LucidFlex, LucidPro and LucidDirect differ most in how you reach a payout. Flex requires five qualifying profitable days but no funded consistency rule or payout buffer. Pro adds a buffer and 40% consistency. Direct skips the evaluation and starts in simulated funding, with a tighter 20% consistency requirement.
Daily adds eligible daily requests with intraday funded drawdown. Maxx is an earned-access route with an evaluation and a pre-live stage. Compare the rules you will trade under after passing, along with the purchase price.
I have personally traded Flex and Pro. The current rules below come from Lucid's official documentation, checked October 11, 2026; the coverage of Direct, Daily and Maxx is based on that documentation.
Which Lucid route are you comparing?
| Plan | Entry route | Main funded-account tradeoff |
|---|---|---|
| Flex | Evaluation with 50% consistency | No funded consistency or payout buffer; five qualifying profitable days per request cycle |
| Pro | Evaluation that can be passed in one day | 40% funded consistency and a payout buffer; no separate qualifying-day count in the payout policy |
| Direct | Simulated funding without evaluation | 20% consistency and a profit goal in every payout cycle |
| Daily | Evaluation with 50% consistency and a choice of drawdown | Eligible daily requests; funded drawdown always trails intraday |
| Maxx | Invitation, evaluation, then pre-live | Live follows both stages; its live MLL is static at $100 |
Flex, Pro and Daily evaluations are simulated. Their funded stages and Direct's starting stage are also simulated, with the possibility of real payouts. The live transition is a separate decision by Lucid's risk team. LucidBlack's legacy rules have their own comparison.
Compare the 50K simulated funded accounts
These columns compare the same nominal size and phase. Maxx Live is covered separately below because its account structure differs.
| 50K funded rule | Flex | Pro | Direct | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial loss allowance | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
| Drawdown | EOD trailing | EOD trailing | EOD trailing | Intraday trailing |
| Daily loss limit | ON/OFF at evaluation purchase | ON/OFF at evaluation purchase | Starts at $1,200; scales later | ON/OFF at evaluation purchase |
| Consistency for payouts | None | 40% per cycle | 20% per cycle | None |
| Profit or day requirement | Five days of at least $150, plus positive cycle profit | At least $500 profit per cycle | $3,000 first cycle; $2,500 thereafter | Positive net profit since the last payout |
| Balance protected from withdrawal | No payout buffer | $52,100 buffer | Payout profit-goal requirements apply | $52,100 buffer |
| Minimum request | $500 | $500 | $500 | $500 |
| Maximum request | 50% of profit, up to $2,000 | $2,000 first; $2,500 thereafter | $2,000 on requests 1–3; $2,500 on 4–5 | Available profit above the buffer |
| Standard profit split | 90/10 | 90/10 | 90/10 | 90/10 |
| Contract scaling | Starts at 2 minis / 20 micros; rises with profit | Up to 4 minis / 40 micros immediately | Up to 4 minis / 40 micros immediately | Maximum 4 minis / 40 micros |
The request limits and eligibility conditions come from the Flex, Pro, Direct and Daily payout policies. Pro and Direct's broad funded overviews also contain a “no simulated payout caps” statement. The table uses their more specific payout schedules, which still publish dollar limits.
For other sizes, use the payout-rules guide for the applicable daily thresholds, buffers and caps. The 50K amounts above do not apply to a 100K or 150K account.
Pro accounts purchased or reset before November 28, 2025 at 3 p.m. Eastern have separate legacy terms, including the first-$10,000 split exception and a 35% consistency rule. Those terms are not a benefit of a new Pro purchase. Use the account's applicable agreement if it falls on the cutoff.
What changes during the evaluation?
Flex and Daily use 50% evaluation consistency. Lucid documents a cushion that permits a two-day pass; it is not a fixed dollar allowance for every result. Their funded phases remove the consistency requirement.
Pro can be passed in one day
The Pro evaluation permits a one-day pass when the profit target is met within the account's rules. Its 40% consistency requirement starts in simulated funding. A fast evaluation therefore does not establish an equally fast first payout.
| Size | Flex / Pro / Daily evaluation target | Initial loss allowance |
|---|---|---|
| 25K | $1,250 | $1,000 |
| 50K | $3,000 | $2,000 |
| 100K | $6,000 | $3,000 |
| 150K | $9,000 | $4,500 |
Direct has no evaluation. Its 100K and 150K loss allowances also differ from this evaluation table: $3,500 and $5,000, respectively.
