Key terms, as Atmos publishes them

• Entry fee: $43 for a $5,000 1-Step Standard account rising to $749 at $200,000; 2-Step Standard runs $63 to $989 (Atmos help centre).
• Account sizes: $5,000 to $200,000, with a stated maximum allocation of $400,000 on every plan except Instant Funding, capped at $200,000.
• Profit split: starts at 80/20 and “scales up to 90% for consistent performers” (profit split article).
• Profit target: 10% on 1-Step Standard, 6% on 1-Step Plus, 10% then 5% on 2-Step Standard, 6% then 6% on 2-Step Plus, none on Instant Funding, 5% on Nova.
• Maximum drawdown: 6% trailing (1-Step Standard), 3% trailing (1-Step Plus), 10% static (2-Step Standard), 6% static (2-Step Plus), 5% trailing (Instant), 8% trailing (Nova).
• Daily loss limit: 3% on most plans, 5% on 2-Step Standard, 4% on Nova, and none at all on 1-Step Plus.
• Payouts: $100 minimum, every 14 days, processed in “2-5 business days” per the rules page but “up to three (3) business days” per the Customer Agreement.
• Minimum trading days: three profitable days on the step plans, each worth 0.5%; seven on a funded Nova account; none on Instant Funding.

Three companies behind one brand

Atmos markets itself as broker-backed, and the broker is Taurex: its pages are titled “Atmos by Taurex”, and payouts can be routed into a Taurex live account for a stated 10% deposit bonus. Underneath sit three companies. The footer names Atmos Global Ltd, incorporated in the Union of the Comoros under company number HT00525042 and licence BFX2025060, at Fomboni, Mohéli. It also names AtmosFunded Ltd, a Cyprus company registered as HE471627 in Nicosia, which the footer says supplies the challenge programmes and payment services. A third surfaces only in the refund policy, which opens by stating Atmos “is a registered trading name of Taurex Digital for Marketing Research and Consultancies L.L.C.”, a Dubai company holding business licence 1178603 — a document served from the development subdomain dev.atmosfunded.com yet linked from every production page.

The domain was registered on 3 March 2025 behind a privacy shield, making Atmos roughly eighteen months old — worth weighing against its “industry-leading prop firm” billing.

The payout record: what is published, and what is not

Atmos publishes a payout process but no payout evidence: no audited ledger, no total by plan, and no verification of the homepage’s “$1.5M+ IN REWARDS” and “$100M+ IN TOTAL FUNDING” counters, neither carrying a date or source.

What it does publish is a schedule, and it publishes three. The rules page says payouts “can be requested once every 14 days”, no exceptions. Customer Agreement clause 6.3 says every 14 calendar days “or after a minimum of 5 calendar days for instant-funded accounts”. The help centre puts Instant back on 14. And the 2-Step Standard article describes a “standard payout cycle (every 30 days, scaling to bi-weekly as the account grows)” while its own rules table, three paragraphs above, says 14. Processing splits the same way: 2-5 business days on the website, up to three in the contract. Bitfunded hit the same three-numbers problem this year.

Trustpilot blocks automated access to the live profile, so the most recent capture we could read is the Internet Archive snapshot of 10 March 2026: a 4.0 TrustScore across 195 reviews on a claimed profile, with Trustpilot’s own incentivised-review field reading false. The notice carried there is Trustpilot’s generic high-risk-investment category flag, not a warning about Atmos.

The drawdown lock behind every payout

This is the mechanic that decides whether an Atmos account survives its first withdrawal, and the firm states it plainly. On Instant Funding and Nova the help centre warns: “once a payout is requested, the drawdown is locked in at the initial account balance… If you request a full payout, it means that you will instantly breach the total drawdown.”

The firm is telling you that requesting the full profit you earned will kill the account that earned it. The same lock applies to 1-Step Standard: on Atmos’s own example, a $100,000 account with a $94,000 stop-out grows to $108,000, the trader withdraws $5,000, and the breach level stays at $100,000 rather than trailing the new $103,000 balance.

The Customer Agreement locks the breach level “at your starting balance”, then in the next sentence says trailing drawdown “will be calculated by reference to the Customer’s highest recorded Equity” — two sentences describing different rules. 1-Step Plus differs again: its 3% trailing drawdown resets on payout rather than locking, and it is the only plan with no daily loss limit.

The rules that end accounts

The rules page lists nine headings and defers almost every number to the help centre, where the account-ending mechanics live. The high-frequency trading rule is the sharpest: Atmos defines it as arithmetic, not intent — “at least 50% of all trades must remain open for more than 2 minutes”. A scalper running a normal book can breach that without doing anything the firm would call abusive, and it appears nowhere on the rules page itself.

The news rule bans opening or closing any trade within two minutes either side of a high-impact release. Closing is the trap: a position open before an NFP print cannot be cut inside the window without a soft breach and a profit deduction.

The consistency rule diverges. The Customer Agreement defines it as 20% of total profit from any single day and says it “only applies to Instant-Funded Accounts”. The help centre adds a 45% version for 1-Step Plus that the contract never mentions — a rule that can withhold a payout, living only in a support article. The same gap appeared at Equity Edge.

