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- Free allowance
- '$2M in prizes. 3 tracks.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedan open-source release of the whole solution is a condition of payment and the modal outcome is zero: entry is free and open, but the money is decided on a leaderboard whose top places are contested by funded labs, while the $700K grand...
- Evidence
- documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | '$2M in prizes. 3 tracks. Open source progress toward AGI.' The ARC-AGI-3 track is '$850K Total' with a '$700K' grand prize, a '$75K (guaranteed)' top-score award split 40/15/10/5/5 thousand, and two '$75K (guaranteed)' milestone rounds at June 30 and September 30, 2026. The Paper Prize pays '$75K (guaranteed)' to the highest-scoring paper and '$50K / $20K / $5K' for first to third. Entry is a Kaggle competition, and payment is conditional, quoted: 'All leading participants are expected to open source their solutions to be eligible for a prize.' unit seconds; metered on wall-clock; prize |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) an open-source release of the whole solution is a condition of payment and the modal outcome is zero: entry is free and open, but the money is decided on a leaderboard whose top places are contested by funded labs, while the $700K grand prize is written as a forward offer ('Awarded to the first eligible agent that scores 100%') rather than as an accumulated balance. source
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not published: the page read states no egress allowance and no overage price; https://arcprize.org/competitions/2026 read 2026-11-03; internet access is not available during Kaggle evaluation |
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| Interface | unknown unverified: the page documents no REST API, CLI or SSH access; there is a Kaggle competition for each track |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | A guaranteed milestone award then buys GPU at spot rates. What breaks the chain is the open-source condition: the solution must be public to be paid, so the same work cannot be sold twice. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The distinction that matters here is that the entry cost is zero and the tool is a browser notebook, so the downside is time only. The milestone structure supports the second for a solo entrant: two guaranteed rounds of USD 75,000 across three places each, decided on a leaderboard rather than on a grant application. The page states the grand prize as a forward-looking offer ('the first eligible agent'), not as a fact about past results, and this record adds no claim about whether it has been won. |
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Evidence 5
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | arcprize.org/competitions/2026 | '$2M in prizes. 3 tracks.'; key dates 'March 25, 2026 - Competition starts', 'June 30, 2026 - ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #1', 'November 2, 2026 - Submissions due'; 'All leading participants are expected to open source their solutions to be eligible for a prize'; page 200 |
| 2026-10-22 | arcprize.org/competitions/2026/arc-agi-3 | '$850K Total'; 'Grand Prize (100%) - $700K Awarded to the first eligible agent that scores 100%'; 'Top Score Award - $75K (guaranteed)'; 'Milestone Prizes - $75K (guaranteed)'; 'No internet access during evaluation'; 'Hardware and compute limits will be announced with the competition launch' (read through the search index for arcprize.org, not the origin page) |
| 2026-10-22 | arcprize.org/competitions/2026/paper | 'Top Paper - $75K (guaranteed)'; '1st Prize: $50K', '2nd Prize: $20K', '3rd Prize: $5K' (read through the search index for arcprize.org) |
| 2026-10-22 | www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2026-paper-track/rules | 'TOTAL PRIZES AVAILABLE: $75,000 First Prize: $50,000 Second Prize: $20,000 Third Prize: $5,000'; 'Client may choose to award up to $375,000 for papers that score above 4.5/5 on the paper rubric' (read through the search index for kaggle.com) |
| 2026-11-03 | arcprize.org/competitions/2026 | evaluation runs without internet; the page states no egress allowance or price |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "prize","free_tier_kind": "prize","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field