DLL settings and drawdown can change the choice
Both Flex and Pro let you switch the DLL ON or OFF at purchase. The setting carries into simulated funding and cannot be changed on that active account. DLL ON costs less; OFF costs more.
A DLL lockout pauses trading until the next session, provided the Max Loss Limit has not been reached. On EOD plans, the MLL rises with closing balances, but reaching the existing threshold can breach the account during the session. DLL OFF does not remove that threshold.
With Daily, the EOD/intraday choice applies only to evaluation. Funded Daily always uses intraday drawdown. Its news rule also requires you to be flat from one minute before through one minute after high-impact USD news. Holding or opening a position in that window breaches the funded account.
Position size differs too. A funded 50K Flex starts at two minis and reaches four after $2,000 simulated profit, with tiers recalculated after the session. A payout can lower the tier. Flex's scaling table and the Pro funded rules establish why identical headline contract limits do not provide identical size on the first funded day.
Which payout conditions would hold up your request?
Flex's five profitable days each need to meet the threshold for the account size. Four flat days cannot complete the requirement after one large winning day. The amount rule applies as well: for the first payout on a new 50K funded account with exactly five $150 days and no other gains or losses, total profit is $750. Half is $375, below the $500 minimum request. Meeting the day count alone does not produce an eligible payout amount.
Pro tests the distribution of profit. A $1,000 best day requires at least $2,500 total cycle profit to meet 40% consistency. Direct's 20% rule requires at least $5,000 for that same best day. These are arithmetic examples, not expected returns; the other payout conditions still apply.
Pro's $52,100 buffer is separate from its $500 cycle profit goal. For a first $500 request on a 50K Pro, Lucid lists a minimum account balance of $52,600. Flex has no such payout buffer, but requesting a payout locks its MLL at $50,100. Check the balance that will remain before withdrawing.
The published policies allow requests when the conditions are met. How soon you qualify depends on your trading results and the plan's requirements. Approval and transfer to the receiving account add separate steps, covered in the payout-method guide.
Compare the price of the configuration you will use
Select the same account size and DLL setting before comparing Flex with Pro. Daily adds a second price choice: an intraday evaluation costs less than its EOD alternative. All three publish a one-time evaluation fee and no activation fee after passing.
A current, matching set of checkout prices was not available for this comparison. Use the payable amount shown for the selected configuration; an old price attached only to “50K Flex” may describe different settings. Keep the order confirmation, because changing an active account's configuration requires a new purchase.
Direct removes the evaluation stage. Its fee still buys a simulated account subject to loss limits and payout conditions. Previous evaluation losses do not establish that buying Direct will cost less or produce a payout.
Maxx requires an invitation and two stages before live
Under the new Maxx program, Lucid's risk team awards access based on performance. There is no published fixed number of payouts that earns an invitation.
At 50K, Step 1 has a $3,000 target, 40% consistency and $2,000 EOD drawdown. Step 2 has a $2,000 target, no consistency rule and the live scaling plan. After both stages, the live account starts with $2,000 and a static $100 MLL. Its starting balance is withdrawable from day one subject to the 90/10 split; live payouts are daily and uncapped.
This is a separate route from buying Direct or passing a Pro evaluation. The live-transition guide covers the current Maxx stages and the cashout choice.
Choose around the constraint you can meet
- Flex: consider it if you want no funded consistency rule or payout buffer and can produce the five qualifying profitable days. Account for its request cap and contract scaling.
- Pro: consider it if a one-day evaluation is useful and you can meet both the funded consistency calculation and buffer. Choose the DLL setting separately.
- Direct: consider it if skipping evaluation is the priority and your results can meet 20% consistency plus the cycle profit goals.
- Daily: consider it if eligible daily requests matter and you can trade with intraday funded drawdown and the news restriction.
- Maxx: assess its current two-stage route if Lucid has granted you access. An invitation still requires passing the stages.
For Flex, Pro and Direct, payout 5 is the maximum simulated payout level and a trigger for live review; Lucid can select a trader earlier. Its risk team decides the move. Your trading results and the risk review determine how long the route takes.
Once you have selected a plan and configuration, use the setup guide to match the order, credentials and platform before trading.