by Code for India
A 90-day online build-a-thon for open-source agentic AI public goods. ₹18,00,000 prize pool.
Code for India runs a 90-day open-source build-a-thon for digital public goods built with agentic AI. Participants pick one of ten impact areas (education, sanitation, waste management, clean air, clean water, health, timely justice, transportation safety, livelihood for the uneducated, and tech employment for youth) and define their own problem. Projects must be deployed to any cloud and open-sourced under Apache-2.0 or MIT. AgentFoundry.me is the official IDE, xSpan CareHub provides APIs, and each participant gets 1M free smart-code tokens. Prizes are ₹1,50,000, ₹1,00,000 and ₹50,000 for first, second and third place per track, plus sponsor awards and a fast-track into Code for India's open-source incubation. Judging weighs the size and severity of the problem, solution quality, and proven impact from deployment data. Open to students, professionals and indie developers, solo or in teams. Winners are announced 5 December 2026.
Open to students, professionals and indie developers anywhere, solo or in teams. Projects must be open-sourced under Apache-2.0 or MIT.
₹1.8M
₹18,00,000 total pool: ₹1,50,000 / ₹1,00,000 / ₹50,000 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd per track, plus sponsor awards.