Topstep Labs $6K Challenge Live and Audacity 14%: Sept 18 Prop Firm Promo Check

This is an 18 September 2026 promo and rule check for FindBestProp. It is not a rewrite of the 17 September AquaFunded futures / FundedNext Stellar payout note. The new 48-hour story is a live Labs SKU plus a homepage anniversary rewrite: Topstep Labs now prints the $6K Challenge at $149 one-time, and Audacity Capital now banners 14% off all programs through 30 September with no consistency rule.

A $6,000 fixed Labs payout or a 14% anniversary cut does not change a Stellar checkout fork or a Rapid EOD trail. Shortlist on the comparator at findbestprop.com, then paste one code on the firm’s own cart.

The same notes are now on the Topstep and Audacity Capital reviews. Review pages keep only the two most recent firm-specific updates, so older DLL / Flex cards stay on the blog, not stacked on those review pages.

The 48-hour headline: Topstep Labs Drop #005 is the live card

topstep.com/labs this morning is not a Combine coupon. It is the $6K Challenge: Make $6,000. Do it again. Keep $6,000. Official help (Topstep Labs, updated today) now lists five drops, including #004 $1.5K Challenge and #005 $6K Challenge, both dated September 2026.

Live Labs card ($6K Challenge):

• $149 one-time. No rebill. No resets. 10,000 units, first come, first serve.
• Two rounds, same numbers: profit target $6,000, static max loss $2,000, starting balance $0.
• No daily loss limit, no consistency target, no 90/10 split. Passing the Payout Round pays a fixed $6,000, then the account closes.
• Max size 10 micros / 1 mini. Purchase cap 5 per trader (closed $6K accounts still count). $1.5K and $3K Challenges do not count toward that five.
• 90-day lifespan. 30-day inactivity close. No path to Live through Challenges alone.

The Risk Adjustments article was also updated today. For the $6K Challenge it currently bans MHG, SIL, HG, SL, CL, GC, HO, QM, PL, and RB, sets CPI openings to 0, and caps MGC / MCL at 6 micros. Combine / XFA energy and metals tables are still live too (example: CL / HO / RB / QM = 3/6/9 minis on $50K / $100K / $150K Combines; SI / HG / PL = 0).

Help still documents the $1.5K Challenge at $39 (target $1,500, static loss $500, 2 micros, max five). That is not the card on /labs this morning — do not budget $39 unless the Labs page actually shows it.

Standard Combines still have no coupon box. The Responsible Trading toggle is unchanged: add a Daily Loss Limit for up to $30 off No Activation Fee Combines, $50 off Back2Funded XFA reactivations, and limited-time double payout caps (copy still cites up to $12,000).

Official codes and rules that actually moved a catalog row this morning

Topstep — Labs $6K is now a priced SKU. We added a Labs $6K Challenge row at $149. Combine prices are unchanged. Affiliate checkout stays on our Topstep partner link.

Audacity Capital — homepage is 14% through 30 September. Official copy this morning: Celebrating 14 Years, 14% OFF For All Programs, registration deadline 30 September, plus No Consistency Rule anymore. We did not overwrite catalog Ability $5K $37 (that still tracks a 25% cut of $49, and the Instant page has printed 25% on some SKUs). Code 250M stays until the cart proves it is dead. Affiliate BRIDGE 35% blogs are not the homepage. Confirm the line. Do not stack 14% and 25%.

Still live, not rewritten overnight

FundedNext CFD — STELLAR09 still in Ongoing Offers. What is the FundedNext STELLAR09 offer? is still one of five live articles. 20% off a first CFD purchase or 15% off a repeat, 15 September 2026, 2:00 PM (GMT+6) through 21 September 2026, 2:00 PM (GMT+6). CFD plans up to 50K. Excludes 6K Stellar and Stellar Instant. Unlimited uses. Not for resets. Three days left on this check. Weaker than STELLAR50 / START6K / INSTANT30 / RAPID on the SKUs those codes already cover.

