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Hackathons in India, open now

Build something in a weekend, in a team, and leave with a project you can show. 274 hackathons open in India now, 72 closing this week, ₹13.5Cr in listed prizes, 160 online. Dates, fees and prizes from the organisers' own listings, refreshed daily.

Checked against the organisers' listings on .

Free. One email a week, and none in a week with nothing open.

Closing this week

Registration shuts first on these. Sorted by deadline.

Paid internships for builders

Open now, with a stipend. Most you can do from home.

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Biggest prizes

As the organisers list them.

Join from anywhere

Online, most registered first.

Where they are

Kanpur · 27Bengaluru · 12Delhi · 12Chennai · 7Hyderabad · 6Bhopal · 3Agra · 2Bhubaneswar · 2Coimbatore · 2Dehradun · 2Faridabad · 2Ghaziabad · 2

Popular fests and organisers

Every event each one has listed in the last year, open and past, on one page.

IIT Madras · 68IIM Rohtak · 68Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal · 66TechBairn · 46IIT Bombay · 42Techkriti · 34VIT Vellore · 33TechBairn Research · 32SHAASTRA 2027, IIT · 31TIET Patiala · 30XLRI · 28IIT ISM Dhanbad · 27

All 274 open hackathons

By deadline. Each opens the organiser's listing to register.

Matched to you

Which of these are worth your weekend?

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Questions

How many hackathons are open in India right now?

274, with 72 closing their registrations within a week. The list is refreshed from the organisers' listings through the day, and a hackathon leaves it when registration closes.

Are there online hackathons?

Yes: 160 of the 274 open now can be joined from anywhere.

Are hackathons free to enter?

247 of the 274 open now are free to register for; the rest list a registration fee, shown against each one.

Which hackathons have the biggest prizes?

Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026 (Meta) lists ₹8.4Cr, then PayPal AI Hackathon with ₹56.7L. Prize amounts are as the organisers list them.

Listings come from Unstop, Devpost, HackerEarth and Google Developer Groups, and each links to the organiser's own page to register. Dates, fees and prizes are as the organisers list them; check there before you commit.