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DigitalOcean Gradient AI Computetrialemailno cardDwrite-gated
Global AI Hackathon Computetrialemailno cardphoneDwrite-gated
Inference-Time Compute Hackathon Computetrialemailno cardDwrite-gated
Test Flight Computetrialemailno cardDwrite-gated

DigitalOcean Gradient AI Compute

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digitalocean.devpost.com/ · cloud VM · compute/digitalocean-gradient-ai · JSON · compare

Free tier	The prize carries cloud credit alongside cash, quoted from the listing: '$ 20,000 in cash', and the prize rows '1 winner - $8,000 USD in cash - $600 in DigitalOcean credits' and '2nd Place ... $4,000 USD in cash'. Entry is a DigitalOcean signup through an MLH link, and the resources page states: 'Signup for a DigitalOcean account! - Head over to https://mlh.link/digitalocean-signup for $200 in free credits.' The event ran, quoted: 'Jan 28 - Mar 18, 2026 \| Online \| Public \| 2592 participants'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email email: entry is 'Signup for a DigitalOcean account' through an MLH link that carries '$200 in free credits'; no other identity requirement appears on the pages read. Whether a card is required at signup, and whether any hold is taken, is not stated in any evidence row: unknown - the record's notes say the billing page that would settle it needs an account and a card, which is an inference and not a reading.
Limits	write-gated the $200 credit is a signup promotion and the useful prize credit is $600 for one winning team out of 2,592 entrants, so the credit that is certain is small and the credit that is large is a lottery. source the $200 credit is a signup promotion and the useful prize credit is $600 for one winning team out of 2,592 entrants, so the credit that is certain is small and the credit that is large is a lottery.
Binding	write-gated the $200 credit is a signup promotion and the useful prize credit is $600 for one winning team out of 2,592 entrants, so the credit that is certain is small and the credit that is large is a lottery.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The signup credit is the composable part: USD 200 at DigitalOcean's own prices buys a GPU droplet for a weekend or a small always-on instance for months, and it stacks with the MLH attendee trial because the two arrive through different links. The prize credit does not compose, because it arrives only after a win.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Included as the clearest instance of the recurring shape: a cloud vendor sponsors a hackathon, the participants get a signup credit, and the winners get a larger credit. Two readings of the $200 were considered: a genuine no-conditions credit and a trial that converts to billing at expiry; the resources page calls it 'free credits' and gives no expiry, while MLH's own attendee row calls a different offer a '60-day free trial', which suggests the two are different products. The route that would settle it is the DigitalOcean billing page after signup, which needs an account and a card and was not created.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:write-gated 200.0 credit

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	digitalocean.devpost.com/	'The DigitalOcean Gradient(TM) AI Hackathon challenges developers, builders, and creators to design and launch new, working AI-powered applications'; 'Signup for a DigitalOcean account'; 'In Partnership with Major League Hacking'; page 200
2026-10-22	digitalocean.devpost.com/resources	'Signup for a DigitalOcean account! - Head over to https://mlh.link/digitalocean-signup for $200 in free credits'; 'Having trouble claiming credits? Head over to https://discord.mlh.io/ and open a ticket'; read through the search index for devpost.com
2026-10-22	www.mlh.com/challenges/01a06f9d-f1a8-0c75-88f3-037bed6db6c4	MLH's 'All Attendees' prize row: '$100, 60-day free trial of DigitalOcean', '90-day extended trial of Balsamiq Cloud', '$20 worth of credits for Linode'; read through the search index for mlh.com

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

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Global AI Hackathon Compute

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qwencloud-hackathon.devpost.com/ · cloud VM · compute/global-ai-hackathon · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'Compete for total $70,000+ in cash and cloud credits, get featured on the Qwen Cloud blog, and earn an invite to join the AI Catalyst program.' The free part, quoted: 'Get free Qwen Cloud credits to build, deploy, and scale your agent', and the entry steps, quoted: 'Register on Devpost (2 minutes)', 'Sign up for Qwen Cloud. Click here to Sign up for your free trial' (5 minutes), 'Join the Qwen Cloud Discord (2 minutes)'. Scale, quoted: '$ 45,000 in cash', '8440 participants', 'May 25 - Jul 20, 2026'. unit minutes; metered on wall-clock; one-time-grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email two accounts, both by plain signup: 'Register on Devpost (2 minutes)' and 'Sign up for Qwen Cloud. Click here to Sign up for your free trial'. No card, phone or ID document is stated, and the Qwen Cloud signup form itself was not read
Limits	write-gated the token allowance per track is the binding constraint: a Showrunner track that generates video under 'a limited token budget' spends the free credit in hours, and the country exclusion list is not published on the page. source the token allowance per track is the binding constraint: a Showrunner track that generates video under 'a limited token budget' spends the free credit in hours, and the country exclusion list is not published on the page.
Binding	write-gated the token allowance per track is the binding constraint: a Showrunner track that generates video under 'a limited token budget' spends the free credit in hours, and the country exclusion list is not published on the page.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	The composable part is not the prize but the free tier behind the hackathon: a Qwen Cloud account with credits reaches Qwen models through one interface, which is a second path to the same models the corpus records under Alibaba and under the open-weight license. It composes with the AIMO pattern, where a token budget rather than a GPU is the unit that runs out first.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded with the origin refusing the broker (403) and the body arriving through a rendering provider, so the quotes come from a rendered read of the live page, not from the origin's own HTML. Two explanations for the country exclusions were considered: sanctions compliance, and a regional cloud footprint. The page names neither, and the excluded list lives in the rules tab, which was not read, so the record states the existence of the restriction and not its content. The event ended July 20, 2026; the series is described as recurring, which is why the record is trial-only rather than dead.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	qwencloud-hackathon.devpost.com/	'Compete for total $70,000+ in cash and cloud credits'; 'Get free Qwen Cloud credits to build, deploy, and scale your agent'; 'Register on Devpost (2 minutes)'; 'Sign up for Qwen Cloud'; 'This track has the highest token allowance'; page 403 at origin, body rendered through a provider
2026-10-22	qwencloud-hackathon.devpost.com/	'$ 45,000 in cash'; '8440 participants'; 'May 25 - Jul 20, 2026'; 'This hackathon has ended'; read through the search index for devpost.com