STELLAR50 is still the deeper first-time path where that landing page names the SKU. Last confirmed official example: Stellar 1-Step $50K $329.99 → $164.99. offer.fundednext.com/stellar50 still returned 500 on this morning’s fetch, so we did not delete the catalog row — confirm the 50% line on the cart.

START6K is still the 6K path: Stellar 2-Step $29.99, Stellar 1-Step $39.99, max five uses. INSTANT30 is still Instant only (one use). Partner FINDBESTPR (7%) is weaker than every official string above.

Stellar 2-Step and Lite still require a checkout payout option that cannot be changed: 21-day 80%, 3-day 60%, or on-demand 90% (2% growth + 40% consistency). The Lifetime Reward 95% add-on still overrides the share.

The help center still lists FundedNext to FNmarkets: 30% Deposit Bonus and FNmarkets FN50. Those are broker-transfer / expired-deposit campaigns, not Stellar coupons.

FundedNext Futures — RAPID cards vs schema. Rapid checkout still prints Start Rapid from $79.99 and SAVE … WITH CODE RAPID. Live Pro/Daily cards this morning: $79.99 / $159.99 / $279.99 off list $159.98 / $299.98 / $499.98. Official Product schema and FAQ still lock a flat 50% at $79.99 / $149.99 / $249.99, with Rapid Pro + DLL add-on $59.99 / $109.99 / $199.99. Trust the line total. Rapid Daily still has a built-in daily loss limit and no funded consistency; Rapid Pro still has no DLL by default and 40% consistency once funded.

AquaFunded — Fall Sale 25% still on both pages. Homepage and futures still banner Fall Sale 25% OFF. Official checkout still names BACK2WORK (25% plus a 150% fee-refund claim). Partner k22 remains 40% off the fee — pick one. Futures still lists Standard, Daily, Flex, Instant. The CFD homepage chips this morning printed Flex / Instant without Daily — treat Daily as futures-only until the CFD cart prices it. Coupon blogs advertising a 14–30 September “autumn 30%” (300 uses) were still not on AquaFunded’s own homepage.

Brightfunded — Autumn Rally still on the homepage. Official strings: RALLY30 (1-Step, 30%), RALLY25 (2-Step Bright, 25%), RALLY15 (2-Step Classic, 15%). Catalog 1-Step $5K is still €34.30. Do not stack Rally with leftover DOUBLE25.

Maven Trading — OMO still prints on Omo 2-Step. Official coupon totals $9 / $15 / $38 / $74 / $143 / $284. OMO is not a site-wide 40%. Standard, Instant, Mini, and 3-Step stay on partner ETERNAL (10%).

Funding Traders — homepage still ~50%. Partner MINI remains the 50% string via our affiliate link.

FXIFY — CHART30 and ONESTEP35. The General FAQ still prints NEW TRADERS: 35% OFF 1-PHASE and the October 1 expiry for the monthly 30% offer. CHART30 through 1 October 2026 (all programs except Instant Lite). ONESTEP35 through 31 December 2026 (1-Phase, new traders). Partner FINDBESTPROP (10%) is weaker. Do not assume the two official codes stack.

Funding Pips — HELLO still the last official print. Homepage HTML was JS-heavy on this fetch, so we did not rewrite the row: HELLO is 20% off the first purchase and excludes $100K. Partner 300M stays the 20% affiliate path when HELLO is blocked or you are buying $100K. Labs EXP-001 $100K for $99 is still a separate SKU.

FTMO CFD — $100K 1-Step, 20% off, no coupon. Still the lead banner on ftmo.com. It does not apply to FTMO Futures subscriptions.

Fintokei — SHUKAKU15AKI through 30 September. Official autumn campaign is still live: 15% off plans with ¥5,000,000+ demo capital, max five uses.

