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Eligibility, quoted: 'Teams that submit results exceeding the baseline performance in a track are eligible to apply for credits, on a first come, first served basis.' Allocation, quoted: 'Credits are limited and will be allocated first come, first served among eligible teams.' The application form closed, quoted: 'Please fill the form by 31st Decemeber, 2025'.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://discourse.aicrowd.com/t/how-to-claim-compute-credits/17582","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"one-time-grant"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://discourse.aicrowd.com/t/how-to-claim-compute-credits/17582","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://discourse.aicrowd.com/t/how-to-claim-compute-credits/17582","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://discourse.aicrowd.com/t/how-to-claim-compute-credits/17582"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"The USD 100 is redeemable at NVIDIA, AWS or OpenAI, so it buys a different shape depending on the sponsor: at Lambda's documented on-demand rate of USD 3.99 per H100 SXM GPU-hour (dossier/compute/lambda.json) USD 100 is about 25 H100-hours, while the same credit at OpenAI buys tokens instead of a machine.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"the gate is a qualifying leaderboard submission before the credit round closes: a team must first beat a published baseline, then wait 7 to 14 days for manual verification, and credits are first come first served, so the pool can close before a slow entrant applies.","source":"https://discourse.aicrowd.com/t/how-to-claim-compute-credits/17582"}],"limits_note":"the gate is a qualifying leaderboard submission before the credit round closes: a team must first beat a published baseline, then wait 7 to 14 days for manual verification, and credits are first come first served, so the pool can close before a slow entrant applies.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"the gate is a qualifying leaderboard submission before the credit round closes: a team must first beat a published baseline, then wait 7 to 14 days for manual verification, and credits are first come first served, so the pool can close before a slow entrant applies.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the USD 100 sponsor credit and its first-come-first-served allocation, the baseline-submission eligibility rule and the manual verification of a submitted score against the leaderboard, and states nothing about an email, phone, card or ID document","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://discourse.aicrowd.com/t/how-to-claim-compute-credits/17582","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Each eligible team may initially receive USD 100 in credits from one sponsor of their choice: NVIDIA, AWS or OpenAI.'; 'Teams that submit results exceeding the baseline performance in a track are eligible to apply for credits, on a first come, first served basis'; 'We will verify your score and submission link against the official AIcrowd leaderboard'; 'KRAFTON and its subsidiaries are not eligible for prize money or credits'; page 200"},{"url":"https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/orak-game-agent-challenge-2025","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the challenge page links 'Claim compute credits to improve your solution' and names two tracks with a separate 'sponsored credit pool'; the cash prize structure is separate from the credits; page 200"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"The smallest credit and the most repeatable: AIcrowd runs several credit-backed challenges a year with the same claim-form pattern. Three explanations for the size were considered: a fixed marketing budget per team, anti-farming through the baseline requirement, and platform economics. The page states the second explicitly and is silent on the other two. What would change the verdict is the additional round, quoted: 'If credits remain in the middle of the competition, we will open an additional round for extra credit applications', which did not appear on the page read today.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"hackathon-credit","free_tier_kind":"one-time-grant","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}