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Eightcap vs FxPro
Both accounts, one instrument, one window. The green cell on each row is the better figure, wherever it falls.
EUR/USD · 27.08–25.09 · profile 10 lots a month
| Axis | Eightcap |
FxPro |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $1 273🔬 our measurementderived · 27.08–25.09 | $1 554🔬 our measurementderived · 27.08–25.09 |
| Avg spread, 24 h | 0.31 pips🔬 our measurement1 s bid/ask · 27.08–25.09 | 0.55 pips🔬 our measurement1 s bid/ask · 27.08–25.09 |
| Spread 21:00–24:00 UTC | 1.55 pips🔬 our measurement1 s bid/ask · 27.08–25.09 | 2.02 pips🔬 our measurement1 s bid/ask · 27.08–25.09 |
| Commission per lot | $7.00📄 stated by the brokerfee schedule · checked 25.09.26 | $7.00📄 stated by the brokerfee schedule · checked 25.09.26 |
| Swap per year | $61🔬 our measurementMT5 swap log · 27.08–25.09 | $49🔬 our measurementMT5 swap log · 27.08–25.09 |
| Rejected orders | 1.1%🔬 our measurement4 776 orders · 27.08–25.09 | 0.4%🔬 our measurement4 823 orders · 27.08–25.09 |
| Slippage on releases | 1.6 pips🔬 our measurement206 release orders · 27.08–25.09 | 0.8 pips🔬 our measurement214 release orders · 27.08–25.09 |
| Withdrawal fee | $0📄 stated by the brokerfee schedule · checked 25.09.26 | $0📄 stated by the brokerfee schedule · checked 25.09.26 |
| Withdrawal time | no datanot measured in this release | no datanot measured in this release |
| Support response | no datanot measured · see methodology | no datanot measured · see methodology |
Eightcap is measured here and named in full. It is not linked — we have no commercial relationship with it, and we are not going to pretend otherwise by sending you there.
We earn a commission if you open an account through this link. It does not change the numbers above — the method is published and our losses are printed.
The trade-off, in money
A row of green on one side is not a verdict. These eight axes measure different things with different price tags, and the only way to compare them is to put them in money.
On annual cost of ownership, Eightcap is $280 a year cheaper at 10 lots a month — $1 273 at Eightcap against $1 554 at FxPro. Inside those totals, Eightcap pays $372 in spread and $840 in commission, while FxPro pays $665 and $840. Swap adds $61 and $49 respectively, and that line moves with how long positions stay open rather than with how often they are opened.
On execution the order reverses. FxPro rejected 0.4% of our orders against Eightcap's 1.1%, and slipped 0.8 pips on release-timed orders against 1.6. These two columns are the reason this desk exists — no amount of reading broker websites produces them.
What it costs you depends on when your orders go in. A rejected order in a quiet hour costs a retry; a rejected order in the seconds after a rate decision, when the price has already moved, can cost more than a year of the spread difference above. The difference in slippage between these two accounts — 0.8 pips on a release order, roughly $8 per lot — is charged every time one is placed into that window.
There is no winner on this page, and that is not diplomacy. The weighting that decides it — volume against holding period against news exposure — is a property of your trading, not of the brokers. Neither column is given more room than the other, because choosing between them is not our job.
The eight axes, one at a time
The same eight axes as the table, unrolled into sentences, with the winner named on each. There is no overall score: inventing one would let us bury a loss inside an average.
Spread, commission and swap added up over a year of a stated volume — the figure a spread table cannot produce.
Eightcap is ahead: $1 273 against $1 554 at FxPro, 22% worse. derived · 27.08–25.09.
The mean gap between bid and ask across every one-second sample, including the hours nobody advertises.
Eightcap is ahead: 0.31 pips against 0.55 pips at FxPro, 79% worse. 1 s bid/ask · 27.08–25.09.
The same measurement restricted to the rollover window, 21:00–24:00 UTC, when liquidity thins and spreads widen on every account.