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

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Inference-Time Compute Hackathon Compute

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inference-time-compute.devpost.com/ · cloud VM · compute/inference-time-compute-hackathon · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'Participants will also receive serious compute support, including 8x H100s per team, meals, snacks, workspace for the full 24 hours, and $100 in compute credits from Prime Intellect.' Prizes, quoted: 'Teams will compete for a $50k top prize and $100k+ in total prizes.' Entry, quoted: 'Apply solo or as a pre-formed team of 2-4. Solo applicants may be matched with teammates before the event', and 'This is an in-person hackathon, and participants are expected to be present in San Francisco for the full event.' unit hours; metered on wall-clock; allowance
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated the clock binds first: eight H100s are attached to a 24 hour event in San Francisco, so the whole allocation is 192 H100-hours and none of it survives the weekend. source the clock binds first: eight H100s are attached to a 24 hour event in San Francisco, so the whole allocation is 192 H100-hours and none of it survives the weekend.
Binding	write-gated the clock binds first: eight H100s are attached to a 24 hour event in San Francisco, so the whole allocation is 192 H100-hours and none of it survives the weekend.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	192 H100-hours for one weekend is the densest short-lived allocation, and it composes with the $100 Prime Intellect credits because those can be spent after the event on the same model code. What it does not do is leave anything behind: the event ends, the machines go back, and the project must be runnable on rented hardware afterwards.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Included as the clearest example of the shape that recurs: eight accelerators for a weekend, awarded to everyone who attends rather than to a winner. The arithmetic is 8 x 24 = 192 GPU-hours per team, and the event is dated by the Devpost listing rather than by a date sentence on the page, so the expiry of this instance is inferred from the listing rather than documented. Three explanations for why sponsors fund this were considered: model adoption, recruiting, and eval supply. The page names four sponsors across three track themes, which fits adoption and recruiting better than any research purpose.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:write-gated 24.0 hour

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	inference-time-compute.devpost.com/	'Participants will also receive serious compute support, including 8x H100s per team, meals, snacks, workspace for the full 24 hours, and $100 in compute credits from Prime Intellect'; '$50k top prize and $100k+ in total prizes'; 'Apply solo or as a pre-formed team of 2-4'; 'participants are expected to be present in San Francisco for the full event'; page 200

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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Test Flight Compute

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test-flight-glasswing.devpost.com/ · cloud VM · compute/test-flight · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'One weekend, and $300,000 in compute credits on the line for the team that wins.' The table, quoted: 'Grand Prize 1 winner $300K in compute credits, awarded to the winning team. Compute provided by our partners. Second Place 1 winner $40K of compute credits Third Place 1 winner $15K of compute credits'. Entry, quoted: 'technical builders, individually or in teams of up to four. Solo applicants and partial teams are matched with other qualified builders. Admission is by application and reviewed on a rolling basis'; 'Free to participate'; 'Applications close September 19, 2026'. unit none; 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 in-person attendance in Boston for a two-day event, admission by application, and a closed cycle: the 2026 event ran September 26 to 27 and applications closed September 19, 2026, so nothing is claimable until a next edition is announced. source in-person attendance in Boston for a two-day event, admission by application, and a closed cycle: the 2026 event ran September 26 to 27 and applications closed September 19, 2026, so nothing is claimable until a next edition is announced.
Binding	write-gated in-person attendance in Boston for a two-day event, admission by application, and a closed cycle: the 2026 event ran September 26 to 27 and applications closed September 19, 2026, so nothing is claimable until a next edition is announced.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	USD 300,000 of compute is the largest compute-denominated award found, and it must be spent in a partner account rather than on a card: at Lambda's documented on-demand rate of USD 3.99 per H100 GPU-hour (dossier/compute/lambda.json) the grand prize is about 75,000 H100-hours, which is 300,000 divided by 3.99.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded because the award is real and denominated in compute, but the verdict is trial-only: the 2026 edition has ended. Recurrence is plausible, because a venture firm runs this as deal flow and the page is written as a recurring event, but no next date was published, so recurrence stays unverified. The failure mode is the gate rather than the money: a two-day in-person event in Boston cannot be entered from outside the United States without travel, and 'admission is by application' means the field is curated before the competition begins.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	test-flight-glasswing.devpost.com/	'$300,000 in compute credits on the line for the team that wins'; 'Grand Prize 1 winner $300K in compute credits'; 'Second Place 1 winner $40K of compute credits'; 'Third Place 1 winner $15K of compute credits'; 'Applications close September 19, 2026'; 'Free to participate'; page 200
2026-10-22	test-flight-glasswing.devpost.com/	'Compute and engineering support are provided throughout the weekend, backed by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and TensorWave', quoted

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (10)

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