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Free allowance: Quoted: 'large projects range from $3000 to $6600 USD, depending on location', medium 'from $1500 to $3300', small 'from $750 to $1650', paid 45 percent after the midterm evaluation and 55 percent at the end, to a 12+ week project.
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: no price stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: write-gatedOne application window a year, a mentor organization must select the proposal, and payment is split across two evaluations, so nothing arrives before roughly week six.
Evidence: documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22

Free tier	Quoted: 'large projects range from $3000 to $6600 USD, depending on location', medium 'from $1500 to $3300', small 'from $750 to $1650', paid 45 percent after the midterm evaluation and 55 percent at the end, to a 12+ week project. unit none; metered on wall-clock; cash-stipend
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) One application window a year, a mentor organization must select the proposal, and payment is split across two evaluations, so nothing arrives before roughly week six. source
Identity	email (placeholder) unverified: no page stating what a contributor account requires was read; the record's evidence covers the stipend bands, the 45/55 payment split and payment through Payoneer across 190+ countries, but not the application form. The email kind is inferred from an account-based application. A Payoneer account is needed to be paid, and whether Payoneer demands a bank account or an identity document before paying is not stated. No card, hold, debit or prepaid term is stated.
Egress	not stated
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	This is the only lane here that pays a person in a country the vendor has never heard of at a published per-country rate with no company and no card: USD 3,000 to 6,600 for twelve weeks, paid in two instalments, and the stipend is the only number either side publishes.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Two real limits. The intake is annual and closed for 2026; the next window is inferred to be March 2027 from the 2026 dates, not announced. The stipend is PPP-adjusted downward, so the published table has to be read for the country of residence. The role is titled 'contributor' rather than student on the pages read.

Evidence 4

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-stipends	quoted the 2026 stipend bands, the PPP adjustment, the 45/55 payment split, and payment through Payoneer across 190+ countries
2026-10-22	developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline	quoted the 2026 dates: contributor applications 2026-03-18 to 2026-04-02, accepted projects revealed 2026-05-01, and 'The timeline for Google Summer of Code can shift a bit each year'
2026-10-22	summerofcode.withgoogle.com/	the live front page reads 'GSoC 2026 Contributors Announced!', so the 2026 round is complete
2026-10-22	summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works	the phases: organization applications, contributor application period, proposal review, community bonding, coding, two evaluations

More fields 1

{
 "facets": {
  "class": "stipend",
  "free_tier_kind": "cash-stipend",
  "shape": null
 }
}

Unknown values 7

$.egress.metered egress metering was not published
$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field
$.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