Eightcap is ahead: 1.55 pips against 2.02 pips at FxPro, 30% worse. 1 s bid/ask · 27.08–25.09.
What the fee schedule says a lot costs. This one is 📄 rather than 🔬 — we read it, we did not measure it, except where a real trade confirmed it.
Identical on this axis: both at $7.00. Nothing to choose between them here.
Financing on positions held through the roll, annualised. The one component that does not move with volume.
FxPro is ahead: $49 against $61 at Eightcap, 24% worse. MT5 swap log · 27.08–25.09.
The share of our market orders the broker declined, with its own status code. Orders that got no execution event inside our window are our own status, not a rejection.
FxPro is ahead: 0.4% against 1.1% at Eightcap, 175% worse. 4 823 orders · 27.08–25.09.
Request minus fill in pips, on release-timed orders, signed so that a positive number is money you lost to the fill.
FxPro is ahead: 0.8 pips against 1.6 pips at Eightcap, 100% worse. 214 release orders · 27.08–25.09.
The withdrawal fee as published. The withdrawal *time* is absent from this site because measuring it honestly means moving our own money.
Identical on this axis: both at $0. Nothing to choose between them here.
Who the two of them are
An account is measured; a company is regulated. Those are different objects, and the difference is the most consequential thing on a page like this: two clients of the same brand, onboarded through different entities, can have identical platforms, identical spreads and materially different protection if the firm fails.
confirmed as the entity holding our account · public register
⚠️ not confirmed as the entity holding our account · public register
Where an entity is confirmed, the broker's own page carries what that licence obliges the firm to do — the compensation ceiling, the leverage cap, the margin close-out and negative balance protection — quoted from the regulator's rule rather than summarised. An unconfirmed entity is printed as unconfirmed, and the measurements stand on their own either way.
The measurement behind this pairing
The comparison is only worth reading because both sides went through the same pipeline at the same time. Figures taken weeks apart, or on different pairs, can disagree by more than the brokers do.
Here it is EUR/USD on both sides, 2026-08-27 to 2026-09-25 continuous, on the Raw · MT5 account at Eightcap against the Raw+ · MT5 account at FxPro — both opened through the ordinary retail sign-up, both running on the broker's own MetaTrader 5 build on hardware that does not sleep.
The execution samples behind this pairing are 4 776 orders at Eightcap and 4 823 at FxPro of which 206 and 214 respectively were timed into the minutes around scheduled releases. A rejection rate without an order count beside it is not a measurement which is why both are printed.
It is one instrument: EUR/USD is the most liquid pair in the market, and a broker that looks tight here can be much wider on a cross or a metal, where its own margin is less exposed. And it is one window: a month of measurement is a month, not a permanent property of either firm. Which is the reason every figure on this site carries its own dates.
At what volume does the answer change?
The bill on either account is per-lot cost times volume plus a yearly swap, so a comparison at one volume answers one point of a line. Our headline profile — 10 lots a month — is one point on it, and a reader who trades a tenth or ten times that is reading the wrong point. Here is the same arithmetic at six volumes, with our profile marked.
| Lots a month | Eightcap | FxPro | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $182 | $199 | Eightcap cheaper by $17 |
| 5 | $667 | $801 | Eightcap cheaper by $134 |
| 10 | $1 273 | $1 554 | Eightcap cheaper by $281 |
| 25 | $3 091 | $3 810 | Eightcap cheaper by $719 |
| 50 | $6 121 | $7 572 | Eightcap cheaper by $1 451 |
| 100 | $12 181 | $15 094 | Eightcap cheaper by $2 913 |
Spread × $10 per pip per lot, plus commission per lot, plus a year of swap · 27.08–25.09 · the swap line does not scale with volume, which is what makes the lines cross at all
The two lines cross at about 0.4 lots a month. Below that volume the account with the smaller fixed cost wins; above it the one with the smaller per-lot cost does. Per lot traded, Eightcap costs $10.10 against FxPro's $12.54, while the yearly swap differs by $12 in the other direction. That is the whole mechanism: one account is cheaper to use, the other is cheaper to keep.
