The full ladder, published before registrations close — plus everything that goes to people who do not finish on the podium.
₹100,000 is guaranteed, funded by the organisers and fixed before registrations opened. It does not depend on how many people enter, and it cannot go down. Past ₹100,000 the pool keeps growing — 30% of every fee beyond that point is added to it.
Whatever the number says on the day registrations close is what gets paid out. It is not an estimate and it does not go down.
Ranked on the total score across the whole field.
Judged in their own pools, so you are not competing against the whole field for these.
The best-looking, clearest, most usable interface. You do not have to be the strongest coder on the leaderboard to take this one.
For anyone who entered on their own and still shipped something. Judged only against other solo entries.
For a team where nobody has ever been to a hackathon before. Judged only against other rookie teams.
Every cash line on this page, added together.
Prize money is transferred by UPI to the account each winner nominates, within 14 days of the results being announced. Prizes for a team are split equally between its members unless the team asks otherwise in writing.
Most people reading this will not finish on the podium. This is the part that applies to them.
Every participant whose team submits gets one, with a verification link that an employer can actually check.
Idea prompts, a build checklist, pitch-deck templates and a curated tool list — sent to every registered team before the event opens.
Working engineers online through the whole build window. Stuck at 2am is exactly when this is worth it.
Deployed, on GitHub, with a demo video. One real project beats a list of courses on any CV.
T-shirt and a goodie bag for every member of the top 20 teams on the final leaderboard — not just the podium.
A fully covered two-day trip for the winning team -travel and stay for up to 4 members, arranged within 60 days of the results
Amazon vouchers worth ₹2,000 per member for the winning team
Every participant gets 3 months of FirstHack Pro free - all 50 mock test papers, company-wise test series and full solutions
The same rubric every judge uses, published in advance.