Per-account entry fees aren't published in a stable, citable form here for the same reason noted on the 1-Step page, check the live checkout at larkfunding.com directly. Third-party trackers put the $10K tier somewhere around $400, rising toward the mid-$4,000s for $100K, but treat that as a rough shape, not a confirmed price.
Both evaluation-based products here run static drawdown, a fixed floor that doesn't move once you're trading. Instant Funding is the exception: an 8% trailing drawdown that follows your highest equity upward until the account is up 8% or you request your first payout, whichever comes first, at which point it locks permanently at the starting balance. Per Lark's own help centre, that lock "does not reset after a reward", once it's fixed, later payouts don't move it again, but it also doesn't keep climbing forever, it's a bounded trailing phase, not an indefinite ratchet.
That nuance matters, but it doesn't erase the underlying point: for however long the pre-lock phase lasts, this is the same mechanic CEO Matt L. singles out as a flaw on his own YouTube channel, comparing Lark's static-drawdown evaluation against FTMO's one-step: "aside from them having more drawdown, but it's a trailing drawdown, which isn't good at all." FTMO's version, per its own published rules, trails indefinitely as balance grows, with no lock point, arguably a harder version of the same mechanic than Lark's bounded one. But "trailing drawdown isn't good" as a stated principle doesn't come with a footnote for "unless it's ours and it eventually locks", and Instant Funding is the one Lark product built on it regardless.
There's a sharper problem in how this product actually gets marketed, though. In the same video, introducing Instant Funding specifically (~5:01), Matt L. pitches the on-demand first payout as the headline reason to buy it: "the first payout is on demand. So, you can literally sign up right now. Don't even finish the video. Literally go sign up right now. You can take a couple of trades. If you make money, you can go request that reward today. Today, first payout on demand." Taken literally, that's an instruction to trigger the exact event that permanently locks the trailing drawdown at the starting balance, on day one, after "a couple of trades," before any real equity cushion above that floor exists. The pitch frames claiming the instant payout as pure upside. It says nothing about the fact that claiming it is one of only two things that permanently locks your account's entire safety margin in place, at the earliest and least favourable moment to lock it.
A separate part of the same help centre, the payout FAQ rather than the drawdown rules page, adds a line that doesn't hold up next to any of this: it states the 8% maximum trailing drawdown "does not reset" when you request a payout. Follow that claim to either payout it could apply to and it falls apart. For the first payout, it's false: that request is one of the two events that ends the trailing mechanism outright, converting it into a fixed number. For every payout after the first, it's vacuous: by then the trailing drawdown no longer exists in trailing form at all, it was already replaced by a static floor, so there's nothing left to reset and the claim can't meaningfully be false either. A sentence that's false the one time it matters and empty every time after that isn't a rules clarification, it's marketing language sitting inside a page that's supposed to be the rulebook.
The firm overview covers what applies across every Lark product: the "All-or-Nothing" margin/exposure guideline, the Trader Agreement only issued after funding, and the no-refund policy. Read it once rather than per product.
