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The Prop Firm CAC Calculator

Most prop firms track cost-per-lead. The number that actually matters is cost per funded trader, adjusted for challenge pass-through, payout liability, and lifetime revenue. Plug in your funnel. Watch the unit economics resolve.

Your monthly funnel

Impressions

4.2M

Clicks

58.3K

Signups

8,167

Challenges

2,287

Funded

274

Stage 1

Acquisition

What it costs to put your offer in front of the right traders.

Total paid media budget per month

$50,000

Cost per 1,000 impressions across your media mix

$12

% of impressions that result in a click

1.4%

Stage 2

Conversion

What happens to clicks once they hit your landing pages.

% of clicks that submit an account signup

14.0%

% of signups that buy a challenge

28.0%

% of challenges that reach funded status

12.0%

Stage 3

Economics

The revenue side of each funded trader.

Average USD per challenge purchase

$250

Lifetime revenue: resets, subs, repeat challenges

$480

Cost per funded trader

healthy

$182

Your real CAC, not cost-per-lead

LTV : CAC ratio

healthy

2.6:1

Sustainable. Scale carefully, watch payback.

Funded traders / month

274

Total monthly revenue

$703.4K

Challenge + LTV

Blended ROAS

14.07x

Payback period

4.6 mo

Months to recover funded-trader CAC

Per-stage CAC

Cost per click

$1

Cost per signup

$6

Cost per challenge

$22

Cost per funded trader

$182

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