Software Prizes
Premium software credits, tools, and subscriptions from leading tech companies. Rewards for winners and all participants.
For the Winners
Premium packages for the most useful projects each month
Announcing Winners Monthly
Bright Data is the leading web data infrastructure company, empowering over 20,000 organizations with ethical, scalable access to real-time public web information. From startups to industry leaders, we deliver the datasets that fuel AI innovation and real-world impact. Ready to unlock the web?
Neo4j is the graph intelligence platform that transforms data into knowledge to power the next generation of intelligent applications and AI systems. Trusted by 84 of the Fortune 100, Neo4j enables accurate, explainable, and governed AI through its enterprise-ready graph database and analytics capabilities across any environment or data source.
Algolia provides a managed retrieval layer that lets developers quickly build web search and intelligent AI agents. Built for speed, relevance, and scale, Algolia handles indexing, ranking, semantic understanding, and vector search so teams can focus on building great experiences. With products like AI Search, Agent Studio, and AI Recommendations, it delivers real-time updates and instant results out of the box. Whether you're powering e-commerce, SaaS, or AI-driven apps, Algolia makes retrieval fast, reliable, and easy to integrate.
For Participants
Free credits for every valid submission with a PoU report
Bright Data is a leading web data infrastructure platform empowering teams to access ethical, scalable, real-world data for AI, analytics, and automation. It is the leading platform for real-time web access, powering agentic AI and LLM's. As a participant, you qualify for $250 worth of Bright Data software.
- $250 in free Bright Data credits
- Build with real-world web data at scale
- Accelerate development without upfront cost
- Credits apply instantly upon signup with the hackathon link
Storyblok is an API-first headless CMS that gives developers flexible content structure and creative teams visual editing, all in one scalable platform. Build a beautiful, functional project with StoryBlock using this free inventory.
- 45 days of free Growth+ access
- Unlock advanced CMS features worth $524 at no cost for hackathon builds
- Developer-friendly, API-first headless CMS
- Visual editing with component-based modeling
Neo4j is the industry-leading graph database platform that enables developers to turn connected data into knowledge, powering intelligent apps and analytics. All participants are invited to build a project using Neo4j, and use AuraDB.
- Free access to Neo4j AuraDB Build tier
- Get started with graph database power for your project at zero cost
- Native relationship modeling
- Scalable graph intelligence
Algolia is an API-first search and discovery platform that helps developers build fast, relevant, and scalable search experiences. Build a project using Algolia's Build tier.
- Includes 10K search requests/month, 1M records, 10K AI recommendation requests, and 10K crawls
- Try advanced AI search features
- Use built-in ecommerce and third-party integrations plus a Generative Experience Guide to accelerate development
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