Two limits. The sum assumes our measured spread applies at your size — fine for retail volume, wrong by the time anyone is trading institutional size. And it is an average over all hours: a strategy that lives in the thin hours either side of midnight UTC pays a materially larger bill than this.
Trading through the roll: what it adds to the bill
The annual figures above use each account average across all hours. Nobody trades all hours, and the thin ones are much more expensive than the rest. Eightcap goes from 0.31 to 1.55 pips in that window; FxPro from 0.55 to 2.02. Below is the same annual sum with a share of the volume moved into those hours.
| Volume traded in 21:00–24:00 UTC | Eightcap | FxPro | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $1 273 | $1 554 | Eightcap cheaper by $281 |
| 20% | $1 571 | $1 905 | Eightcap cheaper by $334 |
| 50% | $2 017 | $2 431 | Eightcap cheaper by $414 |
Spread blended between the window mean and the rollover mean in the stated proportion · commission and swap unchanged · 10 lots a month
At a fifth of the volume in the thin hours, the penalty is $298 a year on Eightcap and $351 on FxPro — FxPro carries the heavier one. No broker publishes this number, and it can be larger than the whole difference between the two accounts on cost.
Treat it as a floor rather than a forecast. Monthly means hide the individual nights, and the individual nights are where the damage is done.
Where this pair sits in the population
Comparing two accounts with each other says nothing about whether either is any good. Both can be mid-table. So here are the same two accounts placed against every account we measure, axis by axis. FxPro leads the whole table on rejected orders; FxPro leads the whole table on slippage on releases.
| Axis | Eightcap | FxPro | Best in the table |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | 3 of 10 | 7 of 10 | best in table $1 108 |
| Avg spread, 24 h | 3 of 10 | 7 of 10 | best in table 0.28 pips |
| Spread 21:00–24:00 UTC | 3 of 10 | 6 of 10 | best in table 1.22 pips |
| Commission per lot | 6 of 10 | 6 of 10 | best in table $0.00 |
| Swap per year | 5 of 10 | 2 of 10 | best in table $0 |
| Rejected orders | 5 of 9 | 1 of 9 | best in table 0.4% |
| Slippage on releases | 5 of 9 | 1 of 9 | best in table 0.8 pips |
| Withdrawal fee | 1 of 9 | 1 of 9 | best in table $0 |
Placings inside one source class · 27.08–25.09 · the full ranking is on the brokers page
Reading the table in full is the better route for anybody choosing from scratch; a pairing is for a reader already weighing these two.
What this page is not
It is not a recommendation, and it is not a verdict on either firm. It is a record of what two accounts did on one instrument during one stated window, published by a desk that earns a commission if a reader opens an account at FxPro and nothing at all if they open one at Eightcap. Knowing that is part of reading it: the method is written out at length because the incentive runs one way and the only defence is making the figures checkable.
Plenty that matters is missing: how fast money comes out, what support does at three in the morning, how the platform behaves in a real panic, and how either firm handles a disputed fill. Some of that we have not measured; some of it cannot be measured from a retail account at all. “Which broker is better” is a much larger claim than anything on this page, and it is not one a measurement can settle.
Questions about this pairing
Which of the two is actually cheaper?
Eightcap, by $280 a year at 10 lots a month of EUR/USD. The arithmetic is on both broker pages; at a tenth of this activity the gap narrows with the commission.
Why compare against the broker that pays you?
Because that is the comparison a reader needs and the one a sponsored site avoids. FxPro pays us a commission on accounts opened through our link, so every page here puts it against another broker on all eight axes and leaves the loss where it falls. On cost it currently loses to Eightcap.
Is Eightcap linked anywhere on this page?
No. We have no relationship with it and will not imply one by sending you there. Where a public register entry exists, we link that instead - and the one sponsored link on this site is labelled every time it appears.
What would change this comparison?
Three things: how much you trade, how long you hold, and when your orders go in. The per-lot charge follows volume, the swap follows time held, and the spread gap between these two widens sharply in the thin hours.