Hackathons with cash prizes
Hackathons that pay real cash to winners, ranked by prize. Every listing shows the prize pool, the deadline and who can apply, including whether participants from India can enter.
47 open or upcoming · 26 past · ranked by organizer priority, then prize and deadline
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- Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026Meta$1,000,000 prize poolOpen 19 Nov 2026
- Amazon ML Challenge 2027Amazon₹225,000 prize poolUpcoming Date to confirm
- Nebius × NVIDIA Global AI HackathonNebius × NVIDIA$50,000 prize poolOpen 30 Oct 2026
- Farm Robotics Challenge 2027UC ANR · AI Institute NGFS$25,000 first prizeOpen 13 Nov 2026
- TCS CodeVita Season 14Tata Consultancy Services$20,000 prize poolOpen 13 Nov 2026
- Gemma 4 Developer Agent CompetitionGoogle DeepMind$100,000 prize poolOpen 26 Nov 2026
- Smart India Hackathon 2027Ministry of Education · AICTE (SIH)₹100,000 prize poolUpcoming Date to confirm
- GitLab Transcend — Life After CodeGitLab$45,000 prize poolOpen 27 Oct 2026
- OpenCV AI Competition 2026 — powered by AWSOpenCV · AWS$12,000 prize poolCheck entry 27 Oct 2026
- Accenture Innovation Challenge 2027Accenture India₹675,000 prize poolUpcoming Date to confirm
- IEEE CASS Student Design Competition 2027IEEE Circuits and Systems Society$3,000 first prizeUpcoming 11 Jan 2027
- YouCam API Skin AI & eCommerce VTO HackathonPerfect Corp.$6,000 prize poolOpen 2 Nov 2026
- Codex x TwitchCon Hackathon 2026Twitch and OpenAI$25,000 prize poolOpen 3 Nov 2026
- Kiroween 2026Kiro (AWS)$100,000 prize poolOpen 5 Dec 2026
- SustainX 2026: The Sustainability HackathonGreat Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon₹50,000 prize poolOpen 5 Nov 2026
- MAKE ME MONEY AI Agent HackathonShipyard London£10,000 prize poolCheck entry 31 Oct 2026
- InfiniSynapse Vibe Coding HackathonInfiniSynapse$3,000 prize poolCheck entry 1 Nov 2026
- Solana Fall 2026 Hackathon (Colosseum)Colosseum$250,000 prize poolCheck entry 2 Nov 2026
- NEAR Hackathon 2026: Build Beyond BoundariesNEAR Protocol$250,000 prize poolOpen 15 Nov 2026
- Huawei Zurich Tech ArenaHuawei Zurich Research Center€28,000 prize poolCheck entry Date to confirm
- Arbitrum Open House Dubai: Online BuildathonArbitrum Foundation$30,000 prize poolOpen 6 Dec 2026
- Arc Microgrants: Built with Arc StudioCircle$4,000 prize poolCheck entry 1 Nov 2026
- X Layer TapeOut AccelerateX Layer$100,000 prize poolOpen 8 Dec 2026
- GreatUniHack 2026University of Manchester (UniCS)£70,000 prize poolCheck entry Date to confirm
- UGREEN Hackathon 2026: Build AI Skills for a NASUGREEN$46,000 prize poolOpen 16 Nov 2026
- TUM Blockchain & AI Hackathon 2026TUM Blockchain Club€10,000 prize poolOpen 29 Oct 2026
- H Company × 42AI Computer Use Agents HackathonH Company€10,000 prize poolOpen 7 Nov 2026
- Builder.io Agent-Native HackathonBuilder.io$10,000 prize poolOpen 3 Nov 2026
- Lablab x AMD AI Academy Challengelablab.ai$5,000 prize poolOpen 1 Dec 2026
- Since AI Hackathon 2026Since AI ry€50,000 prize poolOpen 6 Nov 2026
- Buffer CommitBuffer$25,600 prize poolOpen 14 Nov 2026
- ComfyUI Open Source Higgsfield ChallengeComfyUI$25,000 prize poolCheck entry 14 Nov 2026
- DeveloperWeek 2027 Hackathon — Descope and Nimble tracksDeveloperWeek$2,000 prize poolOpen 11 Feb 2027
- Lexsi AI Safety & Alignment HackathonLexsi Labs$30,000 prize poolOpen 6 Nov 2026
