you a written proposal within 48 hours of the call. No commitment until you've seen the platform running with your brand mock-up on it.
If you're actively running MT5, cTrader, Match-Trader, or TradeLocker today, the call will include a specific transition plan tailored to your stack.
A-Trader for Prop Firms. Custom pricing per engagement. Live in seven days. The only prop firm platform with built-in institutional risk and recurring revenue back to your firm.