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Twelve of the 50 FundingPips Trustpilot reviews we pulled on August 19 and 20 are one-star. That is a 24% one-star share for the window, up from 17.5% (21 of 120) at our August 15 read, against a lifetime one-star share of 8.6%. The two reads cover different windows and sample sizes, so treat the jump as a signal, not a straight line. The sharper signal is what the reviews say: 4 of the 12 describe account terminations the reviewers say FundingPips attributed to CID or Device ID matches, and the same allegation has now surfaced from four separate Reddit authors since July 18. FundingPips has not responded anywhere in the material we collected.

What are FundingPips traders reporting on Trustpilot?

The most detailed account is dated August 20. The reviewer says they passed a 2-Step Standard evaluation, earned a Master Account, and received a completed payout with no warnings. One week later, and before a larger pending payout, the account was permanently banned over a Device ID match report, in the reviewer's words "with zero evidence tied to that specific account." They say they appealed three times, asking for the exact clause broken, the evidence, or a reversal, and got "decision is final" from different agents each time.

Trustpilot review dated August 20 reporting a permanent FundingPips ban over a Device ID match one week after a completed payout

Three other one-star reviews in the window make the same class of claim: closures the reviewers say cited CID or Device ID flags, with no proof shown to the trader. One reviewer says the firm never sent the violation email or the CID picture proof other banned traders reportedly received, and repeated requests got only the answer that the review team's decision stood.

For scale: the other 38 reviews in the window include 35 five-stars, so the intake is still majority positive. The one-star cluster is the change, not the whole picture.

What is a Device ID ban at FundingPips?

CID and Device ID refer to hardware and connection fingerprints firms use to detect one person running multiple accounts, or multiple people sharing one. FundingPips' published rules, as captured on its help-center summaries this run, prohibit VPN and VPS connections on any trading account and require a consistent IP region for purchasing, logging in, and trading. Copy trading between accounts owned by different users and third-party account management are listed as termination offenses.

So the rule exists and is public. What the reviewers dispute is the evidence: each says the firm declined to show the data behind the match. None of the terminations has been independently confirmed, and neither has any reviewer's clean-hands claim. Both sides of that gap are open.

What are Reddit users saying about FundingPips terminations?

The Trustpilot cluster does not stand alone. Separate Reddit authors have posted the same allegation across two months:

  • July 18: an r/PropFirmTester post reports a Shared CID flag the author says hit personal devices, with no evidence provided.
  • July 24: an r/PropFirmTester post (score 24, 18 comments) says 4 Master Accounts were closed and $1,100 in pending payouts canceled over an alleged Device ID and IP match.
  • August 13: an r/Daytrading author says a $50K Flex account was closed over a Device ID match after reaching payout eligibility.
  • August 19: an r/PropFirmTester post (score 6, 10 comments) reports a permanent termination over a Device ID match and asks whether an MT5 iPhone login or VPS setup could explain the flag. It was cross-posted the same day to r/propfirm and to r/FundingPipsOfficial, the firm's own subreddit.

Four authors, two platforms, one theme. All of it is trader-reported.

Does FundingPips have a hidden 1% drawdown rule?

Three reviews in the window describe a master-account strike system and a 1% to 1.2% per-trade-idea drawdown limit. One writes that the rule "was not disclosed at program description."

Hidden is the contested word. FundingPips' rules pages, as captured August 19, do document a striking rule: on 2-Step Standard funded accounts above $25K, a warning is recorded each time a trade idea's floating loss reaches 1.2% of account size, with the reward split cut in half at strike two, cut to 20% at strike three, and the account breached at strike four. A 1% version applies to 1-Step Flex accounts. Profit from warned trade ideas is deducted. Whether those pages read the same when these traders bought their accounts is not something our captures can establish.

What is FundingPips' side of the story?

FundingPips has not replied to any of the cited reviews or Reddit threads in the material we collected, including the thread posted to its own subreddit. Its channels stay active: the firm's weekly recap, posted August 17, claims $3,100,000 paid out for August 10 to 16. That is the firm's own number, unverified.

Third-party trackers lean its way too. PayoutJunction's on-chain tracker shows $149,261,770 across 66,407 payouts as of August 19, up $772,198 and 372 payouts in four days. PropFirmMap lists a 4.5 Trustpilot rating from 62,062 lifetime reviews and an A+ safety grade, and TheTrustedProp's trust score rose from 88 to 90 this week. Payouts, by every external measure we track, are still flowing.

Is FundingPips a scam?

Here is what the record establishes: 4 Trustpilot reviewers and 4 Reddit authors, independently and across two months, allege terminations tied to CID or Device ID matches, several right before or after payouts, and all say no evidence was shown to them. That is a cross-platform pattern with specifics.

Here is what it does not establish: that any termination was wrongful, that the flags were false, or that the firm's enforcement is aimed at profitable traders. Every claim is a reviewer's own account. FundingPips publishes the device and IP rules it appears to be enforcing, and its payout volume is verifiably still growing. One August 19 review attributes an inflammatory quote to the firm's CEO; we could not verify it anywhere and are not repeating it.

Our read, for the record: this is a documentation dispute as much as an enforcement one. The pattern moved FundingPips' FirmTiers score from 55 to 50 on August 19. The board re-scores nightly, and a public response from the firm would factor in.

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