The challenge renews monthly and stops the day you pass. Or buy a funded account outright and skip it.
Read from the same configuration the accounts run on.
It keeps the challenge account open. Because there is no deadline, this is the only thing a slow pass costs you: another month at the same price. It stops by itself on the day you pass, so there is nothing to remember to cancel. Paid in SOL rather than by card, each payment covers 30 days and you renew it yourself from the dashboard; let it lapse and the challenge closes when the 30 days end.
Charged once, only after a pass, and due within fourteen days of it. That window is a real deadline: let it lapse and the pass goes with it. It is not refundable, because the funded account opens the moment it clears.
One payment instead of both, with nothing monthly and no activation to follow. In exchange the loss line tightens to 20% and your share is 70% rather than 80–85%.
Resets, retakes, market data, withdrawals, or keeping an account open. A failed challenge rolls into a new one at your next renewal for the normal monthly price.
On the 25 SOL account, passing in your first month costs $50 plus $100 activation. Taking three months costs $150 plus the same $100, because the monthly fee simply renews. That is the whole penalty for patience: $50 a month, and no risk of the account being closed out from under you by a date. Instant Funded is $199 once, with no challenge and a 70% share.