E8 Markets. Homepage was behind Cloudflare on this fetch. We did not overwrite the 8 September note: configurator E8 first-order 25% (example $100K E8 One $488 → $366) and partner AAC4098A (5%). Confirm the cart.

Futures names traders asked about (most still outside the table)

Tradeify, Apex Trader Funding, Lucid Trading, and Alpha Futures are not in the comparator. Treat aggregator hashes (PROPFT, DGT, PROPSECRETS, PROPSCOPE, COVETRADER, JMU, ALPHA20, LUMI) as unverified until the official cart moves.

Tradeify. tradeify.co still prints a 25K Evaluation at $359 → $251 (one-time), the $1,000,000 Premier Trading League, $300K Select v2 at Tradeify Forge, and payout-to-live routing via Slay Markets. That is a contest plus a brokerage CTA, not a coupon. No public Combine-style code printed in this morning’s HTML.

Apex Trader Funding. Official homepage still shows evaluation cards at $199.00 → $19.90 “with Coupon Code” and five-packs $850.00 → $85.00. Indexed copy on apextraderfunding.com/coupon-code has named SAVENOW at up to 90% off new evaluations only — not resets or PA activation. Confirm Legacy vs Apex 4.0 and that the total actually drops before you pay. Affiliate PROPFT / LUMI / PROPSECRETS hashes stay out of JSON.

Alpha Futures. Official pricing still sells Zero, Standard, Direct, and Advanced. Live monthly examples this morning: 25K Zero $89, 50K Zero $139, 50K Standard $129, 50K Advanced $209. Direct 50K is still a $519 one-time Qualified line. Advanced Qualified still markets a $15,000 performance-fee cap. Direct still uses a 20% consistency rule. Homepage FAQ still says Standard evals use 50% consistency and Advanced evals 40%; Zero evals have none. We did not see a coupon field.

Lucid Trading. lucidtrading.com was not loaded as a catalog checkout this morning. Indexed homepage copy has told traders to use VAULT. Coupon blogs still quote LucidDaily windows and affiliate DONATO / JMU / FPF. None of that belongs in our JSON until Lucid is listed and the cart agrees.

If you trade CME-style futures inside the catalog today, start with Topstep Combines or the Labs $6K Challenge, FundedNext Rapid, and AquaFunded futures, then compare against forex/CFD names on Compare Firms.

Catalog firms we did not overwrite

We do not replace a working partner code with a weaker flash sale, and we do not paste affiliate 55% or 90% strings over an official help-center code.

• The 5%ers, Breakout, Blue Guardian: no deeper official 48-hour coupon than what FindBestProp already lists.
• Alpha Capital: still no public promo code in the catalog. Alpha Futures (same group, different desk) is not this profile.
• SabioTrade: still no public code in the catalog.
• Funded Trading Plus: keep SIZE30 / SIZE25 / SIZE20 until the official cart prints a deeper cut.
• Rebels Funding: keep NEWREBEL and confirm the line. Third-party “Rebels Club” 2–10% auto-rank pages are not a replacement coupon.

Third-party FundedNext Futures codes such as RAMESCO, FT, or PROPFT at 55% are affiliate pages, not this morning’s Rapid help center. Official string remains RAPID.