The anti-gambling policy bans martingale, grid trading, aggressive averaging, tick scalping and “chasing price”, and requires a consistent style across all phases; the thresholds separating a style change from a breach are unpublished. Then clause 5.6: “The Company reserves the right to unilaterally change the fees and parameters of the Services at any time, including the parameters for the successful completion of the Atmos Challenge.” A trader who buys a 10% target can, on the firm’s own terms, be held to a different one.

How Atmos compares with two other broker-backed firms

Blueberry Funded and DNA Funded are the closest comparators, both broker-backed and both selling single-phase evaluations. Figures checked 5 September 2026.

Single-phase plan	Atmos (1-Step Standard)	Blueberry Funded (1-Step)	DNA Funded (1 Phase)
Profit target	10%	10%	10%
Max daily loss	3%	4%	4%
Max total drawdown	6%, trailing	6%	6%
Minimum days	3 profitable (0.5% each)	3 per phase	5
Published split at funding	80%	80%	“Up to 90%”, no floor
Published maximum allocation	$400,000	$2,000,000	$600,000

Atmos undercuts DNA Funded at $100,000, $383 against $619, and its 3% daily loss limit is the tightest of the three — which cuts both ways. Where it differs is the drawdown lock: Blueberry Funded runs a static model, and DNA Funded’s catch sits in its payout cap.

The 90% split, and what it costs to reach

“Keep 90% of your profits” appears on the Atmos homepage. The help centre is more precise: the default is 80/20, and its profit-split table holds exactly one row — “Funded Start, 80% trader / 20% Atmos, Default split”. Nothing maps performance to a figure between 80% and 90%. The programme page lists four scaling conditions — four months, two payouts, rule compliance and more than 15% total profit — then promises “increased profit-sharing potential” without saying what the increase is. The contract’s example uses 80/20 throughout. PineX Capital made the same claim and turned out to be charging for it.

Nova is advertised at $5, and the $5 buys the evaluation only: passing unlocks nothing until the trader pays a “funded fee” of $79 at $10,000, rising to $1,029 at $200,000.

Regulatory posture

Atmos is not regulated, and to its credit it says so. From the firm’s legal disclosure:

“Atmos is neither licensed, authorised, nor regulated by any financial regulatory authority and does not act as a broker, dealer, investment firm, custodian, or financial intermediary. The Company does not receive or hold client deposits.”

That sits in the same footer block citing Comoros “license number BFX2025060” — a licence number offered by an entity that says two sentences later it holds none. Accounts are explicitly simulated; the agreement calls them “notionally funded”.

The homepage FAQ describes Taurex as “a globally established broker with regulatory licenses across multiple jurisdictions” giving traders “the assurance of regulated standards”. Taurex’s own global regulations page lists one: “Taurex Global Limited is a company registered in Seychelles with registration number 8428731-1, and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority of Seychelles with License number: SD092.” Plural licences are advertised; one is published there. A second does exist — Taurex Limited is FCA-authorised under firm reference number 816055, confirmed on the regulator’s own site, where it appears as the genuine firm impersonated by a clone, not as a subject of enforcement. But the UK entity is not the one an Atmos payout reaches, and both licences cover Taurex’s brokerage clients. Nothing supervises the Atmos account.

Restricted jurisdictions include the United States, Belgium, Russia and Ukraine. Refunds run only to 14 calendar days from payment, and only if no trade has been placed.

What we could not verify: any audited payout data; the 20,000-trader, 170-country and $100m funding claims; a written 90% split schedule; and any first-hand payout report we could authenticate directly, Trustpilot and Reddit both having refused automated access. In a category where payout proof is the product, the absence of audited data is itself a finding.

FAQ

Is Atmos Funded regulated? No. Its legal page states that Atmos “is neither licensed, authorised, nor regulated by any financial regulatory authority”. Taurex holds Seychelles FSA and UK FCA authorisations, but those cover Taurex’s brokerage clients, not an Atmos evaluation account.

How fast does Atmos pay? Requests can be made every 14 days with a $100 minimum. Processing is quoted as “2-5 business days” on the website and “up to three (3) business days” in the Customer Agreement. No average payout time is published.

What is the drawdown lock? On 1-Step Standard, Instant Funding and Nova, requesting a payout permanently fixes the maximum-drawdown level at the initial balance. Withdraw the entire profit and the account breaches immediately, so a buffer must always be left in.

Is the profit split really 90%? The published default is 80%. Ninety per cent is offered to “consistent performers” through a scaling plan needing four months, two payouts and more than 15% total profit — but no Atmos document maps those conditions to a split.

This review is independent editorial analysis and is not financial, investment, or trading advice, and is not an endorsement or solicitation. The Industry Spread has no affiliate or referral relationship with the firms covered. Proprietary trading challenges carry a fee that is generally non-refundable, most participants do not reach a funded account, and funded capital is the firm’s capital, not the trader’s. Terms change frequently — always verify current rules directly with the firm before paying any fee.