- NYC Frontier Hackathon: Autonomous Code FactoryObvious$35,000 prize poolOpen 30 Oct 2026
- AI Builder Hackathon 2026 (Victoria VR)Victoria VR€20,000 prize poolCheck entry 11 Nov 2026
- SoSoValue: Build Your One-Person On-Chain Finance BusinessSoSoValue$10,000 prize poolCheck entry 30 Oct 2026
- Total Recall: Tatum x Walrus Memory HackathonTatum$4,500 prize poolCheck entry 10 Nov 2026
- Swarm Alignment HackathonAE Studio$4,000 prize poolCheck entry 9 Nov 2026
- Mergetober 2026 with CogneeWeMakeDevs and Cognee$2,000 first prizeCheck entry 31 Oct 2026
- Blockscout PRO API BuildathonBlockscout and Craftora$1,200 prize poolCheck entry 3 Nov 2026
- Open Agent Hackathon 2026GenAI Works$20,000 prize poolCheck entry 27 Oct 2026
- Dev3pack Global Hackathon 2026Dev3pack$10,000 first prizeCheck entry 29 Nov 2026
- BCH BLAZE 2026 HackathonBCH BLAZE$8,000 prize poolOpen 13 Nov 2026
- Portaldot Hacker House 2026Portaldot Network Ecosystem Foundation$5,200 prize poolCheck entry 5 Nov 2026
- DSH Hacks V2DeltaForge Hacks, NXT Horizon and STEMise AI$42,234 prize poolOpen 8 Nov 2026
- BLI Legal Tech Hackathon 2Blockchain Legal Institute$20,000 prize poolCheck entry 31 Oct 2026
Past and closed
- Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer HackathonAmazon$138,000 prize poolClosed 24 Oct 2026
- AMD Developer Hackathon — Act IIIAMD · lablab.ai$12,000 prize poolClosed 18 Oct 2026
- RAKSHAM — AI Cybersecurity HackathonIIT Delhi · ARIES / DevClub₹400,000 prize poolClosed 12 Oct 2026
- Multimodal AI Hackathon 2026IIT Mandi · KamandPrompt₹100,000 prize poolClosed 15 Oct 2026
- TVS Motor RiDE Ideathon 2026 (UG)TVS Motor Company₹600,000 prize poolClosed 18 Oct 2026
- TVS Motor RiDE Ideathon 2026 (PG)TVS Motor Company₹300,000 prize poolClosed 18 Oct 2026
- HKCERT CTF 2026 — International CategoryHKCERT · HKPCHK$16,000 first prizeClosed 20 Oct 2026
- Hack Apertus OnlineHack ApertusCHF 10,000 prize poolClosed 16 Oct 2026
- Odoo × FLUX — Lucknow ’26Odoo₹105,000 prize poolClosed 25 Oct 2026
- Odoo × Make-A-Ton 9.0 — KochiOdoo₹105,000 prize poolClosed 25 Oct 2026
- HackShift — Cmd+Shift+CreateIIIT Delhi₹100,000 prize poolClosed 16 Oct 2026
- QHack 2026PennyLane · QHack$67,000 prize poolClosed 24 Oct 2026
- Recursive Agents HackathonCrusoe · Cerebral Valley$25,000 prize poolClosed 17 Oct 2026
- Daytona HackSprint with Arize AIDaytona · Arize AI$7,000 prize poolClosed 16 Oct 2026
- Build With AI: BasicsDevpost$2,500 prize poolClosed 27 Oct 2026
- AI Collusion Research SprintApart Research$2,000 prize poolClosed 26 Oct 2026
- DEV × Kaggle Benchmarking ChallengeDEV Community$2,500 prize poolClosed 12 Oct 2026
- Crypto World’s FairColosseum$840,000 prize poolClosed 12 Oct 2026
- Junction 2026Junction€100,000 prize poolClosed 25 Oct 2026
- Airwallex Agentic Banking HackathonAirwallex$80,000 prize poolClosed 23 Oct 2026
- Emergent × Y Combinator VibeCon SF 2026Emergent$10,000 first prizeClosed 24 Oct 2026
- SchubKI National AI Hackathon — SereneDB trackSchubKI / SereneDB€3,000 prize poolClosed 14 Oct 2026
- Graph Hacks: Context for AI AgentsFalkorDB$20,000 prize poolClosed 18 Oct 2026
- Encode London HackathonEncode Club£200 first prizeClosed 23 Oct 2026
- TrendSpider Hackathon 2026TrendSpider$25,000 prize poolClosed 26 Oct 2026
- Open Agent Hackathon 2026GenAI Works$15,000 prize poolClosed 23 Oct 2026