How to use today’s sales without buying the wrong SKU

1. Decide futures vs forex/CFD, then 1-Step vs 2-Step vs instant vs Labs, before the coupon (comparison guide).
2. Open the firm page: Topstep, Audacity Capital, AquaFunded, FundedNext, Brightfunded, Maven Trading, Funding Pips, FXIFY, Funding Traders, FTMO, Fintokei.
3. Copy codes from All Discount Codes.
4. On Topstep, there is still no Combine coupon. If you want Labs, buy the $6K Challenge from topstep.com/labs at $149 while units last — that is a fixed $6,000 payout experiment, not a Trading Combine and not a path to Live. If you want a Combine, toggle Daily Loss Limit and read the payout cap that appears.
5. On Audacity, try 250M and match the line against the homepage 14% banner (through 30 September). Catalog Ability $5K is still $37. Do not stack with affiliate BRIDGE hashes.
6. On FundedNext, pick one string: STELLAR50 only if you are a new user and the cart still prints 50%; START6K only on 6K Stellar; INSTANT30 only on Stellar Instant; STELLAR09 only on eligible CFD up to 50K (not 6K, not Instant, not resets) through 21 September; RAPID only on Rapid Daily / Rapid Pro Futures. Then pick the payout option on Stellar 2-Step / Lite — 21-day 80%, 3-day 60%, or on-demand 90% — because that choice cannot be changed after purchase. Do not treat FNmarkets 30% or FN50 as a challenge coupon.
7. On AquaFunded, pick k22 (40% fee) or BACK2WORK (25% plus refund claim) — not both. If you buy futures, confirm whether the cart is Standard, Daily, Flex, or Instant. If you buy CFD One Step Flex, the floor is 12% static on new purchases from 31 August. If you buy Instant Pro, read the purchase-date consistency rule (20% from 8 Sept, 15% before).
8. On BrightFunded, use RALLY30 on 1-Step, RALLY25 on 2-Step Bright, RALLY15 on 2-Step Classic. Do not stack with leftover DOUBLE25.
9. On Maven, use OMO only on Omo 2-Step. Expect $9 / $15 / $38 / $74 / $143 / $284. Use ETERNAL (10%) on Standard / Instant / Mini / 3-Step.
10. On Funding Pips, try HELLO on a first purchase that is not $100K. Use 300M if HELLO is blocked or you are buying $100K.
11. On FXIFY, try ONESTEP35 on 1-Phase (new traders) or CHART30 on other programs except Instant Lite. Do not stack.
12. On Funding Traders, try MINI and match the ~50% homepage total.
13. If the total does not move, the campaign ended. Pay list or leave.

For why a 70% flash on a tiny account can still be a bad buy, read how discount codes work.

Bottom line for 18 September 2026

New official print: Topstep Labs Drop #005 $6K Challenge is the live Labs card — $149 one-time, make $6,000 twice, keep $6,000, 10,000 units, max five per trader. Help also documents Drop #004 $1.5K Challenge at $39, but that was not the live card this morning. Risk Adjustments were rewritten today (energy/metals tables plus Labs CPI blocks). Audacity’s homepage now banners 14% off through 30 September and no consistency rule; we kept 250M and the $37 Ability $5K row until the cart disagrees.

Still live, not new: FundedNext STELLAR09 (20%/15% through 21 September, CFD up to 50K). INSTANT30 / START6K / RAPID. Stellar checkout payout forks. BrightFunded RALLY30 / RALLY25 / RALLY15. Maven OMO on Omo 2-Step. AquaFunded k22 (40%) vs BACK2WORK / Fall Sale 25%. FundingPips HELLO (20%, excludes $100K). FXIFY CHART30 (through 1 Oct) and ONESTEP35 (through 31 Dec). Funding Traders homepage ~50% with MINI. FTMO $100K 1-Step 20% off (no code). Topstep DLL toggle. Fintokei SHUKAKU15AKI through 30 September.

Skip until the official cart moves: Apex 90% hashes until you see $19.90 print after SAVENOW. Alpha Futures PROPSECRETS / PROPSCOPE / ALPHA20 until checkout shows a cut. Lucid: try homepage VAULT only if the total drops. Tradeify league and Slay Markets are not coupons. FundedNext RAMESCO / FT / PROPFT 55% pages. AquaFunded autumn-30% blogs that are not on aquafunded.com. Audacity BRIDGE 35% affiliate pages. FNmarkets 30% / FN50 as if they were Stellar coupons.

When you are ready, compare prop firms on FindBestProp at findbestprop.com and keep live codes open. Checkout is always the firm’s domain.