Hackathon program

$500 in credit. Every modality.

Teams at any hackathon get $500 of AIgateway credit, no card required. One key, our curated multi-modal trial catalog, every modality. Built for the weekend you decide to ship something real.

CLAIM YOUR TEAM'S CREDIT

Drop your team email. We reply within an hour with a code that adds $500 to your AIgateway balance.

please mention the hackathon name in the reply email

What you get

The whole platform, no gating.

$500 in credit

Per team. Enough for tens of millions of mid-tier model tokens, hundreds of image generations, or a few hours of video.

Curated trial catalog

A curated multi-modal trial catalog — GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 Code, gpt-oss-120b, FLUX, Whisper Turbo, Aura 2, BGE-M3, Moondream and more. Top up to open the full catalog.

Every modality

Text, vision, image, video, voice, audio, embeddings, rerank — same key works for all of them.

No card

We don't ask. Credits expire when the hackathon ends; no surprise charges.

Sub-account API

Mint scoped keys for each demo user with their own caps. Build a real multi-tenant app in a weekend.

Mentor on Discord

If your team is stuck on integration, ping us — a real engineer answers in under an hour during hack weekends.

For organizers

Sponsoring? Reach out.

We sponsor a small number of hackathons each quarter — focused on AI builders, agent frameworks, and developer tooling. We provide bulk credit codes, a prize for the best AIgateway-powered build, and an engineer in attendance (remote or in-person).

Bulk credit grants for participants (typically 50–200 teams)
Cash prize for the best AIgateway build ($1k–$5k depending on event)
Mentors on event Discord/Slack across the weekend
Branded swag — stickers, mark T-shirts on request

Email hackathons@aigateway.sh with the event name, date, expected attendance, and one link about the event. We reply within 48 hours.

Ground rules

The fine print.

One credit per team, not per teammate.
Credits expire 7 days after the hackathon ends. They don't turn into paid credits unless you add a card and choose to keep going.
If you ship something cool, we'd love to feature it on our changelog or social. Optional, no obligation.
Be reasonable about scaling demos to public traffic during the event — open to a chat about higher caps if you genuinely need them.
Standard usage policy applies. Read it.