ARC Prize Foundation

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ARC Prize Foundation Compute

caveatemailno cardDwrite-gated

arcprize.org/competitions/2026 · cloud VM · compute/arc-prize-foundation · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: '$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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated 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 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.
Binding	write-gated 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.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The competition supplies the compute: entry is a Kaggle notebook, and the corpus already holds Kaggle's weekly 30 hour GPU quota and free TPU in dossier/compute/kaggle-notebooks.json, so the prize can be contested with no card. 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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	A prize, not a compute grant, and the corpus should not read it as capacity. 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. Two framings were tested: an AI-lab marketing exercise with no realistic solo winner, and a funded research budget with a handful of large awards. 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.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
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)

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.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