ARC Prize 2026
$2M in prizes. Three tracks. One mission: open-source progress toward AGI.
ARC-AGI-2
Static reasoning benchmark. Prizes for top scores on ARC-AGI-2.
ARC-AGI-3
Interactive reasoning benchmark. Prizes for top-performing AI agents.
Paper Prize
Awards for papers that advance our understanding of how to achieve strong performance on ARC-AGI.
Spirit of ARC Prize 2026
All leading participants are expected to open source their solutions if eligible for a prize.
The primary mission of ARC Prize is to accelerate progress toward open Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by making cutting-edge solutions freely available to the entire research community.
We provide substantial prize money, dedicated infrastructure, and public recognition to incentivize and reward participants who share reproducible methods openly. While anyone is welcome to use our public data and leaderboards independently, the privilege of competing officially - and benefiting from our private evaluations, global visibility, and chance to win prizes - comes with a commitment to transparency and openness.
Our ultimate goal is collective advancement, ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity, which is why open-sourcing your solutions isn't just encouraged - it's central to the spirit of the ARC Prize.
Key Dates
- March 25, 2026 - Competition starts
- June 30, 2026 - ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #1
- September 30, 2026 - ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #2
- November 2, 2026 - Submissions due
- November 8, 2026 - Papers due
- December 4, 2026 - Results announced
Competition Goals
- Increase the number of AI researchers exploring new ideas
- Open source progress towards AGI
- Accelerate the discovery of AGI
Rules
Open Source License
In order for a submission to be eligible, all code and methods authored by the submitter must be made open source under a permissive public domain license (eg. CC0 or MIT-0). Additionally, any 3rd party code or methods not authored by the submitter must be available under, at least, an open source license which allows public sharing (eg. Apache-2.0, GPLv3).
Eligibility
Prizes are awarded at the sole discretion of ARC Prize Inc. and are subject to review by our Technical Team. We may issue more or fewer awards based on the spirit of the prize and the received submissions.
Participants must open source their solutions before receiving official private evaluation scores. This applies across all three competition tracks.
Prize General Conditions
- All prizes require reproducible, open-source submissions
- Solutions must be submitted through the designated Kaggle competition for each track
- Internet access is not available during Kaggle evaluation (no API-based systems like GPT/Claude/etc.)
- Detailed rules for each track are available on their respective pages