AI Agent hackathons 2026
Hack123 tracks 185 AI Agent hackathons; 89 are open for registration. Next deadlines: AIE Code Summit 2026 Hackathon (Nov 7), Anthropic Claude Code Hackathon Mad… (Nov 7). Biggest prizes: NEAR HACKATHON 2026 ($250k), Alipay Agent Emergence Award 2026 ·… (¥1M).
Every AI agent hackathon in 2026 we track: build agents, MCP servers, computer-use and multi-agent apps for cash prizes and credits. To join from anywhere, check the online hackathons list (many are agent challenges); to meet people in person, browse hackathons in San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, Shanghai or Beijing. Also see AI coding hackathons for developer-tool challenges.
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- AIE Code Summit 2026 Hackathon$11k
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- Anthropic Claude Code Hackathon Madrid: Close the Books
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- OpenAI DevDay Exchange Community Hackathon: Mexico City
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- OpenAI DevDay Exchange Community Hackathon: Osaka
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- H Company × 42AI Computer Use Agents Hackathon€10k
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- LOCALHOST NYC: Sovereign AI Hackathon 2026$10k
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- Naïve Autonomous Company Hackathon
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- OpenAI Codex DevDay Exchange Community Hackathon: Miami (Agents for Good)
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- Register↗1 looking for teammatesUCL AI Society AgentVerse 2026
- BoHack 2026 Tianjin Youth Hackathon: Renew
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- Flip the Switch Hackathon$4k
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- SDxSDSU Voice Agent Hackathon
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- Swarm Alignment Hackathon 2026$8k
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- Vultr Agent Rush Hackathon$9k
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- Agent-Native Hackathon (Builder.io)$10k
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- AMD × ai& Build Day at AMD Advancing AI Japan 2026 (Tokyo)
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- Agents on Open Rails Hackathon (Celo)$5k
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- Agents Need Solid Ground: Archil's 4-Hour Agent Hackathon (San Francisco)
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- Clocked Build Challenge 2026$2k
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- Huairou Science City AI for Science · OPC 48-Hour Hackathon 2026¥100k
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- Injective Hacker House Bangkok 2026
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- MINMAX Greater Bay Area AI Agent Hackathon 2026 (Guangzhou)¥10k
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- Tech4Bharat 2026: GAVS National Student Hackathon
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- Voice of the Oasis: 24-Hour Voice AI Hackathon with ElevenLabs (Dubai)
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- Total Recall: Walrus x Tatum Memory Hackathon$4.5k
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- Source↗2026 Zhuhai AI OPC Startup Competition¥400k
- Nous Research Hermes Agent Plugin Hackathon 2026$20k
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- MatrixNext 2026 Enterprise Agent Hackathon (Shanghai)¥23k
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- MozFest Developers Wilding: Online (Mozilla.ai Otari Hackathon)$1.2k
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- Snowflake × b.telligent AI Hackathon Vienna
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- Anthropic Claude Build Day Boston: AI Healthcare Hackathon 2026
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- 2026 Epic Games AI MegaJam$65k
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- BAND Dark Factory Buildathon: San Francisco & Remote 2026$4.5k
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- EVOLVE: 8090 AI Hackathon
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- Making Sense: OxAI Hackathon Oxford 2026
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- SEED Hackathon 2026: The Age of Autonomy₹200k
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- Entropy Alignment Security Hackathon Berlin 2026, Sponsored by Anthropic
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- Ground Truth: Live Agents Hackathon NYC$500
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- Imperial AI Hackathon 2026 (London, with Anthropic and Figma)
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- Agents in Context Toronto: A MongoDB Hackathon$15k
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- Drexathon: Nace AI Decision Model Hackathon San Francisco 2026
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- NEAR HACKATHON 2026$250k
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- SearchHack: Build the Next Layer of AI Search (Sunnyvale)
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- SF AI Research Hackathon (Iterate x Boardy)
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- {Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hack Karlsruhe 2026 (with Google DeepMind)
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- Website↗Vals AI Hackathon 2026 (San Francisco, with OpenAI, Claude, and Thinking Machines)
- VexoHacks 2026: AI Wearables Hackathon at Y Combinator (OpenAI, ElevenLabs)
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- Geek Room Global AI Hackathon 2026$1k
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- Homingo Hackathon
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- UGREEN Hackathon 2026 on AI NAS$46k
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- Zalo AI Challenge 2026$12k
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- Anthropic Claude Impact Lab San Francisco: AI Trust & Safety
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- Granola × Google Gemini GTM Hackathon (London)
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- Akamai Inference Cloud Buildathon Seattle 2026 (at GitHub Bellevue)
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- Source↗Hongqiao Tech Week Hackathon 2026 (Shanghai)¥100k
- Website↗ODSC × Nebius Hackathon 2026 (research agent with Token Factory + Tavily)
- Build with Agora – Bengaluru 2026 | Voice AI Hackathon
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- Google DevFest Münster 2026: Agentic AI Hackathon (GDG)
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- Google DeepMind Gemini 4 NYC Hackathon$20k
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- Shipyard MAKE ME MONEY Hackathon 2026 London
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